Vertical decomposition with Genetic Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Word sense disambiguation (WSD) attempts to solve lexical ambiguities by identifying the correct meaning of a word based on its context. WSD has been demonstrated to be an important step in knowledge-based approaches to automatic summarization. However, the correlation between the accuracy of the WSD methods...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Plaza L,Jimeno-Yepes AJ,Díaz A,Aronson AR

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression experiments are common in molecular biology, for example in order to identify genes which play a certain role in a specified biological framework. For that purpose expression levels of several thousand genes are measured simultaneously using DNA microarrays. Comparing two distinct groups of t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jung K,Friede T,Beissbarth T

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A massive amount of proteomic data is generated on a daily basis, nonetheless annotating all sequences is costly and often unfeasible. As a countermeasure, machine learning methods have been used to automatically annotate new protein functions. More specifically, many studies have investigated hierarchical m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nakano FK,Lietaert M,Vens C

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adapter trimming is a prerequisite step for analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data when the reads are longer than the target DNA/RNA fragments. Although typically used in small RNA sequencing, adapter trimming is also used widely in other applications, such as genome DNA sequencing and transcriptome...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jiang H,Lei R,Ding SW,Zhu S

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been found in the printed literature. With journals now on-line and providing an increasing amount of open access content, often free of copyright ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Prlić A,Martinez MA,Dimitropoulos D,Beran B,Yukich BT,Rose PW,Bourne PE,Fink JL

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alignment-free methods for comparing protein sequences have proved to be viable alternatives to approaches that first rely on an alignment of the sequences to be compared. Much work however need to be done before those methods provide reliable fold recognition for proteins whose sequences share little simila...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nojoomi S,Koehl P

更新日期：2017-08-25 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:An organism's protein interactome, or complete network of protein-protein interactions, defines the protein complexes that drive cellular processes. Techniques for studying protein complexes have traditionally applied targeted strategies such as yeast two-hybrid or affinity purification-mass spectrometry to ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stacey RG,Skinnider MA,Scott NE,Foster LJ

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Network enrichment analysis is a powerful method, which allows to integrate gene enrichment analysis with the information on relationships between genes that is provided by gene networks. Existing tests for network enrichment analysis deal only with undirected networks, they can be computationally slow and a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Signorelli M,Vinciotti V,Wit EC

更新日期：2016-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PathoLogic program constructs Pathway/Genome databases by using a genome's annotation to predict the set of metabolic pathways present in an organism. PathoLogic determines the set of reactions composing those pathways from the enzymes annotated in the organism's genome. Most annotation efforts fail to a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Green ML,Karp PD

更新日期：2004-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, DNA methylation has drawn great attention due to its strong correlation with abnormal gene activities and informative representation of the cancer status. As a number of studies focus on DNA methylation signatures in cancer, demand for utilizing publicly available methylome dataset has been increas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Choi J,Chae H

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uncovering the relationship between the conserved chromosomal segments and the functional relatedness of elements within these segments is an important question in computational genomics. We build upon the series of works on gene teams and homology teams. RESULTS:Our primary contribution is a local sliding-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar A,Soueidan H,Nikolski M

更新日期：2011-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Machine learning has been utilized to predict cancer drug response from multi-omics data generated from sensitivities of cancer cell lines to different therapeutic compounds. Here, we build machine learning models using gene expression data from patients' primary tumor tissues to predict whether a patient wi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clayton EA,Pujol TA,McDonald JF,Qiu P

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalization in real-time qRT-PCR is necessary to compensate for experimental variation. A popular normalization strategy employs reference gene(s), which may introduce additional variability into normalized expression levels due to innate variation (between tissues, individuals, etc). To minimize this inna...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chervoneva I,Li Y,Schulz S,Croker S,Wilson C,Waldman SA,Hyslop T

更新日期：2010-05-14 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:High-throughput "omics" based data analysis play emerging roles in life sciences and molecular diagnostics. This emphasizes the urgent need for user-friendly windows-based software interfaces that could process the diversity of large tab-delimited raw data files generated by these methods. Depending on the s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schwager C,Wirkner U,Abdollahi A,Huber PE

更新日期：2009-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of experimental studies show that the mutation and regulation of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are associated with various human diseases. Accurate prediction of lncRNA-disease associations can provide a new perspective for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The main function of many ln...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang Y,Ye F,Xiong D,Gao X

