Using affinity propagation for identifying subspecies among clonal organisms: lessons from M. tuberculosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection of genomic copy number alterations (CNA) in cancer based on SNP arrays requires methods that take into account tumour specific factors such as normal cell contamination and tumour heterogeneity. A number of tools have been recently developed but their performance needs yet to be thoroughly asse...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mosén-Ansorena D,Aransay AM,Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-species comparisons of gene neighborhoods (also called genomic contexts) in microbes may provide insight into determining functionally related or co-regulated sets of genes, suggest annotations of previously un-annotated genes, and help to identify horizontal gene transfer events across microbial speci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seitzer P,Huynh TA,Facciotti MT

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Set comparisons permeate a large number of data analysis workflows, in particular workflows in biological sciences. Venn diagrams are frequently employed for such analysis but current tools are limited. RESULTS:We have developed InteractiVenn, a more flexible tool for interacting with Venn diagrams includin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heberle H,Meirelles GV,da Silva FR,Telles GP,Minghim R

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyses of biomolecules for biodiversity, phylogeny or structure/function studies often use graphical tree representations. Many powerful tree editors are now available, but existing tree visualization tools make little use of meta-information related to the entities under study such as taxonomic descriptio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chevenet F,Brun C,Bañuls AL,Jacq B,Christen R

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extant genomes share regions where genes have the same order and orientation, which are thought to arise from the conservation of an ancestral order of genes during evolution. Such regions of so-called conserved synteny, or synteny blocks, must be precisely identified and quantified, as a prerequisite to bet...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lucas JM,Muffato M,Roest Crollius H

更新日期：2014-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computational discovery of microRNAs (miRNA) is based on pre-determined sets of features from miRNA precursors (pre-miRNA). Some feature sets are composed of sequence-structure patterns commonly found in pre-miRNAs, while others are a combination of more sophisticated RNA features. In this work, we analyze t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lopes Ide O,Schliep A,de Carvalho AC

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand the evolutionary role of Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT), accurate methods are needed to identify transferred genes and infer their timing of acquisition. Phylogenetic methods are particularly promising for this purpose, but the reconciliation of a gene tree with a reference (species) tree is compu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Abby SS,Tannier E,Gouy M,Daubin V

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increasing number of bioinformatics methods are considering the phylogenetic relationships between biological sequences. Implementing new methodologies using the maximum likelihood phylogenetic framework can be a time consuming task. RESULTS:The bioinformatics library libcov is a collection of C++ classe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Butt D,Roger AJ,Blouin C

更新日期：2005-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenotype prediction problems are usually considered ill-posed, as the amount of samples is very limited with respect to the scrutinized genetic probes. This fact complicates the sampling of the defective genetic pathways due to the high number of possible discriminatory genetic networks involved. In this re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cernea A,Fernández-Martínez JL,deAndrés-Galiana EJ,Fernández-Ovies FJ,Alvarez-Machancoses O,Fernández-Muñiz Z,Saligan LN,Sonis ST

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wise et al. introduced a rank-based statistical technique for meta-analysis of genome scans, the Genome Scan Meta-Analysis (GSMA) method. Levinson et al. recently described two generalizations of the GSMA statistic: (i) a weighted version of the GSMA statistic, so that different studies could be ascribed dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Koziol JA,Feng AC

更新日期：2005-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The UNO/RIC Nanopore Detector provides a new way to study the binding and conformational changes of individual antibodies. Many critical questions regarding antibody function are still unresolved, questions that can be approached in a new way with the nanopore detector. RESULTS:We present evidence that diff...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Winters-Hilt S,Morales E,Amin I,Stoyanov A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing the amino acid sequence of an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) in an evolutionary context can yield novel insights on the functional role of disordered regions and sequence element(s). However, in the case of many IDPs, the lack of evolutionary conservation of the primary sequence can hamper ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Varadi M,Guharoy M,Zsolyomi F,Tompa P

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Associating literature with pathways poses new challenges to the Text Mining (TM) community. There are three main challenges to this task: (1) the identification of the mapping position of a specific entity or reaction in a given pathway, (2) the recognition of the causal relationships among multiple reactio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oda K,Kim JD,Ohta T,Okanohara D,Matsuzaki T,Tateisi Y,Tsujii J

