HTPheno: an image analysis pipeline for high-throughput plant phenotyping.

abstract：BACKGROUND:New sequencing techniques require new visualization strategies, as is the case for epigenomics data such as DNA base modifications, small non-coding RNAs, and histone modifications. RESULTS:We present a set of plugins for the genome browser JBrowse that are targeted for epigenomics visualizations. Specifica...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hofmeister BT,Schmitz RJ

更新日期：2018-04-25 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:The double-cut-and-join (DCJ) is a model that is able to efficiently sort a genome into another, generalizing the typical mutations (inversions, fusions, fissions, translocations) to which genomes are subject, but allowing the existence of circular chromosomes at the intermediate steps. In the general model ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： da Silva PH,Machado R,Dantas S,Braga MD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellular functions are coordinately carried out by groups of genes forming functional modules. Identifying such modules in the transcriptional regulatory network (TRN) of organisms is important for understanding the structure and function of these fundamental cellular networks and essential for the emerging ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ma HW,Buer J,Zeng AP

更新日期：2004-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) is a PCR-based technique that involves restriction of genomic DNA followed by ligation of adaptors to the fragments generated and selective PCR amplification of a subset of these fragments. The amplified fragments are separated on a sequencing gel and visualized ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hong Y,Chuah A

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miRNAs regulate the expression of several genes with one miRNA able to target multiple genes and with one gene able to be simultaneously targeted by more than one miRNA. Therefore, it has become indispensable to shorten the long list of miRNA-target interactions to put in the spotlight in order to gain insig...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Licursi V,Conte F,Fiscon G,Paci P

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typical evolutionary events like recombination, hybridization or gene transfer make necessary the use of phylogenetic networks to properly depict the evolution of DNA and protein sequences. Although several theoretical classes have been proposed to characterize these networks, they make stringent assumptions...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arenas M,Patricio M,Posada D,Valiente G

更新日期：2010-05-20 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:REX1 and REX2 are protein components of the RNA editing complex (the editosome) and function as exouridylylases. The exact roles of REX1 and REX2 in the editosome are unclear and the consequences of the presence of two related proteins are not fully understood. Here, a variety of computational studies were p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mian IS,Worthey EA,Salavati R

更新日期：2006-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the last few years, DNA sequence analysis has become one of the primary means of taxonomic identification of species, particularly so for species that are minute or otherwise lack distinct, readily obtainable morphological characters. Although the number of sequences available for comparison in public...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nilsson RH,Kristiansson E,Ryberg M,Larsson KH

更新日期：2005-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The distance matrix computed from multiple alignments of homologous sequences is widely used by distance-based phylogenetic methods to provide information on the evolution of protein families. This matrix can also be visualized in a low dimensional space by metric multidimensional scaling (MDS). Applied to p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pelé J,Bécu JM,Abdi H,Chabbert M

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several biological techniques result in the acquisition of functional sets of cDNAs that must be sequenced and analyzed. The emergence of redundant databases such as UniGene and centralized annotation engines such as Entrez Gene has allowed the development of software that can analyze a great number of seque...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Smith RP,Buchser WJ,Lemmon MB,Pardinas JR,Bixby JL,Lemmon VP

更新日期：2008-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer is a complex disease which is characterized by the accumulation of genetic alterations during the patient's lifetime. With the development of the next-generation sequencing technology, multiple omics data, such as cancer genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic data etc., can be measured from each indiv...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wei PJ,Zhang D,Xia J,Zheng CH

更新日期：2016-12-23 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:Gene expression data can be analyzed by summarizing groups of individual gene expression profiles based on GO annotation information. The mean expression profile per group can then be used to identify interesting GO categories in relation to the experimental settings. However, the expression profiles present...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： De Haan JR,Piek E,van Schaik RC,de Vlieg J,Bauerschmidt S,Buydens LM,Wehrens R

