Predicting human splicing branchpoints by combining sequence-derived features and multi-label learning methods.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parsimony and maximum likelihood methods of phylogenetic tree estimation and parsimony methods for genome rearrangements are central to the study of genome evolution yet to date they have largely been pursued in isolation. RESULTS:We present a data structure called a history graph that offers a practical ba...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Paten B,Zerbino DR,Hickey G,Haussler D

更新日期：2014-06-19 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 Bioinformatics Resource Manager (BRM) is a web-based tool developed to facilitate identifier conversion and data integration for Homo sapiens (human), Mus musculus (mouse), Rattus norvegicus (rat), Danio rerio (zebrafish), and Macaca mulatta (macaque), as well as perform orthologous conversions among the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brown J,Phillips AR,Lewis DA,Mans MA,Chang Y,Tanguay RL,Peterson ES,Waters KM,Tilton SC

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biclustering has been largely applied for the unsupervised analysis of biological data, being recognised today as a key technique to discover putative modules in both expression data (subsets of genes correlated in subsets of conditions) and network data (groups of coherently interconnected biological entiti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Henriques R,Ferreira FL,Madeira SC

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioinformatics tools for automatic processing of biomedical literature are invaluable for both the design and interpretation of large-scale experiments. Many information extraction (IE) systems that incorporate natural language processing (NLP) techniques have thus been developed for use in the biomedical fi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tsai RT,Chou WC,Su YS,Lin YC,Sung CL,Dai HJ,Yeh IT,Ku W,Sung TY,Hsu WL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent discoveries of a large variety of important roles for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been reported by numerous researchers. In order to analyze ncRNAs by kernel methods including support vector machines, we propose stem kernels as an extension of string kernels for measuring the similarities between tw...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sato K,Mituyama T,Asai K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput sequencing can identify numerous potential genomic targets for microbial strain typing, but identification of the most informative combinations requires the use of computational screening tools. This paper describes novel software-- Automated Selection of Typing Target Subsets (AuSeTTS)--that...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： O'Sullivan MV,Sintchenko V,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2013-05-01 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:In recent years, substantial effort has been applied to de novo regulatory motif discovery. At this time, more than 150 software tools exist to detect regulatory binding sites given a set of genomic sequences. As the number of software packages increases, it becomes more important to identify the tools with ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Quest D,Dempsey K,Shafiullah M,Bastola D,Ali H

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variation in DNA copy number, due to gains and losses of chromosome segments, is common. A first step for analyzing DNA copy number data is to identify amplified or deleted regions in individuals. To locate such regions, we propose a circular binary segmentation procedure, which is based on a sequence of nes...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yang TY

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human triosephosphate isomerase (HsTIM) deficiency is a genetic disease caused often by the pathogenic mutation E104D. This mutation, located at the side of an abnormally large cluster of water in the inter-subunit interface, reduces the thermostability of the enzyme. Why and how these water molecules are di...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Z,He Y,Liu Q,Zhao L,Wong L,Kwoh CK,Nguyen H,Li J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the major challenges in biology is the correct identification of promoter regions. Computational methods based on motif searching have been the traditional approach taken. Recent studies have shown that DNA structural properties, such as curvature, stacking energy, and stress-induced duplex destabiliz...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bland C,Newsome AS,Markovets AA

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data often originate from samples containing mixtures of subpopulations, corresponding e.g. to distinct cellular phenotypes. However, identification of distinct subpopulations may be difficult if biological measurements yield distributions that are not easily separable. RESULTS:We present Multire...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Feigelman J,Theis FJ,Marr C

更新日期：2014-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescent reporter genes have become widely used for monitoring gene expression in living cells. When a microbial strain carrying a reporter gene is grown in a microplate reader, the fluorescence and the absorbance (optical density) of the culture can be automatically measured every few minutes in a highly...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Martin Y,Page M,Blanchet C,de Jong H

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The landscape of biological and biomedical research is being changed rapidly with the invention of microarrays which enables simultaneous view on the transcription levels of a huge number of genes across different experimental conditions or time points. Using microarray data sets, clustering algorithms have ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Maulik U,Mukhopadhyay A,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because common complex diseases are affected by multiple genes and environmental factors, it is essential to investigate gene-gene and/or gene-environment interactions to understand genetic architecture of complex diseases. After the great success of large scale genome-wide association (GWA) studies using th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh S,Lee J,Kwon MS,Weir B,Ha K,Park T

