Big data analysis for evaluating bioinvasion risk.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tandem repeats are multiple duplications of substrings in the DNA that occur contiguously, or at a short distance, and may involve some mutations (such as substitutions, insertions, and deletions). Tandem repeats have been extensively studied also for their association with the class of repeat expansion dise...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pellegrini M,Renda ME,Vecchio A

更新日期：2012-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression are devastating mental diseases, each with distinctive yet overlapping epidemiologic characteristics. Microarray and proteomics data have revealed genes which expressed abnormally in patients. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and mutations a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee SA,Tsao TT,Yang KC,Lin H,Kuo YL,Hsu CH,Lee WK,Huang KC,Kao CY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time-lapse analysis of cellular images is an important and growing need in biology. Algorithms for cell tracking are widely available; what researchers have been missing is a single open-source software package to visualize standard tracking output (from software like CellProfiler) in a way that allows conve...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bray MA,Carpenter AE

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, there have been many applications of formal language theory in bioinformatics such as RNA structure prediction and detection of patterns in DNA. However, in the field of proteomics, the size of the protein alphabet and the complexity of relationship between amino acids have mainly limited...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dyrka W,Nebel JC

更新日期：2009-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A common feature of microarray experiments is the occurrence of missing gene expression data. These missing values occur for a variety of reasons, in particular, because of the filtering of poor quality spots and the removal of undefined values when a logarithmic transformation is applied to negative backgro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tom BD,Gilks WR,Brooke-Powell ET,Ajioka JW

更新日期：2005-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A metagenomic sample is a set of DNA fragments, randomly extracted from multiple cells in an environment, belonging to distinct, often unknown species. Unsupervised metagenomic clustering aims at partitioning a metagenomic sample into sets that approximate taxonomic units, without using reference genomes. Si...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alanko J,Cunial F,Belazzougui D,Mäkinen V

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene function annotations, which are associations between a gene and a term of a controlled vocabulary describing gene functional features, are of paramount importance in modern biology. Datasets of these annotations, such as the ones provided by the Gene Ontology Consortium, are used to design novel biologi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pinoli P,Chicco D,Masseroli M

更新日期：2015-01-01 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:It is well known that the search for homologous RNAs is more effective if both sequence and structure information is incorporated into the search. However, current tools for searching with RNA sequence-structure patterns cannot fully handle mutations occurring on both these levels or are simply not fast enou...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meyer F,Kurtz S,Beckstette M

更新日期：2013-07-17 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sharing sets of chemical data (e.g., chemical properties, docking scores, etc.) among collaborators with diverse skill sets is a common task in computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry. The ability to associate this data with images of the relevant molecular structures greatly facilitates scientifi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Durrant JD,Amaro RE

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables the 3D visualization of cellular organization in near-native state which plays important roles in the field of structural cell biology. However, due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), large volume and high content complexity within cells, it remains difficult a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li R,Zeng X,Sigmund SE,Lin R,Zhou B,Liu C,Wang K,Jiang R,Freyberg Z,Lv H,Xu M

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a key role in diverse physiological processes and are the targets of almost two-thirds of the marketed drugs. The 3 D structures of GPCRs are largely unavailable; however, a large number of GPCR primary sequences are known. To facilitate the identification and charact...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng ZL,Yang JY,Chen X

更新日期：2010-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While biomedical text mining is emerging as an important research area, practical results have proven difficult to achieve. We believe that an important first step towards more accurate text-mining lies in the ability to identify and characterize text that satisfies various types of information needs. We rep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wilbur WJ,Rzhetsky A,Shatkay H

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The central element of each enzyme is the catalytic site, which commonly catalyzes a single biochemical reaction with high specificity. It was unclear to us how often sites that catalyze the same or highly similar reactions evolved on different, i. e. non-homologous protein folds and how similar their 3D pos...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Žváček C,Friedrichs G,Heizinger L,Merkl R