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying protein complexes from protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is one of the most important tasks in proteomics. Existing computational methods try to incorporate a variety of biological evidences to enhance the quality of predicted complexes. However, it is still a challenge to integrate diffe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xu B,Li K,Zheng W,Liu X,Zhang Y,Zhao Z,He Z

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We carried out an analysis of intron length conservation across a diverse group of nineteen mammalian species. Motivated by recent research suggesting a role for time delays associated with intron transcription in gene expression oscillations required for early embryonic patterning, we searched for examples ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seoighe C,Korir PK

更新日期：2011-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on reproducibility of published research in the last few years has led to the large-scale archiving of sequencing data. While this data can, in theory, be used to reproduce results in papers, it is difficult to use in practice. We introduce a series of tools for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pimentel H,Sturmfels P,Bray N,Melsted P,Pachter L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The generation of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a crucial step for many bioinformatic analyses. Thus improving MSA accuracy and identifying potential errors in MSAs is important for a wide range of post-genomic research. We present a novel method called MergeAlign which constructs consensus MSAs fro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Collingridge PW,Kelly S

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein docking, which aims to predict the structure of a protein-protein complex from its unbound components, remains an unresolved challenge in structural bioinformatics. An important step is the ranking of docked poses using a scoring function, for which many methods have been developed. There is ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Moal IH,Torchala M,Bates PA,Fernández-Recio J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological networks are representative of the diverse molecular interactions that occur within cells. Some of the commonly studied biological networks are modeled through protein-protein interactions, gene regulatory, and metabolic pathways. Among these, metabolic networks are probably the most studied, as t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Manipur I,Granata I,Maddalena L,Guarracino MR

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main research topic in this paper is how to compare multiple biological experiments using transcriptome data, where each experiment is measured and designed to compare control and treated samples. Comparison of multiple biological experiments is usually performed in terms of the number of DEGs in an arbi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hur B,Kang D,Lee S,Moon JH,Lee G,Kim S

更新日期：2019-12-27 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:In template-based modeling when using a single template, inter-atomic distances of an unknown protein structure are assumed to be distributed by Gaussian probability density functions, whose center peaks are located at the distances between corresponding atoms in the template structure. The width of the Gaus...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee J,Lee K,Joung I,Joo K,Brooks BR,Lee J

更新日期：2015-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein docking is a valuable computational approach for investigating protein-protein interactions. Shape complementarity is the most basic component of a scoring function and plays an important role in protein-protein docking. Despite significant progresses, shape representation remains an open que...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yan Y,Huang SY

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clustering of unannotated transcripts is an important task to identify novel families of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). Several hierarchical clustering methods have been developed using similarity measures based on the scores of structural alignment. However, the high computational cost of exact structural alignme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saito Y,Sato K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput sequencing technology provides us unprecedented opportunities to study transcriptome dynamics. Compared to microarray-based gene expression profiling, RNA-Seq has many advantages, such as high resolution, low background, and ability to identify novel transcripts. Moreover, for genes with mult...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zheng W,Chung LM,Zhao H

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several large-scale gene co-expression networks have been constructed successfully for predicting gene functional modules and cis-regulatory elements in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, these networks are usually constructed and analyzed in an ad hoc manner. In this study, we propose a completely...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ruan J,Perez J,Hernandez B,Lei C,Sunter G,Sponsel VM

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is a core element of many different, systemic and chronic diseases that usually involve an important autoimmune component. The clinical phase of inflammatory diseases is often the culmination of a long series of pathologic events that started years before. The systemic characteristics and relate...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao H,Bartoszek K,Lio' P

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The imputation of missing values is necessary for the efficient use of DNA microarray data, because many clustering algorithms and some statistical analysis require a complete data set. A few imputation methods for DNA microarray data have been introduced, but the efficiency of the methods was low and the va...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim KY,Kim BJ,Yi GS

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV/AIDS is a serious threat to public health. The emergence of drug resistance mutations diminishes the effectiveness of drug therapy for HIV/AIDS. Developing a computational prediction of drug resistance phenotype will enable efficient and timely selection of the best treatment regimens. RESULTS:A unified...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shen C,Yu X,Harrison RW,Weber IT

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated protein function prediction methods are needed to keep pace with high-throughput sequencing. With the existence of many programs and databases for inferring different protein functions, a pipeline that properly integrates these resources will benefit from the advantages of each method. However, int...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yu C,Zavaljevski N,Desai V,Johnson S,Stevens FJ,Reifman J

更新日期：2008-01-25 00:00:00