Coordinates and intervals in graph-based reference genomes.

abstract：:We provide a 2007 update on the bioinformatics research in the Asia-Pacific from the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation set up in 1998. From 2002, APBioNet has organized the first International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) bringing together scientists work...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranganathan S,Gribskov M,Tan TW

更新日期：2008-01-01 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:RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become the standard means of analyzing gene and transcript expression in high-throughput. While previously sequence alignment was a time demanding step, fast alignment methods and even more so transcript counting methods which avoid mapping and quantify gene and transcript expres...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pérez-Rubio P,Lottaz C,Engelmann JC

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time-course microarray experiments are being increasingly used to characterize dynamic biological processes. In these experiments, the goal is to identify genes differentially expressed in time-course data, measured between different biological conditions. These differentially expressed genes can reveal the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jonnalagadda S,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2008-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing the amino acid sequence of an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) in an evolutionary context can yield novel insights on the functional role of disordered regions and sequence element(s). However, in the case of many IDPs, the lack of evolutionary conservation of the primary sequence can hamper ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Varadi M,Guharoy M,Zsolyomi F,Tompa P

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of DNA copy number variants (CNV) has increasing impact in the field of genetic diagnostics and research. However, the interpretation of CNV data derived from high resolution array CGH or NGS platforms is complicated by the considerable variability of the human genome. Therefore, tools for multi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tebel K,Boldt V,Steininger A,Port M,Ebert G,Ullmann R

更新日期：2017-01-06 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:The binding of regulatory proteins to their specific DNA targets determines the accurate expression of the neighboring genes. The in silico prediction of new binding sites in completely sequenced genomes is a key aspect in the deeper understanding of gene regulatory networks. Several algorithms have been des...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oberto J

更新日期：2010-11-11 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The immune system is multifaceted, structured by diverse components that interconnect using multilayered dynamic cellular processes. Genomic technologies provide a means for investigating, at the molecular level, the adaptations of the immune system in host defense and its dysregulation in pathological condi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Liu J,Toups M,Soos T,Arendt C

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frequent pattern mining analysis applied on microarray dataset appears to be a promising strategy for identifying relationships between gene expression levels. Unfortunately, too many itemsets (co-expressed genes) are identified by this analysis method since it does not consider the importance of each gene w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu YC,Cheng CP,Tseng VS

更新日期：2013-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Periodic phenomena are widespread in biology. The problem of finding periodicity in biological time series can be viewed as a multiple hypothesis testing of the spectral content of a given time series. The exact noise characteristics are unknown in many bioinformatics applications. Furthermore, the observed ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahdesmäki M,Lähdesmäki H,Pearson R,Huttunen H,Yli-Harja O

更新日期：2005-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic network alignment is a system scale comparative analysis that discovers important similarities and differences across different metabolisms and organisms. Although the problem of aligning metabolic networks has been considered in the past, the computational complexity of the existing solutions has so far lim...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ay F,Dang M,Kahveci T

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of high-throughput experimentation has led to astronomical growth in biologically relevant lipids and lipid derivatives identified, screened, and deposited in numerous online databases. Unfortunately, efforts to annotate, classify, and analyze these chemical entities have largely remained in ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chepelev LL,Riazanov A,Kouznetsov A,Low HS,Dumontier M,Baker CJ

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrative network methods are commonly used for interpretation of high-throughput experimental biological data: transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and others. One of the common approaches is finding a connected subnetwork of a global interaction network that best encompasses significant individual c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alexeev N,Isomurodov J,Sukhov V,Korotkevich G,Sergushichev A

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection of bias due to cryptic population structure is an important step in the evaluation of findings of genetic association studies. The standard method of measuring this bias in a genetic association study is to compare the observed median association test statistic to the expected median test stati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pirie A,Wood A,Lush M,Tyrer J,Pharoah PD

