Learning smoothing models of copy number profiles using breakpoint annotations.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences in cell-type composition across subjects and conditions often carry biological significance. Recent advancements in single cell sequencing technologies enable cell-types to be identified at the single cell level, and as a result, cell-type composition of tissues can now be studied in exquisite de...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cao Y,Lin Y,Ormerod JT,Yang P,Yang JYH,Lo KK

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Network co-regulated modules are believed to have the functionality of packaging multiple biological entities, and can thus be assumed to coordinate many biological functions in their network neighbouring regions. RESULTS:Here, we weighted edges of a human protein interaction network and a transcriptional r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen L,Wang H,Zhang L,Li W,Wang Q,Shang Y,He Y,He W,Li X,Tai J,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most state-of-the-art biomedical entity normalization systems, such as rule-based systems, merely rely on morphological information of entity mentions, but rarely consider their semantic information. In this paper, we introduce a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that regards biomedical e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li H,Chen Q,Tang B,Wang X,Xu H,Wang B,Huang D

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ontologies are widely used to represent knowledge in biomedicine. Systematic approaches for detecting errors and disagreements are needed for large ontologies with hundreds or thousands of terms and semantic relationships. A recent approach of defining terms using logical definitions is now increasingly bein...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Köhler S,Bauer S,Mungall CJ,Carletti G,Smith CL,Schofield P,Gkoutos GV,Robinson PN

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important mechanism of endocrine activity is chemicals entering target cells via transport proteins and then interacting with hormone receptors such as the estrogen receptor (ER). α-Fetoprotein (AFP) is a major transport protein in rodent serum that can bind and sequester estrogens, thus preventing entry ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shen J,Zhang W,Fang H,Perkins R,Tong W,Hong H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE) is one of the most widely applied techniques in comparative proteomics. The basic task of 2DE is to identify differential protein expression by quantitative analysis of 2DE images. To reduce the errors of spot quantification in 2DE images, a novel brightness correction m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ou Q,Xiao J,Yu L,Wu K,Xiong B

更新日期：2020-03-19 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:New sequencing techniques require new visualization strategies, as is the case for epigenomics data such as DNA base modifications, small non-coding RNAs, and histone modifications. RESULTS:We present a set of plugins for the genome browser JBrowse that are targeted for epigenomics visualizations. Specifica...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hofmeister BT,Schmitz RJ

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of high-throughput experimentation has led to astronomical growth in biologically relevant lipids and lipid derivatives identified, screened, and deposited in numerous online databases. Unfortunately, efforts to annotate, classify, and analyze these chemical entities have largely remained in ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chepelev LL,Riazanov A,Kouznetsov A,Low HS,Dumontier M,Baker CJ

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that there are several errors in the original article. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranjard L,Wong TKF,Rodrigo AG

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Logic Learning Machine (LLM) is an innovative method of supervised analysis capable of constructing models based on simple and intelligible rules. In this investigation the performance of LLM in classifying patients with cancer was evaluated using a set of eight publicly available gene expression databases f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Verda D,Parodi S,Ferrari E,Muselli M

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In metabolomics experiments, spectral fingerprints of metabolites with no known structural identity are detected routinely. Computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE) has been used to determine the structural identities of unknown compounds. It is generally accepted that a single 1D NMR spectrum or mass ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jayaseelan KV,Steinbeck C

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of its broad and ambitious mission, the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project reported the results of experiments using External RNA Controls (ERCs) on five microarray platforms. For most platforms, several different methods of data processing were considered. However, there was no similar consid...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kerr KF

更新日期：2007-10-03 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of sequence-structure relations of RNA is based on a specific notion and folding of RNA structure. The notion of coarse grained structure employed here is that of canonical RNA pseudoknot contact-structures with at most two mutually crossing bonds (3-noncrossing). These structures are folded by ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Huang FW,Li LY,Reidys CM

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the main goals in cancer studies including high-throughput microRNA (miRNA) and mRNA data is to find and assess prognostic signatures capable of predicting clinical outcome. Both mRNA and miRNA expression changes in cancer diseases are described to reflect clinical characteristics like staging and pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gade S,Porzelius C,Fälth M,Brase JC,Wuttig D,Kuner R,Binder H,Sültmann H,Beissbarth T

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand biology and differences among various tissues or cell types, one typically searches for molecular features that display characteristic abundance patterns. Several specificity metrics have been introduced to identify tissue-specific molecular features, but these either require an equal number of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Everaert C,Volders PJ,Morlion A,Thas O,Mestdagh P

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although both conservation and correlated mutation (CM) are important information reflecting the different sorts of context in multiple sequence alignment, most of alignment methods use sequence profiles that only represent conservation. There is no general way to represent correlated mutation and incorporat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jeong CS,Kim D

更新日期：2010-04-16 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:Observed co-expression of a group of genes is frequently attributed to co-regulation by shared transcription factors. This assumption has led to the hypothesis that promoters of co-expressed genes should share common regulatory motifs, which forms the basis for numerous computational tools that search for th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meng G,Mosig A,Vingron M

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The large increase in the size of patent collections has led to the need of efficient search strategies. But the development of advanced text-mining applications dedicated to patents of the biomedical field remains rare, in particular to address the needs of the pharmaceutical & biotech industry, which inten...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pasche E,Gobeill J,Kreim O,Oezdemir-Zaech F,Vachon T,Lovis C,Ruch P

更新日期：2014-01-01 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:The Immunoglobulins (IG) and the T cell receptors (TR) play the key role in antigen recognition during the adaptive immune response. Recent progress in next-generation sequencing technologies has provided an opportunity for the deep T cell receptor repertoire profiling. However, a specialised software is req...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nazarov VI,Pogorelyy MV,Komech EA,Zvyagin IV,Bolotin DA,Shugay M,Chudakov DM,Lebedev YB,Mamedov IZ

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a key role in diverse physiological processes and are the targets of almost two-thirds of the marketed drugs. The 3 D structures of GPCRs are largely unavailable; however, a large number of GPCR primary sequences are known. To facilitate the identification and charact...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng ZL,Yang JY,Chen X

更新日期：2010-08-09 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: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:RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments have been popularly applied to transcriptome studies in recent years. Such experiments are still relatively costly. As a result, RNA-seq experiments often employ a small number of replicates. Power analysis and sample size calculation are challenging in the context of dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bi R,Liu P

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Journal articles and databases are two major modes of communication in the biological sciences, and thus integrating these critical resources is of urgent importance to increase the pace of discovery. Projects focused on bridging the gap between journals and databases have been on the rise over the last five...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rangarajan A,Schedl T,Yook K,Chan J,Haenel S,Otis L,Faelten S,DePellegrin-Connelly T,Isaacson R,Skrzypek MS,Marygold SJ,Stefancsik R,Cherry JM,Sternberg PW,Müller HM

更新日期：2011-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heritability of a phenotypic or molecular trait measures the proportion of variance that is attributable to genotypic variance. It is an important concept in breeding and genetics. Few methods are available for calculating heritability for traits derived from high-throughput sequencing. RESULTS:We propose s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rudra P,Shi WJ,Vestal B,Russell PH,Odell A,Dowell RD,Radcliffe RA,Saba LM,Kechris K

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemical named entities represent an important facet of biomedical text. RESULTS:We have developed a system to use character-based n-grams, Maximum Entropy Markov Models and rescoring to recognise chemical names and other such entities, and to make confidence estimates for the extracted entities. An adjusta...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corbett P,Copestake A

更新日期：2008-11-19 00:00:00