Detecting disease-associated genotype patterns.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies demonstrated the feasibility of predicting bacterial antibiotic resistance phenotypes from whole-genome sequences, the prediction process usually amounting to detecting the presence of genes involved in antibiotic resistance mechanisms, or of specific mutations, previously identified from a t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mahé P,Tournoud M

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA microarrays offer motivation and hope for the simultaneous study of variations in multiple genes. Gene expression is a temporal process that allows variations in expression levels with a characterized gene function over a period of time. Temporal gene expression curves can be treated as functional data s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Kim H

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of next-generation sequencing has made it possible to sequence whole genomes at a relatively low cost. However, de novo genome assemblies remain challenging due to short read length, missing data, repetitive regions, polymorphisms and sequencing errors. As more and more genomes are sequenced,...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lischer HEL,Shimizu KK

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize is a leading crop in the modern agricultural industry that accounts for more than 40% grain production worldwide. THe double haploid technique that uses fewer breeding generations for generating a maize line has accelerated the pace of development of superior commercial seed varieties and has been tran...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Veeramani B,Raymond JW,Chanda P

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular docking is a widely-employed method in structure-based drug design. An essential component of molecular docking programs is a scoring function (SF) that can be used to identify the most stable binding pose of a ligand, when bound to a receptor protein, from among a large set of candidate poses. Des...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ashtawy HM,Mahapatra NR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ontology term labels can be ambiguous and have multiple senses. While this is no problem for human annotators, it is a challenge to automated methods, which identify ontology terms in text. Classical approaches to word sense disambiguation use co-occurring words or terms. However, most treat ontologies as si...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alexopoulou D,Andreopoulos B,Dietze H,Doms A,Gandon F,Hakenberg J,Khelif K,Schroeder M,Wächter T

更新日期：2009-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abundant information about gene products is stored in online searchable databases such as annotation or literature. To efficiently obtain and digest such information, there is a pressing need for automated information-summarization and functional-similarity clustering of genes. RESULTS:We have developed a n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chiang JH,Shin JW,Liu HH,Chin CL

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:InterPro is a collection of protein signatures for the classification and automated annotation of proteins. Interproscan is a software tool that scans protein sequences against Interpro member databases using a variety of profile-based, hidden markov model and positional specific score matrix methods. It not...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kelly RJ,Vincent DE,Friedberg I

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate annotation of translation initiation sites (TISs) is essential for understanding the translation initiation mechanism. However, the reliability of TIS annotation in widely used databases such as RefSeq is uncertain due to the lack of experimental benchmarks. RESULTS:Based on a homogeneity assumptio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu GQ,Zheng X,Ju LN,Zhu H,She ZS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology can acquire information about thousands of genes simultaneously. We analyzed published breast cancer microarray databases to predict five-year recurrence and compared the performance of three data mining algorithms of artificial neural networks (ANN), decision trees (DT) and logistic re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chou HL,Yao CT,Su SL,Lee CY,Hu KY,Terng HJ,Shih YW,Chang YT,Lu YF,Chang CW,Wahlqvist ML,Wetter T,Chu CM

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables the 3D visualization of cellular organization in near-native state which plays important roles in the field of structural cell biology. However, due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), large volume and high content complexity within cells, it remains difficult a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li R,Zeng X,Sigmund SE,Lin R,Zhou B,Liu C,Wang K,Jiang R,Freyberg Z,Lv H,Xu M

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The third edition of the BioNLP Shared Task was held with the grand theme "knowledge base construction (KB)". The Genia Event (GE) task was re-designed and implemented in light of this theme. For its final report, the participating systems were evaluated from a perspective of annotation. To further explore t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim JD,Kim JJ,Han X,Rebholz-Schuhmann D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The adaptive immune response intrinsically depends on hypervariable human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes. Concomitantly, correct HLA phenotyping is crucial for successful donor-patient matching in organ transplantation. The cost and technical limitations of current laboratory techniques, together with advance...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Matey-Hernandez ML,Danish Pan Genome Consortium.,Brunak S,Izarzugaza JMG

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An approach to molecular classification based on the comparative expression of protein pairs is presented. The method overcomes some of the present limitations in using peptide intensity data for class prediction for problems such as the detection of a disease, disease prognosis, or for predicting treatment ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kaur P,Schlatzer D,Cooke K,Chance MR

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study of virus-host infectious association is important for understanding the functions and dynamics of microbial communities. Both cellular and fractionated viral metagenomic data generate a large number of viral contigs with missing host information. Although relative simple methods based on the simila...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang M,Yang L,Ren J,Ahlgren NA,Fuhrman JA,Sun F

