Accelerating a cross-correlation score function to search modifications using a single GPU.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since RNA molecules regulate genes and control alternative splicing by allostery, it is important to develop algorithms to predict RNA conformational switches. Some tools, such as paRNAss, RNAshapes and RNAbor, can be used to predict potential conformational switches; nevertheless, no existent tool can detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clote P,Lou F,Lorenz WA

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequent exchange of genetic material among prokaryotes means that extracting a majority or plurality phylogenetic signal from many gene families, and the identification of gene families that are in significant conflict with the plurality signal is a frequent task in comparative genomics, and especially ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mao F,Williams D,Zhaxybayeva O,Poptsova M,Lapierre P,Gogarten JP,Xu Y

更新日期：2012-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput "omics" based data analysis play emerging roles in life sciences and molecular diagnostics. This emphasizes the urgent need for user-friendly windows-based software interfaces that could process the diversity of large tab-delimited raw data files generated by these methods. Depending on the s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schwager C,Wirkner U,Abdollahi A,Huber PE

更新日期：2009-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying diagnosis and prognosis biomarkers from expression profiling data is of great significance for achieving personalized medicine and designing therapeutic strategy in complex diseases. However, the reproducibility of identified biomarkers across tissues and experiments is still a challenge for this...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang X,Gao L,Liu ZP,Chen L

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenotype prediction problems are usually considered ill-posed, as the amount of samples is very limited with respect to the scrutinized genetic probes. This fact complicates the sampling of the defective genetic pathways due to the high number of possible discriminatory genetic networks involved. In this re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cernea A,Fernández-Martínez JL,deAndrés-Galiana EJ,Fernández-Ovies FJ,Alvarez-Machancoses O,Fernández-Muñiz Z,Saligan LN,Sonis ST

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurately prioritizing candidate disease genes is an important and challenging problem. Various network-based methods have been developed to predict potential disease genes by utilizing the disease similarity network and molecular networks such as protein interaction or gene co-expression networks. Although...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ni J,Koyuturk M,Tong H,Haines J,Xu R,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-11-10 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:Fluorescent reporter genes have become widely used for monitoring gene expression in living cells. When a microbial strain carrying a reporter gene is grown in a microplate reader, the fluorescence and the absorbance (optical density) of the culture can be automatically measured every few minutes in a highly...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Martin Y,Page M,Blanchet C,de Jong H

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The exponential growth of gigantic biological data from various sources, such as protein-protein interaction (PPI), genome sequences scaffolding, Mass spectrometry (MS) molecular networking and metabolic flux, demands an efficient way for better visualization and interpretation beyond the conventional, two-d...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Q,Tang B,Song L,Ren B,Liang Q,Xie F,Zhuo Y,Liu X,Zhang L

更新日期：2013-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zebrafish is a widely used model organism for studying heart development and cardiac-related pathogenesis. With the ability of surviving without a functional circulation at larval stages, strong genetic similarity between zebrafish and mammals, prolific reproduction and optically transparent embryos, zebrafi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kang CP,Tu HC,Fu TF,Wu JM,Chu PH,Chang DT

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowing the subcellular location of proteins provides clues to their function as well as the interconnectivity of biological processes. Dozens of tools are available for predicting protein location in the eukaryotic cell. Each tool performs well on certain data sets, but their predictions often disagree for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shen YQ,Burger G

更新日期：2007-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Melanoma results in the vast majority of skin cancer deaths during the last decades, even though this disease accounts for only one percent of all skin cancers' instances. The survival rates of melanoma from early to terminal stages is more than fifty percent. Therefore, having the right information at the r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nasiri S,Helsper J,Jung M,Fathi M

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying segments in the genome of different individuals that are identical-by-descent (IBD) is a fundamental element of genetics. IBD data is used for numerous applications including demographic inference, heritability estimation, and mapping disease loci. Simultaneous detection of IBD over multiple haplotypes has...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Park DS,Baran Y,Hormozdiari F,Eng C,Torgerson DG,Burchard EG,Zaitlen N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput sequencing has rapidly become an essential part of precision cancer medicine. But validating results obtained from analyzing and interpreting genomic data remains a rate-limiting factor. The gold standard, of course, remains manual validation by expert panels, which is not without its weaknes...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bian X,Zhu B,Wang M,Hu Y,Chen Q,Nguyen C,Hicks B,Meerzaman D

