Ontological representation, integration, and analysis of LINCS cell line cells and their cellular responses.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aberrant expression of microRNAs is closely connected to the occurrence and development of a great deal of human diseases. To study human diseases, numerous effective computational models that are valuable and meaningful have been presented by researchers. RESULTS:Here, we present a computational framew...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gao Z,Wang YT,Wu QW,Ni JC,Zheng CH

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pre-processing methods for two-sample long oligonucleotide arrays, specifically the Agilent technology, have not been extensively studied. The goal of this study is to quantify some of the sources of error that affect measurement of expression using Agilent arrays and to compare Agilent's Feature Extraction ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zahurak M,Parmigiani G,Yu W,Scharpf RB,Berman D,Schaeffer E,Shabbeer S,Cope L

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the greatest challenges in Metabolic Engineering is to develop quantitative models and algorithms to identify a set of genetic manipulations that will result in a microbial strain with a desirable metabolic phenotype which typically means having a high yield/productivity. This challenge is not only du...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rocha M,Maia P,Mendes R,Pinto JP,Ferreira EC,Nielsen J,Patil KR,Rocha I

更新日期：2008-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying drug-target interaction is a key element in drug discovery. In silico prediction of drug-target interaction can speed up the process of identifying unknown interactions between drugs and target proteins. In recent studies, handcrafted features, similarity metrics and machine learning methods have...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eslami Manoochehri H,Nourani M

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this short article, we discuss a simple method for assessing sample size requirements in microarray experiments. RESULTS:Our method starts with the output from a permutation-based analysis for a set of pilot data, e.g. from the SAM package. Then for a given hypothesized mean difference and various sample...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tibshirani R

更新日期：2006-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate somatic mutation-calling is essential for insightful mutation analyses in cancer studies. Several mutation-callers are publicly available and more are likely to appear. Nonetheless, mutation-calling is still challenging and there is unlikely to be one established caller that systematically outperfor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim SY,Jacob L,Speed TP

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments have been popularly applied to transcriptome studies in recent years. Such experiments are still relatively costly. As a result, RNA-seq experiments often employ a small number of replicates. Power analysis and sample size calculation are challenging in the context of dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bi R,Liu P

更新日期：2016-03-31 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:Innovations in biological and biomedical imaging produce complex high-content and multivariate image data. For decision-making and generation of hypotheses, scientists need novel information technology tools that enable them to visually explore and analyze the data and to discuss and communicate results or f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Loyek C,Rajpoot NM,Khan M,Nattkemper TW

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolutionary history of genes serves as a cornerstone of contemporary biology. Most conserved sequences in mammalian genomes don't code for proteins, yielding a need to infer evolutionary history of sequences irrespective of what kind of functional element they may encode. Thus, sequence-, as opposed to ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gao K,Miller J

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Replication origins are considered important sites for understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in DNA replication. Many computational methods have been developed for predicting their locations in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryotic genomes. However, a prediction method designed for a particular kind o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chew DS,Leung MY,Choi KP

更新日期：2007-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Protein Ontology (PRO) is designed as a formal and principled Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry ontology for proteins. The components of PRO extend from a classification of proteins on the basis of evolutionary relationships at the homeomorphic level to the representation of the multiple protein f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arighi CN,Liu H,Natale DA,Barker WC,Drabkin H,Blake JA,Smith B,Wu CH

更新日期：2009-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technologies produced large amount of data. The hierarchical clustering is commonly used to identify clusters of co-expressed genes. However, microarray datasets often contain missing values (MVs) representing a major drawback for the use of the clustering methods. Usually the MVs are not treated,...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Brevern AG,Hazout S,Malpertuy A

更新日期：2004-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray techniques are one of the main methods used to investigate thousands of gene expression profiles for enlightening complex biological processes responsible for serious diseases, with a great scientific impact and a wide application area. Several standalone applications had been developed in order t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corradi L,Fato M,Porro I,Scaglione S,Torterolo L

