Identification of functional hubs and modules by converting interactome networks into hierarchical ordering of proteins.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of many diseases can be often formulated as a decision problem; uncertainty affects these problems so that many computerized Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (in the following, DDSSs) have been developed to aid the physician in interpreting clinical data and thus to improve the quality of th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： d'Acierno A,Esposito M,De Pietro G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of multiple, essentially complete genome sequences of prokaryotes and eukaryotes spurred both the demand and the opportunity for the construction of an evolutionary classification of genes from these genomes. Such a classification system based on orthologous relationships between genes appea...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tatusov RL,Fedorova ND,Jackson JD,Jacobs AR,Kiryutin B,Koonin EV,Krylov DM,Mazumder R,Mekhedov SL,Nikolskaya AN,Rao BS,Smirnov S,Sverdlov AV,Vasudevan S,Wolf YI,Yin JJ,Natale DA

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:FREGENE simulates sequence-level data over large genomic regions in large populations. Because, unlike coalescent simulators, it works forwards through time, it allows complex scenarios of selection, demography, and recombination to be modelled simultaneously. Detailed tracking of sites under selection is im...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chadeau-Hyam M,Hoggart CJ,O'Reilly PF,Whittaker JC,De Iorio M,Balding DJ

更新日期：2008-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most important goals of the mathematical modeling of gene regulatory networks is to alter their behavior toward desirable phenotypes. Therapeutic techniques are derived for intervention in terms of stationary control policies. In large networks, it becomes computationally burdensome to derive an o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ghaffari N,Ivanov I,Qian X,Dougherty ER

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Light microscopy is of central importance in cell biology. The recent introduction of automated high content screening has expanded this technology towards automation of experiments and performing large scale perturbation assays. Nevertheless, evaluation of microscopy data continues to be a bottleneck in man...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Misselwitz B,Strittmatter G,Periaswamy B,Schlumberger MC,Rout S,Horvath P,Kozak K,Hardt WD

更新日期：2010-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current taxonomic classification tools use exact string matching algorithms that are effective to tackle the data from the next generation sequencing technology. However, the unique error patterns in the third generation sequencing (TGS) technologies could reduce the accuracy of these programs. RESULTS:We d...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bui VK,Wei C

更新日期：2020-10-20 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: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:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) aspartic protease is an important enzyme owing to its imperative part in viral development and a causative agent of deadliest disease known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Development of HIV-1 protease inhibitors can help understand the specifici...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Singh O,Su EC

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is increasingly utilized in radiomics studies for treatment evaluation purposes. Nevertheless, lesion volume identification in PET images is a critical and still challenging step in the process of radiomics, due to the low spatial resolution and high noise level of PET imag...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stefano A,Comelli A,Bravatà V,Barone S,Daskalovski I,Savoca G,Sabini MG,Ippolito M,Russo G

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying diagnosis and prognosis biomarkers from expression profiling data is of great significance for achieving personalized medicine and designing therapeutic strategy in complex diseases. However, the reproducibility of identified biomarkers across tissues and experiments is still a challenge for this...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang X,Gao L,Liu ZP,Chen L

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Network co-regulated modules are believed to have the functionality of packaging multiple biological entities, and can thus be assumed to coordinate many biological functions in their network neighbouring regions. RESULTS:Here, we weighted edges of a human protein interaction network and a transcriptional r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen L,Wang H,Zhang L,Li W,Wang Q,Shang Y,He Y,He W,Li X,Tai J,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffold proteins are known for being crucial regulators of various cellular functions by assembling multiple proteins involved in signaling and metabolic pathways. Identification of scaffold proteins and the study of their molecular mechanisms can open a new aspect of cellular systemic regulation and the re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh K,Yi GS

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A survey of presences and absences of specific species across multiple biogeographic units (or bioregions) are used in a broad area of biological studies from ecology to microbiology. Using binary presence-absence data, we evaluate species co-occurrences that help elucidate relationships among organisms and ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chung NC,Miasojedow B,Startek M,Gambin A

