A fast indexing approach for protein structure comparison.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-range interactions between regulatory DNA elements such as enhancers, insulators and promoters play an important role in regulating transcription. As chromatin contacts have been found throughout the human genome and in different cell types, spatial transcriptional control is now viewed as a general mec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rousseau M,Fraser J,Ferraiuolo MA,Dostie J,Blanchette M

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In metabolomics experiments, spectral fingerprints of metabolites with no known structural identity are detected routinely. Computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE) has been used to determine the structural identities of unknown compounds. It is generally accepted that a single 1D NMR spectrum or mass ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jayaseelan KV,Steinbeck C

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) is a measure of the synonymous codon usage bias for a DNA or RNA sequence. It quantifies the similarity between the synonymous codon usage of a gene and the synonymous codon frequency of a reference set. Extreme values in the nucleotide or in the amino acid composition have a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Puigbò P,Bravo IG,Garcia-Vallvé S

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NTF2-like superfamily is a versatile group of protein domains sharing a common fold. The sequences of these domains are very diverse and they share no common sequence motif. These domains serve a range of different functions within the proteins in which they are found, including both catalytic and non-ca...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eberhardt RY,Chang Y,Bateman A,Murzin AG,Axelrod HL,Hwang WC,Aravind L

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this paper, it is proposed an optimization approach for producing reduced alphabets for peptide classification, using a Genetic Algorithm. The classification task is performed by a multi-classifier system where each classifier (Linear or Radial Basis function Support Vector Machines) is trained using feat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nanni L,Lumini A

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a key role in diverse physiological processes and are the targets of almost two-thirds of the marketed drugs. The 3 D structures of GPCRs are largely unavailable; however, a large number of GPCR primary sequences are known. To facilitate the identification and charact...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng ZL,Yang JY,Chen X

更新日期：2010-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simulated nucleotide or amino acid sequences are frequently used to assess the performance of phylogenetic reconstruction methods. BEAST, a Bayesian statistical framework that focuses on reconstructing time-calibrated molecular evolutionary processes, supports a wide array of evolutionary models, but lacked ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bielejec F,Lemey P,Carvalho LM,Baele G,Rambaut A,Suchard MA

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Testing the dependence of two variables is one of the fundamental tasks in statistics. In this work, we developed an open-source R package (knnAUC) for detecting nonlinear dependence between one continuous variable X and one binary dependent variables Y (0 or 1). RESULTS:We addressed this problem by using k...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Liu X,Ma Y,Wang Y,Zhou W,Hao M,Yuan Z,Liu J,Xiong M,Shugart YY,Wang J,Jin L

更新日期：2018-11-22 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：:Complexes of physically interacting proteins are one of the fundamental functional units responsible for driving key biological mechanisms within the cell. With the advent of high-throughput techniques, significant amount of protein interaction (PPI) data has been catalogued for organisms such as yeast, which has in t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Srihari S,Leong HW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of homologous genes is fundamental to comparative genomics, functional genomics and phylogenomics. Extensive public homology databases are of great value for investigating homology but need to be continually updated to incorporate new sequences. As new sequences are rapidly being generated, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sheikhizadeh Anari S,de Ridder D,Schranz ME,Smit S

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The improvements of high throughput technologies have produced large amounts of multi-omics experiments datasets. Initial analysis of these data has revealed many concurrent gene alterations within single dataset or/and among multiple omics datasets. Although powerful bioinformatics pipelines have been devel...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen D,Zhang F,Zhao Q,Xu J

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The median of k≥3 genomes was originally defined to find a compromise genome indicative of a common ancestor. However, in gene order comparisons, the usual definitions based on minimizing the sum of distances to the input genomes lead to degenerate medians reflecting only one of the input genomes. "Near-medi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Larlee CA,Brandts A,Sankoff D