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern plant taxonomy reflects phylogenetic relationships among taxa based on proposed morphological and genetic similarities. However, taxonomical relation is not necessarily reflected by close overall resemblance, but rather by commonality of very specific morphological characters or similarity on the mole...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seeland M,Rzanny M,Boho D,Wäldchen J,Mäder P

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interaction of a drug or chemical with a biological system can result in a gene-expression profile or signature characteristic of the event. Using a suitably robust algorithm these signatures can potentially be used to connect molecules with similar pharmacological or toxicological properties by gene express...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang SD,Gant TW

更新日期：2008-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nonparametric trend test (NPT) is well suitable for identifying the genetic variants associated with quantitative traits when the trait values do not satisfy the normal distribution assumption. If the genetic model, defined according to the mode of inheritance, is known, the NPT derived under the given g...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang W,Li H,Li Z,Li Q

更新日期：2016-01-28 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:The complexity and dynamics of microbial communities are major factors in the ecology of a system. With the NGS technique, metagenomics data provides a new way to explore microbial interactions. Lotka-Volterra models, which have been widely used to infer animal interactions in dynamic systems, have recently ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shaw GT,Pao YY,Wang D

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies demonstrated the feasibility of predicting bacterial antibiotic resistance phenotypes from whole-genome sequences, the prediction process usually amounting to detecting the presence of genes involved in antibiotic resistance mechanisms, or of specific mutations, previously identified from a t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mahé P,Tournoud M

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shotgun metagenomics based on untargeted sequencing can explore the taxonomic profile and the function of unknown microorganisms in samples, and complement the shortage of amplicon sequencing. Binning assembled sequences into individual groups, which represent microbial genomes, is the key step and a major c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue Y,Huang H,Qi Z,Dou HM,Liu XY,Han TF,Chen Y,Song XJ,Zhang YH,Tu J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since their introduction in 2009, the BioNLP Shared Task events have been instrumental in advancing the development of methods and resources for the automatic extraction of information from the biomedical literature. In this paper, we present the Cancer Genetics (CG) and Pathway Curation (PC) tasks, two even...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pyysalo S,Ohta T,Rak R,Rowley A,Chun HW,Jung SJ,Choi SP,Tsujii J,Ananiadou S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) aims to identify the genetic loci associated with the expression level of genes. Penalized regression with a proper penalty is suitable for the high-dimensional biological data. Its performance should be enhanced when we incorporate biological knowledge o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang W,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression microarrays are increasingly used to obtain large scale transcriptomic information on a wide range of biological samples. Nevertheless, there is still much debate on the best ways to process data, to design experiments and analyse the output. Furthermore, many of the more sophisticated mathematica...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chain B,Bowen H,Hammond J,Posch W,Rasaiyaah J,Tsang J,Noursadeghi M

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibodies revolutionized cancer treatment over the past decades. Despite their successfully application, there are still challenges to overcome to improve efficacy, such as the heterogeneous distribution of antibodies within tumors. Tumor microenvironment features, such as the distribution of tumor and othe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cartaxo AL,Almeida J,Gualda EJ,Marsal M,Loza-Alvarez P,Brito C,Isidro IA

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-linearities in observed log-ratios of gene expressions, also known as intensity dependent log-ratios, can often be accounted for by global biases in the two channels being compared. Any step in a microarray process may introduce such offsets and in this article we study the biases introduced by the micro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bengtsson H,Jönsson G,Vallon-Christersson J

更新日期：2004-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Creating a scalable computational infrastructure to analyze the wealth of information contained in data repositories is difficult due to significant barriers in organizing, extracting and analyzing relevant data. Shared data science infrastructures like Boag is needed to efficiently process and parse data co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bagheri H,Muppirala U,Masonbrink RE,Severin AJ,Rajan H

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomes are subjected to rearrangements that change the orientation and ordering of genes during evolution. The most common rearrangements that occur in uni-chromosomal genomes are inversions (or reversals) to adapt to the changing environment. Since genome rearrangements are rarer than point mutations, gene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Noureen M,Tada I,Kawashima T,Arita M

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00