GenomeCAT: a versatile tool for the analysis and integrative visualization of DNA copy number variants.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of differentially methylated regions (DMRs) is the initial step towards the study of DNA methylation-mediated gene regulation. Previous approaches to call DMRs suffer from false prediction, use extreme resources, and/or require library installation and input conversion. RESULTS:We developed a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Condon DE,Tran PV,Lien YC,Schug J,Georgieff MK,Simmons RA,Won KJ

更新日期：2018-02-05 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:Computer-aided segmentation and border detection in dermoscopic images is one of the core components of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions for skin cancer. Automated assessment tools for dermoscopy images have become an important research field mainly because of inter- and intra-observer var...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kockara S,Mete M,Chen B,Aydin K

更新日期：2010-10-07 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:Biological networks are representative of the diverse molecular interactions that occur within cells. Some of the commonly studied biological networks are modeled through protein-protein interactions, gene regulatory, and metabolic pathways. Among these, metabolic networks are probably the most studied, as t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Manipur I,Granata I,Maddalena L,Guarracino MR

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small ~22 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that function as post-transcriptional regulators of messenger RNA (mRNA) through base-pairing to 6-8 nucleotide long target sites, usually located within the mRNA 3' untranslated region. A common approach to validate and probe microRNA-mRNA interact...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ryan BC,Werner TS,Howard PL,Chow RL

更新日期：2016-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many bacteria, intragenomic diversity in synonymous codon usage among genes has been reported. However, no quantitative attempt has been made to compare the diversity levels among different genomes. Here, we introduce a mean dissimilarity-based index (Dmean) for quantifying the level of diversity in synon...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Suzuki H,Saito R,Tomita M

更新日期：2009-06-01 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:Molecular docking is a widely-employed method in structure-based drug design. An essential component of molecular docking programs is a scoring function (SF) that can be used to identify the most stable binding pose of a ligand, when bound to a receptor protein, from among a large set of candidate poses. Des...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ashtawy HM,Mahapatra NR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Damerau-Levenshtein (DL) distance metric has been widely used in the biological science. It tries to identify the similar region of DNA,RNA and protein sequences by transforming one sequence to the another using the substitution, insertion, deletion and transposition operations. Lowrance and Wagner have ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhao C,Sahni S

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current malaria diagnosis relies primarily on microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained thick and thin blood films. This method requires vigorously trained technicians to efficiently detect and classify the malaria parasite species such as Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) and Plasmodium vivax (Pv) for an appropria...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kaewkamnerd S,Uthaipibull C,Intarapanich A,Pannarut M,Chaotheing S,Tongsima S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In microarray experiments the numbers of replicates are often limited due to factors such as cost, availability of sample or poor hybridization. There are currently few choices for the analysis of a pair of microarrays where N = 1 in each condition. In this paper, we demonstrate the effectiveness of a new al...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Reid RW,Fodor AA

更新日期：2008-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput methods can directly detect the set of interacting proteins in model species but the results are often incomplete and exhibit high false positive and false negative rates. A number of researchers have recently presented methods for integrating direct and indirect data for predicting interacti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Qi Y,Klein-Seetharaman J,Bar-Joseph Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the development of sequencing technologies, more and more sequence variants are available for investigation. Different classes of variants in the human genome have been identified, including single nucleotide substitutions, insertion and deletion, and large structural variations such as duplications and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu M,Watson LT,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the community structure of microbes is typically accomplished by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. These community data can be represented by constructing a phylogenetic tree and comparing it with other samples using statistical methods. However, owing to high computational complex...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mori H,Maruyama F,Kurokawa K

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping is often used to identify genetic loci and candidate genes correlated with traits. Although usually a group of genes affect complex traits, genes in most eQTL mapping methods are considered as independent. Recently, some eQTL mapping methods have accounted fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Richard R,Pan Y

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prediction of protein subcellular localization generally involves many complex factors, and using only one or two aspects of data information may not tell the true story. For this reason, some recent predictive models are deliberately designed to integrate multiple heterogeneous data sources for exploiting m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mei S,Fei W,Zhou S

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of protein structures being deposited in the Protein Data Bank surpasses the capacity to experimentally characterise them and therefore computational methods to analyse these structures have become increasingly important. Identifying the region of the protein most likely to be involved in function i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bray T,Chan P,Bougouffa S,Greaves R,Doig AJ,Warwicker J

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The median of k≥3 genomes was originally defined to find a compromise genome indicative of a common ancestor. However, in gene order comparisons, the usual definitions based on minimizing the sum of distances to the input genomes lead to degenerate medians reflecting only one of the input genomes. "Near-medi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Larlee CA,Brandts A,Sankoff D

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of causal SNPs in most genome wide association studies relies on approaches that consider each SNP individually. However, there is a strong correlation structure among SNPs that needs to be taken into account. Hence, increasingly modern computationally expensive regression methods are employed...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zuber V,Duarte Silva AP,Strimmer K

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next Generation Sequencing techniques are producing enormous amounts of biological sequence data and analysis becomes a major computational problem. Currently, most analysis, especially the identification of conserved regions, relies heavily on Multiple Sequence Alignment and its various heuristics such as p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nagar A,Hahsler M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In real-time PCR data analysis, the cycle threshold (CT) method is currently the gold standard. This method is based on an assumption of equal PCR efficiency in all reactions, and precision may suffer if this condition is not met. Nonlinear regression analysis (NLR) or curve fitting has therefore been sugges...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Goll R,Olsen T,Cui G,Florholmen J

更新日期：2006-03-03 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:Computer simulation is a resource which can be employed to identify optimal breeding strategies to effectively and efficiently achieve specific goals in developing improved cultivars. In some instances, it is crucial to assess in silico the options as well as the impact of various crossing schemes and breedi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sun X,Mumm RH

更新日期：2016-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Immunoglobulins (IG) and the T cell receptors (TR) play the key role in antigen recognition during the adaptive immune response. Recent progress in next-generation sequencing technologies has provided an opportunity for the deep T cell receptor repertoire profiling. However, a specialised software is req...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nazarov VI,Pogorelyy MV,Komech EA,Zvyagin IV,Bolotin DA,Shugay M,Chudakov DM,Lebedev YB,Mamedov IZ

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

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:Metabolome analysis with GC/MS has meanwhile been established as one of the "omics" techniques. Compound identification is done by comparison of the MS data with compound libraries. Mass spectral libraries in the field of metabolomics ought to connect the relevant mass traces of the metabolites to other rele...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thielen B,Heinen S,Schomburg D

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carbohydrates are a class of large and diverse biomolecules, ranging from a simple monosaccharide to large multi-branching glycan structures. The covalent linkage of a carbohydrate to the nitrogen atom of an asparagine, a process referred to as N-linked glycosylation, plays an important role in the physiolog...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lemmin T,Soto C

更新日期：2019-10-22 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:Mechanistic models are becoming more and more popular in Systems Biology; identification and control of models underlying biochemical pathways of interest in oncology is a primary goal in this field. Unfortunately the scarce availability of data still limits our understanding of the intrinsic characteristics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Menolascina F,Bellomo D,Maiwald T,Bevilacqua V,Ciminelli C,Paradiso A,Tommasi S

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00