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interaction (PPI) plays essential roles in cellular functions. The cost, time and other limitations associated with the current experimental methods have motivated the development of computational methods for predicting PPIs. As protein interactions generally occur via domains instead of the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： González AJ,Liao L

更新日期：2010-10-29 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:Because loops connect regular secondary structures, analysis of the former depends directly on the definition of the latter. The numerous assignment methods, however, can offer different definitions. In a previous study, we defined a structural alphabet composed of 16 average protein fragments, which we call...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fourrier L,Benros C,de Brevern AG

更新日期：2004-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An organism's protein interactome, or complete network of protein-protein interactions, defines the protein complexes that drive cellular processes. Techniques for studying protein complexes have traditionally applied targeted strategies such as yeast two-hybrid or affinity purification-mass spectrometry to ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stacey RG,Skinnider MA,Scott NE,Foster LJ

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guanine protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a eukaryotic transmembrane protein family and function as "molecular switches" in the second messenger cascades and are found in all organisms between yeast and humans. They form the single, biggest drug-target family due to their versatility of action and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar A,Kumar S,Sundar D

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclic nucleotides are ubiquitous intracellular messengers. Until recently, the roles of cyclic nucleotides in plant cells have proven difficult to uncover. With an understanding of the protein domains which can bind cyclic nucleotides (CNB and GAF domains) we scanned the completed genomes of the higher plan...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bridges D,Fraser ME,Moorhead GB

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a newly appreciated class of non-coding RNA molecules. Numerous tools have been developed for the detection of circRNAs, however computational tools to perform downstream functional analysis of circRNAs are scarce. RESULTS:We present circRNAprofiler, an R-based computational fra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aufiero S,Reckman YJ,Tijsen AJ,Pinto YM,Creemers EE

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput experiments have generated a significantly large amount of protein interaction data, which is being used to study protein networks. Studying complete protein networks can reveal more insight about healthy/disease states than studying proteins in isolation. Similarly, a comparative study of pr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ayub U,Haider I,Naveed H

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classification and naming is a key step in the analysis, understanding and adequate management of living organisms. However, where to set limits between groups can be puzzling especially in clonal organisms. Within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB), expe...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Borile C,Labarre M,Franz S,Sola C,Refrégier G

更新日期：2011-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND GOAL:The Random Forest (RF) algorithm for regression and classification has considerably gained popularity since its introduction in 2001. Meanwhile, it has grown to a standard classification approach competing with logistic regression in many innovation-friendly scientific fields. RESULTS:In this conte...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Couronné R,Probst P,Boulesteix AL

更新日期：2018-07-17 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:This paper addresses the prediction of the free energy of binding of a drug candidate with enzyme InhA associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This problem is found within rational drug design, where interactions between drug candidates and target proteins are verified through molecular docking simulatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Barros RC,Winck AT,Machado KS,Basgalupp MP,de Carvalho AC,Ruiz DD,de Souza ON

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA sequencing has become an increasingly affordable way to profile gene expression patterns. Here we introduce a workflow implementing several open-source softwares that can be run on a high performance computing environment. RESULTS:Developed as a tool by the Bioinformatics Shared Resource Group (BISR) at...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gadepalli VS,Ozer HG,Yilmaz AS,Pietrzak M,Webb A

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine application of gene expression microarray technology is rapidly producing large amounts of data that necessitate new approaches of analysis. The analysis of a specific microarray experiment profits enormously from cross-comparing to other experiments. This process is generally performed by numerical ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Finocchiaro G,Mancuso F,Muller H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current malaria diagnosis relies primarily on microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained thick and thin blood films. This method requires vigorously trained technicians to efficiently detect and classify the malaria parasite species such as Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) and Plasmodium vivax (Pv) for an appropria...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kaewkamnerd S,Uthaipibull C,Intarapanich A,Pannarut M,Chaotheing S,Tongsima S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00