Identifying cancer prognostic modules by module network analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since proteins perform their functions by interacting with one another and with other biomolecules, reconstructing a map of the protein-protein interactions of a cell, experimentally or computationally, is an important first step toward understanding cellular function and machinery of a proteome. Solely deri...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu X,Zhu L,Guo J,Fu C,Zhou H,Dong D,Li Z,Zhang DY,Lin K

更新日期：2006-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein quality assessment (QA) useful for ranking and selecting protein models has long been viewed as one of the major challenges for protein tertiary structure prediction. Especially, estimating the quality of a single protein model, which is important for selecting a few good models out of a large model ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cao R,Bhattacharya D,Hou J,Cheng J

更新日期：2016-12-05 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Failure on Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment is often accompanied with development of antiviral resistance to one or more drugs included in the treatment. In general, the virus is more likely to develop resistance to drugs with a lower genetic barrier. Previously, we developed a method to reverse engin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Theys K,Deforche K,Beheydt G,Moreau Y,van Laethem K,Lemey P,Camacho RJ,Rhee SY,Shafer RW,Van Wijngaerden E,Vandamme AM

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detecting patterns in high-dimensional multivariate datasets is non-trivial. Clustering and dimensionality reduction techniques often help in discerning inherent structures. In biological datasets such as microbial community composition or gene expression data, observations can be generated from a continuous...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nguyen LH,Holmes S

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, a considerable amount of research effort has been directed to the analysis of biological networks with the availability of genome-scale networks of genes and/or proteins of an increasing number of organisms. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is a particular biological network which...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Turanalp ME,Can T

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, successful contact prediction methods and contact-guided ab initio protein structure prediction methods have highlighted the importance of incorporating contact information into protein structure prediction methods. It is also observed that for almost all globular proteins, the quality of co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Adhikari B,Nowotny J,Bhattacharya D,Hou J,Cheng J

更新日期：2016-12-07 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:Molecular recognition in proteins occurs due to appropriate arrangements of physical, chemical, and geometric properties of an atomic surface. Similar surface regions should create similar binding interfaces. Effective methods for comparing surface regions can be used in identifying similar regions, and to p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cipriano GM,Phillips GN Jr,Gleicher M

更新日期：2012-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study addresses a recurrent biological problem, that is to define a formal clustering structure for a set of tissues on the basis of the relative abundance of multiple alternatively spliced isoforms mRNAs generated by the same gene. To this aim, we have used a model-based clustering approach, based on a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pelosi M,Alfò M,Martella F,Pappalardo E,Musarò A

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is a core element of many different, systemic and chronic diseases that usually involve an important autoimmune component. The clinical phase of inflammatory diseases is often the culmination of a long series of pathologic events that started years before. The systemic characteristics and relate...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao H,Bartoszek K,Lio' P

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many Bioinformatics studies begin with a multiple sequence alignment as the foundation for their research. This is because multiple sequence alignment can be a useful technique for studying molecular evolution and analyzing sequence structure relationships. RESULTS:In this paper, we have proposed a Vertical...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Naznin F,Sarker R,Essam D

更新日期：2011-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simulated nucleotide or amino acid sequences are frequently used to assess the performance of phylogenetic reconstruction methods. BEAST, a Bayesian statistical framework that focuses on reconstructing time-calibrated molecular evolutionary processes, supports a wide array of evolutionary models, but lacked ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bielejec F,Lemey P,Carvalho LM,Baele G,Rambaut A,Suchard MA

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping is often used to identify genetic loci and candidate genes correlated with traits. Although usually a group of genes affect complex traits, genes in most eQTL mapping methods are considered as independent. Recently, some eQTL mapping methods have accounted fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Richard R,Pan Y

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing isoforms have been reported as a new and robust class of diagnostic biomarkers. Over 95% of human genes are estimated to be alternatively spliced as a powerful means of producing functionally diverse proteins from a single gene. The emergence of next-generation sequencing technologies, e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang F,Deng CK,Wang M,Deng B,Barber R,Huang G

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer, with high mortality worldwide. Its occurrence and development were thoroughly studied by high-throughput expression microarray, which produced abundant data on gene expression, DNA methylation, and miRNA quantification. However, the hub genes, which...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan X,Wang Y,Tang XQ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic network alignment is a system scale comparative analysis that discovers important similarities and differences across different metabolisms and organisms. Although the problem of aligning metabolic networks has been considered in the past, the computational complexity of the existing solutions has so far lim...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ay F,Dang M,Kahveci T

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A cross-correlation (XCorr) score function is one of the most popular score functions utilized to search peptide identifications in databases, and many computer programs, such as SEQUEST, Comet, and Tide, currently use this score function. Recently, the HiXCorr algorithm was developed to speed up this score ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim H,Han S,Um JH,Park K

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolomics is one of most recent omics technologies. It has been applied on fields such as food science, nutrition, drug discovery and systems biology. For this, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been largely applied and many computational tools have been developed to support the analysis of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aggio RB,Mayor A,Reade S,Probert CS,Ruggiero K

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The BioCreative text mining evaluation investigated the application of text mining methods to the task of automatically extracting information from text in biomedical research articles. We participated in Task 2 of the evaluation. For this task, we built a system to automatically annotate a given protein wit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ray S,Craven M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology provides the expression level of many genes. Nowadays, an important issue is to select a small number of informative differentially expressed genes that provide biological knowledge and may be key elements for a disease. With the increasing volume of data generated by modern biomedical ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Martínez-Otzeta JM,Irigoien I,Sierra B,Arenas C

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A wide variety of short-read alignment programmes have been published recently to tackle the problem of mapping millions of short reads to a reference genome, focusing on different aspects of the procedure such as time and memory efficiency, sensitivity, and accuracy. These tools allow for a small number of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alachiotis N,Berger S,Flouri T,Pissis SP,Stamatakis A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:Drug combinations have the potential to improve efficacy while limiting toxicity. To robustly identify synergistic combinations, high-throughput screens using full dose-response surface are desirable but require an impractical number of data points. Screening of a sparse number of doses per drug allows to sc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Amzallag A,Ramaswamy S,Benes CH

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein crystal structures are potentially over-interpreted since they are routinely refined without any restraint on the upper limit of atomic B-factors. Consequently, some of their atoms, undetected in the electron density maps, are allowed to reach extremely large B-factors, even above 100 square Angstrom...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carugo O

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recognized as one of the most important families of non-coding RNAs that serve as important sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. Identification of miRNAs is an important requirement for understanding the mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation. Hu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Huang TH,Fan B,Rothschild MF,Hu ZL,Li K,Zhao SH

更新日期：2007-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most frequent type of sequence variation between individuals, and represent a promising tool for finding genetic determinants of complex diseases and understanding the differences in drug response. In this regard, it is of particular interest to study the effect...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bauer-Mehren A,Furlong LI,Rautschka M,Sanz F

更新日期：2009-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number alterations (CNAs), due to their large impact on the genome, have been an important contributing factor to oncogenesis and metastasis. Detecting genomic alterations from the shallow-sequencing data of a low-purity tumor sample remains a challenging task. RESULTS:We introduce Accucopy, a method t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan X,Luo G,Huang YS

更新日期：2021-01-15 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:This paper summarises the lessons and experiences gained from a case study of the application of semantic web technologies to the integration of data from the bacterial species Francisella tularensis novicida (Fn). Fn data sources are disparate and heterogeneous, as multiple laboratories across the world, us...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Anwar N,Hunt E

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00