knnAUC: an open-source R package for detecting nonlinear dependence between one continuous variable and one binary variable.

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 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: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:Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) lack an ordered three-dimensional structure and are enriched in various biological processes. The Molecular Recognition Features (MoRFs) are functional regions within IDPs that undergo a disorder-to-order transition on binding to a partner protein. Identifying MoRFs i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sharma R,Kumar S,Tsunoda T,Patil A,Sharma A

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescent and luminescent gene reporters allow us to dynamically quantify changes in molecular species concentration over time on the single cell level. The mathematical modeling of their interaction through multivariate dynamical models requires the development of effective statistical methods to calibrat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Komorowski M,Finkenstädt B,Harper CV,Rand DA

更新日期：2009-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of a consensus RNA motif often consists in finding a conserved secondary structure with minimum free energy in an ensemble of aligned sequences. However, an alignment is often difficult to obtain without prior structural information. Thus the need for tools to automate this process. RESUL...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anwar M,Nguyen T,Turcotte M

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of physically interacting proteins are one of the fundamental functional units responsible for driving key biological mechanisms within the cell. With the advent of high-throughput techniques, significant amount of protein interaction (PPI) data has been catalogued for organisms such as yeast, which has in t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Srihari S,Leong HW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently copy number variation (CNV) has gained considerable interest as a type of genomic/genetic variation that plays an important role in disease susceptibility. Advances in sequencing technology have created an opportunity for detecting CNVs more accurately. Recently whole exome sequencing (WES) has beco...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zare F,Dow M,Monteleone N,Hosny A,Nabavi S

更新日期：2017-05-31 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：:In comparative genomics, the rearrangement distance between two genomes (equal the minimal number of genome rearrangements required to transform them into a single genome) is often used for measuring their evolutionary remoteness. Generalization of this measure to three genomes is known as the median score (while a re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S Jr,Alekseyev MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular biology (MB) is a dynamic research domain that benefits greatly from the use of modern software technology in preparing experiments, analyzing acquired data, and even performing "in-silico" analyses. As ever new findings change the face of this domain, software for MB has to be sufficiently flexibl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Busch N,Wedemann G

更新日期：2009-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urokinase, its receptor and the integrins are functionally associated and involved in regulation of cell signaling, migration, adhesion and proliferation. No structural information is available on this potential multimolecular complex. However, the tri-dimensional structure of urokinase, urokinase receptor a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Degryse B,Fernandez-Recio J,Citro V,Blasi F,Cubellis MV

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is now widely used in biomedical research for various applications. Processing of NGS data requires multiple programs and customization of the processing pipelines according to the data platforms. However, rapid progress of the NGS applications and processing methods urgentl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Joo T,Choi JH,Lee JH,Park SE,Jeon Y,Jung SH,Woo HG

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Immunoglobulins (IG) and the T cell receptors (TR) play the key role in antigen recognition during the adaptive immune response. Recent progress in next-generation sequencing technologies has provided an opportunity for the deep T cell receptor repertoire profiling. However, a specialised software is req...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nazarov VI,Pogorelyy MV,Komech EA,Zvyagin IV,Bolotin DA,Shugay M,Chudakov DM,Lebedev YB,Mamedov IZ

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biological network is highly dynamic. Functional relations between genes can be activated or deactivated depending on the biological conditions. On the genome-scale network, subnetworks that gain or lose local expression consistency may shed light on the regulatory mechanisms related to the changing biol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu J,Lu Y,Ding Y,Xiao Q,Liu L,Cai Q,Kong Y,Bai Y,Yu T

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coalescent simulations have proven very useful in many population genetics studies. In order to arrive to meaningful conclusions, it is important that these simulations resemble the process of molecular evolution as much as possible. To date, no single coalescent program is able to simulate codon sequences s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arenas M,Posada D

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current microRNA (miRNA) research in progress has engendered rapid accumulation of expression data evolving from microarray experiments. Such experiments are generally performed over different tissues belonging to a specific species of metazoan. For disease diagnosis, microarray probes are also prepared with...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bandyopadhyay S,Bhattacharyya M

