Developing optimal input design strategies in cancer systems biology with applications to microfluidic device engineering.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-structure alignment is a fundamental tool to study protein function, evolution and model building. In the last decade several methods for structure alignment were introduced, but most of them ignore that structurally similar proteins can share the same spatial arrangement of secondary structure eleme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kolbeck B,May P,Schmidt-Goenner T,Steinke T,Knapp EW

更新日期：2006-11-21 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:Whole exome sequencing (WES) has become the strategy of choice to identify a coding allelic variant for a rare human monogenic disorder. This approach is a revolution in medical genetics history, impacting both fundamental research, and diagnostic methods leading to personalized medicine. A plethora of effic...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Coutant S,Cabot C,Lefebvre A,Léonard M,Prieur-Gaston E,Campion D,Lecroq T,Dauchel H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-linearities in observed log-ratios of gene expressions, also known as intensity dependent log-ratios, can often be accounted for by global biases in the two channels being compared. Any step in a microarray process may introduce such offsets and in this article we study the biases introduced by the micro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bengtsson H,Jönsson G,Vallon-Christersson J

更新日期：2004-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequence alignment is a common tool in bioinformatics and comparative genomics. It is generally assumed that multiple sequence alignment yields better results than pair wise sequence alignment, but this assumption has rarely been tested, and never with the control provided by simulation analysis. This study ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rosenberg MS

更新日期：2005-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the relationship between gene expression changes, enzyme activity shifts, and the corresponding physiological adaptive response of organisms to environmental cues is crucial in explaining how cells cope with stress. For example, adaptation of yeast to heat shock involves a characteristic profil...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vilaprinyo E,Alves R,Sorribas A

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The generation of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a crucial step for many bioinformatic analyses. Thus improving MSA accuracy and identifying potential errors in MSAs is important for a wide range of post-genomic research. We present a novel method called MergeAlign which constructs consensus MSAs fro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Collingridge PW,Kelly S

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viral infection by dengue virus is a major public health problem in tropical countries. Early diagnosis and detection are increasingly based on quantitative reverse transcriptase real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) directed against genomic regions conserved between different isolates. Genetic varia...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vanneste K,Garlant L,Broeders S,Van Gucht S,Roosens NH

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary trees are central to a wide range of biological studies. In many of these studies, tree nodes and branches need to be associated (or annotated) with various attributes. For example, in studies concerned with organismal relationships, tree nodes are associated with taxonomic names, whereas tree b...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Han MV,Zmasek CM

更新日期：2009-10-27 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:The nucleosome is the fundamental packing unit of DNAs in eukaryotic cells. Its detailed positioning on the genome is closely related to chromosome functions. Increasing evidence has shown that genomic DNA sequence itself is highly predictive of nucleosome positioning genome-wide. Therefore a fast software t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xi L,Fondufe-Mittendorf Y,Xia L,Flatow J,Widom J,Wang JP

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffolding is an important step in genome assembly that orders and orients the contigs produced by assemblers. However, repetitive regions in contigs usually prevent scaffolding from producing accurate results. How to solve the problem of repetitive regions has received a great deal of attention. In the pas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Luo J,Lyu M,Chen R,Zhang X,Luo H,Yan C

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ensemble predictors such as the random forest are known to have superior accuracy but their black-box predictions are difficult to interpret. In contrast, a generalized linear model (GLM) is very interpretable especially when forward feature selection is used to construct the model. However, forward feature ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Song L,Langfelder P,Horvath S

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that the search for homologous RNAs is more effective if both sequence and structure information is incorporated into the search. However, current tools for searching with RNA sequence-structure patterns cannot fully handle mutations occurring on both these levels or are simply not fast enou...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meyer F,Kurtz S,Beckstette M

更新日期：2013-07-17 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:Different human responses to the same vaccine were frequently observed. For example, independent studies identified overlapping but different transcriptomic gene expression profiles in Yellow Fever vaccine 17D (YF-17D) immunized human subjects. Different experimental and analysis conditions were likely contr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ong E,Sun P,Berke K,Zheng J,Wu G,He Y

更新日期：2019-12-23 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:Aptamers are nucleic acids selected for their ability to bind to molecules of interest and may provide the basis for a whole new class of medicines. If the aptamer is simply a dsDNA molecule with a ssDNA overhang (a "sticky" end) then the segment of ssDNA that complements that overhang provides a known bindi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thomson K,Amin I,Morales E,Winters-Hilt S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many models have been proposed to detect copy number alterations in chromosomal copy number profiles, but it is usually not obvious to decide which is most effective for a given data set. Furthermore, most methods have a smoothing parameter that determines the number of breakpoints and must be chosen using v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hocking TD,Schleiermacher G,Janoueix-Lerosey I,Boeva V,Cappo J,Delattre O,Bach F,Vert JP

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand the evolutionary role of Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT), accurate methods are needed to identify transferred genes and infer their timing of acquisition. Phylogenetic methods are particularly promising for this purpose, but the reconciliation of a gene tree with a reference (species) tree is compu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Abby SS,Tannier E,Gouy M,Daubin V

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray experiments, as well as other genomic analyses, often result in large gene sets containing up to several hundred genes. The biological significance of such sets of genes is, usually, not readily apparent. Identification of the functions of the genes in the set can help highlight features of intere...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee JS,Katari G,Sachidanandam R

更新日期：2005-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The methodologies we use both enable and help define our research. However, as experimental complexity has increased the choice of appropriate methodologies has become an increasingly difficult task. This makes it difficult to keep track of available bioinformatics software, let alone the most suitable proto...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eales JM,Pinney JW,Stevens RD,Robertson DL

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typical evolutionary events like recombination, hybridization or gene transfer make necessary the use of phylogenetic networks to properly depict the evolution of DNA and protein sequences. Although several theoretical classes have been proposed to characterize these networks, they make stringent assumptions...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arenas M,Patricio M,Posada D,Valiente G

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In current comparative proteomics studies, the large number of images generated by 2D gels is currently compared using spot matching algorithms. Unfortunately, differences in gel migration and sample variability make efficient spot alignment very difficult to obtain, and, as consequence most of the software ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pérès S,Molina L,Salvetat N,Granier C,Molina F

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence profile-profile alignment is an important approach to recognizing remote homologs and generating accurate pairwise alignments. It plays an important role in protein sequence database search, protein structure prediction, protein function prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. RESULTS:In thi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng X,Cheng J

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classification and naming is a key step in the analysis, understanding and adequate management of living organisms. However, where to set limits between groups can be puzzling especially in clonal organisms. Within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB), expe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Borile C,Labarre M,Franz S,Sola C,Refrégier G

更新日期：2011-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In microarray experiments the numbers of replicates are often limited due to factors such as cost, availability of sample or poor hybridization. There are currently few choices for the analysis of a pair of microarrays where N = 1 in each condition. In this paper, we demonstrate the effectiveness of a new al...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Reid RW,Fodor AA

更新日期：2008-11-21 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:One very important functional domain of proteins is the protein-protein interacting region (PPIR), which forms the binding interface between interacting polypeptide chains. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) that occur in the PPIR can either interfere with or facilitate the interaction between proteins....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saethang T,Payne DM,Avihingsanon Y,Pisitkun T

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An organism's protein interactome, or complete network of protein-protein interactions, defines the protein complexes that drive cellular processes. Techniques for studying protein complexes have traditionally applied targeted strategies such as yeast two-hybrid or affinity purification-mass spectrometry to ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stacey RG,Skinnider MA,Scott NE,Foster LJ

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00