Prototype semantic infrastructure for automated small molecule classification and annotation in lipidomics.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial pan-genomes, comprised of conserved and variable genes across multiple sequenced bacterial genomes, allow for identification of genomic regions that are phylogenetically discriminating or functionally important. Pan-genomes consist of large amounts of data, which can restrict researchers ability to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clarke TH,Brinkac LM,Inman JM,Sutton G,Fouts DE

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudouridylation is the most prevalent type of posttranscriptional modification in various stable RNAs of all organisms, which significantly affects many cellular processes that are regulated by RNA. Thus, accurate identification of pseudouridine (Ψ) sites in RNA will be of great benefit for understanding t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： He J,Fang T,Zhang Z,Huang B,Zhu X,Xiong Y

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of a consensus RNA motif often consists in finding a conserved secondary structure with minimum free energy in an ensemble of aligned sequences. However, an alignment is often difficult to obtain without prior structural information. Thus the need for tools to automate this process. RESUL...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anwar M,Nguyen T,Turcotte M

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand biological processes and diseases, it is crucial to unravel the concerted interplay of transcription factors (TFs), microRNAs (miRNAs) and their targets within regulatory networks and fundamental sub-networks. An integrative computational resource generating a comprehensive view of these regula...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Le Béchec A,Portales-Casamar E,Vetter G,Moes M,Zindy PJ,Saumet A,Arenillas D,Theillet C,Wasserman WW,Lecellier CH,Friederich E

更新日期：2011-03-04 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:Replication origins are considered important sites for understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in DNA replication. Many computational methods have been developed for predicting their locations in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryotic genomes. However, a prediction method designed for a particular kind o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chew DS,Leung MY,Choi KP

更新日期：2007-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prediction of protein subcellular localization generally involves many complex factors, and using only one or two aspects of data information may not tell the true story. For this reason, some recent predictive models are deliberately designed to integrate multiple heterogeneous data sources for exploiting m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mei S,Fei W,Zhou S

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioinformatics research for finding biological mechanisms can be done by analysis of transcriptome data with pathway based interpretation. Therefore, researchers have tried to develop tools to analyze transcriptome data with pathway based interpretation. Over the years, the amount of omics data has become hu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim I,Choi S,Kim S

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular data, e.g. arising from microarray technology, is often used for predicting survival probabilities of patients. For multivariate risk prediction models on such high-dimensional data, there are established techniques that combine parameter estimation and variable selection. One big challenge is to i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sariyar M,Hoffmann I,Binder H

更新日期：2014-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The central element of each enzyme is the catalytic site, which commonly catalyzes a single biochemical reaction with high specificity. It was unclear to us how often sites that catalyze the same or highly similar reactions evolved on different, i. e. non-homologous protein folds and how similar their 3D pos...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Žváček C,Friedrichs G,Heizinger L,Merkl R

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different approaches have been developed to model and simulate gene regulatory networks. We proposed the following categories for gene regulatory network models: network parts lists, network topology models, network control logic models, and dynamic models. Here we will describe some examples for each of these ca...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schlitt T,Brazma A

更新日期：2007-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive epithelial tumor which shows very poor prognosis and high rate of recurrence, representing an urgent problem for public healthcare. MicroRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) are a class of small, non-coding RNAs that attract great attention because of their role in regulation of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Del Vecchio F,Gallo F,Di Marco A,Mastroiaco V,Caianiello P,Zazzeroni F,Alesse E,Tessitore A

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuous enzyme kinetic assays are often used in high-throughput applications, as they allow rapid acquisition of large amounts of kinetic data and increased confidence compared to discontinuous assays. However, data analysis is often rate-limiting in high-throughput enzyme assays, as manual inspection and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Olp MD,Kalous KS,Smith BC

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA methylation changes are associated with a wide array of biological processes. Bisulfite conversion of DNA followed by high-throughput sequencing is increasingly being used to assess genome-wide methylation at single-base resolution. The relative slowness of most commonly used aligners for processing such...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ryan DP,Ehninger D

更新日期：2014-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biomedical literature continues to grow at a rapid pace, making the challenge of knowledge retrieval and extraction ever greater. Tools that provide a means to search and mine the full text of literature thus represent an important way by which the efficiency of these processes can be improved. RESULTS:...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Müller HM,Van Auken KM,Li Y,Sternberg PW

