Bioinformatics Resource Manager: a systems biology web tool for microRNA and omics data integration.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The complexity and dynamics of microbial communities are major factors in the ecology of a system. With the NGS technique, metagenomics data provides a new way to explore microbial interactions. Lotka-Volterra models, which have been widely used to infer animal interactions in dynamic systems, have recently ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shaw GT,Pao YY,Wang D

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables the 3D visualization of cellular organization in near-native state which plays important roles in the field of structural cell biology. However, due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), large volume and high content complexity within cells, it remains difficult a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li R,Zeng X,Sigmund SE,Lin R,Zhou B,Liu C,Wang K,Jiang R,Freyberg Z,Lv H,Xu M

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A relevant problem in drug design is the comparison and recognition of protein binding sites. Binding sites recognition is generally based on geometry often combined with physico-chemical properties of the site since the conformation, size and chemical composition of the protein surface are all relevant for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bertolazzi P,Guerra C,Liuzzi G

更新日期：2010-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time-lapse analysis of cellular images is an important and growing need in biology. Algorithms for cell tracking are widely available; what researchers have been missing is a single open-source software package to visualize standard tracking output (from software like CellProfiler) in a way that allows conve...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bray MA,Carpenter AE

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein function is closely intertwined with protein structure. Discovery of meaningful structure-function relationships is of utmost importance in protein biochemistry and has led to creation of high-quality, manually curated classification databases, such as the gold-standard SCOP (Structural Classificatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Asarnow D,Singh R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New "next generation" DNA sequencing technologies offer individual researchers the ability to rapidly generate large amounts of genome sequence data at dramatically reduced costs. As a result, a need has arisen for new software tools for storage, management and analysis of genome sequence data. Although bioi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Duncan S,Sirkanungo R,Miller L,Phillips GJ

更新日期：2010-02-22 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:Drug discovery is the process through which potential new medicines are identified. High-throughput screening and computer-aided drug discovery/design are the two main drug discovery methods for now, which have successfully discovered a series of drugs. However, development of new drugs is still an extremely...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sang S,Yang Z,Wang L,Liu X,Lin H,Wang J

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our knowledge of global protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks in complex organisms such as humans is hindered by technical limitations of current methods. RESULTS:On the basis of short co-occurring polypeptide regions, we developed a tool called MP-PIPE capable of predicting a global human PPI network ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schoenrock A,Samanfar B,Pitre S,Hooshyar M,Jin K,Phillips CA,Wang H,Phanse S,Omidi K,Gui Y,Alamgir M,Wong A,Barrenäs F,Babu M,Benson M,Langston MA,Green JR,Dehne F,Golshani A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several large-scale gene co-expression networks have been constructed successfully for predicting gene functional modules and cis-regulatory elements in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, these networks are usually constructed and analyzed in an ad hoc manner. In this study, we propose a completely...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ruan J,Perez J,Hernandez B,Lei C,Sunter G,Sponsel VM

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, to investigate challenging bioinformatics problems, the utilization of multiple genomic and proteomic sources has become immensely popular among researchers. One such issue is feature or gene selection and identifying relevant and non-redundant marker genes from high dimensional gene express...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Acharya S,Cui L,Pan Y

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative analysis of whole genome sequence data from closely related prokaryotic species or strains is becoming an increasingly important and accessible approach for addressing both fundamental and applied biological questions. While there are number of excellent tools developed for performing this task, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thakur S,Guttman DS

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Set comparisons permeate a large number of data analysis workflows, in particular workflows in biological sciences. Venn diagrams are frequently employed for such analysis but current tools are limited. RESULTS:We have developed InteractiVenn, a more flexible tool for interacting with Venn diagrams includin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heberle H,Meirelles GV,da Silva FR,Telles GP,Minghim R

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common existing phylogenetic tree visualisation tools are not able to display readable trees with more than a few thousand nodes. These existing methodologies are based in two dimensional space. RESULTS:We introduce the idea of visualising phylogenetic trees in three dimensional hyperbolic space with the Wa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hughes T,Hyun Y,Liberles DA

更新日期：2004-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many structural properties such as solvent accessibility, dihedral angles and helix-helix contacts can be assigned to each residue in a membrane protein. Independent studies exist on the analysis and sequence-based prediction of some of these so-called one-dimensional features. However, there is little expla...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahmad S,Singh YH,Paudel Y,Mori T,Sugita Y,Mizuguchi K

