CellSim: a novel software to calculate cell similarity and identify their co-regulation networks.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein docking is a valuable computational approach for investigating protein-protein interactions. Shape complementarity is the most basic component of a scoring function and plays an important role in protein-protein docking. Despite significant progresses, shape representation remains an open que...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yan Y,Huang SY

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) is widely used in the determination of the three-dimensional (3D) structures of macromolecules. Particle picking from 2D micrographs remains a challenging early step in the Cryo-EM pipeline due to the diversity of particle shapes and the extremely low signal-to-noise ratio ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Al-Azzawi A,Ouadou A,Max H,Duan Y,Tanner JJ,Cheng J

更新日期：2020-11-09 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:Systematic mutagenesis studies have shown that only a few interface residues termed hot spots contribute significantly to the binding free energy of protein-protein interactions. Therefore, hot spots prediction becomes increasingly important for well understanding the essence of proteins interactions and hel...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen R,Chen W,Yang S,Wu D,Wang Y,Tian Y,Shi Y

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hidden variability is a fundamentally important issue in the context of gene expression studies. Collected tissue samples may have a wide variety of hidden effects that may alter their transcriptional landscape significantly. As a result their actual differential expression pattern can be potentially distort...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chakraborty S,Datta S,Datta S

更新日期：2013-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single amino acid repeats make up a significant proportion in all of the proteomes that have currently been determined. They have been shown to be functionally and medically significant, and are associated with cancers and neuro-degenerative diseases such as Huntington's Chorea, where a poly-glutamine repeat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Depledge DP,Dalby AR

更新日期：2005-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequence of nucleotides in an RNA determines the possible base pairs for an RNA fold and thus also determines the overall shape and function of an RNA. The Swellix program presented here combines a helix abstraction with a combinatorial approach to the RNA folding problem in order to compute all possible...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sloat N,Liu JW,Schroeder SJ

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pattern matching is the core of bioinformatics; it is used in database searching, restriction enzyme mapping, and finding open reading frames. It is done repeatedly over increasingly long sequences, thus codes must be efficient and insensitive to sequence length. Such patterns of interest include simple moti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mangalam HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For many types of analyses, data about gene structure and locations of non-coding regions of genes are required. Although a vast amount of genomic sequence data is available, precise annotation of genes is lacking behind. Finding the corresponding gene of a given protein sequence by means of conventional too...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Keller O,Odronitz F,Stanke M,Kollmar M,Waack S

更新日期：2008-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification is a classification task where the classes to be predicted are hierarchically organized. Each instance can be assigned to classes belonging to more than one path in the hierarchy. This scenario is typically found in protein function prediction, considering that each pr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cerri R,Barros RC,P L F de Carvalho AC,Jin Y

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are closely associated with human diseases, and it is useful for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases to get the relationships between lncRNAs and diseases. Due to the high costs and time complexity of traditional bio-experiments, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao Y,Xiao Z,Feng X,Chen Z,Kuang L,Wang L

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clustering techniques are routinely used in gene expression data analysis to organize the massive data. Clustering techniques arrange a large number of genes or assays into a few clusters while maximizing the intra-cluster similarity and inter-cluster separation. While clustering of genes facilitates learnin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jonnalagadda S,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2009-01-30 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:One of the most powerful methods for the prediction of protein structure from sequence information alone is the iterative construction of profile-type models. Because profiles are built from sequence alignments, the sequences included in the alignment and the method used to align them will be important to th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Scheeff ED,Bourne PE

更新日期：2006-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate annotation of translation initiation sites (TISs) is essential for understanding the translation initiation mechanism. However, the reliability of TIS annotation in widely used databases such as RefSeq is uncertain due to the lack of experimental benchmarks. RESULTS:Based on a homogeneity assumptio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu GQ,Zheng X,Ju LN,Zhu H,She ZS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, substantial effort has been applied to de novo regulatory motif discovery. At this time, more than 150 software tools exist to detect regulatory binding sites given a set of genomic sequences. As the number of software packages increases, it becomes more important to identify the tools with ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Quest D,Dempsey K,Shafiullah M,Bastola D,Ali H

