MergeAlign: improving multiple sequence alignment performance by dynamic reconstruction of consensus multiple sequence alignments.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanistic models are becoming more and more popular in Systems Biology; identification and control of models underlying biochemical pathways of interest in oncology is a primary goal in this field. Unfortunately the scarce availability of data still limits our understanding of the intrinsic characteristics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Menolascina F,Bellomo D,Maiwald T,Bevilacqua V,Ciminelli C,Paradiso A,Tommasi S

更新日期：2009-10-15 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:N-linked protein glycosylation plays an important role in various biological processes, including protein folding and trafficking, and cell adhesion and signaling. The acquisition of a novel N-glycosylation site may have significant effect on protein structure and function, and therefore, on the phenotype. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim DS,Hahn Y

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is the technique of choice for quantifying gene expression. While the technique itself is well established, approaches for the analysis of qPCR data continue to improve. RESULTS:Here we expand on the common base method to develop procedures for testing linear re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ganger MT,Dietz GD,Headley P,Ewing SJ

更新日期：2020-09-29 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:Automated genotype calling in tetraploid species was until recently not possible, which hampered genetic analysis. Modern genotyping assays often produce two signals, one for each allele of a bi-allelic marker. While ample software is available to obtain genotypes (homozygous for either allele, or heterozygo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Voorrips RE,Gort G,Vosman B

更新日期：2011-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is now well established that nearly 20% of human cancers are caused by infectious agents, and the list of human oncogenic pathogens will grow in the future for a variety of cancer types. Whole tumor transcriptome and genome sequencing by next-generation sequencing technologies presents an unparalleled opp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Borozan I,Wilson S,Blanchette P,Laflamme P,Watt SN,Krzyzanowski PM,Sircoulomb F,Rottapel R,Branton PE,Ferretti V

更新日期：2012-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying similarities between datasets is a fundamental task in data mining and has become an integral part of modern scientific investigation. Whether the task is to identify co-expressed genes in large-scale expression surveys or to predict combinations of gene knockouts which would elicit a similar phe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee JY,Fujimoto GM,Wilson R,Wiley HS,Payne SH

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffolding is an important step in genome assembly that orders and orients the contigs produced by assemblers. However, repetitive regions in contigs usually prevent scaffolding from producing accurate results. How to solve the problem of repetitive regions has received a great deal of attention. In the pas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Luo J,Lyu M,Chen R,Zhang X,Luo H,Yan C

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliability and Reproducibility of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are essential for the biological interpretation of microarray data. The microarray quality control (MAQC) project launched by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) elucidated that the lists of DEGs generated by intra- and inter-platform...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang L,Zhang J,Yang G,Wu D,Jiang L,Wen Z,Li M

更新日期：2013-04-29 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:The recent explosion in biological and other real-world network data has created the need for improved tools for large network analyses. In addition to well established global network properties, several new mathematical techniques for analyzing local structural properties of large networks have been develop...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Milenković T,Lai J,Przulj N

更新日期：2008-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural interaction frequency matrices between all genome loci are now experimentally achievable thanks to high-throughput chromosome conformation capture technologies. This ensues a new methodological challenge for computational biology which consists in objectively extracting from these data the structu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Boulos RE,Tremblay N,Arneodo A,Borgnat P,Audit B

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this short article, we discuss a simple method for assessing sample size requirements in microarray experiments. RESULTS:Our method starts with the output from a permutation-based analysis for a set of pilot data, e.g. from the SAM package. Then for a given hypothesized mean difference and various sample...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tibshirani R

更新日期：2006-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput sequencing can identify numerous potential genomic targets for microbial strain typing, but identification of the most informative combinations requires the use of computational screening tools. This paper describes novel software-- Automated Selection of Typing Target Subsets (AuSeTTS)--that...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： O'Sullivan MV,Sintchenko V,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) is an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) efflux transporter that confers multidrug resistance in cancers and also plays an important role in the absorption, distribution and elimination of drugs. Prediction as to if drugs or new molecular entities are BCRP substrates sho...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hazai E,Hazai I,Ragueneau-Majlessi I,Chung SP,Bikadi Z,Mao Q

