CNV-seq, a new method to detect copy number variation using high-throughput sequencing.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play crucial roles in virtually every aspect of cellular function within an organism. Over the last decade, the development of novel high-throughput techniques has resulted in enormous amounts of data and provided valuable resources for studying protein interactions. Howev...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lei YK,You ZH,Ji Z,Zhu L,Huang DS

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differential co-expression (DCX) signifies change in degree of co-expression of a set of genes among different biological conditions. It has been used to identify differential co-expression networks or interactomes. Many algorithms have been developed for single-factor differential co-expression analysis and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liany H,Rajapakse JC,Karuturi RKM

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparative genomics, the rearrangement distance between two genomes (equal the minimal number of genome rearrangements required to transform them into a single genome) is often used for measuring their evolutionary remoteness. Generalization of this measure to three genomes is known as the median score (while a re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S Jr,Alekseyev MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many of the genic features in Mycobacterium abscessus have been fully validated, a comprehensive understanding of the regulatory elements remains lacking. Moreover, there is little understanding of how the organism regulates its transcriptomic profile, enabling cells to survive in hostile environmen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Staunton PM,Miranda-CasoLuengo AA,Loftus BJ,Gormley IC

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a consequence of the evolutionary process, data collected from related species tend to be similar. This similarity by descent can obscure subtler signals in the data such as the evidence of constraint on variation due to shared selective pressures. In comparative sequence analysis, for example, sequence s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stone EA,Sidow A

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maturation inhibitors are a new class of antiretroviral drugs. Bevirimat (BVM) was the first substance in this class of inhibitors entering clinical trials. While the inhibitory function of BVM is well established, the molecular mechanisms of action and resistance are not well understood. It is known that mu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heider D,Verheyen J,Hoffmann D

更新日期：2010-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discovering patterns from gene expression levels is regarded as a classification problem when tissue classes of the samples are given and solved as a discrete-data problem by discretizing the expression levels of each gene into intervals maximizing the interdependence between that gene and the class labels. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu GP,Chan KC,Wong AK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microorganisms display vast diversity, and each one has its own set of genes, cell components and metabolic reactions. To assess their huge unexploited metabolic potential in different ecosystems, we need high throughput tools, such as functional microarrays, that allow the simultaneous analysis of thousands...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Terrat S,Peyretaillade E,Gonçalves O,Dugat-Bony E,Gravelat F,Moné A,Biderre-Petit C,Boucher D,Troquet J,Peyret P

更新日期：2010-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein crystal structures are potentially over-interpreted since they are routinely refined without any restraint on the upper limit of atomic B-factors. Consequently, some of their atoms, undetected in the electron density maps, are allowed to reach extremely large B-factors, even above 100 square Angstrom...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carugo O

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T-cells are key players in regulating a specific immune response. Activation of cytotoxic T-cells requires recognition of specific peptides bound to Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I molecules. MHC-peptide complexes are potential tools for diagnosis and treatment of pathogens and cancer, as well...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dönnes P,Elofsson A

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important step in understanding the conditions that specify gene expression is the recognition of gene regulatory elements. Due to high diversity of different types of transcription factors and their DNA binding preferences, it is a challenging problem to establish an accurate model for recognition of fun...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stepanova M,Lin F,Lin VC

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dynamic programming algorithms provide exact solutions to many problems in computational biology, such as sequence alignment, RNA folding, hidden Markov models (HMMs), and scoring of phylogenetic trees. Structurally analogous algorithms compute optimal solutions, evaluate score distributions, and perform sto...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： zu Siederdissen CH,Prohaska SJ,Stadler PF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques are advancing genomics and molecular biology research. This technology generates substantially large data which puts up a major challenge to the scientists for an efficient, cost and time effective solution to analyse such data. Further, for the dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Maji RK,Sarkar A,Khatua S,Dasgupta S,Ghosh Z

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In population genetics, simulation is a fundamental tool for analyzing how basic evolutionary forces such as natural selection, recombination, and mutation shape the genetic landscape of a population. Forward simulation represents the most powerful, but, at the same time, most compute-intensive approach for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aberer AJ,Stamatakis A

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent technological advances in DNA sequencing and genotyping have led to the accumulation of a remarkable quantity of data on genetic polymorphisms. However, the development of new statistical and computational tools for effective processing of these data has not been equally as fast. In particular, Machin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lagani V,Montesanto A,Di Cianni F,Moreno V,Landi S,Conforti D,Rose G,Passarino G

