AnyExpress: integrated toolkit for analysis of cross-platform gene expression data using a fast interval matching algorithm.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play several roles in living cells, and computational PPI prediction is a major focus of many researchers. The three-dimensional (3D) structure and binding surface are important for the design of PPI inhibitors. Therefore, rigid body protein-protein docking calculations fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hayashi T,Matsuzaki Y,Yanagisawa K,Ohue M,Akiyama Y

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolomics, petroleum and biodiesel chemistry, biomarker discovery, and other fields which rely on high-resolution profiling of complex chemical mixtures generate datasets which contain millions of detector intensity readings, each uniquely addressed along dimensions of time (e.g., retention time of chemic...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chae M,Shmookler Reis RJ,Thaden JJ

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene function annotations, which are associations between a gene and a term of a controlled vocabulary describing gene functional features, are of paramount importance in modern biology. Datasets of these annotations, such as the ones provided by the Gene Ontology Consortium, are used to design novel biologi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pinoli P,Chicco D,Masseroli M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cost efficient two-stage design is often used in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in searching for genetic loci underlying the susceptibility for complex diseases. Replication-based analysis, which considers data from each stage separately, often suffers from loss of efficiency. Joint test that co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pan D,Li Q,Jiang N,Liu A,Yu K

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A phylogeny postulates shared ancestry relationships among organisms in the form of a binary tree. Phylogenies attempt to answer an important question posed in biology: what are the ancestor-descendent relationships between organisms? At the core of every biological problem lies a phylogenetic component. The...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Varón A,Wheeler WC

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND GOAL:The Random Forest (RF) algorithm for regression and classification has considerably gained popularity since its introduction in 2001. Meanwhile, it has grown to a standard classification approach competing with logistic regression in many innovation-friendly scientific fields. RESULTS:In this conte...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Couronné R,Probst P,Boulesteix AL

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a consequence of the evolutionary process, data collected from related species tend to be similar. This similarity by descent can obscure subtler signals in the data such as the evidence of constraint on variation due to shared selective pressures. In comparative sequence analysis, for example, sequence s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stone EA,Sidow A

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Throughout the metazoan lineage, typically gonadal expressed Piwi proteins and their guiding piRNAs (~26-32nt in length) form a protective mechanism of RNA interference directed against the propagation of transposable elements (TEs). Most piRNAs are generated from genomic piRNA clusters. Annotation of experi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rosenkranz D,Zischler H

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heritability of a phenotypic or molecular trait measures the proportion of variance that is attributable to genotypic variance. It is an important concept in breeding and genetics. Few methods are available for calculating heritability for traits derived from high-throughput sequencing. RESULTS:We propose s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rudra P,Shi WJ,Vestal B,Russell PH,Odell A,Dowell RD,Radcliffe RA,Saba LM,Kechris K

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Periodic phenomena are widespread in biology. The problem of finding periodicity in biological time series can be viewed as a multiple hypothesis testing of the spectral content of a given time series. The exact noise characteristics are unknown in many bioinformatics applications. Furthermore, the observed ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahdesmäki M,Lähdesmäki H,Pearson R,Huttunen H,Yli-Harja O

更新日期：2005-05-13 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:Cell-scaffold contact measurements are derived from pairs of co-registered volumetric fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) images (z-stacks) of stained cells and three types of scaffolds (i.e., spun coat, large microfiber, and medium microfiber). Our analysis of the acquired terabyte-sized c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bajcsy P,Yoon S,Florczyk SJ,Hotaling NA,Simon M,Szczypinski PM,Schaub NJ,Simon CG Jr,Brady M,Sriram RD

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managing and organizing biological knowledge remains a major challenge, due to the complexity of living systems. Recently, systemic representations have been promising in tackling such a challenge at the whole-cell scale. In such representations, the cell is considered as a system composed of interlocked sub...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Henry V,Saïs F,Inizan O,Marchadier E,Dibie J,Goelzer A,Fromion V

