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abstract：BACKGROUND:The spatial configuration of chromosomes is essential to various cellular processes, notably gene regulation, while architecture related alterations, such as translocations and gene fusions, are often cancer drivers. Thus, eliciting chromatin conformation is important, yet challenging due to compaction, dyna...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Segal MR,Fletez-Brant K

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The annotation of protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) is an important task of UniProtKB curators and, with continuing improvements in experimental methodology, an ever greater number of articles are being published on this topic. To help curators cope with this growing body of information we have...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Veuthey AL,Bridge A,Gobeill J,Ruch P,McEntyre JR,Bougueleret L,Xenarios I

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to detect nuclei in embryos is essential for studying the development of multicellular organisms. A system of automated nuclear detection has already been tested on a set of four-dimensional (4D) Nomarski differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope images of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hamahashi S,Onami S,Kitano H

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence profile-profile alignment is an important approach to recognizing remote homologs and generating accurate pairwise alignments. It plays an important role in protein sequence database search, protein structure prediction, protein function prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. RESULTS:In thi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng X,Cheng J

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is now well established that nearly 20% of human cancers are caused by infectious agents, and the list of human oncogenic pathogens will grow in the future for a variety of cancer types. Whole tumor transcriptome and genome sequencing by next-generation sequencing technologies presents an unparalleled opp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Borozan I,Wilson S,Blanchette P,Laflamme P,Watt SN,Krzyzanowski PM,Sircoulomb F,Rottapel R,Branton PE,Ferretti V

更新日期：2012-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed an extendable open-source Loop-mediated isothermal AMPlification (LAMP) signature design program called LAVA (LAMP Assay Versatile Analysis). LAVA was created in response to limitations of existing LAMP signature programs. RESULTS:LAVA identifies combinations of six primer regions for basic LAM...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Torres C,Vitalis EA,Baker BR,Gardner SN,Torres MW,Dzenitis JM

更新日期：2011-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the use of clustering methods has rapidly become one of the standard computational approaches in the literature of microarray gene expression data analysis, little attention has been paid to uncertainty in the results obtained. RESULTS:We present an R/Bioconductor port of a fast novel algorithm for...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Savage RS,Heller K,Xu Y,Ghahramani Z,Truman WM,Grant M,Denby KJ,Wild DL

更新日期：2009-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding research activity within any given biomedical field is important. Search outputs generated by MEDLINE/PubMed are not well classified and require lengthy manual citation analysis. Automation of citation analytics can be very useful and timesaving for both novices and experts. RESULTS:PubFocus w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Plikus MV,Zhang Z,Chuong CM

更新日期：2006-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To interpret microarray experiments, several ontological analysis tools have been developed. However, current tools are limited to specific organisms. RESULTS:We developed a bioinformatics system to assign the probe set sequences of any organism to a hierarchical functional classification modelled on KEGG o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Goffard N,Weiller G

更新日期：2007-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New "next generation" DNA sequencing technologies offer individual researchers the ability to rapidly generate large amounts of genome sequence data at dramatically reduced costs. As a result, a need has arisen for new software tools for storage, management and analysis of genome sequence data. Although bioi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Duncan S,Sirkanungo R,Miller L,Phillips GJ

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, a significant improvement in detecting remote similarity between protein sequences has been made by utilizing alignment profiles in place of amino-acid strings. Unfortunately, no analytical theory is available for estimating the significance of a gapped alignment of two profiles. Many exp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Poleksic A

更新日期：2009-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research related to cancer is vast, and continues in earnest in many directions. Due to the complexity of cancer, a better understanding of tumor growth dynamics can be gleaned from a dynamic computational model. We present a comprehensive, fully executable, spatial and temporal 3D computational model of the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloch N,Harel D

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When constructing new biomarker or gene signature scores for time-to-event outcomes, the underlying aims are to develop a discrimination model that helps to predict whether patients have a poor or good prognosis and to identify the most influential variables for this task. In practice, this is often done fit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mayr A,Hofner B,Schmid M

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is not difficult for state-of-the-art gene finders to identify coding regions in prokaryotic genomes, exact prediction of the corresponding translation initiation sites (TIS) is still a challenging problem. Recently a number of post-processing tools have been proposed for improving the annotation...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tech M,Meinicke P

更新日期：2006-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many practical tasks in biomedicine require accessing specific types of information in scientific literature; e.g. information about the results or conclusions of the study in question. Several schemes have been developed to characterize such information in scientific journal articles. For example, a simple ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Guo Y,Korhonen A,Liakata M,Silins I,Hogberg J,Stenius U

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most known eukaryotic genomes contain mobile copied elements called transposable elements. In some species, these elements account for the majority of the genome sequence. They have been subject to many mutations and other genomic events (copies, deletions, captures) during transposition. The identification ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tempel S,Rousseau C,Tahi F,Nicolas J

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cost of DNA sequencing has undergone a dramatical reduction in the past decade. As a result, sequencing technologies have been increasingly applied to genomic research. RNA-Seq is becoming a common technique for surveying gene expression based on DNA sequencing. As it is not clear how increased sequencin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cai G,Li H,Lu Y,Huang X,Lee J,Müller P,Ji Y,Liang S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein docking, which aims to predict the structure of a protein-protein complex from its unbound components, remains an unresolved challenge in structural bioinformatics. An important step is the ranking of docked poses using a scoring function, for which many methods have been developed. There is ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Moal IH,Torchala M,Bates PA,Fernández-Recio J

更新日期：2013-10-01 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:The analysis of sequence-structure relations of RNA is based on a specific notion and folding of RNA structure. The notion of coarse grained structure employed here is that of canonical RNA pseudoknot contact-structures with at most two mutually crossing bonds (3-noncrossing). These structures are folded by ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Huang FW,Li LY,Reidys CM

更新日期：2009-01-30 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: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: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: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 secondary structure of RNA molecules is intimately related to their function and often more conserved than the sequence. Hence, the important task of searching databases for RNAs requires to match sequence-structure patterns. Unfortunately, current tools for this task have, in the best case, a running ti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meyer F,Kurtz S,Backofen R,Will S,Beckstette M

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conservation and variation scores are used when evaluating sites in a multiple sequence alignment, in order to identify residues critical for structure or function. A variety of scores are available today but it is not clear how different scores relate to each other. RESULTS:We applied 25 conservation and v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Johansson F,Toh H

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of next-generation sequencing has made it possible to sequence whole genomes at a relatively low cost. However, de novo genome assemblies remain challenging due to short read length, missing data, repetitive regions, polymorphisms and sequencing errors. As more and more genomes are sequenced,...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lischer HEL,Shimizu KK

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adapter trimming is a prerequisite step for analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data when the reads are longer than the target DNA/RNA fragments. Although typically used in small RNA sequencing, adapter trimming is also used widely in other applications, such as genome DNA sequencing and transcriptome...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jiang H,Lei R,Ding SW,Zhu S

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequence of nucleotides in an RNA determines the possible base pairs for an RNA fold and thus also determines the overall shape and function of an RNA. The Swellix program presented here combines a helix abstraction with a combinatorial approach to the RNA folding problem in order to compute all possible...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sloat N,Liu JW,Schroeder SJ

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying the interactions between proteins and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) is of great importance to decipher the functional mechanisms of lncRNAs. However, current experimental techniques for detection of lncRNA-protein interactions are limited and inefficient. Many methods have been proposed to predi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng L,Wang J,Xiao Y,Wang Z,Liu H

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00