Ferret: a sentence-based literature scanning system.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two important challenges in the analysis of molecular biology information are data (multi-omic information) integration and the detection of patterns across large scale molecular networks and sequences. They are are actually coupled beause the integration of omic information may provide better means to detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bardozzo F,Lió P,Tagliaferri R

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differentially expressed genes are typically identified by analyzing the variation between replicate measurements. These procedures implicitly assume that there are no systematic errors in the data even though several sources of systematic error are known. RESULTS:OpWise estimates the amount of systematic e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Price MN,Arkin AP,Alm EJ

更新日期：2006-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is the technique of choice for quantifying gene expression. While the technique itself is well established, approaches for the analysis of qPCR data continue to improve. RESULTS:Here we expand on the common base method to develop procedures for testing linear re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ganger MT,Dietz GD,Headley P,Ewing SJ

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TE) are mobile genetic entities present in nearly all genomes. Previous work has shown that TEs tend to have a different nucleotide composition than the host genes, either considering codon usage bias or dinucleotide frequencies. We show here how these compositional differences can be ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Andrieu O,Fiston AS,Anxolabéhère D,Quesneville H

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dihydrouridine (D) is a modified base found in conserved positions in the D-loop of tRNA in Bacteria, Eukaryota, and some Archaea. Despite the abundant occurrence of D, little is known about its biochemical roles in mediating tRNA function. It is assumed that D may destabilize the structure of tRNA and thus ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kasprzak JM,Czerwoniec A,Bujnicki JM

更新日期：2012-06-28 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:Discovering causal genetic variants from large genetic association studies poses many difficult challenges. Assessing which genetic markers are involved in determining trait status is a computationally demanding task, especially in the presence of gene-gene interactions. RESULTS:A non-parametric Bayesian ap...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Beam AL,Motsinger-Reif A,Doyle J

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is an emerging area in genomic study. The task requires an integrated analysis of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data and gene expression data, raising a new computational challenge due to the tremendous size of data. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chang HH,McGeachie M,Alterovitz G,Ramoni MF

更新日期：2010-10-28 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:Data are the evidentiary basis for scientific hypotheses, analyses and publication, for policy formation and for decision-making. They are essential to the evaluation and testing of results by peer scientists both present and future. There is broad consensus in the scientific and conservation communities tha...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Moritz T,Krishnan S,Roberts D,Ingwersen P,Agosti D,Penev L,Cockerill M,Chavan V,Data Publishing Framework Task Group.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of when and in which cells each gene is expressed across multicellular organisms is critical in understanding both gene function and regulation of cell type diversity. However, methods for measuring expression typically involve a trade-off between imaging-based methods, which give the precise locat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Burdick JT,Murray JI

更新日期：2013-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpretation of quantitative metagenomics data is important for our understanding of ecosystem functioning and assessing differences between various environmental samples. There is a need for an easy to use tool to explore the often complex metagenomics data in taxonomic and functional context. RESULTS:He...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sanli K,Karlsson FH,Nookaew I,Nielsen J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stable isotope tracing can follow individual atoms through metabolic transformations through the detection of the incorporation of stable isotope within metabolites. This resulting data can be interpreted in terms related to metabolic flux. However, detection of a stable isotope in metabolites by mass spectr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jin H,Moseley HNB

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MLPA method is a potentially useful semi-quantitative method to detect copy number alterations in targeted regions. In this paper, we propose a method for the normalization procedure based on a non-linear mixed-model, as well as a new approach for determining the statistical significance of altered probes ba...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： González JR,Carrasco JL,Armengol L,Villatoro S,Jover L,Yasui Y,Estivill X

更新日期：2008-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many biomedical applications, there is a need for developing classification models based on noisy annotations. Recently, various methods addressed this scenario by relaying on unreliable annotations obtained from multiple sources. RESULTS:We proposed a probabilistic classification algorithm based on labe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang P,Cao W,Obradovic Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalization in real-time qRT-PCR is necessary to compensate for experimental variation. A popular normalization strategy employs reference gene(s), which may introduce additional variability into normalized expression levels due to innate variation (between tissues, individuals, etc). To minimize this inna...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chervoneva I,Li Y,Schulz S,Croker S,Wilson C,Waldman SA,Hyslop T

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of the recombination hot/cold spots is critical for understanding the mechanism of recombination as well as the genome evolution process. However, experimental identification of recombination spots is both time-consuming and costly. Developing an accurate and automated method for reliably and ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li L,Yu S,Xiao W,Li Y,Huang L,Zheng X,Zhou S,Yang H

