An extensible six-step methodology to automatically generate fuzzy DSSs for diagnostic applications.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primer design for highly variable DNA sequences is difficult, and experimental success requires attention to many interacting constraints. The advent of next-generation sequencing methods allows the investigation of rare variants otherwise hidden deep in large populations, but requires attention to populatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brodin J,Krishnamoorthy M,Athreya G,Fischer W,Hraber P,Gleasner C,Green L,Korber B,Leitner T

更新日期：2013-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A standard procedure in many areas of bioinformatics is to use a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) as the basis for various types of homology-based inference. Applications include 3D structure modelling, protein functional annotation, prediction of molecular interactions, etc. These applications, however sop...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vanhoutreve R,Kress A,Legrand B,Gass H,Poch O,Thompson JD

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most of the current disease candidate gene identification and prioritization methods depend on functional annotations, the coverage of the gene functional annotations is a limiting factor. In the current study, we describe a candidate gene prioritization method that is entirely based on protein-prot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen J,Aronow BJ,Jegga AG

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Feed-forward loops (FFLs), consisting of miRNAs, transcription factors (TFs) and their common target genes, have been validated to be important for the initialization and development of complex diseases, including cancer. Esophageal Carcinoma (ESCA) and Stomach Adenocarcinoma (STAD) are two types of malignan...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Qin G,Yang L,Ma Y,Liu J,Huo Q

更新日期：2019-12-30 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:determining beforehand specific positions to align (anchor points) has proved valuable for the accuracy of automated multiple sequence alignment (MSA) software. This feature can be used manually to include biological expertise, or automatically, usually by pairwise similarity searches. Multiple local similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pitschi F,Devauchelle C,Corel E

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ensemble predictors such as the random forest are known to have superior accuracy but their black-box predictions are difficult to interpret. In contrast, a generalized linear model (GLM) is very interpretable especially when forward feature selection is used to construct the model. However, forward feature ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Song L,Langfelder P,Horvath S

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary genomics requires management and filtering of large numbers of diverse genomic sequences for accurate analysis and inference on evolutionary processes of genomic and functional change. We developed Evolutionary Genomics and Biodiversity (EGenBio; http://egenbio.lsu.edu) to begin to address this....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nahum LA,Reynolds MT,Wang ZO,Faith JJ,Jonna R,Jiang ZJ,Meyer TJ,Pollock DD

更新日期：2006-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of transcription factors (TFs) responsible for modulation of differentially expressed genes is a key step in deducing gene regulatory pathways. Most current methods identify TFs by searching for presence of DNA binding motifs in the promoter regions of co-regulated genes. However, this strateg...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roy S,Heinrich K,Phan V,Berry MW,Homayouni R

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For successful protein structure prediction by comparative modeling, in addition to identifying a good template protein with known structure, obtaining an accurate sequence alignment between a query protein and a template protein is critical. It has been known that the alignment accuracy can vary significant...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee M,Jeong CS,Kim D

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequence of nucleotides in an RNA determines the possible base pairs for an RNA fold and thus also determines the overall shape and function of an RNA. The Swellix program presented here combines a helix abstraction with a combinatorial approach to the RNA folding problem in order to compute all possible...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sloat N,Liu JW,Schroeder SJ

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abundant information about gene products is stored in online searchable databases such as annotation or literature. To efficiently obtain and digest such information, there is a pressing need for automated information-summarization and functional-similarity clustering of genes. RESULTS:We have developed a n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chiang JH,Shin JW,Liu HH,Chin CL

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very often genome-wide data analysis requires the interoperation of multiple databases and analytic tools. A large number of genome databases and bioinformatics applications are available through the web, but it is difficult to automate interoperation because: 1) the platforms on which the applications run a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Knikker R,Guo Y,Li JL,Kwan AK,Yip KY,Cheung DW,Cheung KH

更新日期：2004-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Light microscopy is of central importance in cell biology. The recent introduction of automated high content screening has expanded this technology towards automation of experiments and performing large scale perturbation assays. Nevertheless, evaluation of microscopy data continues to be a bottleneck in man...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Misselwitz B,Strittmatter G,Periaswamy B,Schlumberger MC,Rout S,Horvath P,Kozak K,Hardt WD

更新日期：2010-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques are advancing genomics and molecular biology research. This technology generates substantially large data which puts up a major challenge to the scientists for an efficient, cost and time effective solution to analyse such data. Further, for the dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Maji RK,Sarkar A,Khatua S,Dasgupta S,Ghosh Z

