Bayesian semiparametric regression models to characterize molecular evolution.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is increasingly utilized in radiomics studies for treatment evaluation purposes. Nevertheless, lesion volume identification in PET images is a critical and still challenging step in the process of radiomics, due to the low spatial resolution and high noise level of PET imag...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stefano A,Comelli A,Bravatà V,Barone S,Daskalovski I,Savoca G,Sabini MG,Ippolito M,Russo G

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of high-throughput sequencing and analysis has accelerated multi-omics studies of thousands of microbial species, metagenomes, and infectious disease pathogens. Omics studies are enabling genotype-phenotype association studies which identify genetic determinants of pathogen virulence and drug...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Singh I,Kuscuoglu M,Harkins DM,Sutton G,Fouts DE,Nelson KE

更新日期：2019-01-07 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:Copy number variants (CNVs) have been demonstrated to occur at a high frequency and are now widely believed to make a significant contribution to the phenotypic variation in human populations. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) and newly developed read-depth approach through ultrahigh ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang ZD,Gerstein MB

更新日期：2010-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The uncovering of genes linked to human diseases is a pressing challenge in molecular biology and precision medicine. This task is often hindered by the large number of candidate genes and by the heterogeneity of the available information. Computational methods for the prioritization of candidate genes can h...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zampieri G,Tran DV,Donini M,Navarin N,Aiolli F,Sperduti A,Valle G

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A wide variety of short-read alignment programmes have been published recently to tackle the problem of mapping millions of short reads to a reference genome, focusing on different aspects of the procedure such as time and memory efficiency, sensitivity, and accuracy. These tools allow for a small number of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alachiotis N,Berger S,Flouri T,Pissis SP,Stamatakis A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many research areas it is necessary to find differences between treatment groups with several variables. For example, studies of microarray data seek to find a significant difference in location parameters from zero or one for ratios thereof for each variable. However, in some studies a significant deviat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Frömke C,Hothorn LA,Kropf S

更新日期：2008-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing number of eQTL (Expression Quantitative Trait Loci) datasets facilitate genetics and systems biology research. Meta-analysis tools are in need to jointly analyze datasets of same or similar issue types to improve statistical power especially in trans-eQTL mapping. Meta-analysis framework is also n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Di Narzo AF,Cheng H,Lu J,Hao K

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescence microscopy is widely used to determine the subcellular location of proteins. Efforts to determine location on a proteome-wide basis create a need for automated methods to analyze the resulting images. Over the past ten years, the feasibility of using machine learning methods to recognize all maj...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chebira A,Barbotin Y,Jackson C,Merryman T,Srinivasa G,Murphy RF,Kovacević J

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current taxonomic classification tools use exact string matching algorithms that are effective to tackle the data from the next generation sequencing technology. However, the unique error patterns in the third generation sequencing (TGS) technologies could reduce the accuracy of these programs. RESULTS:We d...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bui VK,Wei C

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is now widely used in biomedical research for various applications. Processing of NGS data requires multiple programs and customization of the processing pipelines according to the data platforms. However, rapid progress of the NGS applications and processing methods urgentl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Joo T,Choi JH,Lee JH,Park SE,Jeon Y,Jung SH,Woo HG

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current network-based microarray analysis uses the information of interactions among concerned genes/gene products, but still considers each gene expression individually. We propose an organized knowledge-supervised approach - Integrative eXpression Profiling (IXP), to improve microarray classification accur...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu X,Huang H,Sonachalam M,Reinhard S,Shen J,Pandey R,Chen JY

更新日期：2012-03-13 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:Phylogenies capture the evolutionary ancestry linking extant species. Correlations and similarities among a set of species are mediated by and need to be understood in terms of the phylogenic tree. In a similar way it has been argued that biological networks also induce correlations among sets of interacting...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kelly WP,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2010-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomes are subjected to rearrangements that change the orientation and ordering of genes during evolution. The most common rearrangements that occur in uni-chromosomal genomes are inversions (or reversals) to adapt to the changing environment. Since genome rearrangements are rarer than point mutations, gene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Noureen M,Tada I,Kawashima T,Arita M

