Automatic localization and identification of mitochondria in cellular electron cryo-tomography using faster-RCNN.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks have been well recognized as important resources to elucidate various biological processes and cellular mechanisms. In this paper, we address the problem of predicting protein complexes from a PPI network. This problem has two difficulties. One is r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Maruyama O,Kuwahara Y

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffold proteins are known for being crucial regulators of various cellular functions by assembling multiple proteins involved in signaling and metabolic pathways. Identification of scaffold proteins and the study of their molecular mechanisms can open a new aspect of cellular systemic regulation and the re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh K,Yi GS

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific workflows management systems are increasingly used to specify and manage bioinformatics experiments. Their programming model appeals to bioinformaticians, who can use them to easily specify complex data processing pipelines. Such a model is underpinned by a graph structure, where nodes represent b...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cohen-Boulakia S,Chen J,Missier P,Goble C,Williams AR,Froidevaux C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Annotations of the phylogenetic tree of the human kinome is an intuitive way to visualize compound profiling data, structural features of kinases or functional relationships within this important class of proteins. The increasing volume and complexity of kinase-related data underlines the need for a tool tha...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eid S,Turk S,Volkamer A,Rippmann F,Fulle S

更新日期：2017-01-05 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:Structural models determined by X-ray crystallography play a central role in understanding protein-protein interactions at the molecular level. Interpretation of these models requires the distinction between non-specific crystal packing contacts and biologically relevant interactions. This has been investiga...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhu H,Domingues FS,Sommer I,Lengauer T

更新日期：2006-01-19 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:Very often genome-wide data analysis requires the interoperation of multiple databases and analytic tools. A large number of genome databases and bioinformatics applications are available through the web, but it is difficult to automate interoperation because: 1) the platforms on which the applications run a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Knikker R,Guo Y,Li JL,Kwan AK,Yip KY,Cheung DW,Cheung KH

更新日期：2004-03-10 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:Many models have been proposed to detect copy number alterations in chromosomal copy number profiles, but it is usually not obvious to decide which is most effective for a given data set. Furthermore, most methods have a smoothing parameter that determines the number of breakpoints and must be chosen using v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hocking TD,Schleiermacher G,Janoueix-Lerosey I,Boeva V,Cappo J,Delattre O,Bach F,Vert JP

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A drug-drug interaction (DDI) occurs when one drug influences the level or activity of another drug. The increasing volume of the scientific literature overwhelms health care professionals trying to be kept up-to-date with all published studies on DDI. METHODS:This paper describes a hybrid linguistic approa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Segura-Bedmar I,Martínez P,de Pablo-Sánchez C

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Supercomputers have become indispensable infrastructures in science and industries. In particular, most state-of-the-art scientific results utilize massively parallel supercomputers ranked in TOP500. However, their use is still limited in the bioinformatics field due to the fundamental fact that the asynchro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ito S,Yadome M,Nishiki T,Ishiduki S,Inoue H,Yamaguchi R,Miyano S

更新日期：2019-12-02 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:With the growing availability of entire genome sequences, an increasing number of scientists can exploit oligonucleotide microarrays for genome-scale expression studies. While probe-design is a major research area, relatively little work has been reported on the optimization of microarray protocols. RESULTS...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sykacek P,Kreil DP,Meadows LA,Auburn RP,Fischer B,Russell S,Micklem G

更新日期：2011-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent discoveries of a large variety of important roles for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been reported by numerous researchers. In order to analyze ncRNAs by kernel methods including support vector machines, we propose stem kernels as an extension of string kernels for measuring the similarities between tw...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sato K,Mituyama T,Asai K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2008-07-22 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:Predicting the suppression activity of antisense oligonucleotide sequences is the main goal of the rational design of nucleic acids. To create an effective predictive model, it is important to know what properties of an oligonucleotide sequence associate significantly with antisense activity. Also, for the m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McQuisten KA,Peek AS

更新日期：2007-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The double-cut-and-join (DCJ) is a model that is able to efficiently sort a genome into another, generalizing the typical mutations (inversions, fusions, fissions, translocations) to which genomes are subject, but allowing the existence of circular chromosomes at the intermediate steps. In the general model ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： da Silva PH,Machado R,Dantas S,Braga MD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The immune system is multifaceted, structured by diverse components that interconnect using multilayered dynamic cellular processes. Genomic technologies provide a means for investigating, at the molecular level, the adaptations of the immune system in host defense and its dysregulation in pathological condi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Liu J,Toups M,Soos T,Arendt C

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of subcellular localization of proteins is crucial to proteomics, drug target discovery and systems biology since localization and biological function are highly correlated. In recent years, numerous computational prediction methods have been developed. Nevertheless, there is still a need for predi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Blum T,Briesemeister S,Kohlbacher O

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A range of rare and common genetic variants have been discovered to be potentially associated with mental diseases, but many more have not been uncovered. Powerful integrative methods are needed to systematically prioritize both variants and genes that confer susceptibility to mental diseases in personal gen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khan A,Liu Q,Wang K

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

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:During evolution, large-scale genome rearrangements of chromosomes shuffle the order of homologous genome sequences ("synteny blocks") across species. Some years ago, a controversy erupted in genome rearrangement studies over whether rearrangements recur, causing breakpoints to be reused. METHODS:We investi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Attie O,Darling AE,Yancopoulos S

更新日期：2011-10-05 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:The detection of genomic copy number alterations (CNA) in cancer based on SNP arrays requires methods that take into account tumour specific factors such as normal cell contamination and tumour heterogeneity. A number of tools have been recently developed but their performance needs yet to be thoroughly asse...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mosén-Ansorena D,Aransay AM,Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N

更新日期：2012-08-07 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of protein structures being deposited in the Protein Data Bank surpasses the capacity to experimentally characterise them and therefore computational methods to analyse these structures have become increasingly important. Identifying the region of the protein most likely to be involved in function i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bray T,Chan P,Bougouffa S,Greaves R,Doig AJ,Warwicker J

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atomic details of protein-DNA complexes can provide insightful information for better understanding of the function and binding specificity of DNA binding proteins. In addition to experimental methods for solving protein-DNA complex structures, protein-DNA docking can be used to predict native or near-native...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corona RI,Sudarshan S,Aluru S,Guo JT

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many functional RNA molecules fold into pseudoknot structures, which are often essential for the formation of an RNA's 3D structure. Currently the design of RNA molecules, which fold into a specific structure (known as RNA inverse folding) within biotechnological applications, is lacking the feature of incor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kleinkauf R,Houwaart T,Backofen R,Mann M

更新日期：2015-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PathoLogic program constructs Pathway/Genome databases by using a genome's annotation to predict the set of metabolic pathways present in an organism. PathoLogic determines the set of reactions composing those pathways from the enzymes annotated in the organism's genome. Most annotation efforts fail to a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Green ML,Karp PD

更新日期：2004-06-09 00:00:00