PhylDiag: identifying complex synteny blocks that include tandem duplications using phylogenetic gene trees.

abstract：BACKGROUND:MHC/HLA class II molecules are important components of the immune system and play a critical role in processes such as phagocytosis. Understanding peptide recognition properties of the hundreds of MHC class II alleles is essential to appreciate determinants of antigenicity and ultimately to predict epitopes....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yeturu K,Utriainen T,Kemp GJ,Chandra N

更新日期：2010-01-18 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:Melanoma results in the vast majority of skin cancer deaths during the last decades, even though this disease accounts for only one percent of all skin cancers' instances. The survival rates of melanoma from early to terminal stages is more than fifty percent. Therefore, having the right information at the r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nasiri S,Helsper J,Jung M,Fathi M

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) is a measure of the synonymous codon usage bias for a DNA or RNA sequence. It quantifies the similarity between the synonymous codon usage of a gene and the synonymous codon frequency of a reference set. Extreme values in the nucleotide or in the amino acid composition have a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Puigbò P,Bravo IG,Garcia-Vallvé S

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Statistical models and methods that associate changes in the physicochemical properties of amino acids with natural selection at the molecular level typically do not take into account the correlations between such properties. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical regression model with a generalization of the Di...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Datta S,Rodriguez A,Prado R

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The generation of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a crucial step for many bioinformatic analyses. Thus improving MSA accuracy and identifying potential errors in MSAs is important for a wide range of post-genomic research. We present a novel method called MergeAlign which constructs consensus MSAs fro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Collingridge PW,Kelly S

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The large gap between the number of protein sequences in databases and the number of functionally characterized proteins calls for the development of a fast computational tool for the prediction of subnuclear and subcellular localizations generally applicable to protein sequences. The information on localiza...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lei Z,Dai Y

更新日期：2005-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, there have been many applications of formal language theory in bioinformatics such as RNA structure prediction and detection of patterns in DNA. However, in the field of proteomics, the size of the protein alphabet and the complexity of relationship between amino acids have mainly limited...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dyrka W,Nebel JC

更新日期：2009-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the development of sequencing technologies, more and more sequence variants are available for investigation. Different classes of variants in the human genome have been identified, including single nucleotide substitutions, insertion and deletion, and large structural variations such as duplications and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu M,Watson LT,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern high throughput experimental techniques such as DNA microarrays often result in large lists of genes. Computational biology tools such as clustering are then used to group together genes based on their similarity in expression profiles. Genes in each group are probably functionally related. The functi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tchagang AB,Gawronski A,Bérubé H,Phan S,Famili F,Pan Y

更新日期：2010-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer simulation is a resource which can be employed to identify optimal breeding strategies to effectively and efficiently achieve specific goals in developing improved cultivars. In some instances, it is crucial to assess in silico the options as well as the impact of various crossing schemes and breedi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sun X,Mumm RH

更新日期：2016-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is not difficult for state-of-the-art gene finders to identify coding regions in prokaryotic genomes, exact prediction of the corresponding translation initiation sites (TIS) is still a challenging problem. Recently a number of post-processing tools have been proposed for improving the annotation...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tech M,Meinicke P

更新日期：2006-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The UNO/RIC Nanopore Detector provides a new way to study the binding and conformational changes of individual antibodies. Many critical questions regarding antibody function are still unresolved, questions that can be approached in a new way with the nanopore detector. RESULTS:We present evidence that diff...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Winters-Hilt S,Morales E,Amin I,Stoyanov A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urokinase, its receptor and the integrins are functionally associated and involved in regulation of cell signaling, migration, adhesion and proliferation. No structural information is available on this potential multimolecular complex. However, the tri-dimensional structure of urokinase, urokinase receptor a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Degryse B,Fernandez-Recio J,Citro V,Blasi F,Cubellis MV

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sharing sets of chemical data (e.g., chemical properties, docking scores, etc.) among collaborators with diverse skill sets is a common task in computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry. The ability to associate this data with images of the relevant molecular structures greatly facilitates scientifi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Durrant JD,Amaro RE