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cost of DNA sequencing has undergone a dramatical reduction in the past decade. As a result, sequencing technologies have been increasingly applied to genomic research. RNA-Seq is becoming a common technique for surveying gene expression based on DNA sequencing. As it is not clear how increased sequencin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cai G,Li H,Lu Y,Huang X,Lee J,Müller P,Ji Y,Liang S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detecting local correlations in expression between neighboring genes along the genome has proved to be an effective strategy to identify possible causes of transcriptional deregulation in cancer. It has been successfully used to illustrate the role of mechanisms such as copy number variation (CNV) or epigene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Delatola EI,Lebarbier E,Mary-Huard T,Radvanyi F,Robin S,Wong J

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput measurement of transcript intensities using Affymetrix type oligonucleotide microarrays has produced a massive quantity of data during the last decade. Different preprocessing techniques exist to convert the raw signal intensities measured by these chips into gene expression estimates. Althou...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Giorgi FM,Bolger AM,Lohse M,Usadel B

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phylogenetic trees are an important tool to study the evolutionary relationships among organisms. The huge amount of available taxa poses difficulties in their interactive visualization. This hampers the interaction with the users to provide feedback for the further improvement of the taxonomic framework. R...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Beccati A,Gerken J,Quast C,Yilmaz P,Glöckner FO

更新日期：2017-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The explosive growth of biological data provides opportunities for new statistical and comparative analyses of large information sets, such as alignments comprising tens of thousands of sequences. In such studies, sequence annotations frequently play an essential role, and reliable results depend on metadata...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Miotto O,Tan TW,Brusic V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many cancer genomes are extensively rearranged with highly aberrant chromosomal karyotypes. Structural and copy number variations in cancer genomes can be determined via abnormal mapping of sequenced reads to the reference genome. Recently it became possible to reconcile both of these types of large-scale va...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S,Zban I,Aksenov V,Alexeev N,Schatz MC

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein function prediction is an important problem in the post-genomic era. Recent advances in experimental biology have enabled the production of vast amounts of protein-protein interaction (PPI) data. Thus, using PPI data to functionally annotate proteins has been extensively studied. However, most existi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiong W,Liu H,Guan J,Zhou S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new computational technique called Step-Level Differential Response (SLDR) to identify genetic regulatory relationships. Our technique takes advantages of functional genomics data for the same species under different perturbation conditions, therefore complementary to current popular computational techn...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue Z,Wan P,Huang H,Xie Z,Chen JY

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is useful to develop a tool that would effectively describe protein mutation matrices specifically geared towards the identification of mutations that produce either wanted or unwanted effects, such as an increase or decrease in affinity, or a predisposition towards misfolding. Here, we describe a tool wh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： David MP,Lapid CM,Daria VR

更新日期：2008-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative genomics has become an essential approach for identifying homologous gene candidates and their functions, and for studying genome evolution. There are many tools available for genome comparisons. Unfortunately, most of them are not applicable for the identification of unique genes and the inferen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu G,Jiang L,Helikar RM,Rowley TW,Zhang L,Chen X,Moriyama EN

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the greatest challenges in Metabolic Engineering is to develop quantitative models and algorithms to identify a set of genetic manipulations that will result in a microbial strain with a desirable metabolic phenotype which typically means having a high yield/productivity. This challenge is not only du...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rocha M,Maia P,Mendes R,Pinto JP,Ferreira EC,Nielsen J,Patil KR,Rocha I

更新日期：2008-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic variations predispose individuals to hereditary diseases, play important role in the development of complex diseases, and impact drug metabolism. The full information about the DNA variations in the genome of an individual is given by haplotypes, the ordered lists of single nucleotide polymorphisms (...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahn S,Vikalo H

更新日期：2015-07-16 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:Lineage rate heterogeneity can be a major source of bias, especially in multi-gene phylogeny inference. We had previously tackled this issue by developing LS3, a data subselection algorithm that, by removing fast-evolving sequences in a gene-specific manner, identifies subsets of sequences that evolve at a r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rivera-Rivera CJ,Montoya-Burgos JI

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00