MPAgenomics: an R package for multi-patient analysis of genomic markers.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer is caused through a multistep process, in which a succession of genetic changes, each conferring a competitive advantage for growth and proliferation, leads to the progressive conversion of normal human cells into malignant cancer cells. Interrogation of cancer genomes holds the promise of understandi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sanchez-Garcia F,Akavia UD,Mozes E,Pe'er D

更新日期：2010-04-14 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:The sequencing of many genomes and tiling arrays consisting of millions of DNA segments spanning entire genomes have made high-resolution copy number analysis possible. Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) has enabled the high-resolution detection of DNA copy number aberrations. Whi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Skvortsov D,Abdueva D,Stitzer ME,Finkel SE,Tavaré S

更新日期：2007-06-14 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:The program InDeVal was originally developed to help researchers find known regions of insertion/deletion activity (with the exception of isolated single-base indels) in newly determined Poaceae trnL-F sequences and compare them with 533 previously determined sequences. It is supplied with input files design...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stoneberg Holt SD,Holt JA

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play important roles in various cellular processes. However, the low quality of current PPI data detected from high-throughput screening techniques has diminished the potential usefulness of the data. We need to develop a method to address the high data noise and incomplet...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu M,Li X,Chua HN,Kwoh CK,Ng SK

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Membrane transport proteins (transporters) play an essential role in every living cell by transporting hydrophilic molecules across the hydrophobic membranes. While the sequences of many membrane proteins are known, their structure and function is still not well characterized and understood, owing to the imm...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alballa M,Butler G

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uncovering the relationship between the conserved chromosomal segments and the functional relatedness of elements within these segments is an important question in computational genomics. We build upon the series of works on gene teams and homology teams. RESULTS:Our primary contribution is a local sliding-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar A,Soueidan H,Nikolski M

更新日期：2011-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput screens comparing growth rates of arrays of distinct micro-organism cultures on solid agar are useful, rapid methods of quantifying genetic interactions. Growth rate is an informative phenotype which can be estimated by measuring cell densities at one or more times after inoculation. Precise ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lawless C,Wilkinson DJ,Young A,Addinall SG,Lydall DA

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internal ribosomal entry sites (IRESs) provide alternative, cap-independent translation initiation sites in eukaryotic cells. IRES elements are important factors in viral genomes and are also useful tools for bi-cistronic expression vectors. Most existing RNA structure prediction programs are unable to deal ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu TY,Hsieh CC,Hong JJ,Chen CY,Tsai YS

更新日期：2009-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The advent of array-based genome-wide DNA methylation methods has enabled quantitative measurement of single CpG methylation status at relatively low cost and sample input. Whereas the use of Infinium Human Methylation BeadChips has shown great utility in clinical studies, no equivalent tool is available for...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Needhamsen M,Ewing E,Lund H,Gomez-Cabrero D,Harris RA,Kular L,Jagodic M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting the suppression activity of antisense oligonucleotide sequences is the main goal of the rational design of nucleic acids. To create an effective predictive model, it is important to know what properties of an oligonucleotide sequence associate significantly with antisense activity. Also, for the m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McQuisten KA,Peek AS

更新日期：2007-06-07 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:The detection of weak signals and selection of single particles from low-contrast micrographs of frozen hydrated biomolecules by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) represents a major practical bottleneck in cryo-EM data analysis. Template-based particle picking by an objective function using fast local corre...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang WL,Yu Z,Castillo-Menendez LR,Sodroski J,Mao Y

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rabbit is an important model organism used in a wide range of biomedical research. However, the rabbit genome is still sparsely annotated, thus prohibiting extensive functional analysis of gene sets derived from whole-genome experiments. We developed a web-based application that provides augmented annota...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Craig DB,Kannan S,Dombkowski AA

更新日期：2012-05-08 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:Recent studies have shown that N6-methyladenosine (m6A) plays a critical role in numbers of biological processes and complex human diseases. However, the regulatory mechanisms of most methylation sites remain uncharted. Thus, in-depth study of the epi-transcriptomic patterns of m6A may provide insights into ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang L,Chen S,Zhu J,Meng J,Liu H

