Assembly-free genome comparison based on next-generation sequencing reads and variable length patterns.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Text mining tools have gained popularity to process the vast amount of available research articles in the biomedical literature. It is crucial that such tools extract information with a sufficient level of detail to be applicable in real life scenarios. Studies of mining non-causal molecular relations attrib...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Van Landeghem S,Björne J,Abeel T,De Baets B,Salakoski T,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence alignment analyses have become a crucial step for many bioinformatics studies during the past decades. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and pair-wise sequence alignment (PSA) are two major approaches in sequence alignment. Former benchmark studies revealed drawbacks of MSA methods on nucleo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Wu H,Cai Y

更新日期：2018-12-31 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:One very important functional domain of proteins is the protein-protein interacting region (PPIR), which forms the binding interface between interacting polypeptide chains. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) that occur in the PPIR can either interfere with or facilitate the interaction between proteins....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saethang T,Payne DM,Avihingsanon Y,Pisitkun T

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several large-scale gene co-expression networks have been constructed successfully for predicting gene functional modules and cis-regulatory elements in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, these networks are usually constructed and analyzed in an ad hoc manner. In this study, we propose a completely...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ruan J,Perez J,Hernandez B,Lei C,Sunter G,Sponsel VM

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) display a variety of characteristic behavioral traits, including impaired social interaction, communication difficulties and repetitive behavior. This complex neurodevelopment disorder is known to be associated with a combination of genetic and environmental fa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Patel S,Roncaglia P,Lovering RC

更新日期：2015-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of metabolomics analyses is a comprehensive and systematic understanding of all metabolites in biological samples. Many useful platforms have been developed to achieve this goal. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is a well-established analytical method in metabolomics study, an...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tsugawa H,Tsujimoto Y,Arita M,Bamba T,Fukusaki E

更新日期：2011-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of a consensus RNA motif often consists in finding a conserved secondary structure with minimum free energy in an ensemble of aligned sequences. However, an alignment is often difficult to obtain without prior structural information. Thus the need for tools to automate this process. RESUL...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anwar M,Nguyen T,Turcotte M

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Processing and analysis of DNA sequences obtained from next-generation sequencing (NGS) face some difficulties in terms of the correct prediction of DNA sequencing outcomes without the implementation of bioinformatics approaches. However, algorithms based on NGS perform inefficiently due to the generation of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shityakov S,Bencurova E,Förster C,Dandekar T

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously developed GoMiner, an application that organizes lists of 'interesting' genes (for example, under-and overexpressed genes from a microarray experiment) for biological interpretation in the context of the Gene Ontology. The original version of GoMiner was oriented toward visualization and interp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zeeberg BR,Qin H,Narasimhan S,Sunshine M,Cao H,Kane DW,Reimers M,Stephens RM,Bryant D,Burt SK,Elnekave E,Hari DM,Wynn TA,Cunningham-Rundles C,Stewart DM,Nelson D,Weinstein JN

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously introduced PCPS (Proteasome Cleavage Prediction Server), a web-based tool to predict proteasome cleavage sites using n-grams. Here, we evaluated the ability of PCPS immunoproteasome cleavage model to discriminate CD8+ T cell epitopes. RESULTS:We first assembled an epitope dataset consisting of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gomez-Perosanz M,Ras-Carmona A,Lafuente EM,Reche PA

更新日期：2020-12-14 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: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:Genomic duplications constitute major events in the evolution of species, allowing paralogous copies of genes to take on fine-tuned biological roles. Unambiguously identifying the orthology relationship between copies across multiple genomes can be resolved by synteny, i.e. the conserved order of genomic seq...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zamani N,Sundström G,Meadows JR,Höppner MP,Dainat J,Lantz H,Haas BJ,Grabherr MG

更新日期：2014-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple data-analytic methods have been proposed for evaluating gene-expression levels in specific biological pathways, assessing differential expression associated with a binary phenotype. Following Goeman and Bühlmann's recent review, we compared statistical performance of three methods, namely Global Tes...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Dinu I,Adewale AJ,Potter JD,Yasui Y

