The development of a comparison approach for Illumina bead chips unravels unexpected challenges applying newest generation microarrays.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several large-scale gene co-expression networks have been constructed successfully for predicting gene functional modules and cis-regulatory elements in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, these networks are usually constructed and analyzed in an ad hoc manner. In this study, we propose a completely...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ruan J,Perez J,Hernandez B,Lei C,Sunter G,Sponsel VM

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To infer the tree of life requires knowledge of the common characteristics of each species descended from a common ancestor as the measuring criteria and a method to calculate the distance between the resulting values of each measure. Conventional phylogenetic analysis based on genomic sequences provides inf...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh SJ,Joung JG,Chang JH,Zhang BT

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A fundamental fact in biology states that genes do not operate in isolation, and yet, methods that infer regulatory networks for single cell gene expression data have been slow to emerge. With single cell sequencing methods now becoming accessible, general network inference algorithms that were initially dev...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen S,Mar JC

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying similarities between patterns of differential gene expression provides an opportunity to identify similarities between the experimental and biological conditions that give rise to these gene expression alterations. The growing volume of gene expression data in open data repositories such as the N...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gower AC,Spira A,Lenburg ME

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolome analysis with GC/MS has meanwhile been established as one of the "omics" techniques. Compound identification is done by comparison of the MS data with compound libraries. Mass spectral libraries in the field of metabolomics ought to connect the relevant mass traces of the metabolites to other rele...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thielen B,Heinen S,Schomburg D

更新日期：2009-07-22 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:The analysis of genome synteny is a common practice in comparative genomics. With the advent of DNA sequencing technologies, individual biologists can rapidly produce their genomic sequences of interest. Although web-based synteny visualization tools are convenient for biologists to use, none of the existing...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Revanna KV,Chiu CC,Bierschank E,Dong Q

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is useful to develop a tool that would effectively describe protein mutation matrices specifically geared towards the identification of mutations that produce either wanted or unwanted effects, such as an increase or decrease in affinity, or a predisposition towards misfolding. Here, we describe a tool wh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： David MP,Lapid CM,Daria VR

更新日期：2008-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We study the statistical properties of fragment coverage in genome sequencing experiments. In an extension of the classic Lander-Waterman model, we consider the effect of the length distribution of fragments. We also introduce a coding of the shape of the coverage depth function as a tree and explain how thi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Evans SN,Hower V,Pachter L

更新日期：2010-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A phylogeny postulates shared ancestry relationships among organisms in the form of a binary tree. Phylogenies attempt to answer an important question posed in biology: what are the ancestor-descendent relationships between organisms? At the core of every biological problem lies a phylogenetic component. The...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Varón A,Wheeler WC

更新日期：2013-02-26 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:Ubiquitylation plays an important role in regulating protein functions. Recently, experimental methods were developed toward effective identification of ubiquitylation sites. To efficiently explore more undiscovered ubiquitylation sites, this study aims to develop an accurate sequence-based prediction method...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tung CW,Ho SY

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing technologies allow researchers to obtain millions of sequence reads in a single experiment. One important use of the technology is the sequencing of small non-coding regulatory RNAs and the identification of the genomic locales from which they originate. Currently, there is a pauci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： MacLean D,Moulton V,Studholme DJ

更新日期：2010-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The secondary structure of RNA molecules is intimately related to their function and often more conserved than the sequence. Hence, the important task of searching databases for RNAs requires to match sequence-structure patterns. Unfortunately, current tools for this task have, in the best case, a running ti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meyer F,Kurtz S,Backofen R,Will S,Beckstette M

更新日期：2011-05-27 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:We have previously described an approach to predicting the substrate specificity of serine-threonine protein kinases. The method, named Predikin, identifies key conserved substrate-determining residues in the kinase catalytic domain that contact the substrate in the region of the phosphorylation site and so ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saunders NF,Brinkworth RI,Huber T,Kemp BE,Kobe B