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of tools for the examination of linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns between nearby alleles exist, but none are available for quickly and easily investigating LD at longer ranges (>500 kb). We have developed a web-based query tool (GLIDERS: Genome-wide LInkage DisEquilibrium Repository and Search en...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lawrence R,Day-Williams AG,Mott R,Broxholme J,Cardon LR,Zeggini E

更新日期：2009-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data remains a challenge in system biology. In past decade, numerous methods have been developed for the inference of GRNs. It remains a challenge due to the fact that the data is noisy and high dimensional, and there exists a large number of pot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Che D,Guo S,Jiang Q,Chen L

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most gene finders score candidate gene models with state-based methods, typically HMMs, by combining local properties (coding potential, splice donor and acceptor patterns, etc). Competing models with similar state-based scores may be distinguishable with additional information. In particular, functional and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Crammer K,Pereira FC,Roos DS

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-coding gene detection in prokaryotic genomes is considered a much simpler problem than in intron-containing eukaryotic genomes. However there have been reports that prokaryotic gene finder programs have problems with small genes (either over-predicting or under-predicting). Therefore the question ari...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Warren AS,Archuleta J,Feng WC,Setubal JC

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNA) are regulatory genes that target and repress other RNA molecules via sequence-specific binding. Several biological processes are regulated across many organisms by evolutionarily conserved miRNAs. Plants and invertebrates employ their miRNA in defense against viruses by targeting and degrad...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carl JW Jr,Trgovcich J,Hannenhalli S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many laboratories, researchers store experimental data on their own workstation using spreadsheets. However, this approach poses a number of problems, ranging from sharing issues to inefficient data-mining. Standard spreadsheets are also error-prone, as data do not undergo any validation process. To overc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Triplet T,Butler G

更新日期：2012-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many models have been proposed to detect copy number alterations in chromosomal copy number profiles, but it is usually not obvious to decide which is most effective for a given data set. Furthermore, most methods have a smoothing parameter that determines the number of breakpoints and must be chosen using v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hocking TD,Schleiermacher G,Janoueix-Lerosey I,Boeva V,Cappo J,Delattre O,Bach F,Vert JP

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate annotation of translation initiation sites (TISs) is essential for understanding the translation initiation mechanism. However, the reliability of TIS annotation in widely used databases such as RefSeq is uncertain due to the lack of experimental benchmarks. RESULTS:Based on a homogeneity assumptio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu GQ,Zheng X,Ju LN,Zhu H,She ZS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequence similarity searching is a very important bioinformatics task. While Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) outperforms exact methods through its use of heuristics, the speed of the current BLAST software is suboptimal for very long queries or database sequences. There are also some shortcomings i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Camacho C,Coulouris G,Avagyan V,Ma N,Papadopoulos J,Bealer K,Madden TL

更新日期：2009-12-15 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:The detection of bias due to cryptic population structure is an important step in the evaluation of findings of genetic association studies. The standard method of measuring this bias in a genetic association study is to compare the observed median association test statistic to the expected median test stati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pirie A,Wood A,Lush M,Tyrer J,Pharoah PD

更新日期：2015-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since their first commercialization, the diversity of taxa and the genetic composition of transgene sequences in genetically modified plants (GMOs) are constantly increasing. To date, the detection of GMOs and derived products is commonly performed by PCR-based methods targeting specific DNA sequences introd...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Block A,Debode F,Grohmann L,Hulin J,Taverniers I,Kluga L,Barbau-Piednoir E,Broeders S,Huber I,Van den Bulcke M,Heinze P,Berben G,Busch U,Roosens N,Janssen E,Žel J,Gruden K,Morisset D

更新日期：2013-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology allows the analysis of genomic aberrations at an ever increasing resolution, making functional interpretation of these vast amounts of data the main bottleneck in routine implementation of high resolution array platforms, and emphasising the need for a centralised and easy to use CNV da...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vandeweyer G,Reyniers E,Wuyts W,Rooms L,Kooy RF

更新日期：2011-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large-scale genomic studies often identify large gene lists, for example, the genes sharing the same expression patterns. The interpretation of these gene lists is generally achieved by extracting concepts overrepresented in the gene lists. This analysis often depends on manual annotation of genes based on c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： He X,Sarma MS,Ling X,Chee B,Zhai C,Schatz B

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural models determined by X-ray crystallography play a central role in understanding protein-protein interactions at the molecular level. Interpretation of these models requires the distinction between non-specific crystal packing contacts and biologically relevant interactions. This has been investiga...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhu H,Domingues FS,Sommer I,Lengauer T

更新日期：2006-01-19 00:00:00