更新日期：2007-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rapid development of structural genomics has resulted in many "unknown function" proteins being deposited in Protein Data Bank (PDB), thus, the functional prediction of these proteins has become a challenge for structural bioinformatics. Several sequence-based and structure-based methods have been develo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li GH,Huang JF

更新日期：2010-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine application of gene expression microarray technology is rapidly producing large amounts of data that necessitate new approaches of analysis. The analysis of a specific microarray experiment profits enormously from cross-comparing to other experiments. This process is generally performed by numerical ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Finocchiaro G,Mancuso F,Muller H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:REX1 and REX2 are protein components of the RNA editing complex (the editosome) and function as exouridylylases. The exact roles of REX1 and REX2 in the editosome are unclear and the consequences of the presence of two related proteins are not fully understood. Here, a variety of computational studies were p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mian IS,Worthey EA,Salavati R

更新日期：2006-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A relevant problem in drug design is the comparison and recognition of protein binding sites. Binding sites recognition is generally based on geometry often combined with physico-chemical properties of the site since the conformation, size and chemical composition of the protein surface are all relevant for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bertolazzi P,Guerra C,Liuzzi G

更新日期：2010-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a fundamental analysis method used in bioinformatics and many comparative genomic applications. Prior MSA acceleration attempts with reconfigurable computing have only addressed the first stage of progressive alignment and consequently exhibit performance limitations acco...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lloyd S,Snell QO

更新日期：2011-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interaction of a drug or chemical with a biological system can result in a gene-expression profile or signature characteristic of the event. Using a suitably robust algorithm these signatures can potentially be used to connect molecules with similar pharmacological or toxicological properties by gene express...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang SD,Gant TW

更新日期：2008-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this short article, we discuss a simple method for assessing sample size requirements in microarray experiments. RESULTS:Our method starts with the output from a permutation-based analysis for a set of pilot data, e.g. from the SAM package. Then for a given hypothesized mean difference and various sample...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tibshirani R

更新日期：2006-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guanine protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a eukaryotic transmembrane protein family and function as "molecular switches" in the second messenger cascades and are found in all organisms between yeast and humans. They form the single, biggest drug-target family due to their versatility of action and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar A,Kumar S,Sundar D

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently copy number variation (CNV) has gained considerable interest as a type of genomic/genetic variation that plays an important role in disease susceptibility. Advances in sequencing technology have created an opportunity for detecting CNVs more accurately. Recently whole exome sequencing (WES) has beco...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zare F,Dow M,Monteleone N,Hosny A,Nabavi S

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compound Heterozygosity (CH) in classical genetics is the presence of two different recessive mutations at a particular gene locus. A relaxed form of CH alleles may account for an essential proportion of the missing heritability, i.e. heritability of phenotypes so far not accounted for by single genetic vari...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhong K,Karssen LC,Kayser M,Liu F

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct in vivo investigation of human metabolism is complicated by the distinct metabolic functions of various sub-cellular organelles. Diverse micro-environments in different organelles may lead to distinct functions of the same protein and the use of different enzymes for the same metabolic reaction. To be...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hao T,Ma HW,Zhao XM,Goryanin I

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput technology allows for genome-wide measurements at different molecular levels for the same patient, e.g. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression. Correspondingly, it might be beneficial to also integrate complementary information from different molecular levels when building...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hieke S,Benner A,Schlenl RF,Schumacher M,Bullinger L,Binder H

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lineage rate heterogeneity can be a major source of bias, especially in multi-gene phylogeny inference. We had previously tackled this issue by developing LS3, a data subselection algorithm that, by removing fast-evolving sequences in a gene-specific manner, identifies subsets of sequences that evolve at a r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rivera-Rivera CJ,Montoya-Burgos JI

更新日期：2019-08-13 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 reconstruction of reliable graphical models from observational data is important in bioinformatics and other computational fields applying network reconstruction methods to large, yet finite datasets. The main network reconstruction approaches are either based on Bayesian scores, which enable the ranking...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Affeldt S,Verny L,Isambert H

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00