更新日期：2008-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliability and Reproducibility of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are essential for the biological interpretation of microarray data. The microarray quality control (MAQC) project launched by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) elucidated that the lists of DEGs generated by intra- and inter-platform...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang L,Zhang J,Yang G,Wu D,Jiang L,Wen Z,Li M

更新日期：2013-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct in vivo investigation of human metabolism is complicated by the distinct metabolic functions of various sub-cellular organelles. Diverse micro-environments in different organelles may lead to distinct functions of the same protein and the use of different enzymes for the same metabolic reaction. To be...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hao T,Ma HW,Zhao XM,Goryanin I

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A common feature of microarray experiments is the occurrence of missing gene expression data. These missing values occur for a variety of reasons, in particular, because of the filtering of poor quality spots and the removal of undefined values when a logarithmic transformation is applied to negative backgro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tom BD,Gilks WR,Brooke-Powell ET,Ajioka JW

更新日期：2005-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The continuous flow of EST data remains one of the richest sources for discoveries in modern biology. The first step in EST data mining is usually associated with EST clustering, the process of grouping of original fragments according to their annotation, similarity to known genomic DNA or each other. Cluste...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ptitsyn A,Hide W

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple co-inertia analysis (mCIA) is a multivariate analysis method that can assess relationships and trends in multiple datasets. Recently it has been used for integrative analysis of multiple high-dimensional -omics datasets. However, its estimated loading vectors are non-sparse, which presents challenge...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Min EJ,Long Q

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular biology (MB) is a dynamic research domain that benefits greatly from the use of modern software technology in preparing experiments, analyzing acquired data, and even performing "in-silico" analyses. As ever new findings change the face of this domain, software for MB has to be sufficiently flexibl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Busch N,Wedemann G

更新日期：2009-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibacterial peptides are important components of the innate immune system, used by the host to protect itself from different types of pathogenic bacteria. Over the last few decades, the search for new drugs and drug targets has prompted an interest in these antibacterial peptides. We analyzed 486 antibacte...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lata S,Sharma BK,Raghava GP

更新日期：2007-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Journal articles and databases are two major modes of communication in the biological sciences, and thus integrating these critical resources is of urgent importance to increase the pace of discovery. Projects focused on bridging the gap between journals and databases have been on the rise over the last five...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rangarajan A,Schedl T,Yook K,Chan J,Haenel S,Otis L,Faelten S,DePellegrin-Connelly T,Isaacson R,Skrzypek MS,Marygold SJ,Stefancsik R,Cherry JM,Sternberg PW,Müller HM

更新日期：2011-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMMs) are a widely used tool for protein family research. Up to now, however, there exists no method to visualize all of their central aspects graphically in an intuitively understandable way. RESULTS:We present a visualization method that incorporates both emission and transi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schuster-Böckler B,Schultz J,Rahmann S

更新日期：2004-01-21 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:Failure on Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment is often accompanied with development of antiviral resistance to one or more drugs included in the treatment. In general, the virus is more likely to develop resistance to drugs with a lower genetic barrier. Previously, we developed a method to reverse engin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Theys K,Deforche K,Beheydt G,Moreau Y,van Laethem K,Lemey P,Camacho RJ,Rhee SY,Shafer RW,Van Wijngaerden E,Vandamme AM

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detailed information on DNA-binding transcription factors (the key players in the regulation of gene expression) and on transcriptional regulatory interactions of microorganisms deduced from literature-derived knowledge, computer predictions and global DNA microarray hybridization experiments, has opened the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Baumbach J

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managing and organizing biological knowledge remains a major challenge, due to the complexity of living systems. Recently, systemic representations have been promising in tackling such a challenge at the whole-cell scale. In such representations, the cell is considered as a system composed of interlocked sub...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Henry V,Saïs F,Inizan O,Marchadier E,Dibie J,Goelzer A,Fromion V

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Innovations in biological and biomedical imaging produce complex high-content and multivariate image data. For decision-making and generation of hypotheses, scientists need novel information technology tools that enable them to visually explore and analyze the data and to discuss and communicate results or f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Loyek C,Rajpoot NM,Khan M,Nattkemper TW

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00