Ontology driven integration platform for clinical and translational research.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Feed-forward loops (FFLs), consisting of miRNAs, transcription factors (TFs) and their common target genes, have been validated to be important for the initialization and development of complex diseases, including cancer. Esophageal Carcinoma (ESCA) and Stomach Adenocarcinoma (STAD) are two types of malignan...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Qin G,Yang L,Ma Y,Liu J,Huo Q

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alignment-free methods for comparing protein sequences have proved to be viable alternatives to approaches that first rely on an alignment of the sequences to be compared. Much work however need to be done before those methods provide reliable fold recognition for proteins whose sequences share little simila...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nojoomi S,Koehl P

更新日期：2017-08-25 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:Data extraction and integration methods are becoming essential to effectively access and take advantage of the huge amounts of heterogeneous genomics and clinical data increasingly available. In this work, we focus on The Cancer Genome Atlas, a comprehensive archive of tumoral data containing the results of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cumbo F,Fiscon G,Ceri S,Masseroli M,Weitschek E

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing Variance heterogeneity in genome wide association studies (vGWAS) is an emerging approach for detecting genetic loci involved in gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. vGWAS analysis detects variability in phenotype values across genotypes, as opposed to typical GWAS analysis, which detects v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Al Kawam A,Alshawaqfeh M,Cai JJ,Serpedin E,Datta A

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyses of molecular high-throughput data often lack in robustness, i.e. results are very sensitive to the addition or removal of a single observation. Therefore, the identification of extreme observations is an important step of quality control before doing further data analysis. Standard outlier detection...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kruppa J,Jung K

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been found in the printed literature. With journals now on-line and providing an increasing amount of open access content, often free of copyright ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Prlić A,Martinez MA,Dimitropoulos D,Beran B,Yukich BT,Rose PW,Bourne PE,Fink JL

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep mutational scanning is a technique to estimate the impacts of mutations on a gene by using deep sequencing to count mutations in a library of variants before and after imposing a functional selection. The impacts of mutations must be inferred from changes in their counts after selection. RESULTS:I desc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloom JD

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) is widely used in the determination of the three-dimensional (3D) structures of macromolecules. Particle picking from 2D micrographs remains a challenging early step in the Cryo-EM pipeline due to the diversity of particle shapes and the extremely low signal-to-noise ratio ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Al-Azzawi A,Ouadou A,Max H,Duan Y,Tanner JJ,Cheng J

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caspases are a family of proteases that have central functions in programmed cell death (apoptosis) and inflammation. Caspases mediate their effects through aspartate-specific cleavage of their target proteins, and at present almost 400 caspase substrates are known. There are several methods developed to pre...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Piippo M,Lietzén N,Nevalainen OS,Salmi J,Nyman TA

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the important goals in the post-genomic era is to determine the regulatory elements within the non-coding DNA of a given organism's genome. The identification of functional cis-regulatory modules has proven difficult since the component factor binding sites are small and the rules governing their arra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Emberly E,Rajewsky N,Siggia ED

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein remote homology detection and fold recognition are central problems in bioinformatics. Currently, discriminative methods based on support vector machine (SVM) are the most effective and accurate methods for solving these problems. A key step to improve the performance of the SVM-based methods is to f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu B,Wang X,Lin L,Dong Q,Wang X

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A range of rare and common genetic variants have been discovered to be potentially associated with mental diseases, but many more have not been uncovered. Powerful integrative methods are needed to systematically prioritize both variants and genes that confer susceptibility to mental diseases in personal gen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khan A,Liu Q,Wang K

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from Affymetrix GeneChips arrays is currently done by first computing expression levels from the low-level probe intensities, then deriving significance by comparing these expression levels between conditions. The proposed PL-LM (Probe-Level Linear ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lemieux S

更新日期：2006-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of subcellular localization of proteins is crucial to proteomics, drug target discovery and systems biology since localization and biological function are highly correlated. In recent years, numerous computational prediction methods have been developed. Nevertheless, there is still a need for predi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Blum T,Briesemeister S,Kohlbacher O