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shotgun metagenomics based on untargeted sequencing can explore the taxonomic profile and the function of unknown microorganisms in samples, and complement the shortage of amplicon sequencing. Binning assembled sequences into individual groups, which represent microbial genomes, is the key step and a major c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue Y,Huang H,Qi Z,Dou HM,Liu XY,Han TF,Chen Y,Song XJ,Zhang YH,Tu J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracellular signal transduction is achieved by networks of proteins and small molecules that transmit information from the cell surface to the nucleus, where they ultimately effect transcriptional changes. Understanding the mechanisms cells use to accomplish this important process requires a detailed molec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Steffen M,Petti A,Aach J,D'haeseleer P,Church G

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play several roles in living cells, and computational PPI prediction is a major focus of many researchers. The three-dimensional (3D) structure and binding surface are important for the design of PPI inhibitors. Therefore, rigid body protein-protein docking calculations fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hayashi T,Matsuzaki Y,Yanagisawa K,Ohue M,Akiyama Y

更新日期：2018-05-08 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:The protein-coding regions (coding exons) of a DNA sequence exhibit a triplet periodicity (TP) due to fact that coding exons contain a series of three nucleotide codons that encode specific amino acid residues. Such periodicity is usually not observed in introns and intergenic regions. If a DNA sequence is d...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang L,Stein LD

更新日期：2010-11-08 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:DNA methylation patterns have been shown to significantly correlate with different tissue types and disease states. High-throughput methylation arrays enable large-scale DNA methylation analysis to identify informative DNA methylation biomarkers. The identification of disease-specific methylation signatures ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meng H,Murrelle EL,Li G

更新日期：2008-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Immunoglobulins (IG) and the T cell receptors (TR) play the key role in antigen recognition during the adaptive immune response. Recent progress in next-generation sequencing technologies has provided an opportunity for the deep T cell receptor repertoire profiling. However, a specialised software is req...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nazarov VI,Pogorelyy MV,Komech EA,Zvyagin IV,Bolotin DA,Shugay M,Chudakov DM,Lebedev YB,Mamedov IZ

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are closely associated with human diseases, and it is useful for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases to get the relationships between lncRNAs and diseases. Due to the high costs and time complexity of traditional bio-experiments, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao Y,Xiao Z,Feng X,Chen Z,Kuang L,Wang L

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is one of the technologies widely used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of small molecules. In particular, GC coupled to single quadrupole MS can be utilized for targeted analysis by selected ion monitoring (SIM). However, to our knowledge, t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranjbar MR,Di Poto C,Wang Y,Ressom HW

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In addition to single-locus (main) effects of disease variants, there is a growing consensus that gene-gene and gene-environment interactions may play important roles in disease etiology. However, for the very large numbers of genetic markers currently in use, it has proven difficult to develop suitable and ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Long Q,Zhang Q,Ott J

更新日期：2009-01-30 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:Handling the vast amount of gene expression data generated by genome-wide transcriptional profiling techniques is a challenging task, demanding an informed combination of pre-processing, filtering and analysis methods if meaningful biological conclusions are to be drawn. For example, a range of traditional s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ibrahim M,Jassim S,Cawthorne MA,Langlands K

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer, with high mortality worldwide. Its occurrence and development were thoroughly studied by high-throughput expression microarray, which produced abundant data on gene expression, DNA methylation, and miRNA quantification. However, the hub genes, which...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan X,Wang Y,Tang XQ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomes are subjected to rearrangements that change the orientation and ordering of genes during evolution. The most common rearrangements that occur in uni-chromosomal genomes are inversions (or reversals) to adapt to the changing environment. Since genome rearrangements are rarer than point mutations, gene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Noureen M,Tada I,Kawashima T,Arita M

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phylogenies capture the evolutionary ancestry linking extant species. Correlations and similarities among a set of species are mediated by and need to be understood in terms of the phylogenic tree. In a similar way it has been argued that biological networks also induce correlations among sets of interacting...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kelly WP,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2010-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Finishing is the process of improving the quality and utility of draft genome sequences generated by shotgun sequencing and computational assembly. Finishing can involve targeted sequencing. Finishing reads may be incorporated by manual or automated means. One automated method uses targeted addition by local...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Koren S,Miller JR,Walenz BP,Sutton G

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00