更新日期：2010-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression studies greatly contribute to our understanding of complex relationships in gene regulatory networks. However, the complexity of array design, production and manipulations are limiting factors, affecting data quality. The use of customized DNA microarrays improves overall data quality in many...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vainshtein Y,Sanchez M,Brazma A,Hentze MW,Dandekar T,Muckenthaler MU

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection of weak signals and selection of single particles from low-contrast micrographs of frozen hydrated biomolecules by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) represents a major practical bottleneck in cryo-EM data analysis. Template-based particle picking by an objective function using fast local corre...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang WL,Yu Z,Castillo-Menendez LR,Sodroski J,Mao Y

更新日期：2019-04-03 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:Time-course microarray experiments are being increasingly used to characterize dynamic biological processes. In these experiments, the goal is to identify genes differentially expressed in time-course data, measured between different biological conditions. These differentially expressed genes can reveal the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jonnalagadda S,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2008-06-06 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: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:Tight clustering arose recently from a desire to obtain tighter and potentially more informative clusters in gene expression studies. Scattered genes with relatively loose correlations should be excluded from the clusters. However, in the literature there is little work dedicated to this area of research. On...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yuan Y,Li CT,Wilson R

更新日期：2008-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in sequencing and genotyping technologies are leading to the widespread availability of multi-species variation data, dense genotype data and large-scale resequencing projects. The 1000 Genomes Project and similar efforts in other species are challenging the methods previously used for storage and m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rios D,McLaren WM,Chen Y,Birney E,Stabenau A,Flicek P,Cunningham F

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The knowledge base-driven pathway analysis is becoming the first choice for many investigators, in that it not only can reduce the complexity of functional analysis by grouping thousands of genes into just several hundred pathways, but also can increase the explanatory power for the experiment by identifying...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Du J,Li M,Yuan Z,Guo M,Song J,Xie X,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the ever increasing use of computational models in the biosciences, the need to share models and reproduce the results of published studies efficiently and easily is becoming more important. To this end, various standards have been proposed that can be used to describe models, simulations, data or other...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bergmann FT,Adams R,Moodie S,Cooper J,Glont M,Golebiewski M,Hucka M,Laibe C,Miller AK,Nickerson DP,Olivier BG,Rodriguez N,Sauro HM,Scharm M,Soiland-Reyes S,Waltemath D,Yvon F,Le Novère N

更新日期：2014-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The organization of the canonical code has intrigued researches since it was first described. If we consider all codes mapping the 64 codes into 20 amino acids and one stop codon, there are more than 1.51×10(84) possible genetic codes. The main question related to the organization of the genetic code is why ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Oliveira LL,de Oliveira PS,Tinós R

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed an extendable open-source Loop-mediated isothermal AMPlification (LAMP) signature design program called LAVA (LAMP Assay Versatile Analysis). LAVA was created in response to limitations of existing LAMP signature programs. RESULTS:LAVA identifies combinations of six primer regions for basic LAM...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Torres C,Vitalis EA,Baker BR,Gardner SN,Torres MW,Dzenitis JM

更新日期：2011-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative analysis of whole genome sequence data from closely related prokaryotic species or strains is becoming an increasingly important and accessible approach for addressing both fundamental and applied biological questions. While there are number of excellent tools developed for performing this task, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thakur S,Guttman DS

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human triosephosphate isomerase (HsTIM) deficiency is a genetic disease caused often by the pathogenic mutation E104D. This mutation, located at the side of an abnormally large cluster of water in the inter-subunit interface, reduces the thermostability of the enzyme. Why and how these water molecules are di...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Z,He Y,Liu Q,Zhao L,Wong L,Kwoh CK,Nguyen H,Li J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA secondary structure prediction, or folding, is a classic problem in bioinformatics: given a sequence of nucleotides, the aim is to predict the base pairs formed in its three dimensional conformation. The inverse problem of designing a sequence folding into a particular target structure has only more rece...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lyngsø RB,Anderson JW,Sizikova E,Badugu A,Hyland T,Hein J

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00