GO2MSIG, an automated GO based multi-species gene set generator for gene set enrichment analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate somatic mutation-calling is essential for insightful mutation analyses in cancer studies. Several mutation-callers are publicly available and more are likely to appear. Nonetheless, mutation-calling is still challenging and there is unlikely to be one established caller that systematically outperfor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim SY,Jacob L,Speed TP

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological sequences play a major role in molecular and computational biology. They are studied as information-bearing entities that make up DNA, RNA or proteins. The Sequence Ontology, which is part of the OBO Foundry, contains descriptions and definitions of sequences and their properties. Yet the most bas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hoehndorf R,Kelso J,Herre H

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalization is the process of removing non-biological sources of variation between array experiments. Recent investigations of data in gene expression databases for varying organisms and tissues have shown that the majority of expressed genes exhibit a power-law distribution with an exponent close to -1 (i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu T,Costello CM,Croucher PJ,Häsler R,Deuschl G,Schreiber S

更新日期：2005-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:After publication of this supplement article. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pan B,Kusko R,Xiao W,Zheng Y,Liu Z,Xiao C,Sakkiah S,Guo W,Gong P,Zhang C,Ge W,Shi L,Tong W,Hong H

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since RNA molecules regulate genes and control alternative splicing by allostery, it is important to develop algorithms to predict RNA conformational switches. Some tools, such as paRNAss, RNAshapes and RNAbor, can be used to predict potential conformational switches; nevertheless, no existent tool can detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clote P,Lou F,Lorenz WA

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T-cells are key players in regulating a specific immune response. Activation of cytotoxic T-cells requires recognition of specific peptides bound to Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I molecules. MHC-peptide complexes are potential tools for diagnosis and treatment of pathogens and cancer, as well...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dönnes P,Elofsson A

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The amount of scientific information about MicroRNAs (miRNAs) is growing exponentially, making it difficult for researchers to interpret experimental results. In this study, we present an automated text mining approach using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) for prioritization, clustering and functional annotat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roy S,Curry BC,Madahian B,Homayouni R

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main research topic in this paper is how to compare multiple biological experiments using transcriptome data, where each experiment is measured and designed to compare control and treated samples. Comparison of multiple biological experiments is usually performed in terms of the number of DEGs in an arbi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hur B,Kang D,Lee S,Moon JH,Lee G,Kim S

更新日期：2019-12-27 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: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:The efficient and robust statistical analysis of the shape of plant organs of different cultivars is an important investigation issue in plant breeding and enables a robust cultivar description within the breeding progress. Laserscanning is a highly accurate and high resolution technique to acquire the 3D sh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heeren B,Paulus S,Goldbach H,Kuhlmann H,Mahlein AK,Rumpf M,Wirth B

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) infection is widespread in cattle worldwide, causing important economic losses. Pathogenesis of the disease caused by BVDV is complex, as each BVDV strain has two biotypes: non-cytopathic (ncp) and cytopathic (cp). BVDV can cause a persistent latent infection and immune sup...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ammari M,McCarthy FM,Nanduri B,Pinchuk LM

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wise et al. introduced a rank-based statistical technique for meta-analysis of genome scans, the Genome Scan Meta-Analysis (GSMA) method. Levinson et al. recently described two generalizations of the GSMA statistic: (i) a weighted version of the GSMA statistic, so that different studies could be ascribed dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Koziol JA,Feng AC

更新日期：2005-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that copy number variations (CNVs) are frequent in higher eukaryotes and associated with a substantial portion of inherited and acquired risk for various human diseases. The increasing availability of high-resolution genome surveillance platforms provides opportunity for rapidly ass...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gai X,Perin JC,Murphy K,O'Hara R,D'arcy M,Wenocur A,Xie HM,Rappaport EF,Shaikh TH,White PS

更新日期：2010-02-04 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:During evolution, large-scale genome rearrangements of chromosomes shuffle the order of homologous genome sequences ("synteny blocks") across species. Some years ago, a controversy erupted in genome rearrangement studies over whether rearrangements recur, causing breakpoints to be reused. METHODS:We investi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Attie O,Darling AE,Yancopoulos S

