Roar: detecting alternative polyadenylation with standard mRNA sequencing libraries.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a commonly used technology for studying the genetic basis of biological processes and it underpins the aspirations of precision medicine. However, there are significant challenges when dealing with NGS data. Firstly, a huge number of bioinformatics tools for a wide range o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Iacoangeli A,Al Khleifat A,Sproviero W,Shatunov A,Jones AR,Morgan SL,Pittman A,Dobson RJ,Newhouse SJ,Al-Chalabi A

更新日期：2019-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We introduce Approximate Entropy as a mathematical method of analysis for microarray data. Approximate entropy is applied here as a method to classify the complex gene expression patterns resultant of a clinical sample set. Since Entropy is a measure of disorder in a system, we believe that by choosing genes...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Botting SK,Trzeciakowski JP,Benoit MF,Salama SA,Diaz-Arrastia CR

更新日期：2009-02-20 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

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:In the post-genomic era, systems-level studies are being performed that seek to explain complex biological systems by integrating diverse resources from fields such as genomics, proteomics or transcriptomics. New information management systems are now needed for the collection, validation and analysis of the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thompson JD,Muller A,Waterhouse A,Procter J,Barton GJ,Plewniak F,Poch O

更新日期：2006-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a group of organisms. To date, sequence data is still the most used data type for phylogenetic reconstruction. Before any sequences can be used for phylogeny reconstruction, they must be aligned, and the quality of the multiple sequence alignment has been shown to a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue F,Shi J,Tang J

更新日期：2009-01-30 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:In this study, we extended the replica exchange Monte Carlo (REMC) sampling method to protein-small molecule docking conformational prediction using RosettaLigand. In contrast to the traditional Monte Carlo (MC) and REMC sampling methods, these methods use multi-objective optimization Pareto front informatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang H,Liu H,Cai L,Wang C,Lv Q

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of biodiversity conservation has been increasing steadily due to its benefits to human beings. Recently, producing and managing biodiversity databases have become much easier because of the information technology (IT) advancement. This made the general public's participation in biodiversity co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Paik IH,Lim J,Chun BS,Jin SD,Yu JP,Lee JW,Bhak J,Paek WK

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that there are several errors in the original article. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranjard L,Wong TKF,Rodrigo AG

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The explosive growth of biological data provides opportunities for new statistical and comparative analyses of large information sets, such as alignments comprising tens of thousands of sequences. In such studies, sequence annotations frequently play an essential role, and reliable results depend on metadata...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Miotto O,Tan TW,Brusic V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein remote homology detection is one of the central problems in bioinformatics, which is important for both basic research and practical application. Currently, discriminative methods based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) achieve the state-of-the-art performance. Exploring feature vectors incorporating...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu B,Xu J,Zou Q,Xu R,Wang X,Chen Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New "next generation" DNA sequencing technologies offer individual researchers the ability to rapidly generate large amounts of genome sequence data at dramatically reduced costs. As a result, a need has arisen for new software tools for storage, management and analysis of genome sequence data. Although bioi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Duncan S,Sirkanungo R,Miller L,Phillips GJ

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological molecules are often asymmetric with respect to stereochemistry, and correct stereochemistry is essential to their function. Molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules have increasingly become an integral part of biophysical research. However, stereochemical errors in biomolecular structures ca...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schreiner E,Trabuco LG,Freddolino PL,Schulten K

更新日期：2011-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prioritizing genes according to their associations with a cancer allows researchers to explore genes in more informed ways. By far, Gene-centric or network-centric gene prioritization methods are predominated. Genes and their protein products carry out cellular processes in the context of functional modules....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Su L,Liu G,Bai T,Meng X,Ma Q

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The miRNAs, a class of short approximately 22-nucleotide non-coding RNAs, often act post-transcriptionally to inhibit mRNA expression. In effect, they control gene expression by targeting mRNA. They also help in carrying out normal functioning of a cell as they play an important role in various cellular proc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Paul S,Maji P