更新日期：2009-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalization in real-time qRT-PCR is necessary to compensate for experimental variation. A popular normalization strategy employs reference gene(s), which may introduce additional variability into normalized expression levels due to innate variation (between tissues, individuals, etc). To minimize this inna...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chervoneva I,Li Y,Schulz S,Croker S,Wilson C,Waldman SA,Hyslop T

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improvements in technology have been accompanied by the generation of large amounts of complex data. This same technology must be harnessed effectively if the knowledge stored within the data is to be retrieved. Storing data in ontologies aids its management; ontologies serve as controlled vocabularies that ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dadzie AS,Burger A

更新日期：2005-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The developments of high-throughput genotyping technologies, which enable the simultaneous genotyping of hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) have the potential to increase the benefits of genetic epidemiology studies. Although the enhanced resolution of these platforms increases th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chai HS,Sicotte H,Bailey KR,Turner ST,Asmann YW,Kocher JP

更新日期：2009-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selecting a parsimonious set of informative genes to build highly generalized performance classifier is the most important task for the analysis of tumor microarray expression data. Many existing gene pair evaluation methods cannot highlight diverse patterns of gene pairs only used one strategy of vertical c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen Y,Wang L,Li L,Zhang H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the last few years, DNA sequence analysis has become one of the primary means of taxonomic identification of species, particularly so for species that are minute or otherwise lack distinct, readily obtainable morphological characters. Although the number of sequences available for comparison in public...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nilsson RH,Kristiansson E,Ryberg M,Larsson KH

更新日期：2005-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring molecular pathway activity is an important step towards reducing the complexity of genomic data, understanding the heterogeneity in clinical outcome, and obtaining molecular correlates of cancer imaging traits. Increasingly, approaches towards pathway activity inference combine molecular profiles (...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jiao Y,Lawler K,Patel GS,Purushotham A,Jones AF,Grigoriadis A,Tutt A,Ng T,Teschendorff AE

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aptamers are nucleic acids selected for their ability to bind to molecules of interest and may provide the basis for a whole new class of medicines. If the aptamer is simply a dsDNA molecule with a ssDNA overhang (a "sticky" end) then the segment of ssDNA that complements that overhang provides a known bindi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thomson K,Amin I,Morales E,Winters-Hilt S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread use of high throughput expression platforms and the availability of a desktop implementation of Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) that enables non-experts to perform gene set based analyses, the availability of the necessary precompiled gene sets is rare for species other than human....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Powell JA

更新日期：2014-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of periodically expressed genes from microarray data without use of known periodic and non-periodic training examples is an important problem, e.g. for identifying genes regulated by the cell-cycle in poorly characterised organisms. Commonly the investigator is only interested in genes expressed at...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Andersson CR,Isaksson A,Gustafsson MG

更新日期：2006-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology has become very popular for globally evaluating gene expression in biological samples. However, non-linear variation associated with the technology can make data interpretation unreliable. Therefore, methods to correct this kind of technical variation are critical. Here we consider a me...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pelz CR,Kulesz-Martin M,Bagby G,Sears RC

更新日期：2008-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The MAQC project demonstrated that microarrays with comparable content show inter- and intra-platform reproducibility. However, since the content of gene databases still increases, the development of new generations of microarrays covering new content is mandatory. To better understand the potential challeng...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eggle D,Debey-Pascher S,Beyer M,Schultze JL

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomedical processes can provide essential information about the (mal-) functioning of an organism and are thus frequently represented in biomedical terminologies and ontologies, including the GO Biological Process branch. These processes often need to be described and categorised in terms of their attribute...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Andrade AQ,Blondé W,Hastings J,Schulz S

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using phylogenomic analysis tools for tracking pathogens has become standard practice in academia, public health agencies, and large industries. Using the same raw read genomic data as input, there are several different approaches being used to infer phylogenetic tree. These include many different SNP pipeli...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McTavish EJ,Pettengill J,Davis S,Rand H,Strain E,Allard M,Timme RE

更新日期：2017-03-20 00:00:00