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most crucial steps in high-throughput sequence-based microbiome studies is the taxonomic assignment of sequences belonging to operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Without taxonomic classification, functional and biological information of microbial communities cannot be inferred or interpreted. The ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gdanetz K,Benucci GMN,Vande Pol N,Bonito G

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence alignment analyses have become a crucial step for many bioinformatics studies during the past decades. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and pair-wise sequence alignment (PSA) are two major approaches in sequence alignment. Former benchmark studies revealed drawbacks of MSA methods on nucleo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Wu H,Cai Y

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A common feature of microarray experiments is the occurrence of missing gene expression data. These missing values occur for a variety of reasons, in particular, because of the filtering of poor quality spots and the removal of undefined values when a logarithmic transformation is applied to negative backgro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tom BD,Gilks WR,Brooke-Powell ET,Ajioka JW

更新日期：2005-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarrays permit biologists to simultaneously measure the mRNA abundance of thousands of genes. An important issue facing investigators planning microarray experiments is how to estimate the sample size required for good statistical power. What is the projected sample size or number of replicate chips need...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Page GP,Edwards JW,Gadbury GL,Yelisetti P,Wang J,Trivedi P,Allison DB

更新日期：2006-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viral infection by dengue virus is a major public health problem in tropical countries. Early diagnosis and detection are increasingly based on quantitative reverse transcriptase real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) directed against genomic regions conserved between different isolates. Genetic varia...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vanneste K,Garlant L,Broeders S,Van Gucht S,Roosens NH

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of tissue-specific protein interaction networks and their functional enrichment in pathological and normal tissues provides insights on the etiology of diseases. The Pan-cancer proteomic project, in The Cancer Genome Atlas, collects protein expressions in human cancers and it is a reference reso...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sardina DS,Micale G,Ferro A,Pulvirenti A,Giugno R

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole exome sequencing (WES) has become the strategy of choice to identify a coding allelic variant for a rare human monogenic disorder. This approach is a revolution in medical genetics history, impacting both fundamental research, and diagnostic methods leading to personalized medicine. A plethora of effic...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Coutant S,Cabot C,Lefebvre A,Léonard M,Prieur-Gaston E,Campion D,Lecroq T,Dauchel H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severity gradation of missense mutations is a big challenge for exome annotation. Predictors of deleteriousness that are most frequently used to filter variants found by next generation sequencing, produce qualitative predictions, but also numerical scores. It has never been tested if these scores correlate ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cimmaruta C,Citro V,Andreotti G,Liguori L,Cubellis MV,Hay Mele B

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF), a machine learning algorithm, has been applied to the analysis of microarray data. A key feature of NMF is the ability to identify patterns that together explain the data as a linear combination of expression signatures. Microarray data generally includes individual e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang G,Kossenkov AV,Ochs MF

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary trees are central to a wide range of biological studies. In many of these studies, tree nodes and branches need to be associated (or annotated) with various attributes. For example, in studies concerned with organismal relationships, tree nodes are associated with taxonomic names, whereas tree b...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Han MV,Zmasek CM

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time- and dose-to-event phenotypes used in basic science and translational studies are commonly measured imprecisely or incompletely due to limitations of the experimental design or data collection schema. For example, drug-induced toxicities are not reported by the actual time or dose triggering the event, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Z,Lin J,Sibley AB,Truong T,Chua KC,Jiang Y,McCarthy J,Kroetz DL,Allen A,Owzar K

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S-glutathionylation is the formation of disulfide bonds between the tripeptide glutathione and cysteine residues of the protein, protecting them from irreversible oxidation and in some cases causing change in their functions. Regulatory glutathionylation of proteins is a controllable and reversible process a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anashkina AA,Poluektov YM,Dmitriev VA,Kuznetsov EN,Mitkevich VA,Makarov AA,Petrushanko IY

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Following last year's computational vaccinology workshop in Shanghai, China, the third ISV Pre-conference Computational Vaccinology Workshop (ICoVax 2013) was held in Barcelona, Spain. ICoVax 2013 provided an international platform for the attendees to showcase their research and discuss problems and solutions in the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： De Groot AS,De Groot P,He Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00