更新日期：2013-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Joint and individual variation explained (JIVE), distinct and common simultaneous component analysis (DISCO) and O2-PLS, a two-block (X-Y) latent variable regression method with an integral OSC filter can all be used for the integrated analysis of multiple data sets and decompose them in three terms: a low(e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： van der Kloet FM,Sebastián-León P,Conesa A,Smilde AK,Westerhuis JA

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A new method for the prediction of protein structural classes is constructed based on Rough Sets algorithm, which is a rule-based data mining method. Amino acid compositions and 8 physicochemical properties data are used as conditional attributes for the construction of decision system. After reducing the de...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cao Y,Liu S,Zhang L,Qin J,Wang J,Tang K

更新日期：2006-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural models determined by X-ray crystallography play a central role in understanding protein-protein interactions at the molecular level. Interpretation of these models requires the distinction between non-specific crystal packing contacts and biologically relevant interactions. This has been investiga...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhu H,Domingues FS,Sommer I,Lengauer T

更新日期：2006-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common existing phylogenetic tree visualisation tools are not able to display readable trees with more than a few thousand nodes. These existing methodologies are based in two dimensional space. RESULTS:We introduce the idea of visualising phylogenetic trees in three dimensional hyperbolic space with the Wa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hughes T,Hyun Y,Liberles DA

更新日期：2004-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enzyme active sites can be connected to the exterior environment by one or more channels passing through the protein. Despite our current knowledge of enzyme structure and function, surprisingly little is known about how often channels are present or about any structural features such channels may have in co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pravda L,Berka K,Svobodová Vařeková R,Sehnal D,Banáš P,Laskowski RA,Koča J,Otyepka M

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the adaptive immune system, variable regions of immunoglobulin (IG) are encoded by random recombination of variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segments in the germline. Partitioning the functional antibody sequences to their sourcing germline gene segments is vital not only for understanding...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang X,Wu D,Zheng S,Sun J,Tao L,Li Y,Cao Z

更新日期：2008-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial genomes contain an abundance of genes with conserved proximity forming clusters on the chromosome. However, the conservation can be a result of many factors such as vertical inheritance, or functional selection. Thus, identification of conserved gene clusters that are under functional selection pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zheng Y,Anton BP,Roberts RJ,Kasif S

更新日期：2005-10-03 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:Designing small-molecule kinase inhibitors with desirable selectivity profiles is a major challenge in drug discovery. A high-throughput screen for inhibitors of a given kinase will typically yield many compounds that inhibit more than one kinase. A series of chemical modifications are usually required befor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Caffrey DR,Lunney EA,Moshinsky DJ

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data that are well-organized by an ontology, such as Gene Ontology, enables high-throughput availability of the semantic web. It can also be used to facilitate high throughput classification of biomedical information. However, to our knowledge, no evaluation has been published on automating classi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen JL,Liu Y,Sam LT,Li J,Lussier YA

更新日期：2007-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell direct reprogramming technology has been rapidly developed with its low risk of tumor risk and avoidance of ethical issues caused by stem cells, but it is still limited to specific cell types. Direct reprogramming from an original cell to target cell type needs the cell similarity and cell specific regu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li L,Che D,Wang X,Zhang P,Rahman SU,Zhao J,Yu J,Tao S,Lu H,Liao M

更新日期：2019-03-04 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：:Semantic Web technologies offer a promising framework for integration of disparate biomedical data. In this paper we present the semantic information integration platform under development at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H)...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mirhaji P,Zhu M,Vagnoni M,Bernstam EV,Zhang J,Smith JW

更新日期：2009-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Virtual screening methods start to be well established as effective approaches to identify hits, candidates and leads for drug discovery research. Among those, structure based virtual screening (SBVS) approaches aim at docking collections of small compounds in the target structure to identify potent compound...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Le Guilloux V,Schmidtke P,Tuffery P

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00