更新日期：2015-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The canonical code, although prevailing in complex genomes, is not universal. It was shown the canonical genetic code superior robustness compared to random codes, but it is not clearly determined how it evolved towards its current form. The error minimization theory considers the minimization of point mutat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Santos J,Monteagudo Á

更新日期：2017-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nucleosome is the fundamental packing unit of DNAs in eukaryotic cells. Its detailed positioning on the genome is closely related to chromosome functions. Increasing evidence has shown that genomic DNA sequence itself is highly predictive of nucleosome positioning genome-wide. Therefore a fast software t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xi L,Fondufe-Mittendorf Y,Xia L,Flatow J,Widom J,Wang JP

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing availability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data and specifically free-text patient notes presents opportunities for phenotype extraction. Text-mining methods in particular can help disease modeling by mapping named-entities mentions to terminologies and clustering semantically related term...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cohen R,Elhadad M,Elhadad N

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phosphorylated histone H2AX, also known as γH2AX, forms μm-sized nuclear foci at the sites of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by ionizing radiation and other agents. Due to their specificity and sensitivity, γH2AX immunoassays have become the gold standard for studying DSB induction and repair. One o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Memmel S,Sisario D,Zimmermann H,Sauer M,Sukhorukov VL,Djuzenova CS,Flentje M

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomedical processes can provide essential information about the (mal-) functioning of an organism and are thus frequently represented in biomedical terminologies and ontologies, including the GO Biological Process branch. These processes often need to be described and categorised in terms of their attribute...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Andrade AQ,Blondé W,Hastings J,Schulz S

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polymorphic variants and mutations disrupting canonical splicing isoforms are among the leading causes of human hereditary disorders. While there is a substantial evidence of aberrant splicing causing Mendelian diseases, the implication of such events in multi-genic disorders is yet to be well understood. We...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Churbanov A,Vorechovský I,Hicks C

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques are advancing genomics and molecular biology research. This technology generates substantially large data which puts up a major challenge to the scientists for an efficient, cost and time effective solution to analyse such data. Further, for the dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Maji RK,Sarkar A,Khatua S,Dasgupta S,Ghosh Z

更新日期：2014-06-04 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:Systematic mutagenesis studies have shown that only a few interface residues termed hot spots contribute significantly to the binding free energy of protein-protein interactions. Therefore, hot spots prediction becomes increasingly important for well understanding the essence of proteins interactions and hel...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen R,Chen W,Yang S,Wu D,Wang Y,Tian Y,Shi Y

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The double-cut-and-join (DCJ) is a model that is able to efficiently sort a genome into another, generalizing the typical mutations (inversions, fusions, fissions, translocations) to which genomes are subject, but allowing the existence of circular chromosomes at the intermediate steps. In the general model ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： da Silva PH,Machado R,Dantas S,Braga MD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput technology allows for genome-wide measurements at different molecular levels for the same patient, e.g. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression. Correspondingly, it might be beneficial to also integrate complementary information from different molecular levels when building...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hieke S,Benner A,Schlenl RF,Schumacher M,Bullinger L,Binder H

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of sufficient training data is the limiting factor for many Machine Learning applications in Computational Biology. If data is available for several different but related problem domains, Multitask Learning algorithms can be used to learn a model based on all available information. In Bioinformatics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Widmer C,Toussaint NC,Altun Y,Rätsch G

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activities of drug molecules can be predicted by QSAR (quantitative structure activity relationship) models, which overcomes the disadvantages of high cost and long cycle by employing the traditional experimental method. With the fact that the number of drug molecules with positive activity is rather fewer t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li GZ,Meng HH,Lu WC,Yang JY,Yang MQ

更新日期：2008-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community structure is ubiquitous in biological networks. There has been an increased interest in unraveling the community structure of biological systems as it may provide important insights into a system's functional components and the impact of local structures on dynamics at a global scale. Choosing an a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sah P,Singh LO,Clauset A,Bansal S

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00