更新日期：2019-12-24 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：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:DNA microarrays offer motivation and hope for the simultaneous study of variations in multiple genes. Gene expression is a temporal process that allows variations in expression levels with a characterized gene function over a period of time. Temporal gene expression curves can be treated as functional data s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Kim H

更新日期：2017-10-12 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:Replication timing experiments that use label incorporation and high throughput sequencing produce peaked data similar to ChIP-Seq experiments. However, the differences in experimental design, coverage density, and possible results make traditional ChIP-Seq analysis methods inappropriate for use with replica...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zynda GJ,Song J,Concia L,Wear EE,Hanley-Bowdoin L,Thompson WF,Vaughn MW

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A common method for presenting and studying biological interaction networks is visualization. Software tools can enhance our ability to explore network visualizations and improve our understanding of biological systems, particularly when these tools offer analysis capabilities. However, most published networ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Macpherson JI,Pinney JW,Robertson DL

更新日期：2009-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotics are the widely prescribed drugs for children and most likely to be related with adverse reactions. Record on adverse reactions and allergies from antibiotics considerably affect the prescription choices. We consider this a biomedical decision-making problem and explore hidden knowledge in survey ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yildirim P,Majnarić L,Ekmekci O,Holzinger A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many functional RNA molecules fold into pseudoknot structures, which are often essential for the formation of an RNA's 3D structure. Currently the design of RNA molecules, which fold into a specific structure (known as RNA inverse folding) within biotechnological applications, is lacking the feature of incor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kleinkauf R,Houwaart T,Backofen R,Mann M

更新日期：2015-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isocitrate Dehydrogenases (IDHs) are important enzymes present in all living cells. Three subfamilies of functionally dimeric IDHs (subfamilies I, II, III) are known. Subfamily I are well-studied bacterial IDHs, like that of Escherischia coli. Subfamily II has predominantly eukaryotic members, but it also ha...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vinekar R,Verma C,Ghosh I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The improvements in genomics methods coupled with readily accessible high-throughput sequencing have contributed to our understanding of microbial species, metagenomes, infectious diseases and more. To maximize the impact of these genomics studies, it is important that data from biological samples will becom...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Quiñones M,Liou DT,Shyu C,Kim W,Vujkovic-Cvijin I,Belkaid Y,Hurt DE

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial genomes contain an abundance of genes with conserved proximity forming clusters on the chromosome. However, the conservation can be a result of many factors such as vertical inheritance, or functional selection. Thus, identification of conserved gene clusters that are under functional selection pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zheng Y,Anton BP,Roberts RJ,Kasif S

更新日期：2005-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Targeted resequencing offers a cost-effective alternative to whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing when investigating regions known to be associated with a trait or disease. There are a number of approaches to targeted resequencing, including microfluidic PCR amplification, which may be enhanced by multipl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wingo TS,Kotlar A,Cutler DJ

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of a consensus RNA motif often consists in finding a conserved secondary structure with minimum free energy in an ensemble of aligned sequences. However, an alignment is often difficult to obtain without prior structural information. Thus the need for tools to automate this process. RESUL...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anwar M,Nguyen T,Turcotte M

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudouridylation is the most prevalent type of posttranscriptional modification in various stable RNAs of all organisms, which significantly affects many cellular processes that are regulated by RNA. Thus, accurate identification of pseudouridine (Ψ) sites in RNA will be of great benefit for understanding t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： He J,Fang T,Zhang Z,Huang B,Zhu X,Xiong Y

更新日期：2018-08-29 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:Most single stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses mutate rapidly to generate large number of strains having highly divergent capsid sequences. Accurate strain recognition in uncharacterized target capsid sequences is essential for epidemiology, diagnostics, and vaccine development. Strain recognition based on similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhu D,Fox GE,Chakravarty S

更新日期：2007-10-10 00:00:00