Evaluation of statistical methods for normalization and differential expression in mRNA-Seq experiments.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tiling-arrays are applicable to multiple types of biological research questions. Due to its advantages (high sensitivity, resolution, unbiased), the technology is often employed in genome-wide investigations. A major challenge in the analysis of tiling-array data is to define regions-of-interest, i.e., conti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Taskesen E,Beekman R,de Ridder J,Wouters BJ,Peeters JK,Touw IP,Reinders MJ,Delwel R

更新日期：2010-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep mutational scanning is a technique to estimate the impacts of mutations on a gene by using deep sequencing to count mutations in a library of variants before and after imposing a functional selection. The impacts of mutations must be inferred from changes in their counts after selection. RESULTS:I desc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloom JD

更新日期：2015-05-20 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: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:Homology is a crucial concept in comparative genomics. The algorithm probably most widely used for homology detection in comparative genomics, is BLAST. Usually a stringent score cutoff is applied to distinguish putative homologs from possible false positive hits. As a consequence, some BLAST hits are discar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fokkens L,Botelho SM,Boekhorst J,Snel B

更新日期：2010-02-12 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: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:Computational and visual data analysis for genomics has traditionally involved a combination of tools and resources, of which the most ubiquitous consist of genome browsers, focused mainly on integrative visualization of large numbers of big datasets, and computational environments, focused on data modeling ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chelaru F,Corrada Bravo H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A rapidly increasing flow of genomic data requires the development of efficient methods for obtaining its compact representation. Feature extraction facilitates classification, clustering and model analysis for testing and refining biological hypotheses. "Shotgun" metagenome is an analytically challenging ty...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dubinkina VB,Ischenko DS,Ulyantsev VI,Tyakht AV,Alexeev DG

更新日期：2016-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:determining beforehand specific positions to align (anchor points) has proved valuable for the accuracy of automated multiple sequence alignment (MSA) software. This feature can be used manually to include biological expertise, or automatically, usually by pairwise similarity searches. Multiple local similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pitschi F,Devauchelle C,Corel E

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein subcellular localization is crucial for genome annotation, protein function prediction, and drug discovery. Determination of subcellular localization using experimental approaches is time-consuming; thus, computational approaches become highly desirable. Extensive studies of localization prediction h...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Su EC,Chiu HS,Lo A,Hwang JK,Sung TY,Hsu WL

更新日期：2007-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular signatures are sets of genes, proteins, genetic variants or other variables that can be used as markers for a particular phenotype. Reliable signature discovery methods could yield valuable insight into cell biology and mechanisms of human disease. However, it is currently not clear how to control ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nilsson R,Björkegren J,Tegnér J

更新日期：2009-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although metatranscriptomics-the study of diverse microbial population activity based on RNA-seq data-is rapidly growing in popularity, there are limited options for biologists to analyze this type of data. Current approaches for processing metatranscriptomes rely on restricted databases and a dedicated comp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Westreich ST,Korf I,Mills DA,Lemay DG

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inference of homology between proteins is a key problem in molecular biology The current best approaches only identify approximately 50% of homologies (with a false positive rate set at 1/1000). RESULTS:We present Homology Induction (HI), a new approach to inferring homology. HI uses machine learning to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Karwath A,King RD

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous models for use in interpreting quantitative PCR (qPCR) data are present in recent literature. The most commonly used models assume the amplification in qPCR is exponential and fit an exponential model with a constant rate of increase to a select part of the curve. Kinetic theory may be used to model...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cobbs G

更新日期：2012-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalization is the process of removing non-biological sources of variation between array experiments. Recent investigations of data in gene expression databases for varying organisms and tissues have shown that the majority of expressed genes exhibit a power-law distribution with an exponent close to -1 (i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu T,Costello CM,Croucher PJ,Häsler R,Deuschl G,Schreiber S

