InteractiVenn: a web-based tool for the analysis of sets through Venn diagrams.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the course of the last few years there has been a significant amount of research performed on ontology-based formalization of phenotype descriptions. In order to fully capture the intrinsic value and knowledge expressed within them, we need to take advantage of their inner structure, which implicitly co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Groza T,Hunter J,Zankl A

更新日期：2012-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several features are known to correlate with the GC-content in the human genome, including recombination rate, gene density and distance to telomere. However, by testing for pairwise correlation only, it is impossible to distinguish direct associations from indirect ones and to distinguish between causes and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Freudenberg J,Wang M,Yang Y,Li W

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of subcellular localization of proteins is crucial to proteomics, drug target discovery and systems biology since localization and biological function are highly correlated. In recent years, numerous computational prediction methods have been developed. Nevertheless, there is still a need for predi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Blum T,Briesemeister S,Kohlbacher O

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent technological advances in DNA sequencing and genotyping have led to the accumulation of a remarkable quantity of data on genetic polymorphisms. However, the development of new statistical and computational tools for effective processing of these data has not been equally as fast. In particular, Machin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lagani V,Montesanto A,Di Cianni F,Moreno V,Landi S,Conforti D,Rose G,Passarino G

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hidden variability is a fundamentally important issue in the context of gene expression studies. Collected tissue samples may have a wide variety of hidden effects that may alter their transcriptional landscape significantly. As a result their actual differential expression pattern can be potentially distort...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chakraborty S,Datta S,Datta S

更新日期：2013-07-24 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:Adapter trimming is a prerequisite step for analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data when the reads are longer than the target DNA/RNA fragments. Although typically used in small RNA sequencing, adapter trimming is also used widely in other applications, such as genome DNA sequencing and transcriptome...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jiang H,Lei R,Ding SW,Zhu S

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The continuous flow of EST data remains one of the richest sources for discoveries in modern biology. The first step in EST data mining is usually associated with EST clustering, the process of grouping of original fragments according to their annotation, similarity to known genomic DNA or each other. Cluste...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ptitsyn A,Hide W

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioinformatics tools for automatic processing of biomedical literature are invaluable for both the design and interpretation of large-scale experiments. Many information extraction (IE) systems that incorporate natural language processing (NLP) techniques have thus been developed for use in the biomedical fi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tsai RT,Chou WC,Su YS,Lin YC,Sung CL,Dai HJ,Yeh IT,Ku W,Sung TY,Hsu WL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most of the current disease candidate gene identification and prioritization methods depend on functional annotations, the coverage of the gene functional annotations is a limiting factor. In the current study, we describe a candidate gene prioritization method that is entirely based on protein-prot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen J,Aronow BJ,Jegga AG

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology has become very popular for globally evaluating gene expression in biological samples. However, non-linear variation associated with the technology can make data interpretation unreliable. Therefore, methods to correct this kind of technical variation are critical. Here we consider a me...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pelz CR,Kulesz-Martin M,Bagby G,Sears RC

更新日期：2008-12-04 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 co-expression signatures are an important tool for studying gene function and relations between genes. In addition to genuine biological co-expression, correlated signals can result from technical deficiencies like hybridization of reporters with off-target transcripts. An approach that is able to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Casneuf T,Van de Peer Y,Huber W

更新日期：2007-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are many fewer genes in the human genome than there are expressed transcripts. Alternative splicing is the reason. Alternatively spliced transcripts are often specific to tissue type, developmental stage, environmental condition, or disease state. Accurate analysis of microarray expression data and des...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kahn AB,Ryan MC,Liu H,Zeeberg BR,Jamison DC,Weinstein JN

更新日期：2007-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize is a leading crop in the modern agricultural industry that accounts for more than 40% grain production worldwide. THe double haploid technique that uses fewer breeding generations for generating a maize line has accelerated the pace of development of superior commercial seed varieties and has been tran...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Veeramani B,Raymond JW,Chanda P

更新日期：2018-08-13 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: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: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:This paper addresses the prediction of the free energy of binding of a drug candidate with enzyme InhA associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This problem is found within rational drug design, where interactions between drug candidates and target proteins are verified through molecular docking simulatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Barros RC,Winck AT,Machado KS,Basgalupp MP,de Carvalho AC,Ruiz DD,de Souza ON

更新日期：2012-11-21 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep shotgun sequencing on next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms has contributed significant amounts of data to enrich our understanding of genomes, transcriptomes, amplified single-cell genomes, and metagenomes. However, deep coverage variations in short-read data sets and high sequencing error rates o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McCorrison JM,Venepally P,Singh I,Fouts DE,Lasken RS,Methé BA

更新日期：2014-11-19 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: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:Protein domains coordinate to perform multifaceted cellular functions, and domain combinations serve as the functional building blocks of the cell. The available methods to identify functional domain combinations are limited in their scope, e.g. to the identification of combinations falling within individual...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McLaughlin WA,Chen K,Hou T,Wang W

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parametric feature selection methods for machine learning and association studies based on genetic data are not robust with respect to outliers or influential observations. While rank-based, distribution-free statistics offer a robust alternative to parametric methods, their practical utility can be limited,...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lin J,Sibley A,Shterev I,Nixon A,Innocenti F,Chan C,Owzar K

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pattern recognition receptors of the immune system have key roles in the regulation of pathways after the recognition of microbial- and danger-associated molecular patterns in vertebrates. Members of NOD-like receptor (NLR) family typically function intracellularly. The NOD-like receptor family CARD domain c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mótyán JA,Bagossi P,Benkő S,Tőzsér J

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed an extendable open-source Loop-mediated isothermal AMPlification (LAMP) signature design program called LAVA (LAMP Assay Versatile Analysis). LAVA was created in response to limitations of existing LAMP signature programs. RESULTS:LAVA identifies combinations of six primer regions for basic LAM...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Torres C,Vitalis EA,Baker BR,Gardner SN,Torres MW,Dzenitis JM

更新日期：2011-06-16 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:S-glutathionylation is the formation of disulfide bonds between the tripeptide glutathione and cysteine residues of the protein, protecting them from irreversible oxidation and in some cases causing change in their functions. Regulatory glutathionylation of proteins is a controllable and reversible process a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anashkina AA,Poluektov YM,Dmitriev VA,Kuznetsov EN,Mitkevich VA,Makarov AA,Petrushanko IY

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many structural properties such as solvent accessibility, dihedral angles and helix-helix contacts can be assigned to each residue in a membrane protein. Independent studies exist on the analysis and sequence-based prediction of some of these so-called one-dimensional features. However, there is little expla...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahmad S,Singh YH,Paudel Y,Mori T,Sugita Y,Mizuguchi K

更新日期：2010-10-27 00:00:00