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large-scale genomic studies often identify large gene lists, for example, the genes sharing the same expression patterns. The interpretation of these gene lists is generally achieved by extracting concepts overrepresented in the gene lists. This analysis often depends on manual annotation of genes based on c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： He X,Sarma MS,Ling X,Chee B,Zhai C,Schatz B

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visualization software can expose previously undiscovered patterns in genomic data and advance biological science. RESULTS:The Genoviz Software Development Kit (SDK) is an open source, Java-based framework designed for rapid assembly of visualization software applications for genomics. The Genoviz SDK frame...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Helt GA,Nicol JW,Erwin E,Blossom E,Blanchard SG Jr,Chervitz SA,Harmon C,Loraine AE

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detecting local correlations in expression between neighboring genes along the genome has proved to be an effective strategy to identify possible causes of transcriptional deregulation in cancer. It has been successfully used to illustrate the role of mechanisms such as copy number variation (CNV) or epigene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Delatola EI,Lebarbier E,Mary-Huard T,Radvanyi F,Robin S,Wong J

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zebrafish is a widely used model organism for studying heart development and cardiac-related pathogenesis. With the ability of surviving without a functional circulation at larval stages, strong genetic similarity between zebrafish and mammals, prolific reproduction and optically transparent embryos, zebrafi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kang CP,Tu HC,Fu TF,Wu JM,Chu PH,Chang DT

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology provides an efficient means for globally exploring physiological processes governed by the coordinated expression of multiple genes. However, identification of genes differentially expressed in microarray experiments is challenging because of their potentially high type I error rate. Me...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tan YD,Fornage M,Xu H

更新日期：2008-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the important goals in the post-genomic era is to determine the regulatory elements within the non-coding DNA of a given organism's genome. The identification of functional cis-regulatory modules has proven difficult since the component factor binding sites are small and the rules governing their arra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Emberly E,Rajewsky N,Siggia ED

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-DNA interactions are important for many cellular processes, however structural knowledge for a large fraction of known and putative complexes is still lacking. Computational docking methods aim at the prediction of complex architecture given detailed structures of its constituents. They are becoming ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Setny P,Bahadur RP,Zacharias M

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Observed levels of gene expression strongly depend on both activity of DNA binding transcription factors (TFs) and chromatin state through different histone modifications (HMs). In order to recover the functional relationship between local chromatin state, TF binding and observed levels of gene expression, r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aflakparast M,Geeven G,de Gunst MCM

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously described an approach to predicting the substrate specificity of serine-threonine protein kinases. The method, named Predikin, identifies key conserved substrate-determining residues in the kinase catalytic domain that contact the substrate in the region of the phosphorylation site and so ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saunders NF,Brinkworth RI,Huber T,Kemp BE,Kobe B

更新日期：2008-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The specific recognition of genomic cis-regulatory elements by transcription factors (TFs) plays an essential role in the regulation of coordinated gene expression. Studying the mechanisms determining binding specificity in protein-DNA interactions is thus an important goal. Most current approaches for model...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Angarica VE,Pérez AG,Vasconcelos AT,Collado-Vides J,Contreras-Moreira B

更新日期：2008-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to recent technology advancements, disease related knowledge is growing rapidly. It becomes nontrivial to go through all published literature to identify associations between human diseases and genetic, environmental, and life style factors, disease symptoms, and treatment strategies. Here we report DLAD...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shen J,Vasaikar S,Zhang B

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technologies produced large amount of data. The hierarchical clustering is commonly used to identify clusters of co-expressed genes. However, microarray datasets often contain missing values (MVs) representing a major drawback for the use of the clustering methods. Usually the MVs are not treated,...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Brevern AG,Hazout S,Malpertuy A

更新日期：2004-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since their introduction in 2009, the BioNLP Shared Task events have been instrumental in advancing the development of methods and resources for the automatic extraction of information from the biomedical literature. In this paper, we present the Cancer Genetics (CG) and Pathway Curation (PC) tasks, two even...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pyysalo S,Ohta T,Rak R,Rowley A,Chun HW,Jung SJ,Choi SP,Tsujii J,Ananiadou S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00