更新日期：2011-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Innovations in biological and biomedical imaging produce complex high-content and multivariate image data. For decision-making and generation of hypotheses, scientists need novel information technology tools that enable them to visually explore and analyze the data and to discuss and communicate results or f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Loyek C,Rajpoot NM,Khan M,Nattkemper TW

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aim to solve the problem of determining word senses for ambiguous biomedical terms with minimal human effort. METHODS:We build a fully automated system for Word Sense Disambiguation by designing a system that does not require manually-constructed external resources or manually-labeled training examples e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Duan W,Song M,Yates A

更新日期：2009-03-19 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:Data extraction and integration methods are becoming essential to effectively access and take advantage of the huge amounts of heterogeneous genomics and clinical data increasingly available. In this work, we focus on The Cancer Genome Atlas, a comprehensive archive of tumoral data containing the results of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cumbo F,Fiscon G,Ceri S,Masseroli M,Weitschek E

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recognized as one of the most important families of non-coding RNAs that serve as important sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. Identification of miRNAs is an important requirement for understanding the mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation. Hu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Huang TH,Fan B,Rothschild MF,Hu ZL,Li K,Zhao SH

更新日期：2007-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a group of organisms. To date, sequence data is still the most used data type for phylogenetic reconstruction. Before any sequences can be used for phylogeny reconstruction, they must be aligned, and the quality of the multiple sequence alignment has been shown to a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue F,Shi J,Tang J

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the ever increasing use of computational models in the biosciences, the need to share models and reproduce the results of published studies efficiently and easily is becoming more important. To this end, various standards have been proposed that can be used to describe models, simulations, data or other...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bergmann FT,Adams R,Moodie S,Cooper J,Glont M,Golebiewski M,Hucka M,Laibe C,Miller AK,Nickerson DP,Olivier BG,Rodriguez N,Sauro HM,Scharm M,Soiland-Reyes S,Waltemath D,Yvon F,Le Novère N

更新日期：2014-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology is commonly used as a simple screening tool with a focus on selecting genes that exhibit extremely large differential expressions between different phenotypes. It lacks the ability to select genes that change their relationships with other genes in different biological conditions (diffe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu R,Qiu X,Glazko G,Klebanov L,Yakovlev A

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pattern matching is the core of bioinformatics; it is used in database searching, restriction enzyme mapping, and finding open reading frames. It is done repeatedly over increasingly long sequences, thus codes must be efficient and insensitive to sequence length. Such patterns of interest include simple moti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mangalam HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shotgun metagenomics based on untargeted sequencing can explore the taxonomic profile and the function of unknown microorganisms in samples, and complement the shortage of amplicon sequencing. Binning assembled sequences into individual groups, which represent microbial genomes, is the key step and a major c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue Y,Huang H,Qi Z,Dou HM,Liu XY,Han TF,Chen Y,Song XJ,Zhang YH,Tu J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most common method of identifying groups of functionally related genes in microarray data is to apply a clustering algorithm. However, it is impossible to determine which clustering algorithm is most appropriate to apply, and it is difficult to verify the results of any algorithm due to the lack of a gol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hibbs MA,Dirksen NC,Li K,Troyanskaya OG

更新日期：2005-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrating data from multiple global assays and curated databases is essential to understand the spatio-temporal interactions within cells. Different experiments measure cellular processes at various widths and depths, while databases contain biological information based on established facts or published da...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang Y,Xuan J,de los Reyes BG,Clarke R,Ressom HW

更新日期：2008-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using phylogenomic analysis tools for tracking pathogens has become standard practice in academia, public health agencies, and large industries. Using the same raw read genomic data as input, there are several different approaches being used to infer phylogenetic tree. These include many different SNP pipeli...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McTavish EJ,Pettengill J,Davis S,Rand H,Strain E,Allard M,Timme RE

更新日期：2017-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computational discovery of microRNAs (miRNA) is based on pre-determined sets of features from miRNA precursors (pre-miRNA). Some feature sets are composed of sequence-structure patterns commonly found in pre-miRNAs, while others are a combination of more sophisticated RNA features. In this work, we analyze t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lopes Ide O,Schliep A,de Carvalho AC

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00