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In current comparative proteomics studies, the large number of images generated by 2D gels is currently compared using spot matching algorithms. Unfortunately, differences in gel migration and sample variability make efficient spot alignment very difficult to obtain, and, as consequence most of the software ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pérès S,Molina L,Salvetat N,Granier C,Molina F

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computational and visual data analysis for genomics has traditionally involved a combination of tools and resources, of which the most ubiquitous consist of genome browsers, focused mainly on integrative visualization of large numbers of big datasets, and computational environments, focused on data modeling ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chelaru F,Corrada Bravo H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mouse xenografts from (patient-derived) tumors (PDX) or tumor cell lines are widely used as models to study various biological and preclinical aspects of cancer. However, analyses of their RNA and DNA profiles are challenging, because they comprise reads not only from the grafted human cancer but also from t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kluin RJC,Kemper K,Kuilman T,de Ruiter JR,Iyer V,Forment JV,Cornelissen-Steijger P,de Rink I,Ter Brugge P,Song JY,Klarenbeek S,McDermott U,Jonkers J,Velds A,Adams DJ,Peeper DS,Krijgsman O

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The immune system is multifaceted, structured by diverse components that interconnect using multilayered dynamic cellular processes. Genomic technologies provide a means for investigating, at the molecular level, the adaptations of the immune system in host defense and its dysregulation in pathological condi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Liu J,Toups M,Soos T,Arendt C

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proton Magnetic Resonance (MR) Spectroscopy (MRS) is a widely available technique for those clinical centres equipped with MR scanners. Unlike the rest of MR-based techniques, MRS yields not images but spectra of metabolites in the tissues. In pathological situations, the MRS profile changes and this has bee...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pérez-Ruiz A,Julià-Sapé M,Mercadal G,Olier I,Majós C,Arús C

更新日期：2010-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The behaviour of biological systems can be deduced from their mathematical models. However, multiple sources of data in diverse forms are required in the construction of a model in order to define its components and their biochemical reactions, and corresponding parameters. Automating the assembly and use of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li P,Dada JO,Jameson D,Spasic I,Swainston N,Carroll K,Dunn W,Khan F,Malys N,Messiha HL,Simeonidis E,Weichart D,Winder C,Wishart J,Broomhead DS,Goble CA,Gaskell SJ,Kell DB,Westerhoff HV,Mendes P,Paton NW

更新日期：2010-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eukaryotic whole genome sequences are accumulating at an impressive rate. Effective methods for comparing multiple whole eukaryotic genomes on a large scale are needed. Most attempted solutions involve the production of large scale alignments, and many of these require a high stringency pre-screen for putati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stuart GW,Berry MW

更新日期：2004-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amino acids in proteins are not used equally. Some of the differences in the amino acid composition of proteins are between species (mainly due to nucleotide composition and lifestyle) and some are between proteins from the same species (related to protein function, expression or subcellular localization, fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pasamontes A,Garcia-Vallve S

更新日期：2006-05-18 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: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:While biomedical text mining is emerging as an important research area, practical results have proven difficult to achieve. We believe that an important first step towards more accurate text-mining lies in the ability to identify and characterize text that satisfies various types of information needs. We rep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wilbur WJ,Rzhetsky A,Shatkay H

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past two decades more than fifty thousand unique clinical and biological samples have been assayed using the Affymetrix HG-U133 and HG-U95 GeneChip microarray platforms. This substantial repository has been used extensively to characterize changes in gene expression between biological samples, but h...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Robinson TJ,Dinan MA,Dewhirst M,Garcia-Blanco MA,Pearson JL

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The methodologies we use both enable and help define our research. However, as experimental complexity has increased the choice of appropriate methodologies has become an increasingly difficult task. This makes it difficult to keep track of available bioinformatics software, let alone the most suitable proto...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eales JM,Pinney JW,Stevens RD,Robertson DL

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Substitution matrices are key parameters for the alignment of two protein sequences, and consequently for most comparative genomics studies. The composition of biological sequences can vary importantly between species and groups of species, and classical matrices such as those in the BLOSUM series fail to ac...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lemaitre C,Barré A,Citti C,Tardy F,Thiaucourt F,Sirand-Pugnet P,Thébault P

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Determining a suitable sample size is an important step in the planning of microarray experiments. Increasing the number of arrays gives more statistical power, but adds to the total cost of the experiment. Several approaches for sample size determination have been developed for expression array studies, but...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Scheinin I,Ferreira JA,Knuutila S,Meijer GA,van de Wiel MA,Ylstra B

更新日期：2010-06-17 00:00:00