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmania and other members of the Trypanosomatidae family diverged early on in eukaryotic evolution and consequently display unique cellular properties. Their apparent lack of transcriptional regulation is compensated by complex post-transcriptional control mechanisms, including the processing of polycistr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Smith M,Blanchette M,Papadopoulou B

更新日期：2008-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The amount of scientific information about MicroRNAs (miRNAs) is growing exponentially, making it difficult for researchers to interpret experimental results. In this study, we present an automated text mining approach using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) for prioritization, clustering and functional annotat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roy S,Curry BC,Madahian B,Homayouni R

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput sequencing technology provides us unprecedented opportunities to study transcriptome dynamics. Compared to microarray-based gene expression profiling, RNA-Seq has many advantages, such as high resolution, low background, and ability to identify novel transcripts. Moreover, for genes with mult...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zheng W,Chung LM,Zhao H

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression profiles obtained from multiple perturbation experiments are increasingly used to reconstruct transcriptional regulatory networks, from well studied, simple organisms up to higher eukaryotes. Admittedly, a key ingredient in developing a reconstruction method is its ability to integrate heterogeneo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Veber P,Guziolowski C,Le Borgne M,Radulescu O,Siegel A

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to confidently predict health outcomes from gene expression would catalyze a revolution in molecular diagnostics. Yet, the goal of developing actionable, robust, and reproducible predictive signatures of phenotypes such as clinical outcome has not been attained in almost any disease area. Here, w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Smith AM,Walsh JR,Long J,Davis CB,Henstock P,Hodge MR,Maciejewski M,Mu XJ,Ra S,Zhao S,Ziemek D,Fisher CK

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The imputation of genotypes increases the power of genome-wide association studies. However, the imputation quality should be assessed in each particular case. Nevertheless, not all imputation softwares control the error of output, e.g., the last release of fastPHASE program (1.4.8) lacks such an option. In ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khvorykh GV,Khrunin AV

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Triplex cell vaccine is a cancer cellular vaccine that can prevent almost completely the mammary tumor onset in HER-2/neu transgenic mice. In a translational perspective, the activity of the Triplex vaccine was also investigated against lung metastases showing that the vaccine is an effective treatment a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pennisi M,Pappalardo F,Palladini A,Nicoletti G,Nanni P,Lollini PL,Motta S

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficiency of lymph nodes depends on tissue structure and organization, which allow the coordination of lymphocyte traffic. Despite their essential role, our understanding of lymph node specific mechanisms is still incomplete and currently a topic of intense research. RESULTS:In this paper, we present a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Baldazzi V,Paci P,Bernaschi M,Castiglione F

更新日期：2009-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the development of genome assembly tools, some comprehensive and efficiently computable validation measures are required to assess the quality of the assembly. The mostly used N50 measure summarizes the assembly results by the length of the scaffold (or contig) overlapping the midpoint of the length-orde...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mäkinen V,Salmela L,Ylinen J

更新日期：2012-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of statistically overrepresented sequences in the upstream regions of coregulated genes should theoretically permit the identification of potential cis-regulatory elements. However, in practice many cis-regulatory elements are highly degenerate, precluding the use of an exhaustive word-cou...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carlson JM,Chakravarty A,Khetani RS,Gross RH

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemical named entities represent an important facet of biomedical text. RESULTS:We have developed a system to use character-based n-grams, Maximum Entropy Markov Models and rescoring to recognise chemical names and other such entities, and to make confidence estimates for the extracted entities. An adjusta...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corbett P,Copestake A

更新日期：2008-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) is a PCR-based technique that involves restriction of genomic DNA followed by ligation of adaptors to the fragments generated and selective PCR amplification of a subset of these fragments. The amplified fragments are separated on a sequencing gel and visualized ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hong Y,Chuah A

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most common method of identifying groups of functionally related genes in microarray data is to apply a clustering algorithm. However, it is impossible to determine which clustering algorithm is most appropriate to apply, and it is difficult to verify the results of any algorithm due to the lack of a gol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hibbs MA,Dirksen NC,Li K,Troyanskaya OG

更新日期：2005-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing number of eQTL (Expression Quantitative Trait Loci) datasets facilitate genetics and systems biology research. Meta-analysis tools are in need to jointly analyze datasets of same or similar issue types to improve statistical power especially in trans-eQTL mapping. Meta-analysis framework is also n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Di Narzo AF,Cheng H,Lu J,Hao K

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main research topic in this paper is how to compare multiple biological experiments using transcriptome data, where each experiment is measured and designed to compare control and treated samples. Comparison of multiple biological experiments is usually performed in terms of the number of DEGs in an arbi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hur B,Kang D,Lee S,Moon JH,Lee G,Kim S

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00