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abstract：BACKGROUND:Correctly identifying genomic regions enriched with histone modifications and transcription factors is key to understanding their regulatory and developmental roles. Conceptually, these regions are divided into two categories, narrow peaks and broad domains, and different algorithms are used to identify each...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Starmer J,Magnuson T

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently copy number variation (CNV) has gained considerable interest as a type of genomic/genetic variation that plays an important role in disease susceptibility. Advances in sequencing technology have created an opportunity for detecting CNVs more accurately. Recently whole exome sequencing (WES) has beco...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zare F,Dow M,Monteleone N,Hosny A,Nabavi S

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the analysis of networks we frequently require the statistical significance of some network statistic, such as measures of similarity for the properties of interacting nodes. The structure of the network may introduce dependencies among the nodes and it will in general be necessary to account for these de...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thorne T,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2007-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The exploration of the structural topology and the organizing principles of genome-based large-scale metabolic networks is essential for studying possible relations between structure and functionality of metabolic networks. Topological analysis of graph models has often been applied to study the structural c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhao J,Yu H,Luo JH,Cao ZW,Li YX

更新日期：2006-08-18 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:Because common complex diseases are affected by multiple genes and environmental factors, it is essential to investigate gene-gene and/or gene-environment interactions to understand genetic architecture of complex diseases. After the great success of large scale genome-wide association (GWA) studies using th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh S,Lee J,Kwon MS,Weir B,Ha K,Park T

更新日期：2012-06-11 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:Automated genotype calling in tetraploid species was until recently not possible, which hampered genetic analysis. Modern genotyping assays often produce two signals, one for each allele of a bi-allelic marker. While ample software is available to obtain genotypes (homozygous for either allele, or heterozygo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Voorrips RE,Gort G,Vosman B

更新日期：2011-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, a considerable amount of research effort has been directed to the analysis of biological networks with the availability of genome-scale networks of genes and/or proteins of an increasing number of organisms. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is a particular biological network which...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Turanalp ME,Can T

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last decade, next generation sequencing (NGS) has become widely available, and is now the sequencing technology of choice for most researchers. Nonetheless, NGS presents a challenge for the evolutionary biologists who wish to estimate evolutionary genetic parameters from a mixed sample of unlabelled...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu SH,Rodrigo AG

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent discoveries of a large variety of important roles for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been reported by numerous researchers. In order to analyze ncRNAs by kernel methods including support vector machines, we propose stem kernels as an extension of string kernels for measuring the similarities between tw...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sato K,Mituyama T,Asai K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2008-07-22 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:Identification of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is an emerging area in genomic study. The task requires an integrated analysis of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data and gene expression data, raising a new computational challenge due to the tremendous size of data. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chang HH,McGeachie M,Alterovitz G,Ramoni MF

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural interaction frequency matrices between all genome loci are now experimentally achievable thanks to high-throughput chromosome conformation capture technologies. This ensues a new methodological challenge for computational biology which consists in objectively extracting from these data the structu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Boulos RE,Tremblay N,Arneodo A,Borgnat P,Audit B

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as Zika, SARS, ncovid19 and Pertussis, pose a compelling challenge for epidemiologists due to their significant impact on global public health. In this context, computational models and computer simulations are one of the available research tools that epidemi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Castagno P,Pernice S,Ghetti G,Povero M,Pradelli L,Paolotti D,Balbo G,Sereno M,Beccuti M

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data remains a challenge in system biology. In past decade, numerous methods have been developed for the inference of GRNs. It remains a challenge due to the fact that the data is noisy and high dimensional, and there exists a large number of pot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Che D,Guo S,Jiang Q,Chen L

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To interpret microarray experiments, several ontological analysis tools have been developed. However, current tools are limited to specific organisms. RESULTS:We developed a bioinformatics system to assign the probe set sequences of any organism to a hierarchical functional classification modelled on KEGG o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Goffard N,Weiller G

更新日期：2007-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Supercomputers have become indispensable infrastructures in science and industries. In particular, most state-of-the-art scientific results utilize massively parallel supercomputers ranked in TOP500. However, their use is still limited in the bioinformatics field due to the fundamental fact that the asynchro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ito S,Yadome M,Nishiki T,Ishiduki S,Inoue H,Yamaguchi R,Miyano S

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improvements in technology have been accompanied by the generation of large amounts of complex data. This same technology must be harnessed effectively if the knowledge stored within the data is to be retrieved. Storing data in ontologies aids its management; ontologies serve as controlled vocabularies that ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dadzie AS,Burger A

更新日期：2005-03-24 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:Logic Learning Machine (LLM) is an innovative method of supervised analysis capable of constructing models based on simple and intelligible rules. In this investigation the performance of LLM in classifying patients with cancer was evaluated using a set of eight publicly available gene expression databases f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Verda D,Parodi S,Ferrari E,Muselli M

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A new algorithm has been developed for generating conservation profiles that reflect the evolutionary history of the subfamily associated with a query sequence. It is based on n-gram patterns (NP{n,m}) which are sets of n residues and m wildcards in windows of size n+m. The generation of conservation profile...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vries JK,Liu X

更新日期：2008-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-pass, partial sequencing of complementary DNA (cDNA) libraries generates thousands of chromatograms that are processed into high quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs), and then assembled into contigs representative of putative genes. Usually, to be of value, ESTs and contigs must be associated with m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kumar CG,LeDuc R,Gong G,Roinishivili L,Lewin HA,Liu L

更新日期：2004-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical maps have been historically one of the cornerstones of genome sequencing and map-based cloning strategies. They also support marker assisted breeding and EST mapping. The problem of building a high quality physical map is computationally challenging due to unavoidable noise in the input fingerprint ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bozdag S,Close TJ,Lonardi S

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing availability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data and specifically free-text patient notes presents opportunities for phenotype extraction. Text-mining methods in particular can help disease modeling by mapping named-entities mentions to terminologies and clustering semantically related term...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cohen R,Elhadad M,Elhadad N

更新日期：2013-01-16 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:Bioluminescent proteins (BLPs) widely exist in many living organisms. As BLPs are featured by the capability of emitting lights, they can be served as biomarkers and easily detected in biomedical research, such as gene expression analysis and signal transduction pathways. Therefore, accurate identification o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang J,Chai H,Yang G,Ma Z

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While biomedical text mining is emerging as an important research area, practical results have proven difficult to achieve. We believe that an important first step towards more accurate text-mining lies in the ability to identify and characterize text that satisfies various types of information needs. We rep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wilbur WJ,Rzhetsky A,Shatkay H

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In omics data integration studies, it is common, for a variety of reasons, for some individuals to not be present in all data tables. Missing row values are challenging to deal with because most statistical methods cannot be directly applied to incomplete datasets. To overcome this issue, we propose a multip...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Voillet V,Besse P,Liaubet L,San Cristobal M,González I

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collections of transcription factor binding profiles (Transfac, Jaspar) are essential to identify regulatory elements in DNA sequences. Subsets of highly similar profiles complicate large scale analysis of transcription factor binding sites. RESULTS:We propose to identify and group similar profiles using tw...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kielbasa SM,Gonze D,Herzel H

更新日期：2005-09-28 00:00:00