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous tools have been developed to predict the fitness effects (i.e., neutral, deleterious, or beneficial) of genetic variants on corresponding proteins. However, prediction in terms of whether a variant causes the variant bearing protein to lose the original function or gain new function is also needed f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu M,Watson LT,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kernel-based learning algorithms are among the most advanced machine learning methods and have been successfully applied to a variety of sequence classification tasks within the field of bioinformatics. Conventional kernels utilized so far do not provide an easy interpretation of the learnt representations i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meinicke P,Tech M,Morgenstern B,Merkl R

更新日期：2004-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) is a measure of the synonymous codon usage bias for a DNA or RNA sequence. It quantifies the similarity between the synonymous codon usage of a gene and the synonymous codon frequency of a reference set. Extreme values in the nucleotide or in the amino acid composition have a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Puigbò P,Bravo IG,Garcia-Vallvé S

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several features are known to correlate with the GC-content in the human genome, including recombination rate, gene density and distance to telomere. However, by testing for pairwise correlation only, it is impossible to distinguish direct associations from indirect ones and to distinguish between causes and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Freudenberg J,Wang M,Yang Y,Li W

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern plant taxonomy reflects phylogenetic relationships among taxa based on proposed morphological and genetic similarities. However, taxonomical relation is not necessarily reflected by close overall resemblance, but rather by commonality of very specific morphological characters or similarity on the mole...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seeland M,Rzanny M,Boho D,Wäldchen J,Mäder P

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detailed information on DNA-binding transcription factors (the key players in the regulation of gene expression) and on transcriptional regulatory interactions of microorganisms deduced from literature-derived knowledge, computer predictions and global DNA microarray hybridization experiments, has opened the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Baumbach J

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For successful protein structure prediction by comparative modeling, in addition to identifying a good template protein with known structure, obtaining an accurate sequence alignment between a query protein and a template protein is critical. It has been known that the alignment accuracy can vary significant...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee M,Jeong CS,Kim D

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although carbohydrates are the third major class of biological macromolecules, after proteins and DNA, there is neither a comprehensive database for carbohydrate structures nor an established universal structure encoding scheme for computational purposes. Funding for further development of the Complex Carboh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranzinger R,Herget S,Wetter T,von der Lieth CW

更新日期：2008-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular biology data exist on diverse scales, from the level of molecules to -omics. At the same time, the data at each scale can be categorised into multiple layers, such as the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and biochemical pathways. Due to the highly multi-layer and multi-dimensional natur...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arakawa K,Tamaki S,Kono N,Kido N,Ikegami K,Ogawa R,Tomita M

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contact-guided protein structure prediction methods are becoming more and more successful because of the latest advances in residue-residue contact prediction. To support contact-driven structure prediction, effective tools that can quickly build tertiary structural models of good quality from predicted cont...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Adhikari B,Cheng J

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA secondary structure prediction, or folding, is a classic problem in bioinformatics: given a sequence of nucleotides, the aim is to predict the base pairs formed in its three dimensional conformation. The inverse problem of designing a sequence folding into a particular target structure has only more rece...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lyngsø RB,Anderson JW,Sizikova E,Badugu A,Hyland T,Hein J

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a 2007 update on the bioinformatics research in the Asia-Pacific from the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation set up in 1998. From 2002, APBioNet has organized the first International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) bringing together scientists work...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranganathan S,Gribskov M,Tan TW

更新日期：2008-01-01 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:Research related to cancer is vast, and continues in earnest in many directions. Due to the complexity of cancer, a better understanding of tumor growth dynamics can be gleaned from a dynamic computational model. We present a comprehensive, fully executable, spatial and temporal 3D computational model of the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloch N,Harel D

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00