Reporting and connecting cell type names and gating definitions through ontologies.

abstract：BACKGROUND:A metagenomic sample is a set of DNA fragments, randomly extracted from multiple cells in an environment, belonging to distinct, often unknown species. Unsupervised metagenomic clustering aims at partitioning a metagenomic sample into sets that approximate taxonomic units, without using reference genomes. Si...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alanko J,Cunial F,Belazzougui D,Mäkinen V

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last few years transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) has almost completely taken over microarrays for high-throughput studies of gene expression. Currently, the most popular use of RNA-Seq is to identify genes which are differentially expressed between two or more conditions. Despite the importance of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rahmatallah Y,Emmert-Streib F,Glazko G

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parsimony and maximum likelihood methods of phylogenetic tree estimation and parsimony methods for genome rearrangements are central to the study of genome evolution yet to date they have largely been pursued in isolation. RESULTS:We present a data structure called a history graph that offers a practical ba...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Paten B,Zerbino DR,Hickey G,Haussler D

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNA) are regulatory genes that target and repress other RNA molecules via sequence-specific binding. Several biological processes are regulated across many organisms by evolutionarily conserved miRNAs. Plants and invertebrates employ their miRNA in defense against viruses by targeting and degrad...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carl JW Jr,Trgovcich J,Hannenhalli S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein docking, which aims to predict the structure of a protein-protein complex from its unbound components, remains an unresolved challenge in structural bioinformatics. An important step is the ranking of docked poses using a scoring function, for which many methods have been developed. There is ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Moal IH,Torchala M,Bates PA,Fernández-Recio J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of causal SNPs in most genome wide association studies relies on approaches that consider each SNP individually. However, there is a strong correlation structure among SNPs that needs to be taken into account. Hence, increasingly modern computationally expensive regression methods are employed...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zuber V,Duarte Silva AP,Strimmer K

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the course of the last few years there has been a significant amount of research performed on ontology-based formalization of phenotype descriptions. In order to fully capture the intrinsic value and knowledge expressed within them, we need to take advantage of their inner structure, which implicitly co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Groza T,Hunter J,Zankl A

更新日期：2012-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To further our understanding of immunopeptidomics, improved tools are needed to identify peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I). Many existing tools are limited by their reliance upon chemical affinity data, which is less biologically relevant than sampling by mass spectrometr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Boehm KM,Bhinder B,Raja VJ,Dephoure N,Elemento O

更新日期：2019-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins undergo conformational transitions over different time scales. These transitions are closely intertwined with the protein's function. Numerous standard techniques such as principal component analysis are used to detect these transitions in molecular dynamics simulations. In this work, we add a new m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Karain WI

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple data-analytic methods have been proposed for evaluating gene-expression levels in specific biological pathways, assessing differential expression associated with a binary phenotype. Following Goeman and Bühlmann's recent review, we compared statistical performance of three methods, namely Global Tes...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Dinu I,Adewale AJ,Potter JD,Yasui Y

更新日期：2007-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heritability of a phenotypic or molecular trait measures the proportion of variance that is attributable to genotypic variance. It is an important concept in breeding and genetics. Few methods are available for calculating heritability for traits derived from high-throughput sequencing. RESULTS:We propose s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rudra P,Shi WJ,Vestal B,Russell PH,Odell A,Dowell RD,Radcliffe RA,Saba LM,Kechris K

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescent and luminescent gene reporters allow us to dynamically quantify changes in molecular species concentration over time on the single cell level. The mathematical modeling of their interaction through multivariate dynamical models requires the development of effective statistical methods to calibrat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Komorowski M,Finkenstädt B,Harper CV,Rand DA

更新日期：2009-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerical solutions of the chemical master equation (CME) are important for understanding the stochasticity of biochemical systems. However, solving CMEs is a formidable task. This task is complicated due to the nonlinear nature of the reactions and the size of the networks which result in different realizat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kosarwal R,Kulasiri D,Samarasinghe S

更新日期：2020-11-11 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:Current malaria diagnosis relies primarily on microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained thick and thin blood films. This method requires vigorously trained technicians to efficiently detect and classify the malaria parasite species such as Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) and Plasmodium vivax (Pv) for an appropria...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kaewkamnerd S,Uthaipibull C,Intarapanich A,Pannarut M,Chaotheing S,Tongsima S