更新日期：2005-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Following last year's computational vaccinology workshop in Shanghai, China, the third ISV Pre-conference Computational Vaccinology Workshop (ICoVax 2013) was held in Barcelona, Spain. ICoVax 2013 provided an international platform for the attendees to showcase their research and discuss problems and solutions in the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： De Groot AS,De Groot P,He Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The program InDeVal was originally developed to help researchers find known regions of insertion/deletion activity (with the exception of isolated single-base indels) in newly determined Poaceae trnL-F sequences and compare them with 533 previously determined sequences. It is supplied with input files design...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stoneberg Holt SD,Holt JA

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relative isotope abundance quantification, which can be used for peptide identification and differential peptide quantification, plays an important role in liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based proteomics. However, several major issues exist in the relative isotopic quantification of peptides...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Haskins WE,Petritis K,Zhang J

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searching a large database of protein structures is still relatively slow using existing methods. There is a need for new techniques which can rapidly...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang L,Bailey J,Konagurthu AS,Ramamohanarao K

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Formal classification of a large collection of protein structures aids the understanding of evolutionary relationships among them. Classifications involving manual steps, such as SCOP and CATH, face the challenge of increasing volume of available structures. Automatic methods such as FSSP or Dali Domain Dict...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sam V,Tai CH,Garnier J,Gibrat JF,Lee B,Munson PJ

更新日期：2008-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zebrafish is a widely used model organism for studying heart development and cardiac-related pathogenesis. With the ability of surviving without a functional circulation at larval stages, strong genetic similarity between zebrafish and mammals, prolific reproduction and optically transparent embryos, zebrafi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kang CP,Tu HC,Fu TF,Wu JM,Chu PH,Chang DT

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibacterial peptides are one of the effecter molecules of innate immune system. Over the last few decades several antibacterial peptides have successfully approved as drug by FDA, which has prompted an interest in these antibacterial peptides. In our recent study we analyzed 999 antibacterial peptides, whi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lata S,Mishra NK,Raghava GP

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNA) are regulatory genes that target and repress other RNA molecules via sequence-specific binding. Several biological processes are regulated across many organisms by evolutionarily conserved miRNAs. Plants and invertebrates employ their miRNA in defense against viruses by targeting and degrad...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carl JW Jr,Trgovcich J,Hannenhalli S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol; pronounced "swap") is an architecture, protocol, and platform for using reasoning to semantically integrate heterogeneous disparate data and services on the web. SSWAP was developed as a hybrid semantic web services technology to overcome limitations foun...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gessler DD,Schiltz GS,May GD,Avraham S,Town CD,Grant D,Nelson RT

更新日期：2009-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enzyme active sites can be connected to the exterior environment by one or more channels passing through the protein. Despite our current knowledge of enzyme structure and function, surprisingly little is known about how often channels are present or about any structural features such channels may have in co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pravda L,Berka K,Svobodová Vařeková R,Sehnal D,Banáš P,Laskowski RA,Koča J,Otyepka M

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing allows the analysis of an unprecedented number of viral sequence variants from infected patients, presenting a novel opportunity for understanding virus evolution, drug resistance and immune escape. However, sequencing in bulk is error prone. Thus, the generated data require error ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Skums P,Dimitrova Z,Campo DS,Vaughan G,Rossi L,Forbi JC,Yokosawa J,Zelikovsky A,Khudyakov Y

更新日期：2012-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endometrial cancers (ECs) are one of the most common types of malignant tumor in females. Substantial efforts had been made to identify significantly mutated genes (SMGs) in ECs and use them as biomarkers for the classification of histological subtypes and the prediction of clinical outcomes. However, the im...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu K,He L,Liu Z,Xu J,Liu Y,Kuang Q,Wen Z,Li M

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eisenia fetida, commonly known as red wiggler or compost worm, belongs to the Lumbricidae family of the Annelida phylum. Little is known about its genome sequence although it has been extensively used as a test organism in terrestrial ecotoxicology. In order to understand its gene expression response to envi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pirooznia M,Gong P,Guan X,Inouye LS,Yang K,Perkins EJ,Deng Y

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of sufficient training data is the limiting factor for many Machine Learning applications in Computational Biology. If data is available for several different but related problem domains, Multitask Learning algorithms can be used to learn a model based on all available information. In Bioinformatics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Widmer C,Toussaint NC,Altun Y,Rätsch G

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00