Characterization and sequence prediction of structural variations in α-helix.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our knowledge of global protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks in complex organisms such as humans is hindered by technical limitations of current methods. RESULTS:On the basis of short co-occurring polypeptide regions, we developed a tool called MP-PIPE capable of predicting a global human PPI network ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schoenrock A,Samanfar B,Pitre S,Hooshyar M,Jin K,Phillips CA,Wang H,Phanse S,Omidi K,Gui Y,Alamgir M,Wong A,Barrenäs F,Babu M,Benson M,Langston MA,Green JR,Dehne F,Golshani A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One approach to improving the personalized treatment of cancer is to understand the cellular signaling transduction pathways that cause cancer at the level of the individual patient. In this study, we used unsupervised deep learning to learn the hierarchical structure within cancer gene expression data. Deep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Young JD,Cai C,Lu X

更新日期：2017-10-03 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: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:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of endogenous regulatory small RNAs which play an important role in posttranscriptional regulations by targeting mRNAs for cleavage or translational repression. The base-pairing between the 5'-end of miRNA and the target mRNA 3'-UTRs is essential for the miRNA:mRNA recognition....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gu J,Fu H,Zhang X,Li Y

更新日期：2007-11-08 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：:The RNA polymerase NS5B of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a well-characterised drug target with an active site and four allosteric binding sites. This work presents a workflow for virtual screening and its application to Drug Bank screening targeting the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA polymerase non-nucleoside binding sites....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Elhefnawi M,ElGamacy M,Fares M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next Generation Sequencing techniques are producing enormous amounts of biological sequence data and analysis becomes a major computational problem. Currently, most analysis, especially the identification of conserved regions, relies heavily on Multiple Sequence Alignment and its various heuristics such as p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nagar A,Hahsler M

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:Recently, revealing the function of proteins with protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks is regarded as one of important issues in bioinformatics. With the development of experimental methods such as the yeast two-hybrid method, the data of protein interaction have been increasing extremely. Many databas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Monji H,Koizumi S,Ozaki T,Ohkawa T

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments have been popularly applied to transcriptome studies in recent years. Such experiments are still relatively costly. As a result, RNA-seq experiments often employ a small number of replicates. Power analysis and sample size calculation are challenging in the context of dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bi R,Liu P

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conservation and variation scores are used when evaluating sites in a multiple sequence alignment, in order to identify residues critical for structure or function. A variety of scores are available today but it is not clear how different scores relate to each other. RESULTS:We applied 25 conservation and v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Johansson F,Toh H

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dynamic programming algorithms provide exact solutions to many problems in computational biology, such as sequence alignment, RNA folding, hidden Markov models (HMMs), and scoring of phylogenetic trees. Structurally analogous algorithms compute optimal solutions, evaluate score distributions, and perform sto...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： zu Siederdissen CH,Prohaska SJ,Stadler PF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many structural properties such as solvent accessibility, dihedral angles and helix-helix contacts can be assigned to each residue in a membrane protein. Independent studies exist on the analysis and sequence-based prediction of some of these so-called one-dimensional features. However, there is little expla...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahmad S,Singh YH,Paudel Y,Mori T,Sugita Y,Mizuguchi K

更新日期：2010-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies have emerged as a powerful tool to understand the genetic basis of gene expression and complex traits. The traditional eQTL methods focus on testing the associations between individual single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression tra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cheng W,Shi Y,Zhang X,Wang W

更新日期：2015-01-16 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:In real-time PCR, it is necessary to consider the efficiency of amplification (EA) of amplicons in order to determine initial target levels properly. EAs can be deduced from standard curves, but these involve extra effort and cost and may yield invalid EAs. Alternatively, EA can be extracted from individual ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Batsch A,Noetel A,Fork C,Urban A,Lazic D,Lucas T,Pietsch J,Lazar A,Schömig E,Gründemann D

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanotransduction in bone cells plays a pivotal role in osteoblast differentiation and bone remodelling. Mechanotransduction provides the link between modulation of the extracellular matrix by mechanical load and intracellular activity. By controlling the balance between the intracellular and extracellular...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ascolani G,Skerry TM,Lacroix D,Dall'Ara E,Shuaib A

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current development of sequencing technologies is towards generating longer and noisier reads. Evidently, accurate alignment of these reads play an important role in any downstream analysis. Similarly, reducing the overall cost of sequencing is related to the time consumption of the aligner. The tradeoff bet...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nashta-Ali D,Aliyari A,Ahmadian Moghadam A,Edrisi MA,Motahari SA,Hossein Khalaj B

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selecting a parsimonious set of informative genes to build highly generalized performance classifier is the most important task for the analysis of tumor microarray expression data. Many existing gene pair evaluation methods cannot highlight diverse patterns of gene pairs only used one strategy of vertical c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen Y,Wang L,Li L,Zhang H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most of the current disease candidate gene identification and prioritization methods depend on functional annotations, the coverage of the gene functional annotations is a limiting factor. In the current study, we describe a candidate gene prioritization method that is entirely based on protein-prot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen J,Aronow BJ,Jegga AG

更新日期：2009-02-27 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:Meta-analysis (MA) is widely used to pool genome-wide association studies (GWASes) in order to a) increase the power to detect strong or weak genotype effects or b) as a result verification method. As a consequence of differing SNP panels among genotyping chips, imputation is the method of choice within GWAS...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meesters C,Leber M,Herold C,Angisch M,Mattheisen M,Drichel D,Lacour A,Becker T

更新日期：2012-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current network-based microarray analysis uses the information of interactions among concerned genes/gene products, but still considers each gene expression individually. We propose an organized knowledge-supervised approach - Integrative eXpression Profiling (IXP), to improve microarray classification accur...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu X,Huang H,Sonachalam M,Reinhard S,Shen J,Pandey R,Chen JY

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes encoding transcription factors that constitute gene-regulatory networks and maternal factors accumulating in egg cytoplasm are two classes of essential genes that play crucial roles in developmental processes. Transcription factors control the expression of their downstream target genes by interacting ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang K,Nishida H

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given a set of t n-length DNA sequences, q satisfying 0 < q ≤ 1, and l and d satisfying 0 ≤ d < l < n, the quorum planted motif search (qPMS) finds l-length strings that occur in at least qt input sequences with up to d mismatches and is mainly used to locate transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequenc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yu Q,Wei D,Huo H

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The scientific literature contains millions of microbial gene identifiers within the full text and tables, but these annotations rarely get incorporated into public sequence databases. We propose to utilize the Open Access (OA) subset of PubMed Central (PMC) as a gene annotation database and have developed a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stubben CJ,Challacombe JF

更新日期：2014-02-05 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 analysis of DNA copy number variants (CNV) has increasing impact in the field of genetic diagnostics and research. However, the interpretation of CNV data derived from high resolution array CGH or NGS platforms is complicated by the considerable variability of the human genome. Therefore, tools for multi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tebel K,Boldt V,Steininger A,Port M,Ebert G,Ullmann R

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray techniques are one of the main methods used to investigate thousands of gene expression profiles for enlightening complex biological processes responsible for serious diseases, with a great scientific impact and a wide application area. Several standalone applications had been developed in order t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corradi L,Fato M,Porro I,Scaglione S,Torterolo L

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00