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole exome sequencing (WES) has become the strategy of choice to identify a coding allelic variant for a rare human monogenic disorder. This approach is a revolution in medical genetics history, impacting both fundamental research, and diagnostic methods leading to personalized medicine. A plethora of effic...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Coutant S,Cabot C,Lefebvre A,Léonard M,Prieur-Gaston E,Campion D,Lecroq T,Dauchel H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Here we introduce the Protein Sequence Annotation Tool (PSAT), a web-based, sequence annotation meta-server for performing integrated, high-throughput, genome-wide sequence analyses. Our goals in building PSAT were to (1) create an extensible platform for integration of multiple sequence-based bioinformatics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Leung E,Huang A,Cadag E,Montana A,Soliman JL,Zhou CL

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA methylation of CpG dinucleotides is an essential epigenetic modification that plays a key role in transcription. Widely used DNA enrichment-based methods offer high coverage for measuring methylated CpG dinucleotides, with the lowest cost per CpG covered genome-wide. However, these methods measure the DN...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xu J,Liu S,Yin P,Bulun S,Dai Y

更新日期：2018-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tandem repeats are multiple duplications of substrings in the DNA that occur contiguously, or at a short distance, and may involve some mutations (such as substitutions, insertions, and deletions). Tandem repeats have been extensively studied also for their association with the class of repeat expansion dise...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pellegrini M,Renda ME,Vecchio A

更新日期：2012-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Barcode multiplexing is a key strategy for sharing the rising capacity of next-generation sequencing devices: Synthetic DNA tags, called barcodes, are attached to natural DNA fragments within the library preparation procedure. Different libraries, can individually be labeled with barcodes for a joint sequenc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kracht D,Schober S

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next (second) generation sequencing is an increasingly important tool for many areas of molecular biology, however, care must be taken when interpreting its output. Even a low error rate can cause a large number of errors due to the high number of nucleotides being sequenced. Identifying sequencing errors fr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sleep JA,Schreiber AW,Baumann U

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-coding gene detection in prokaryotic genomes is considered a much simpler problem than in intron-containing eukaryotic genomes. However there have been reports that prokaryotic gene finder programs have problems with small genes (either over-predicting or under-predicting). Therefore the question ari...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Warren AS,Archuleta J,Feng WC,Setubal JC

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying key components in biological processes and their associations is critical for deciphering cellular functions. Recently, numerous gene expression and molecular interaction experiments have been reported in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and these have enabled systematic studies. Although a number of ap...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hsu JT,Peng CH,Hsieh WP,Lan CY,Tang CY

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as Zika, SARS, ncovid19 and Pertussis, pose a compelling challenge for epidemiologists due to their significant impact on global public health. In this context, computational models and computer simulations are one of the available research tools that epidemi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Castagno P,Pernice S,Ghetti G,Povero M,Pradelli L,Paolotti D,Balbo G,Sereno M,Beccuti M

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to confidently predict health outcomes from gene expression would catalyze a revolution in molecular diagnostics. Yet, the goal of developing actionable, robust, and reproducible predictive signatures of phenotypes such as clinical outcome has not been attained in almost any disease area. Here, w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Smith AM,Walsh JR,Long J,Davis CB,Henstock P,Hodge MR,Maciejewski M,Mu XJ,Ra S,Zhao S,Ziemek D,Fisher CK

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on reproducibility of published research in the last few years has led to the large-scale archiving of sequencing data. While this data can, in theory, be used to reproduce results in papers, it is difficult to use in practice. We introduce a series of tools for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pimentel H,Sturmfels P,Bray N,Melsted P,Pachter L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmaniasis is a virulent parasitic infection that causes a worldwide disease burden. Most treatments have toxic side-effects and efficacy has decreased due to the emergence of resistant strains. The outlook is worsened by the absence of promising drug targets for this disease. We have taken a computationa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Flórez AF,Park D,Bhak J,Kim BC,Kuchinsky A,Morris JH,Espinosa J,Muskus C

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-platform analysis of gene express data requires multiple, intricate processes at different layers with various platforms. However, existing tools handle only a single platform and are not flexible enough to support custom changes, which arise from the new statistical methods, updated versions of refere...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Patel K,Jung H,Kuo WP,Ohno-Machado L

更新日期：2011-03-17 00:00:00