Swellix: a computational tool to explore RNA conformational space.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) can offer compelling evidence for protein function, especially when viewed in the context of proteome-wide interactomes. Bacteria have been popular subjects of interactome studies: more than six different bacterial species have been the subjects of comprehensive interactom...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Caufield JH,Wimble C,Shary S,Wuchty S,Uetz P

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray experiments, as well as other genomic analyses, often result in large gene sets containing up to several hundred genes. The biological significance of such sets of genes is, usually, not readily apparent. Identification of the functions of the genes in the set can help highlight features of intere...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee JS,Katari G,Sachidanandam R

更新日期：2005-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The exponential growth of gigantic biological data from various sources, such as protein-protein interaction (PPI), genome sequences scaffolding, Mass spectrometry (MS) molecular networking and metabolic flux, demands an efficient way for better visualization and interpretation beyond the conventional, two-d...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Q,Tang B,Song L,Ren B,Liang Q,Xie F,Zhuo Y,Liu X,Zhang L

更新日期：2013-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, bioinformatics tools have matured enough to reliably perform sophisticated primary data analysis on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, such as mapping, assemblies and variant calling, however, there is still a dire need for improvements in the higher level analysis such as NGS data or...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hadj Khodabakhshi A,Fejes AP,Birol I,Jones SJ

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, the availability of high-resolution microscopy together with the advancements in the development of biomarkers as reporters of biomolecular interactions increased the importance of imaging methods in molecular cell biology. These techniques enable the investigation of cellular characteristics like ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stoma S,Fröhlich M,Gerber S,Klipp E

更新日期：2011-04-28 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:Predicting protein function has become increasingly demanding in the era of next generation sequencing technology. The task to assign a curator-reviewed function to every single sequence is impracticable. Bioinformatics tools, easy to use and able to provide automatic and reliable annotations at a genomic sc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Falda M,Toppo S,Pescarolo A,Lavezzo E,Di Camillo B,Facchinetti A,Cilia E,Velasco R,Fontana P

更新日期：2012-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Light microscopy is of central importance in cell biology. The recent introduction of automated high content screening has expanded this technology towards automation of experiments and performing large scale perturbation assays. Nevertheless, evaluation of microscopy data continues to be a bottleneck in man...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Misselwitz B,Strittmatter G,Periaswamy B,Schlumberger MC,Rout S,Horvath P,Kozak K,Hardt WD

更新日期：2010-01-14 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：:In comparative genomics, the rearrangement distance between two genomes (equal the minimal number of genome rearrangements required to transform them into a single genome) is often used for measuring their evolutionary remoteness. Generalization of this measure to three genomes is known as the median score (while a re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S Jr,Alekseyev MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the advent of Next-Generation Sequencing technologies (NGS), a large amount of short read data has been generated. If a reference genome is not available, the assembly of a template sequence is usually challenging because of repeats and the short length of reads. When NGS reads cannot be mapped onto a r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Comin M,Schimd M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detecting patterns in high-dimensional multivariate datasets is non-trivial. Clustering and dimensionality reduction techniques often help in discerning inherent structures. In biological datasets such as microbial community composition or gene expression data, observations can be generated from a continuous...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nguyen LH,Holmes S

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mammalian germ cells undergo meiosis to produce sperm or eggs, haploid cells that are primed to meet and propagate life. Meiosis is initiated by retinoic acid and meiotic prophase is the first and most complex stage of meiosis when homologous chromosomes pair to exchange genetic information. Errors in meiosi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Ray D,Ye P

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A survey of presences and absences of specific species across multiple biogeographic units (or bioregions) are used in a broad area of biological studies from ecology to microbiology. Using binary presence-absence data, we evaluate species co-occurrences that help elucidate relationships among organisms and ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chung NC,Miasojedow B,Startek M,Gambin A

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A massive amount of proteomic data is generated on a daily basis, nonetheless annotating all sequences is costly and often unfeasible. As a countermeasure, machine learning methods have been used to automatically annotate new protein functions. More specifically, many studies have investigated hierarchical m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nakano FK,Lietaert M,Vens C

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowing the subcellular location of proteins provides clues to their function as well as the interconnectivity of biological processes. Dozens of tools are available for predicting protein location in the eukaryotic cell. Each tool performs well on certain data sets, but their predictions often disagree for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shen YQ,Burger G

更新日期：2007-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of homologous genes is fundamental to comparative genomics, functional genomics and phylogenomics. Extensive public homology databases are of great value for investigating homology but need to be continually updated to incorporate new sequences. As new sequences are rapidly being generated, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sheikhizadeh Anari S,de Ridder D,Schranz ME,Smit S

更新日期：2018-09-26 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：BACKGROUND:Biological sequences play a major role in molecular and computational biology. They are studied as information-bearing entities that make up DNA, RNA or proteins. The Sequence Ontology, which is part of the OBO Foundry, contains descriptions and definitions of sequences and their properties. Yet the most bas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hoehndorf R,Kelso J,Herre H

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-structure alignment is a fundamental tool to study protein function, evolution and model building. In the last decade several methods for structure alignment were introduced, but most of them ignore that structurally similar proteins can share the same spatial arrangement of secondary structure eleme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kolbeck B,May P,Schmidt-Goenner T,Steinke T,Knapp EW

更新日期：2006-11-21 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:Finding common molecular interactions from different samples is essential work to understanding diseases and other biological processes. Coexpression networks and their modules directly reflect sample-specific interactions among genes. Therefore, identification of common coexpression network or modules may r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jo Y,Kim S,Lee D

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time course microarray profiles examine the expression of genes over a time domain. They are necessary in order to determine the complete set of genes that are dynamically expressed under given conditions, and to determine the interaction between these genes. Because of cost and resource issues, most time se...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sinha A,Markatou M

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rabbit is an important model organism used in a wide range of biomedical research. However, the rabbit genome is still sparsely annotated, thus prohibiting extensive functional analysis of gene sets derived from whole-genome experiments. We developed a web-based application that provides augmented annota...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Craig DB,Kannan S,Dombkowski AA

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alignment-free methods for comparing protein sequences have proved to be viable alternatives to approaches that first rely on an alignment of the sequences to be compared. Much work however need to be done before those methods provide reliable fold recognition for proteins whose sequences share little simila...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nojoomi S,Koehl P

更新日期：2017-08-25 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:The identification of genes responsible for human inherited diseases is one of the most challenging tasks in human genetics. Recent studies based on phenotype similarity and gene proximity have demonstrated great success in prioritizing candidate genes for human diseases. However, most of these methods rely ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang W,Sun F,Jiang R

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNA) are regulatory genes that target and repress other RNA molecules via sequence-specific binding. Several biological processes are regulated across many organisms by evolutionarily conserved miRNAs. Plants and invertebrates employ their miRNA in defense against viruses by targeting and degrad...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carl JW Jr,Trgovcich J,Hannenhalli S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:Wise et al. introduced a rank-based statistical technique for meta-analysis of genome scans, the Genome Scan Meta-Analysis (GSMA) method. Levinson et al. recently described two generalizations of the GSMA statistic: (i) a weighted version of the GSMA statistic, so that different studies could be ascribed dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Koziol JA,Feng AC

更新日期：2005-02-17 00:00:00