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The toxic effects of many simple organic compounds stem from their biotransformation to chemically reactive metabolites which bind covalently to cellular proteins. To understand the mechanisms of cytotoxic responses it may be important to know which proteins become adducted and whether some may be common tar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hanzlik RP,Koen YM,Theertham B,Dong Y,Fang J

更新日期：2007-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given a set of t n-length DNA sequences, q satisfying 0 < q ≤ 1, and l and d satisfying 0 ≤ d < l < n, the quorum planted motif search (qPMS) finds l-length strings that occur in at least qt input sequences with up to d mismatches and is mainly used to locate transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequenc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yu Q,Wei D,Huo H

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isocitrate Dehydrogenases (IDHs) are important enzymes present in all living cells. Three subfamilies of functionally dimeric IDHs (subfamilies I, II, III) are known. Subfamily I are well-studied bacterial IDHs, like that of Escherischia coli. Subfamily II has predominantly eukaryotic members, but it also ha...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vinekar R,Verma C,Ghosh I

更新日期：2012-01-01 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:As high-throughput sequencing applications continue to evolve, the rapid growth in quantity and variety of sequence-based data calls for the development of new software libraries and tools for data analysis and visualization. Often, effective use of these tools requires computational skills beyond those of m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yousif A,Drou N,Rowe J,Khalfan M,Gunsalus KC

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, measuring phenotype similarity began to play an important role in disease diagnosis. Researchers have begun to pay attention to develop phenotype similarity measurement. However, existing methods ignore the interactions between phenotype-associated proteins, which may lead to inaccurate phenotype s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng J,Hui W,Shang X

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Formal classification of a large collection of protein structures aids the understanding of evolutionary relationships among them. Classifications involving manual steps, such as SCOP and CATH, face the challenge of increasing volume of available structures. Automatic methods such as FSSP or Dali Domain Dict...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sam V,Tai CH,Garnier J,Gibrat JF,Lee B,Munson PJ

更新日期：2008-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Machine learning has been utilized to predict cancer drug response from multi-omics data generated from sensitivities of cancer cell lines to different therapeutic compounds. Here, we build machine learning models using gene expression data from patients' primary tumor tissues to predict whether a patient wi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clayton EA,Pujol TA,McDonald JF,Qiu P

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Gene Ontology, the "Molecular Function" (MF) categorization is a widely used knowledge framework for gene function comparison and prediction. Its structure and annotation provide a convenient way to compare gene functional similarities at the molecular level. The existing gene similarity measures, however...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng J,Wang Y,Chen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-species comparisons of gene neighborhoods (also called genomic contexts) in microbes may provide insight into determining functionally related or co-regulated sets of genes, suggest annotations of previously un-annotated genes, and help to identify horizontal gene transfer events across microbial speci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seitzer P,Huynh TA,Facciotti MT

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarrays permit biologists to simultaneously measure the mRNA abundance of thousands of genes. An important issue facing investigators planning microarray experiments is how to estimate the sample size required for good statistical power. What is the projected sample size or number of replicate chips need...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Page GP,Edwards JW,Gadbury GL,Yelisetti P,Wang J,Trivedi P,Allison DB

更新日期：2006-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, many of the methods for information extraction of biological information from scientific articles are restricted to the abstract of the article. However, full text articles in electronic version, which offer larger sources of data, are currently available. Several questions arise as to whether the e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shah PK,Perez-Iratxeta C,Bork P,Andrade MA

更新日期：2003-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infections are often associated to comorbidity that increases the risk of medical conditions which can lead to further morbidity and mortality. SARS is a threat which is similar to MERS virus, but the comorbidity is the key aspect to underline their different impacts. One UK doctor says "I'd rather have HIV ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Moni MA,Liò P

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a rule, peptides are more flexible and unstructured than proteins with their substantial stabilizing hydrophobic cores. Nevertheless, a few stably folding peptides have been discovered. This raises the question whether there may be more such peptides that are unknown as yet. These molecules could be helpf...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gronwald W,Hohm T,Hoffmann D

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dystrophinopathy is one of the most common human monogenic diseases which results in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). Mutations in the dystrophin gene are responsible for both DMD and BMD. However, the clinical phenotypes and treatments are quite different in these two m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhou J,Xin J,Niu Y,Wu S

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00