Phylogenomics and sequence-structure-function relationships in the GmrSD family of Type IV restriction enzymes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very often genome-wide data analysis requires the interoperation of multiple databases and analytic tools. A large number of genome databases and bioinformatics applications are available through the web, but it is difficult to automate interoperation because: 1) the platforms on which the applications run a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Knikker R,Guo Y,Li JL,Kwan AK,Yip KY,Cheung DW,Cheung KH

更新日期：2004-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying drug-target interaction is a key element in drug discovery. In silico prediction of drug-target interaction can speed up the process of identifying unknown interactions between drugs and target proteins. In recent studies, handcrafted features, similarity metrics and machine learning methods have...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eslami Manoochehri H,Nourani M

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miRNAs regulate the expression of several genes with one miRNA able to target multiple genes and with one gene able to be simultaneously targeted by more than one miRNA. Therefore, it has become indispensable to shorten the long list of miRNA-target interactions to put in the spotlight in order to gain insig...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Licursi V,Conte F,Fiscon G,Paci P

更新日期：2019-11-04 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：:Advances of high-throughput technologies have rapidly produced more and more data from DNAs and RNAs to proteins, especially large volumes of genome-scale data. However, connection of the genomic information to cellular functions and biological behaviours relies on the development of effective approaches at higher sys...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yang JY,Dunker A,Liu JS,Qin X,Arabnia HR,Yang W,Niemierko A,Chen Z,Luo Z,Wang L,Liu Y,Xu D,Deng Y,Tong W,Yang M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate statistical methods for genome-wide genetic analyses, one needs to be able to simulate realistic genotypes. We here describe a method, applicable to a broad range of association study designs, that can simulate autosome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data with realistic linkage disequilibriu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shi M,Umbach DM,Wise AS,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2018-01-02 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: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:Genome-wide expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies have emerged as a powerful tool to understand the genetic basis of gene expression and complex traits. The traditional eQTL methods focus on testing the associations between individual single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression tra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cheng W,Shi Y,Zhang X,Wang W

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of oxidative folding combines the formation of native disulfide bond with conformational folding resulting in the native three-dimensional fold. Oxidative folding pathways can be described in terms of disulfide intermediate species (DIS) which can also be isolated and characterized. Each DIS corr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Agoston V,Cemazar M,Kaján L,Pongor S

更新日期：2005-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical maps have been historically one of the cornerstones of genome sequencing and map-based cloning strategies. They also support marker assisted breeding and EST mapping. The problem of building a high quality physical map is computationally challenging due to unavoidable noise in the input fingerprint ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bozdag S,Close TJ,Lonardi S

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managing and organizing biological knowledge remains a major challenge, due to the complexity of living systems. Recently, systemic representations have been promising in tackling such a challenge at the whole-cell scale. In such representations, the cell is considered as a system composed of interlocked sub...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Henry V,Saïs F,Inizan O,Marchadier E,Dibie J,Goelzer A,Fromion V

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression profiles obtained from multiple perturbation experiments are increasingly used to reconstruct transcriptional regulatory networks, from well studied, simple organisms up to higher eukaryotes. Admittedly, a key ingredient in developing a reconstruction method is its ability to integrate heterogeneo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Veber P,Guziolowski C,Le Borgne M,Radulescu O,Siegel A

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most state-of-the-art biomedical entity normalization systems, such as rule-based systems, merely rely on morphological information of entity mentions, but rarely consider their semantic information. In this paper, we introduce a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that regards biomedical e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li H,Chen Q,Tang B,Wang X,Xu H,Wang B,Huang D

更新日期：2017-10-03 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:Reliability and Reproducibility of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are essential for the biological interpretation of microarray data. The microarray quality control (MAQC) project launched by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) elucidated that the lists of DEGs generated by intra- and inter-platform...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang L,Zhang J,Yang G,Wu D,Jiang L,Wen Z,Li M

更新日期：2013-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequence motifs representing transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) are commonly encoded as position frequency matrices (PFM) or degenerate consensus sequences (CS). These formats are used to represent the characterised TFBS profiles stored in transcription factor databases, as well as to represent the po...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kankainen M,Löytynoja A

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite marked recent improvements in long-read sequencing technology, the assembly of diploid genomes remains a difficult task. A major obstacle is distinguishing between alternative contigs that represent highly heterozygous regions. If primary and secondary contigs are not properly identified, the primary...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Solares EA,Tao Y,Long AD,Gaut BS

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many biases and spurious effects are inherent in RNA-seq technology, resulting in a non-uniform distribution of sequencing read counts for each base position in a gene. Therefore, a base-level strategy is required to model the non-uniformity. Also, the properties of sequencing read counts can be leveraged to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cai G,Liang S,Zheng X,Xiao F

更新日期：2017-08-09 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: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:DNA methylation changes are associated with a wide array of biological processes. Bisulfite conversion of DNA followed by high-throughput sequencing is increasingly being used to assess genome-wide methylation at single-base resolution. The relative slowness of most commonly used aligners for processing such...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ryan DP,Ehninger D

更新日期：2014-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of key issues in the post-genomic era is to assign functions to uncharacterized proteins. Since proteins seldom act alone; rather, they must interact with other biomolecular units to execute their functions. Thus, the functions of unknown proteins may be discovered through studying their interactions wit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu P,Jiang H,Emili A

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognosis is of critical interest in breast cancer research. Biomedical studies suggest that genomic measurements may have independent predictive power for prognosis. Gene profiling studies have been conducted to search for predictive genomic measurements. Genes have the inherent pathway structure, where pat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ma S,Kosorok MR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are a number of different methods for generation of trees and algorithms for phylogenetic analysis in the study of bacterial taxonomy. Genotypic information, such as SSU rRNA gene sequences, now plays a more prominent role in microbial systematics than does phenotypic information. However, the integrat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tanaka N,Uchino M,Miyazaki S,Sugawara H

更新日期：2007-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporal gene expression profiles characterize the time-dynamics of expression of specific genes and are increasingly collected in current gene expression experiments. In the analysis of experiments where gene expression is obtained over the life cycle, it is of interest to relate temporal patterns of gene e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Müller HG,Chiou JM,Leng X

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been proposed that future reference genomes should be graph structures in order to better represent the sequence diversity present in a species. However, there is currently no standard method to represent genomic intervals, such as the positions of genes or transcription factor binding sites, on graph...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rand KD,Grytten I,Nederbragt AJ,Storvik GO,Glad IK,Sandve GK

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Feed-forward loops (FFLs), consisting of miRNAs, transcription factors (TFs) and their common target genes, have been validated to be important for the initialization and development of complex diseases, including cancer. Esophageal Carcinoma (ESCA) and Stomach Adenocarcinoma (STAD) are two types of malignan...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Qin G,Yang L,Ma Y,Liu J,Huo Q

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray experiments enable simultaneous measurement of the expression levels of virtually all transcripts present in cells, thereby providing a 'molecular picture' of the cell state. On the other hand, the genomic responses to a pharmacological or hormonal stimulus are dynamic molecular processes, where t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mutarelli M,Cicatiello L,Ferraro L,Grober OM,Ravo M,Facchiano AM,Angelini C,Weisz A

更新日期：2008-03-26 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