The textual characteristics of traditional and Open Access scientific journals are similar.

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) display a variety of characteristic behavioral traits, including impaired social interaction, communication difficulties and repetitive behavior. This complex neurodevelopment disorder is known to be associated with a combination of genetic and environmental fa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Patel S,Roncaglia P,Lovering RC

更新日期：2015-06-06 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:In two-channel competitive genomic hybridization microarray experiments, the ratio of the two fluorescent signal intensities at each spot on the microarray is commonly used to infer the relative amounts of the test and reference sample DNA levels. This ratio may be influenced by systematic measurement effect...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khojasteh M,Lam WL,Ward RK,MacAulay C

更新日期：2005-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of cellular processes with microscopic bright field defocused imaging has the advantage of low phototoxicity and minimal sample preparation. However bright field images lack the contrast and nuclei reporting available with florescent approaches and therefore present a challenge to methods that segme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mohamadlou H,Shope JC,Flann NS

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the community structure of microbes is typically accomplished by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. These community data can be represented by constructing a phylogenetic tree and comparing it with other samples using statistical methods. However, owing to high computational complex...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mori H,Maruyama F,Kurokawa K

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Word sense disambiguation (WSD) attempts to solve lexical ambiguities by identifying the correct meaning of a word based on its context. WSD has been demonstrated to be an important step in knowledge-based approaches to automatic summarization. However, the correlation between the accuracy of the WSD methods...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Plaza L,Jimeno-Yepes AJ,Díaz A,Aronson AR

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mixed models have a long and fruitful history in statistics. They are pertinent to genomics problems because they are highly versatile, accommodating a wide variety of situations within the same theoretical and algorithmic framework. RESULTS:Qxpak is a package for versatile statistical genomics, specificall...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pérez-Enciso M,Misztal I

更新日期：2011-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HH-suite is a widely used open source software suite for sensitive sequence similarity searches and protein fold recognition. It is based on pairwise alignment of profile Hidden Markov models (HMMs), which represent multiple sequence alignments of homologous proteins. RESULTS:We developed a single-instructi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Steinegger M,Meier M,Mirdita M,Vöhringer H,Haunsberger SJ,Söding J

更新日期：2019-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PathoLogic program constructs Pathway/Genome databases by using a genome's annotation to predict the set of metabolic pathways present in an organism. PathoLogic determines the set of reactions composing those pathways from the enzymes annotated in the organism's genome. Most annotation efforts fail to a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Green ML,Karp PD

更新日期：2004-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prediction of protein subcellular localization generally involves many complex factors, and using only one or two aspects of data information may not tell the true story. For this reason, some recent predictive models are deliberately designed to integrate multiple heterogeneous data sources for exploiting m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mei S,Fei W,Zhou S

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biological network is highly dynamic. Functional relations between genes can be activated or deactivated depending on the biological conditions. On the genome-scale network, subnetworks that gain or lose local expression consistency may shed light on the regulatory mechanisms related to the changing biol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu J,Lu Y,Ding Y,Xiao Q,Liu L,Cai Q,Kong Y,Bai Y,Yu T

更新日期：2019-12-24 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:Barcode multiplexing is a key strategy for sharing the rising capacity of next-generation sequencing devices: Synthetic DNA tags, called barcodes, are attached to natural DNA fragments within the library preparation procedure. Different libraries, can individually be labeled with barcodes for a joint sequenc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kracht D,Schober S

更新日期：2015-02-18 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: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:In real-time PCR data analysis, the cycle threshold (CT) method is currently the gold standard. This method is based on an assumption of equal PCR efficiency in all reactions, and precision may suffer if this condition is not met. Nonlinear regression analysis (NLR) or curve fitting has therefore been sugges...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Goll R,Olsen T,Cui G,Florholmen J

更新日期：2006-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyses of biomolecules for biodiversity, phylogeny or structure/function studies often use graphical tree representations. Many powerful tree editors are now available, but existing tree visualization tools make little use of meta-information related to the entities under study such as taxonomic descriptio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chevenet F,Brun C,Bañuls AL,Jacq B,Christen R

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, measuring phenotype similarity began to play an important role in disease diagnosis. Researchers have begun to pay attention to develop phenotype similarity measurement. However, existing methods ignore the interactions between phenotype-associated proteins, which may lead to inaccurate phenotype s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng J,Hui W,Shang X

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reverse transcription followed by real-time PCR is widely used for quantification of specific mRNA, and with the use of double-stranded DNA binding dyes it is becoming a standard for microarray data validation. Despite the kinetic information generated by real-time PCR, most popular analysis methods assume c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alvarez MJ,Vila-Ortiz GJ,Salibe MC,Podhajcer OL,Pitossi FJ

更新日期：2007-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data often originate from samples containing mixtures of subpopulations, corresponding e.g. to distinct cellular phenotypes. However, identification of distinct subpopulations may be difficult if biological measurements yield distributions that are not easily separable. RESULTS:We present Multire...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Feigelman J,Theis FJ,Marr C

更新日期：2014-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomedical processes can provide essential information about the (mal-) functioning of an organism and are thus frequently represented in biomedical terminologies and ontologies, including the GO Biological Process branch. These processes often need to be described and categorised in terms of their attribute...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Andrade AQ,Blondé W,Hastings J,Schulz S

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic variations predispose individuals to hereditary diseases, play important role in the development of complex diseases, and impact drug metabolism. The full information about the DNA variations in the genome of an individual is given by haplotypes, the ordered lists of single nucleotide polymorphisms (...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahn S,Vikalo H

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mass spectrometry (MS) coupled with online separation methods is commonly applied for differential and quantitative profiling of biological samples in metabolomic as well as proteomic research. Such approaches are used for systems biology, functional genomics, and biomarker discovery, among others. An ongoin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pluskal T,Castillo S,Villar-Briones A,Oresic M

更新日期：2010-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increasing number of researchers have released novel RNA structure analysis and prediction algorithms for comparative approaches to structure prediction. Yet, independent benchmarking of these algorithms is rarely performed as is now common practice for protein-folding, gene-finding and multiple-sequence-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gardner PP,Giegerich R

更新日期：2004-09-30 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:Introduction of spaced speeds opened a way of sensitivity improvement in homology search without loss of search speed. Since then, the efforts of finding optimal seed which maximizes the sensitivity have been continued today. The sensitivity of a seed is generally computed by its hit probability. However, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chung WH,Park SB

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many of solved tertiary structures of unknown functions do not have global sequence and structural similarities to proteins of known function. Often functional clues of unknown proteins can be obtained by predicting small ligand molecules that bind to the proteins. METHODS:In our previous work, we have deve...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sael L,Kihara D

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of DNA copy number variants (CNV) has increasing impact in the field of genetic diagnostics and research. However, the interpretation of CNV data derived from high resolution array CGH or NGS platforms is complicated by the considerable variability of the human genome. Therefore, tools for multi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tebel K,Boldt V,Steininger A,Port M,Ebert G,Ullmann R

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We introduce a novel method, called PuFFIN, that takes advantage of paired-end short reads to build genome-wide nucleosome maps with larger numbers of detected nucleosomes and higher accuracy than existing tools. In contrast to other approaches that require users to optimize several parameters according to t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Polishko A,Bunnik EM,Le Roch KG,Lonardi S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detecting local correlations in expression between neighboring genes along the genome has proved to be an effective strategy to identify possible causes of transcriptional deregulation in cancer. It has been successfully used to illustrate the role of mechanisms such as copy number variation (CNV) or epigene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Delatola EI,Lebarbier E,Mary-Huard T,Radvanyi F,Robin S,Wong J

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00