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology provides the expression level of many genes. Nowadays, an important issue is to select a small number of informative differentially expressed genes that provide biological knowledge and may be key elements for a disease. With the increasing volume of data generated by modern biomedical ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Martínez-Otzeta JM,Irigoien I,Sierra B,Arenas C

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last few years transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) has almost completely taken over microarrays for high-throughput studies of gene expression. Currently, the most popular use of RNA-Seq is to identify genes which are differentially expressed between two or more conditions. Despite the importance of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rahmatallah Y,Emmert-Streib F,Glazko G

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread use of high throughput expression platforms and the availability of a desktop implementation of Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) that enables non-experts to perform gene set based analyses, the availability of the necessary precompiled gene sets is rare for species other than human....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Powell JA

更新日期：2014-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distance-based methods are popular for reconstructing evolutionary trees thanks to their speed and generality. A number of methods exist for estimating distances from sequence alignments, which often involves some sort of correction for multiple substitutions. The problem is to accurately estimate the number...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sonnhammer EL,Hollich V

更新日期：2005-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Set comparisons permeate a large number of data analysis workflows, in particular workflows in biological sciences. Venn diagrams are frequently employed for such analysis but current tools are limited. RESULTS:We have developed InteractiVenn, a more flexible tool for interacting with Venn diagrams includin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heberle H,Meirelles GV,da Silva FR,Telles GP,Minghim R

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of homologous genes is fundamental to comparative genomics, functional genomics and phylogenomics. Extensive public homology databases are of great value for investigating homology but need to be continually updated to incorporate new sequences. As new sequences are rapidly being generated, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sheikhizadeh Anari S,de Ridder D,Schranz ME,Smit S

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research related to cancer is vast, and continues in earnest in many directions. Due to the complexity of cancer, a better understanding of tumor growth dynamics can be gleaned from a dynamic computational model. We present a comprehensive, fully executable, spatial and temporal 3D computational model of the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloch N,Harel D

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Acel_2062 protein from Acidothermus cellulolyticus is a protein of unknown function. Initial sequence analysis predicted that it was a metallopeptidase from the presence of a motif conserved amongst the Asp-zincins, which are peptidases that contain a single, catalytic zinc ion ligated by the histidines ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Trame CB,Chang Y,Axelrod HL,Eberhardt RY,Coggill P,Punta M,Rawlings ND

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although high-throughput microarray based molecular diagnostic technologies show a great promise in cancer diagnosis, it is still far from a clinical application due to its low and instable sensitivities and specificities in cancer molecular pattern recognition. In fact, high-dimensional and heterogeneous tu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Han H,Li XL

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of functional elements of a genome often requires dividing a sequence of measurements along a genome into segments where adjacent segments have different properties, such as different mean values. Despite dozens of algorithms developed to address this problem in genomics research, methods with...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Girimurugan SB,Liu Y,Lung PY,Vera DL,Dennis JH,Bass HW,Zhang J

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a pool of molecular data sets publicly accessible and freely available to cancer researchers anywhere around the world. However, wide spread use is limited since an advanced knowledge of statistics and statistical software is required. RESULTS:In order to improve accessibil...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng M,Brägelmann J,Schultze JL,Perner S

更新日期：2016-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many centrality measures have been proposed to mine and characterize the correlations between network topological properties and protein essentiality. However, most of them show limited prediction accuracy, and the number of common predicted essential proteins by different methods is very small. RESULTS:In ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang X,Xiao W,Acencio ML,Lemke N,Wang X

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-range interactions between regulatory DNA elements such as enhancers, insulators and promoters play an important role in regulating transcription. As chromatin contacts have been found throughout the human genome and in different cell types, spatial transcriptional control is now viewed as a general mec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rousseau M,Fraser J,Ferraiuolo MA,Dostie J,Blanchette M

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescent and luminescent gene reporters allow us to dynamically quantify changes in molecular species concentration over time on the single cell level. The mathematical modeling of their interaction through multivariate dynamical models requires the development of effective statistical methods to calibrat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Komorowski M,Finkenstädt B,Harper CV,Rand DA

更新日期：2009-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that there are several errors in the original article. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranjard L,Wong TKF,Rodrigo AG

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00