A comparison and user-based evaluation of models of textual information structure in the context of cancer risk assessment.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a fundamental analysis method used in bioinformatics and many comparative genomic applications. Prior MSA acceleration attempts with reconfigurable computing have only addressed the first stage of progressive alignment and consequently exhibit performance limitations acco...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lloyd S,Snell QO

更新日期：2011-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) allows merging of DNA sequence annotations from multiple sources and provides a single annotation view. A straightforward way to establish a DAS annotation server is to use the "Lightweight DAS" server (LDAS). Onto this type of server, annotations can be uploaded as fl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Negre V,Grunau C

更新日期：2004-05-07 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：BACKGROUND:High-throughput sequencing can identify numerous potential genomic targets for microbial strain typing, but identification of the most informative combinations requires the use of computational screening tools. This paper describes novel software-- Automated Selection of Typing Target Subsets (AuSeTTS)--that...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： O'Sullivan MV,Sintchenko V,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2013-05-01 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:As high-throughput sequencing applications continue to evolve, the rapid growth in quantity and variety of sequence-based data calls for the development of new software libraries and tools for data analysis and visualization. Often, effective use of these tools requires computational skills beyond those of m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yousif A,Drou N,Rowe J,Khalfan M,Gunsalus KC

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systematic mutagenesis studies have shown that only a few interface residues termed hot spots contribute significantly to the binding free energy of protein-protein interactions. Therefore, hot spots prediction becomes increasingly important for well understanding the essence of proteins interactions and hel...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen R,Chen W,Yang S,Wu D,Wang Y,Tian Y,Shi Y

更新日期：2011-07-29 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:Analysis of cellular processes with microscopic bright field defocused imaging has the advantage of low phototoxicity and minimal sample preparation. However bright field images lack the contrast and nuclei reporting available with florescent approaches and therefore present a challenge to methods that segme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mohamadlou H,Shope JC,Flann NS

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under conditions of no strand bias the number of Gs is equal to that of Cs for each DNA strand; similarly, the total number of Ts is equal to that of As. However, within each strand there are considerable local deviations from the A = T and G = C equality. These asymmetries in nucleotide composition have bee...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thomas JM,Horspool D,Brown G,Tcherepanov V,Upton C

更新日期：2007-01-23 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: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:An increasing number of researchers have released novel RNA structure analysis and prediction algorithms for comparative approaches to structure prediction. Yet, independent benchmarking of these algorithms is rarely performed as is now common practice for protein-folding, gene-finding and multiple-sequence-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gardner PP,Giegerich R

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray experiments enable simultaneous measurement of the expression levels of virtually all transcripts present in cells, thereby providing a 'molecular picture' of the cell state. On the other hand, the genomic responses to a pharmacological or hormonal stimulus are dynamic molecular processes, where t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mutarelli M,Cicatiello L,Ferraro L,Grober OM,Ravo M,Facchiano AM,Angelini C,Weisz A

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that are able to move from their location in the genome by cutting or copying themselves to another locus. As such, they are increasingly recognized as impacting all aspects of genome function. With the dramatic reduction in cost of DNA sequencing, it is now poss...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gilly A,Etcheverry M,Madoui MA,Guy J,Quadrana L,Alberti A,Martin A,Heitkam T,Engelen S,Labadie K,Le Pen J,Wincker P,Colot V,Aury JM

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer simulation is a resource which can be employed to identify optimal breeding strategies to effectively and efficiently achieve specific goals in developing improved cultivars. In some instances, it is crucial to assess in silico the options as well as the impact of various crossing schemes and breedi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sun X,Mumm RH

更新日期：2016-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected reaction monitoring (SRM)-based proteomics approaches enable highly sensitive and reproducible assays for profiling of thousands of peptides in one experiment. The development of such assays involves the determination of retention time, detectability and fragmentation properties of peptides, followed by an op...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nahnsen S,Kohlbacher O

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions play a key role in biological processes of proteins within a cell. Recent high-throughput techniques have generated protein-protein interaction data in a genome-scale. A wide range of computational approaches have been applied to interactome network analysis for uncovering functi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cho YR,Zhang A

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring gene regulatory network (GRN) has been an important topic in Bioinformatics. Many computational methods infer the GRN from high-throughput expression data. Due to the presence of time delays in the regulatory relationships, High-Order Dynamic Bayesian Network (HO-DBN) is a good model of GRN. Howeve...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lo LY,Wong ML,Lee KH,Leung KS

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific workflows management systems are increasingly used to specify and manage bioinformatics experiments. Their programming model appeals to bioinformaticians, who can use them to easily specify complex data processing pipelines. Such a model is underpinned by a graph structure, where nodes represent b...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cohen-Boulakia S,Chen J,Missier P,Goble C,Williams AR,Froidevaux C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collections of transcription factor binding profiles (Transfac, Jaspar) are essential to identify regulatory elements in DNA sequences. Subsets of highly similar profiles complicate large scale analysis of transcription factor binding sites. RESULTS:We propose to identify and group similar profiles using tw...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kielbasa SM,Gonze D,Herzel H

更新日期：2005-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several features are known to correlate with the GC-content in the human genome, including recombination rate, gene density and distance to telomere. However, by testing for pairwise correlation only, it is impossible to distinguish direct associations from indirect ones and to distinguish between causes and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Freudenberg J,Wang M,Yang Y,Li W

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome imputation, admixture resolution and genome-wide association analyses are timely and computationally intensive processes with many composite and requisite steps. Analysis time increases further when building and installing the run programs required for these analyses. For scientists that may not be as...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eller RJ,Janga SC,Walsh S

更新日期：2019-06-28 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: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:Different human responses to the same vaccine were frequently observed. For example, independent studies identified overlapping but different transcriptomic gene expression profiles in Yellow Fever vaccine 17D (YF-17D) immunized human subjects. Different experimental and analysis conditions were likely contr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ong E,Sun P,Berke K,Zheng J,Wu G,He Y

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a 2007 update on the bioinformatics research in the Asia-Pacific from the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation set up in 1998. From 2002, APBioNet has organized the first International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) bringing together scientists work...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranganathan S,Gribskov M,Tan TW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atomic details of protein-DNA complexes can provide insightful information for better understanding of the function and binding specificity of DNA binding proteins. In addition to experimental methods for solving protein-DNA complex structures, protein-DNA docking can be used to predict native or near-native...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corona RI,Sudarshan S,Aluru S,Guo JT

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A major goal of the analysis of high-dimensional RNA expression data from tumor tissue is to identify prognostic signatures for discriminating patient subgroups. For this purpose genome-wide identification of bimodally expressed genes from gene array data is relevant because distinguishability of high and lo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hellwig B,Hengstler JG,Schmidt M,Gehrmann MC,Schormann W,Rahnenführer J

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last few years transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) has almost completely taken over microarrays for high-throughput studies of gene expression. Currently, the most popular use of RNA-Seq is to identify genes which are differentially expressed between two or more conditions. Despite the importance of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rahmatallah Y,Emmert-Streib F,Glazko G

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00