更新日期：2012-01-01 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:Systems biology modeling from microarray data requires the most contemporary structural and functional array annotation. However, microarray annotations, especially for non-commercial, non-traditional biomedical model organisms, are often dated. In addition, most microarray analysis tools do not readily acce...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： van den Berg BH,Konieczka JH,McCarthy FM,Burgess SC

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many practical tasks in biomedicine require accessing specific types of information in scientific literature; e.g. information about the results or conclusions of the study in question. Several schemes have been developed to characterize such information in scientific journal articles. For example, a simple ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Guo Y,Korhonen A,Liakata M,Silins I,Hogberg J,Stenius U

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Barcode multiplexing is a key strategy for sharing the rising capacity of next-generation sequencing devices: Synthetic DNA tags, called barcodes, are attached to natural DNA fragments within the library preparation procedure. Different libraries, can individually be labeled with barcodes for a joint sequenc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kracht D,Schober S

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Affymetrix microarrays are used by many laboratories to generate gene expression profiles. Generally, only large differences (> 1.7-fold) between conditions have been reported. Computational methods to reduce inter-array variability might be of value when attempting to detect smaller differences. We examined...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Welle S,Brooks AI,Thornton CA

更新日期：2002-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differential co-expression (DCX) signifies change in degree of co-expression of a set of genes among different biological conditions. It has been used to identify differential co-expression networks or interactomes. Many algorithms have been developed for single-factor differential co-expression analysis and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liany H,Rajapakse JC,Karuturi RKM

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, we extended the replica exchange Monte Carlo (REMC) sampling method to protein-small molecule docking conformational prediction using RosettaLigand. In contrast to the traditional Monte Carlo (MC) and REMC sampling methods, these methods use multi-objective optimization Pareto front informatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang H,Liu H,Cai L,Wang C,Lv Q

更新日期：2017-07-10 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:Microbial genomes contain an abundance of genes with conserved proximity forming clusters on the chromosome. However, the conservation can be a result of many factors such as vertical inheritance, or functional selection. Thus, identification of conserved gene clusters that are under functional selection pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zheng Y,Anton BP,Roberts RJ,Kasif S

更新日期：2005-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While researchers have utilized versions of the Affymetrix human GeneChip for the assessment of expression patterns in non human primate (NHP) samples, there has been no comprehensive sequence analysis study undertaken to demonstrate that the probe sequences designed to detect human transcripts are reliably ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Z,Lewis MG,Nau ME,Arnold A,Vahey MT

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell-scaffold contact measurements are derived from pairs of co-registered volumetric fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) images (z-stacks) of stained cells and three types of scaffolds (i.e., spun coat, large microfiber, and medium microfiber). Our analysis of the acquired terabyte-sized c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bajcsy P,Yoon S,Florczyk SJ,Hotaling NA,Simon M,Szczypinski PM,Schaub NJ,Simon CG Jr,Brady M,Sriram RD

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparison of metabolic networks is typically performed based on the organisms' enzyme contents. This approach disregards functional replacements as well as orthologies that are misannotated. Direct comparison of the structure of metabolic networks can circumvent these problems. RESULTS:Metabolic networks a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Forst CV,Flamm C,Hofacker IL,Stadler PF

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nucleosome is the fundamental packing unit of DNAs in eukaryotic cells. Its detailed positioning on the genome is closely related to chromosome functions. Increasing evidence has shown that genomic DNA sequence itself is highly predictive of nucleosome positioning genome-wide. Therefore a fast software t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xi L,Fondufe-Mittendorf Y,Xia L,Flatow J,Widom J,Wang JP

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The field of protein sequence analysis is dominated by tools rooted in substitution matrices and alignments. A complementary approach is provided by methods of quantitative characterization. A major advantage of the approach is that quantitative properties defines a multidimensional solution space, where seq...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Konopka BM,Marciniak M,Dyrka W

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tight clustering arose recently from a desire to obtain tighter and potentially more informative clusters in gene expression studies. Scattered genes with relatively loose correlations should be excluded from the clusters. However, in the literature there is little work dedicated to this area of research. On...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yuan Y,Li CT,Wilson R

更新日期：2008-06-18 00:00:00