更新日期：2010-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that are able to move from their location in the genome by cutting or copying themselves to another locus. As such, they are increasingly recognized as impacting all aspects of genome function. With the dramatic reduction in cost of DNA sequencing, it is now poss...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gilly A,Etcheverry M,Madoui MA,Guy J,Quadrana L,Alberti A,Martin A,Heitkam T,Engelen S,Labadie K,Le Pen J,Wincker P,Colot V,Aury JM

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decreasing costs of DNA sequencing have made prokaryotic draft genome sequences increasingly common. A contig scaffold is an ordering of contigs in the correct orientation. A scaffold can help genome comparisons and guide gap closure efforts. One popular technique for obtaining contig scaffolds is to map con...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dias Z,Dias U,Setubal JC

更新日期：2012-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemical cross-linking is used for protein-protein contacts mapping and for structural analysis. One of the difficulties in cross-linking studies is the analysis of mass-spectrometry data and the assignment of the site of cross-link incorporation. The difficulties are due to higher charges of fragment ions, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jaiswal M,Crabtree N,Bauer MA,Hall R,Raney KD,Zybailov BL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many processes in molecular biology involve the recognition of short sequences of nucleic-or amino acids, such as the binding of immunogenic peptides to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. From experimental data, a model of the sequence specificity of these processes can be constructed, such as...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peters B,Sette A

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Researchers involved in the annotation of large numbers of gene, clone or protein identifiers are usually required to perform a one-by-one conversion for each identifier. When the field of research is one such as microarray experiments, this number may be around 30,000. RESULTS:To help researchers map acces...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alibés A,Yankilevich P,Cañada A,Díaz-Uriarte R

更新日期：2007-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miRNAs regulate the expression of several genes with one miRNA able to target multiple genes and with one gene able to be simultaneously targeted by more than one miRNA. Therefore, it has become indispensable to shorten the long list of miRNA-target interactions to put in the spotlight in order to gain insig...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Licursi V,Conte F,Fiscon G,Paci P

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An approach to molecular classification based on the comparative expression of protein pairs is presented. The method overcomes some of the present limitations in using peptide intensity data for class prediction for problems such as the detection of a disease, disease prognosis, or for predicting treatment ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kaur P,Schlatzer D,Cooke K,Chance MR

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two of the main objectives of the genomic and post-genomic era are to structurally and functionally annotate genomes which consists of detecting genes' position and structure, and inferring their function (as well as of other features of genomes). Structural and functional annotation both require the complex...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gouret P,Vitiello V,Balandraud N,Gilles A,Pontarotti P,Danchin EG

更新日期：2005-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A common feature of microarray experiments is the occurrence of missing gene expression data. These missing values occur for a variety of reasons, in particular, because of the filtering of poor quality spots and the removal of undefined values when a logarithmic transformation is applied to negative backgro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tom BD,Gilks WR,Brooke-Powell ET,Ajioka JW

更新日期：2005-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting the deleteriousness of observed genomic variants has taken a step forward with the introduction of the Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD) approach, which trains a classifier on the wealth of available human genomic information. This raises the question whether it can be done with less ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Groß C,de Ridder D,Reinders M

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many statistical methods have been proposed to identify disease biomarkers from gene expression profiles. However, from gene expression profile data alone, statistical methods often fail to identify biologically meaningful biomarkers related to a specific disease under study. In this paper, we develop a nove...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen L,Xuan J,Wang C,Shih IeM,Wang Y,Zhang Z,Hoffman E,Clarke R

更新日期：2008-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic Web technologies offer a promising framework for integration of disparate biomedical data. In this paper we present the semantic information integration platform under development at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H)...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mirhaji P,Zhu M,Vagnoni M,Bernstam EV,Zhang J,Smith JW

更新日期：2009-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biologists often conduct multiple but different cDNA microarray studies that all target the same biological system or pathway. Within each study, replicate slides within repeated identical experiments are often produced. Pooling information across studies can help more accurately identify true target genes. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Conlon EM,Song JJ,Liu JS

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying differentially abundant features between different experimental groups is a common goal for many metabolomics and proteomics studies. However, analyzing data from mass spectrometry (MS) is difficult because the data may not be normally distributed and there is often a large fraction of zero value...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Fan TWM,Lane AN,Kang WY,Arnold SM,Stromberg AJ,Wang C,Chen L

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The creation of a complete genome-wide map of transcription factor binding sites is essential for understanding gene regulatory networks in vivo. However, current prediction methods generally rely on statistical models that imperfectly model transcription factor binding. Generation of new prediction methods ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hill JT,Anderson KR,Mastracci TL,Kaestner KH,Sussel L

更新日期：2011-02-25 00:00:00