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein function in eukaryotic cells is often controlled in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Therefore, the correct assignment of cellular phenotypes to cell cycle phases is a crucial task in cell biology research. Nuclear proteins whose localization varies during the cell cycle are valuable and frequently use...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schönenberger F,Deutzmann A,Ferrando-May E,Merhof D

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New web-based technologies provide an excellent opportunity for sharing and accessing information and using web as a platform for interaction and collaboration. Although several specialized tools are available for analyzing DNA sequence information, conventional web-based tools have not been utilized for bio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hajibabaei M,Singer GA

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome imputation, admixture resolution and genome-wide association analyses are timely and computationally intensive processes with many composite and requisite steps. Analysis time increases further when building and installing the run programs required for these analyses. For scientists that may not be as...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eller RJ,Janga SC,Walsh S

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are crucial in the regulation of gene transcription. Recently, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by cDNA microarray hybridization (ChIP-chip array) has been used to identify potential regulatory sequences, but the procedure can only map the probable protein-DNA...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu CC,Yuan WH,Chen TM

更新日期：2008-12-12 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:Testing the dependence of two variables is one of the fundamental tasks in statistics. In this work, we developed an open-source R package (knnAUC) for detecting nonlinear dependence between one continuous variable X and one binary dependent variables Y (0 or 1). RESULTS:We addressed this problem by using k...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Liu X,Ma Y,Wang Y,Zhou W,Hao M,Yuan Z,Liu J,Xiong M,Shugart YY,Wang J,Jin L

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since their first commercialization, the diversity of taxa and the genetic composition of transgene sequences in genetically modified plants (GMOs) are constantly increasing. To date, the detection of GMOs and derived products is commonly performed by PCR-based methods targeting specific DNA sequences introd...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Block A,Debode F,Grohmann L,Hulin J,Taverniers I,Kluga L,Barbau-Piednoir E,Broeders S,Huber I,Van den Bulcke M,Heinze P,Berben G,Busch U,Roosens N,Janssen E,Žel J,Gruden K,Morisset D

更新日期：2013-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies in computational primary protein sequence analysis have leveraged the power of unlabeled data. For example, predictive models based on string kernels trained on sequences known to belong to particular folds or superfamilies, the so-called labeled data set, can attain significantly improved acc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kuksa P,Huang PH,Pavlovic V

更新日期：2009-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We carried out an analysis of intron length conservation across a diverse group of nineteen mammalian species. Motivated by recent research suggesting a role for time delays associated with intron transcription in gene expression oscillations required for early embryonic patterning, we searched for examples ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seoighe C,Korir PK

更新日期：2011-10-05 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: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：:Transcript quantification is a long-standing problem in genomics and estimating the relative abundance of alternatively-spliced isoforms from the same transcript is an important special case. Both problems have recently been illuminated by high-throughput RNA sequencing experiments which are quickly generating large a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kakaradov B,Xiong HY,Lee LJ,Jojic N,Frey BJ

更新日期：2012-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological networks are representative of the diverse molecular interactions that occur within cells. Some of the commonly studied biological networks are modeled through protein-protein interactions, gene regulatory, and metabolic pathways. Among these, metabolic networks are probably the most studied, as t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Manipur I,Granata I,Maddalena L,Guarracino MR

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA copy number variation (CNV) has been recognized as an important source of genetic variation. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is commonly used for CNV detection, but the microarray platform has a number of inherent limitations. RESULTS:Here, we describe a method to detect copy number varia...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xie C,Tammi MT

更新日期：2009-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent increases in the number of deposited membrane protein crystal structures necessitate the use of automated computational tools to position them within the lipid bilayer. Identifying the correct orientation allows us to study the complex relationship between sequence, structure and the lipid environment...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nugent T,Jones DT

更新日期：2013-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on reproducibility of published research in the last few years has led to the large-scale archiving of sequencing data. While this data can, in theory, be used to reproduce results in papers, it is difficult to use in practice. We introduce a series of tools for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pimentel H,Sturmfels P,Bray N,Melsted P,Pachter L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00