Predicting nucleosome positioning using a duration Hidden Markov Model.

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA copy number variation (CNV) has been recognized as an important source of genetic variation. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is commonly used for CNV detection, but the microarray platform has a number of inherent limitations. RESULTS:Here, we describe a method to detect copy number varia...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xie C,Tammi MT

更新日期：2009-03-06 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:Quadruplexes are specific structure motifs occurring, e.g., in telomeres and transcriptional regulatory regions. Recent discoveries confirmed their importance in biomedicine and led to an intensified examination of their properties. So far, the study of these motifs has focused mainly on the sequence and the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zok T,Popenda M,Szachniuk M

更新日期：2020-01-31 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) is an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) efflux transporter that confers multidrug resistance in cancers and also plays an important role in the absorption, distribution and elimination of drugs. Prediction as to if drugs or new molecular entities are BCRP substrates sho...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hazai E,Hazai I,Ragueneau-Majlessi I,Chung SP,Bikadi Z,Mao Q

更新日期：2013-04-15 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:To evaluate statistical methods for genome-wide genetic analyses, one needs to be able to simulate realistic genotypes. We here describe a method, applicable to a broad range of association study designs, that can simulate autosome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data with realistic linkage disequilibriu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shi M,Umbach DM,Wise AS,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibacterial peptides are important components of the innate immune system, used by the host to protect itself from different types of pathogenic bacteria. Over the last few decades, the search for new drugs and drug targets has prompted an interest in these antibacterial peptides. We analyzed 486 antibacte...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lata S,Sharma BK,Raghava GP

更新日期：2007-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is now well established that nearly 20% of human cancers are caused by infectious agents, and the list of human oncogenic pathogens will grow in the future for a variety of cancer types. Whole tumor transcriptome and genome sequencing by next-generation sequencing technologies presents an unparalleled opp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Borozan I,Wilson S,Blanchette P,Laflamme P,Watt SN,Krzyzanowski PM,Sircoulomb F,Rottapel R,Branton PE,Ferretti V

更新日期：2012-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many genomic features have been used in the prediction of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), frequently only one is used in a computational method. After realizing the limited power in the prediction using only one genomic feature, investigators are now moving toward integration. So far, there hav...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sun J,Sun Y,Ding G,Liu Q,Wang C,He Y,Shi T,Li Y,Zhao Z

更新日期：2007-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously introduced PCPS (Proteasome Cleavage Prediction Server), a web-based tool to predict proteasome cleavage sites using n-grams. Here, we evaluated the ability of PCPS immunoproteasome cleavage model to discriminate CD8+ T cell epitopes. RESULTS:We first assembled an epitope dataset consisting of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gomez-Perosanz M,Ras-Carmona A,Lafuente EM,Reche PA

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infections are often associated to comorbidity that increases the risk of medical conditions which can lead to further morbidity and mortality. SARS is a threat which is similar to MERS virus, but the comorbidity is the key aspect to underline their different impacts. One UK doctor says "I'd rather have HIV ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Moni MA,Liò P

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent technological advances in DNA sequencing and genotyping have led to the accumulation of a remarkable quantity of data on genetic polymorphisms. However, the development of new statistical and computational tools for effective processing of these data has not been equally as fast. In particular, Machin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lagani V,Montesanto A,Di Cianni F,Moreno V,Landi S,Conforti D,Rose G,Passarino G

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new computational technique called Step-Level Differential Response (SLDR) to identify genetic regulatory relationships. Our technique takes advantages of functional genomics data for the same species under different perturbation conditions, therefore complementary to current popular computational techn...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue Z,Wan P,Huang H,Xie Z,Chen JY

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart disease (HD) is one of the most common diseases nowadays, and an early diagnosis of such a disease is a crucial task for many health care providers to prevent their patients for such a disease and to save lives. In this paper, a comparative analysis of different classifiers was performed for the classi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Almustafa KM

更新日期：2020-07-02 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:The adaptation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system to pooled library gene knockout screens in mammalian cells represents a major technological leap over RNA interference, the prior state of the art. New methods for analyzing the data and evaluating results are needed. RESULTS:We offer BAGEL (Bayesian Analysis of Gene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hart T,Moffat J

更新日期：2016-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rabbit is an important model organism used in a wide range of biomedical research. However, the rabbit genome is still sparsely annotated, thus prohibiting extensive functional analysis of gene sets derived from whole-genome experiments. We developed a web-based application that provides augmented annota...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Craig DB,Kannan S,Dombkowski AA

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray data discretization is a basic preprocess for many algorithms of gene regulatory network inference. Some common discretization methods in informatics are used to discretize microarray data. Selection of the discretization method is often arbitrary and no systematic comparison of different discreti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Liu L,Bai X,Cai H,Ji W,Guo D,Zhu Y

更新日期：2010-10-19 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:Normalization in real-time qRT-PCR is necessary to compensate for experimental variation. A popular normalization strategy employs reference gene(s), which may introduce additional variability into normalized expression levels due to innate variation (between tissues, individuals, etc). To minimize this inna...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chervoneva I,Li Y,Schulz S,Croker S,Wilson C,Waldman SA,Hyslop T

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper presents a novel approach for Generative Anatomy Modeling Language (GAML). This approach automatically detects the geometric partitions in 3D anatomy that in turn speeds up integrated non-linear optimization model in GAML for 3D anatomy modeling with constraints (e.g. joints). This integrated non-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Demirel D,Cetinsaya B,Halic T,Kockara S,Ahmadi S

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many Bioinformatics studies begin with a multiple sequence alignment as the foundation for their research. This is because multiple sequence alignment can be a useful technique for studying molecular evolution and analyzing sequence structure relationships. RESULTS:In this paper, we have proposed a Vertical...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Naznin F,Sarker R,Essam D

更新日期：2011-08-25 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:Over the past two decades more than fifty thousand unique clinical and biological samples have been assayed using the Affymetrix HG-U133 and HG-U95 GeneChip microarray platforms. This substantial repository has been used extensively to characterize changes in gene expression between biological samples, but h...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Robinson TJ,Dinan MA,Dewhirst M,Garcia-Blanco MA,Pearson JL

更新日期：2010-02-25 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 recent emergence of high-throughput automated image acquisition technologies has forever changed how cell biologists collect and analyze data. Historically, the interpretation of cellular phenotypes in different experimental conditions has been dependent upon the expert opinions of well-trained biologist...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yin Z,Zhou X,Bakal C,Li F,Sun Y,Perrimon N,Wong ST

更新日期：2008-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activation of naïve B lymphocytes by extracellular ligands, e.g. antigen, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and CD40 ligand, induces a combination of common and ligand-specific phenotypic changes through complex signal transduction pathways. For example, although all three of these ligands induce proliferation, only ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee JA,Sinkovits RS,Mock D,Rab EL,Cai J,Yang P,Saunders B,Hsueh RC,Choi S,Subramaniam S,Scheuermann RH,Alliance for Cellular Signaling.

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most human genes produce several transcripts with different exon contents by using alternative promoters, alternative polyadenylation sites and alternative splice sites. Much effort has been devoted to describing known gene transcripts through the development of numerous databases. Nevertheless, owing to the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de la Grange P,Dutertre M,Correa M,Auboeuf D

更新日期：2007-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular biology data exist on diverse scales, from the level of molecules to -omics. At the same time, the data at each scale can be categorised into multiple layers, such as the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and biochemical pathways. Due to the highly multi-layer and multi-dimensional natur...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arakawa K,Tamaki S,Kono N,Kido N,Ikegami K,Ogawa R,Tomita M

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00