SamSelect: a sample sequence selection algorithm for quorum planted motif search on large DNA datasets.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, we extended the replica exchange Monte Carlo (REMC) sampling method to protein-small molecule docking conformational prediction using RosettaLigand. In contrast to the traditional Monte Carlo (MC) and REMC sampling methods, these methods use multi-objective optimization Pareto front informatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang H,Liu H,Cai L,Wang C,Lv Q

更新日期：2017-07-10 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:Mass spectrometry (MS) coupled with online separation methods is commonly applied for differential and quantitative profiling of biological samples in metabolomic as well as proteomic research. Such approaches are used for systems biology, functional genomics, and biomarker discovery, among others. An ongoin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pluskal T,Castillo S,Villar-Briones A,Oresic M

更新日期：2010-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of oxidative folding combines the formation of native disulfide bond with conformational folding resulting in the native three-dimensional fold. Oxidative folding pathways can be described in terms of disulfide intermediate species (DIS) which can also be isolated and characterized. Each DIS corr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Agoston V,Cemazar M,Kaján L,Pongor S

更新日期：2005-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput methods can directly detect the set of interacting proteins in model species but the results are often incomplete and exhibit high false positive and false negative rates. A number of researchers have recently presented methods for integrating direct and indirect data for predicting interacti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Qi Y,Klein-Seetharaman J,Bar-Joseph Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein solvent accessibility prediction is a pivotal intermediate step towards modeling protein tertiary structures directly from one-dimensional sequences. It also plays an important part in identifying protein folds and domains. Although some methods have been presented to the protein solvent accessibilit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan C,Liu D,Huang R,Chen Z,Deng L

更新日期：2016-01-11 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: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:Horizontal gene transfer, i.e. the acquisition of genetic material from nonparent organism, is considered an important force driving species evolution. Many cases of horizontal gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes have been registered, but no transfer mechanism has been deciphered so far, although vi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Daugavet MA,Shabelnikov SV,Podgornaya OI

更新日期：2020-07-24 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:Many cancer genomes are extensively rearranged with highly aberrant chromosomal karyotypes. Structural and copy number variations in cancer genomes can be determined via abnormal mapping of sequenced reads to the reference genome. Recently it became possible to reconcile both of these types of large-scale va...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S,Zban I,Aksenov V,Alexeev N,Schatz MC

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In metabolomics experiments, spectral fingerprints of metabolites with no known structural identity are detected routinely. Computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE) has been used to determine the structural identities of unknown compounds. It is generally accepted that a single 1D NMR spectrum or mass ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jayaseelan KV,Steinbeck C

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play crucial roles in virtually every aspect of cellular function within an organism. Over the last decade, the development of novel high-throughput techniques has resulted in enormous amounts of data and provided valuable resources for studying protein interactions. Howev...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lei YK,You ZH,Ji Z,Zhu L,Huang DS

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell-scaffold contact measurements are derived from pairs of co-registered volumetric fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) images (z-stacks) of stained cells and three types of scaffolds (i.e., spun coat, large microfiber, and medium microfiber). Our analysis of the acquired terabyte-sized c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bajcsy P,Yoon S,Florczyk SJ,Hotaling NA,Simon M,Szczypinski PM,Schaub NJ,Simon CG Jr,Brady M,Sriram RD

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Damerau-Levenshtein (DL) distance metric has been widely used in the biological science. It tries to identify the similar region of DNA,RNA and protein sequences by transforming one sequence to the another using the substitution, insertion, deletion and transposition operations. Lowrance and Wagner have ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhao C,Sahni S

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes encoding transcription factors that constitute gene-regulatory networks and maternal factors accumulating in egg cytoplasm are two classes of essential genes that play crucial roles in developmental processes. Transcription factors control the expression of their downstream target genes by interacting ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang K,Nishida H

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection of genomic copy number alterations (CNA) in cancer based on SNP arrays requires methods that take into account tumour specific factors such as normal cell contamination and tumour heterogeneity. A number of tools have been recently developed but their performance needs yet to be thoroughly asse...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mosén-Ansorena D,Aransay AM,Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clustering of unannotated transcripts is an important task to identify novel families of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). Several hierarchical clustering methods have been developed using similarity measures based on the scores of structural alignment. However, the high computational cost of exact structural alignme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saito Y,Sato K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2011-02-15 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：:Time course gene expression experiments are a popular means to infer co-expression. Many methods have been proposed to cluster genes or to build networks based on similarity measures of their expression dynamics. In this paper we apply a correlation based approach to network reconstruction to three datasets of time se...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Neretti N,Remondini D,Tatar M,Sedivy JM,Pierini M,Mazzatti D,Powell J,Franceschi C,Castellani GC

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of genomic DNA copy number variations (CNVs) can provide a complete and more comprehensive view of human disease. It is interesting to identify and represent relevant CNVs from a genome-wide data due to high data volume and the complexity of interactions. RESULTS:In this paper, we incorporate the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Y,Lee YF,Ng MK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The advent of array-based genome-wide DNA methylation methods has enabled quantitative measurement of single CpG methylation status at relatively low cost and sample input. Whereas the use of Infinium Human Methylation BeadChips has shown great utility in clinical studies, no equivalent tool is available for...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Needhamsen M,Ewing E,Lund H,Gomez-Cabrero D,Harris RA,Kular L,Jagodic M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibacterial peptides are important components of the innate immune system, used by the host to protect itself from different types of pathogenic bacteria. Over the last few decades, the search for new drugs and drug targets has prompted an interest in these antibacterial peptides. We analyzed 486 antibacte...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lata S,Sharma BK,Raghava GP

更新日期：2007-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The amount of gene expression data available in public repositories has grown exponentially in the last years, now requiring new data mining tools to transform them in information easily accessible to biologists. RESULTS:By exploiting expression data publicly available in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) d...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cremaschi P,Rovida S,Sacchi L,Lisa A,Calvi F,Montecucco A,Biamonti G,Bione S,Sacchi G

更新日期：2014-01-01 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:Targeted resequencing offers a cost-effective alternative to whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing when investigating regions known to be associated with a trait or disease. There are a number of approaches to targeted resequencing, including microfluidic PCR amplification, which may be enhanced by multipl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wingo TS,Kotlar A,Cutler DJ

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated protein function prediction methods are the only practical approach for assigning functions to genes obtained from model organisms. Many of the previously reported function annotation methods are of limited utility for fungal protein annotation. They are often trained only to one species, are not a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jung J,Yi G,Sukno SA,Thon MR

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is a common practice in bioinformatics to validate each group returned by a clustering algorithm through manual analysis, according to a-priori biological knowledge. This procedure helps finding functionally related patterns to propose hypotheses for their behavior and the biological processes involved. T...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Milone DH,Stegmayer G,López M,Kamenetzky L,Carrari F

更新日期：2014-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of when and in which cells each gene is expressed across multicellular organisms is critical in understanding both gene function and regulation of cell type diversity. However, methods for measuring expression typically involve a trade-off between imaging-based methods, which give the precise locat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Burdick JT,Murray JI

更新日期：2013-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GmrSD is a modification-dependent restriction endonuclease that specifically targets and cleaves glucosylated hydroxymethylcytosine (glc-HMC) modified DNA. It is encoded either as two separate single-domain GmrS and GmrD proteins or as a single protein carrying both domains. Previous studies suggested that G...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Machnicka MA,Kaminska KH,Dunin-Horkawicz S,Bujnicki JM

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00