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing Variance heterogeneity in genome wide association studies (vGWAS) is an emerging approach for detecting genetic loci involved in gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. vGWAS analysis detects variability in phenotype values across genotypes, as opposed to typical GWAS analysis, which detects v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Al Kawam A,Alshawaqfeh M,Cai JJ,Serpedin E,Datta A

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factors are known to play key roles in carcinogenesis and therefore, are gaining popularity as potential therapeutic targets in drug development. A 'master regulator' transcription factor often appears to control most of the regulatory activities of the other transcription factors and the assoc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sikdar S,Datta S

更新日期：2017-02-02 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:Microarray devices permit a genome-scale evaluation of gene function. This technology has catalyzed biomedical research and development in recent years. As many important diseases can be traced down to the gene level, a long-standing research problem is to identify specific gene expression patterns linking t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fu LM,Fu-Liu CS

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression experiments are common in molecular biology, for example in order to identify genes which play a certain role in a specified biological framework. For that purpose expression levels of several thousand genes are measured simultaneously using DNA microarrays. Comparing two distinct groups of t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jung K,Friede T,Beissbarth T

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the advent of high-throughput proteomic experiments such as arrays of purified proteins comes the need to analyse sets of proteins as an ensemble, as opposed to the traditional one-protein-at-a-time approach. Although there are several publicly available tools that facilitate the analysis of protein set...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wolting C,McGlade CJ,Tritchler D

更新日期：2006-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We present a model for tagging gene and protein mentions from text using the probabilistic sequence tagging framework of conditional random fields (CRFs). Conditional random fields model the probability P(t/o) of a tag sequence given an observation sequence directly, and have previously been employed success...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McDonald R,Pereira F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded non-coding RNAs known to regulate a wide range of cellular processes by silencing the gene expression at the protein and/or mRNA levels. Computational prediction of miRNA targets is essential for elucidating the detailed functions of miRNA. However, the prediction speci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Yue D,Chen Y,Gao SJ,Huang Y

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, techniques were established for the large scale genome-wide analysis of proteins, RNA, and metabolites, and database solutions have been developed to manage the generated data sets. The Golm Metabolome Database for metabolite data (GMD) represents one such effort to make these data broadl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hummel J,Niemann M,Wienkoop S,Schulze W,Steinhauser D,Selbig J,Walther D,Weckwerth W

更新日期：2007-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analysis (MA) is widely used to pool genome-wide association studies (GWASes) in order to a) increase the power to detect strong or weak genotype effects or b) as a result verification method. As a consequence of differing SNP panels among genotyping chips, imputation is the method of choice within GWAS...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meesters C,Leber M,Herold C,Angisch M,Mattheisen M,Drichel D,Lacour A,Becker T

更新日期：2012-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enhancers are stretches of DNA (100-1000 bp) that play a major role in development gene expression, evolution and disease. It has been recently shown that in high-level eukaryotes enhancers rarely work alone, instead they collaborate by forming clusters of cis-regulatory modules (CRMs). Although the binding ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Comin M,Antonello M

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next (second) generation sequencing is an increasingly important tool for many areas of molecular biology, however, care must be taken when interpreting its output. Even a low error rate can cause a large number of errors due to the high number of nucleotides being sequenced. Identifying sequencing errors fr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sleep JA,Schreiber AW,Baumann U

更新日期：2013-12-18 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:The specific recognition of genomic cis-regulatory elements by transcription factors (TFs) plays an essential role in the regulation of coordinated gene expression. Studying the mechanisms determining binding specificity in protein-DNA interactions is thus an important goal. Most current approaches for model...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Angarica VE,Pérez AG,Vasconcelos AT,Collado-Vides J,Contreras-Moreira B

更新日期：2008-10-16 00:00:00

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:Reproducibility of results can have a significant impact on the acceptance of new technologies in gene expression analysis. With the recent introduction of the so-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology and established microarrays, one is able to choose between two completely different platforms f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stiglic G,Bajgot M,Kokol P

更新日期：2010-04-08 00:00:00