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regulation of gene expression, protein synthesis, replication and assembly of many viruses involve RNA-protein interactions. Although some successful computational tools have been reported to recognize RNA binding sites in proteins, the problem of specificity remains poorly investigated. After the nucleotide...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fernandez M,Kumagai Y,Standley DM,Sarai A,Mizuguchi K,Ahmad S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over one hundred different types of post-transcriptional RNA modifications have been identified in human. Researchers discovered that RNA modifications can regulate various biological processes, and RNA methylation, especially N6-methyladenosine, has become one of the most researched topics in epigenetics. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu X,Wei Z,Chen K,Zhang Q,Su J,Liu H,Zhang L,Meng J

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biologists often conduct multiple but different cDNA microarray studies that all target the same biological system or pathway. Within each study, replicate slides within repeated identical experiments are often produced. Pooling information across studies can help more accurately identify true target genes. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Conlon EM,Song JJ,Liu JS

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring molecular pathway activity is an important step towards reducing the complexity of genomic data, understanding the heterogeneity in clinical outcome, and obtaining molecular correlates of cancer imaging traits. Increasingly, approaches towards pathway activity inference combine molecular profiles (...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jiao Y,Lawler K,Patel GS,Purushotham A,Jones AF,Grigoriadis A,Tutt A,Ng T,Teschendorff AE

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eukaryotic whole genome sequences are accumulating at an impressive rate. Effective methods for comparing multiple whole eukaryotic genomes on a large scale are needed. Most attempted solutions involve the production of large scale alignments, and many of these require a high stringency pre-screen for putati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stuart GW,Berry MW

更新日期：2004-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances of high-throughput technologies have rapidly produced more and more data from DNAs and RNAs to proteins, especially large volumes of genome-scale data. However, connection of the genomic information to cellular functions and biological behaviours relies on the development of effective approaches at higher sys...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yang JY,Dunker A,Liu JS,Qin X,Arabnia HR,Yang W,Niemierko A,Chen Z,Luo Z,Wang L,Liu Y,Xu D,Deng Y,Tong W,Yang M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For successful protein structure prediction by comparative modeling, in addition to identifying a good template protein with known structure, obtaining an accurate sequence alignment between a query protein and a template protein is critical. It has been known that the alignment accuracy can vary significant...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee M,Jeong CS,Kim D

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, bioinformatics tools have matured enough to reliably perform sophisticated primary data analysis on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, such as mapping, assemblies and variant calling, however, there is still a dire need for improvements in the higher level analysis such as NGS data or...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hadj Khodabakhshi A,Fejes AP,Birol I,Jones SJ

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput screens comparing growth rates of arrays of distinct micro-organism cultures on solid agar are useful, rapid methods of quantifying genetic interactions. Growth rate is an informative phenotype which can be estimated by measuring cell densities at one or more times after inoculation. Precise ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lawless C,Wilkinson DJ,Young A,Addinall SG,Lydall DA

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE) is one of the most widely applied techniques in comparative proteomics. The basic task of 2DE is to identify differential protein expression by quantitative analysis of 2DE images. To reduce the errors of spot quantification in 2DE images, a novel brightness correction m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ou Q,Xiao J,Yu L,Wu K,Xiong B

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is an emerging area in genomic study. The task requires an integrated analysis of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data and gene expression data, raising a new computational challenge due to the tremendous size of data. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chang HH,McGeachie M,Alterovitz G,Ramoni MF

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate statistical methods for genome-wide genetic analyses, one needs to be able to simulate realistic genotypes. We here describe a method, applicable to a broad range of association study designs, that can simulate autosome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data with realistic linkage disequilibriu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shi M,Umbach DM,Wise AS,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The developments of high-throughput genotyping technologies, which enable the simultaneous genotyping of hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) have the potential to increase the benefits of genetic epidemiology studies. Although the enhanced resolution of these platforms increases th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chai HS,Sicotte H,Bailey KR,Turner ST,Asmann YW,Kocher JP

更新日期：2009-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The definition of a distance measure plays a key role in the evaluation of different clustering solutions of gene expression profiles. In this empirical study we compare different clustering solutions when using the Mutual Information (MI) measure versus the use of the well known Euclidean distance and Pears...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Priness I,Maimon O,Ben-Gal I

更新日期：2007-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carbohydrates are a class of large and diverse biomolecules, ranging from a simple monosaccharide to large multi-branching glycan structures. The covalent linkage of a carbohydrate to the nitrogen atom of an asparagine, a process referred to as N-linked glycosylation, plays an important role in the physiolog...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lemmin T,Soto C

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00