更新日期：2020-07-23 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:Protein aggregation is a significant problem in the biopharmaceutical industry (protein drug stability) and is associated medically with over 40 human diseases. Although a number of computational models have been developed for predicting aggregation propensity and identifying aggregation-prone regions in pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fang Y,Gao S,Tai D,Middaugh CR,Fang J

更新日期：2013-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional algorithms for hidden Markov model decoding seek to maximize either the probability of a state path or the number of positions of a sequence assigned to the correct state. These algorithms provide only a single answer and in practice do not produce good results. RESULTS:We explore an alternative...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brown DG,Golod D

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kernel-based learning algorithms are among the most advanced machine learning methods and have been successfully applied to a variety of sequence classification tasks within the field of bioinformatics. Conventional kernels utilized so far do not provide an easy interpretation of the learnt representations i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meinicke P,Tech M,Morgenstern B,Merkl R

更新日期：2004-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimation of individual ancestry from genetic data is useful for the analysis of disease association studies, understanding human population history and interpreting personal genomic variation. New, computationally efficient methods are needed for ancestry inference that can effectively utilize existing inf...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bansal V,Libiger O

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The immune system is multifaceted, structured by diverse components that interconnect using multilayered dynamic cellular processes. Genomic technologies provide a means for investigating, at the molecular level, the adaptations of the immune system in host defense and its dysregulation in pathological condi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Liu J,Toups M,Soos T,Arendt C

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since their introduction in 2009, the BioNLP Shared Task events have been instrumental in advancing the development of methods and resources for the automatic extraction of information from the biomedical literature. In this paper, we present the Cancer Genetics (CG) and Pathway Curation (PC) tasks, two even...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pyysalo S,Ohta T,Rak R,Rowley A,Chun HW,Jung SJ,Choi SP,Tsujii J,Ananiadou S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graph theory provides a computational framework for modeling a variety of datasets including those emerging from genomics, proteomics, and chemical genetics. Networks of genes, proteins, small molecules, or other objects of study can be represented as graphs of nodes (vertices) and interactions (edges) that ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Forman JJ,Clemons PA,Schreiber SL,Haggarty SJ

更新日期：2005-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In bioinformatics community, many tasks associate with matching a set of protein query sequences in large sequence datasets. To conduct multiple queries in the database, a common used method is to run BLAST on each original querey or on the concatenated queries. It is inefficient since it doesn't exploit the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ge H,Sun L,Yu J

更新日期：2017-11-21 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:A professional recognition mechanism is required to encourage expedited publishing of an adequate volume of 'fit-for-use' biodiversity data. As a component of such a recognition mechanism, we propose the development of the Data Usage Index (DUI) to demonstrate to data publishers that their efforts of creatin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ingwersen P,Chavan V

更新日期：2011-01-01 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:Finding common molecular interactions from different samples is essential work to understanding diseases and other biological processes. Coexpression networks and their modules directly reflect sample-specific interactions among genes. Therefore, identification of common coexpression network or modules may r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jo Y,Kim S,Lee D

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, a considerable amount of research effort has been directed to the analysis of biological networks with the availability of genome-scale networks of genes and/or proteins of an increasing number of organisms. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is a particular biological network which...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Turanalp ME,Can T

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since RNA molecules regulate genes and control alternative splicing by allostery, it is important to develop algorithms to predict RNA conformational switches. Some tools, such as paRNAss, RNAshapes and RNAbor, can be used to predict potential conformational switches; nevertheless, no existent tool can detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clote P,Lou F,Lorenz WA

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing is the critical process in a single gene coding, which removes introns and joins exons, and splicing branchpoints are indicators for the alternative splicing. Wet experiments have identified a great number of human splicing branchpoints, but many branchpoints are still unknown. In order ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang W,Zhu X,Fu Y,Tsuji J,Weng Z

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparative genomics, the rearrangement distance between two genomes (equal the minimal number of genome rearrangements required to transform them into a single genome) is often used for measuring their evolutionary remoteness. Generalization of this measure to three genomes is known as the median score (while a re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S Jr,Alekseyev MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00