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that are able to move from their location in the genome by cutting or copying themselves to another locus. As such, they are increasingly recognized as impacting all aspects of genome function. With the dramatic reduction in cost of DNA sequencing, it is now poss...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gilly A,Etcheverry M,Madoui MA,Guy J,Quadrana L,Alberti A,Martin A,Heitkam T,Engelen S,Labadie K,Le Pen J,Wincker P,Colot V,Aury JM

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins undergo conformational transitions over different time scales. These transitions are closely intertwined with the protein's function. Numerous standard techniques such as principal component analysis are used to detect these transitions in molecular dynamics simulations. In this work, we add a new m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Karain WI

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The information in large collections of phylogenetic trees is useful for many comparative genomic studies. Therefore, there is a need for flexible tools that allow exploration of such collections in order to retrieve relevant data as quickly as possible. RESULTS:In this paper, we present TPMS (Tree Pattern-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bigot T,Daubin V,Lassalle F,Perrière G

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many proteins contain conserved sequence patterns (motifs) that contribute to their functionality. The process of experimentally identifying and validating novel protein motifs can be difficult, expensive, and time consuming. A means for helping to identify in advance the possible function of a novel motif i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bristow F,He R,Van Domselaar G

更新日期：2011-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the advent of Next-Generation Sequencing technologies (NGS), a large amount of short read data has been generated. If a reference genome is not available, the assembly of a template sequence is usually challenging because of repeats and the short length of reads. When NGS reads cannot be mapped onto a r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Comin M,Schimd M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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 statistical algorithms combine microarray expression data and genome sequence data to identify transcription factor binding motifs in the low eukaryotic genomes. Finding cis-regulatory elements in higher eukaryote genomes, however, remains a challenge, as searching in the promoter regions of genes with ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim RS,Ji H,Wong WH

更新日期：2006-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT)-based shot-gun proteomics has been proven to be an effective platform for functional proteomics. In particular, the various sample preparation methods and bioinformatics tools can be integrated to improve the proteomics platform for applications lik...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang Y,Liu S,Dai SY,Yuan JS

更新日期：2012-01-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic interaction profiles are highly informative and helpful for understanding the functional linkages between genes, and therefore have been extensively exploited for annotating gene functions and dissecting specific pathway structures. However, our understanding is rather limited to the relationship bet...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： You ZH,Yin Z,Han K,Huang DS,Zhou X

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collections of transcription factor binding profiles (Transfac, Jaspar) are essential to identify regulatory elements in DNA sequences. Subsets of highly similar profiles complicate large scale analysis of transcription factor binding sites. RESULTS:We propose to identify and group similar profiles using tw...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kielbasa SM,Gonze D,Herzel H

更新日期：2005-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T-cell epitopes that promiscuously bind to multiple alleles of a human leukocyte antigen (HLA) supertype are prime targets for development of vaccines and immunotherapies because they are relevant to a large proportion of the human population. The presence of clusters of promiscuous T-cell epitopes, immunolo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang GL,Khan AM,Srinivasan KN,Heiny A,Lee K,Kwoh CK,August JT,Brusic V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many biomedical applications, there is a need for developing classification models based on noisy annotations. Recently, various methods addressed this scenario by relaying on unreliable annotations obtained from multiple sources. RESULTS:We proposed a probabilistic classification algorithm based on labe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang P,Cao W,Obradovic Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a consequence of the evolutionary process, data collected from related species tend to be similar. This similarity by descent can obscure subtler signals in the data such as the evidence of constraint on variation due to shared selective pressures. In comparative sequence analysis, for example, sequence s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stone EA,Sidow A

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The family of voltage-gated potassium channels comprises a functionally diverse group of membrane proteins. They help maintain and regulate the potassium ion-based component of the membrane potential and are thus central to many critical physiological processes. VKCDB (Voltage-gated potassium [K] Channel Dat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li B,Gallin WJ

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00