MIENTURNET: an interactive web tool for microRNA-target enrichment and network-based analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein remote homology detection is one of the central problems in bioinformatics, which is important for both basic research and practical application. Currently, discriminative methods based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) achieve the state-of-the-art performance. Exploring feature vectors incorporating...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu B,Xu J,Zou Q,Xu R,Wang X,Chen Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellular functions are coordinately carried out by groups of genes forming functional modules. Identifying such modules in the transcriptional regulatory network (TRN) of organisms is important for understanding the structure and function of these fundamental cellular networks and essential for the emerging ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ma HW,Buer J,Zeng AP

更新日期：2004-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MHC/HLA class II molecules are important components of the immune system and play a critical role in processes such as phagocytosis. Understanding peptide recognition properties of the hundreds of MHC class II alleles is essential to appreciate determinants of antigenicity and ultimately to predict epitopes....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yeturu K,Utriainen T,Kemp GJ,Chandra N

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In omics data integration studies, it is common, for a variety of reasons, for some individuals to not be present in all data tables. Missing row values are challenging to deal with because most statistical methods cannot be directly applied to incomplete datasets. To overcome this issue, we propose a multip...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Voillet V,Besse P,Liaubet L,San Cristobal M,González I

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent advances in genomics and proteomics have allowed us to study the nuances of the Warburg effect--a long-standing puzzle in cancer energy metabolism--at an unprecedented level of detail. While modern next-generation sequencing technologies are extremely powerful, the lack of appropriate data analysis to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Markovets AA,Herman D

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated protein function prediction methods are the only practical approach for assigning functions to genes obtained from model organisms. Many of the previously reported function annotation methods are of limited utility for fungal protein annotation. They are often trained only to one species, are not a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jung J,Yi G,Sukno SA,Thon MR

更新日期：2010-04-29 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:Designing small-molecule kinase inhibitors with desirable selectivity profiles is a major challenge in drug discovery. A high-throughput screen for inhibitors of a given kinase will typically yield many compounds that inhibit more than one kinase. A series of chemical modifications are usually required befor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Caffrey DR,Lunney EA,Moshinsky DJ

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of tissue-specific protein interaction networks and their functional enrichment in pathological and normal tissues provides insights on the etiology of diseases. The Pan-cancer proteomic project, in The Cancer Genome Atlas, collects protein expressions in human cancers and it is a reference reso...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sardina DS,Micale G,Ferro A,Pulvirenti A,Giugno R

更新日期：2018-07-09 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:Mass spectrometry (MS) coupled with online separation methods is commonly applied for differential and quantitative profiling of biological samples in metabolomic as well as proteomic research. Such approaches are used for systems biology, functional genomics, and biomarker discovery, among others. An ongoin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pluskal T,Castillo S,Villar-Briones A,Oresic M

更新日期：2010-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, techniques were established for the large scale genome-wide analysis of proteins, RNA, and metabolites, and database solutions have been developed to manage the generated data sets. The Golm Metabolome Database for metabolite data (GMD) represents one such effort to make these data broadl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hummel J,Niemann M,Wienkoop S,Schulze W,Steinhauser D,Selbig J,Walther D,Weckwerth W

更新日期：2007-06-23 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:The toxic effects of many simple organic compounds stem from their biotransformation to chemically reactive metabolites which bind covalently to cellular proteins. To understand the mechanisms of cytotoxic responses it may be important to know which proteins become adducted and whether some may be common tar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hanzlik RP,Koen YM,Theertham B,Dong Y,Fang J

更新日期：2007-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-seq is a powerful tool for measuring transcriptomes, especially for identifying differentially expressed genes or transcripts (DEGs) between sample groups. A number of methods have been developed for this task, and several evaluation studies have also been reported. However, those evaluations so far have...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tang M,Sun J,Shimizu K,Kadota K

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mouse xenografts from (patient-derived) tumors (PDX) or tumor cell lines are widely used as models to study various biological and preclinical aspects of cancer. However, analyses of their RNA and DNA profiles are challenging, because they comprise reads not only from the grafted human cancer but also from t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kluin RJC,Kemper K,Kuilman T,de Ruiter JR,Iyer V,Forment JV,Cornelissen-Steijger P,de Rink I,Ter Brugge P,Song JY,Klarenbeek S,McDermott U,Jonkers J,Velds A,Adams DJ,Peeper DS,Krijgsman O

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mecp2 null mice model Rett syndrome (RTT) a human neurological disorder affecting females after apparent normal pre- and peri-natal developmental periods. Neuroanatomical studies in cerebral cortex of RTT mouse models revealed delayed maturation of neuronal morphology and autonomous as well as non-cell auton...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vacca M,Tripathi KP,Speranza L,Aiese Cigliano R,Scalabrì F,Marracino F,Madonna M,Sanseverino W,Perrone-Capano C,Guarracino MR,D'Esposito M

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shotgun metagenomics based on untargeted sequencing can explore the taxonomic profile and the function of unknown microorganisms in samples, and complement the shortage of amplicon sequencing. Binning assembled sequences into individual groups, which represent microbial genomes, is the key step and a major c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yue Y,Huang H,Qi Z,Dou HM,Liu XY,Han TF,Chen Y,Song XJ,Zhang YH,Tu J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dystrophinopathy is one of the most common human monogenic diseases which results in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). Mutations in the dystrophin gene are responsible for both DMD and BMD. However, the clinical phenotypes and treatments are quite different in these two m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhou J,Xin J,Niu Y,Wu S

更新日期：2017-02-02 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：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence profile-profile alignment is an important approach to recognizing remote homologs and generating accurate pairwise alignments. It plays an important role in protein sequence database search, protein structure prediction, protein function prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. RESULTS:In thi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng X,Cheng J

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The low success rate and high cost of drug discovery requires the development of new paradigms to identify molecules of therapeutic value. The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Code System is a World Health Organization (WHO) proposed classification that assigns multi-level codes to compounds based on th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Olson T,Singh R

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, revealing the function of proteins with protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks is regarded as one of important issues in bioinformatics. With the development of experimental methods such as the yeast two-hybrid method, the data of protein interaction have been increasing extremely. Many databas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Monji H,Koizumi S,Ozaki T,Ohkawa T

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein function in eukaryotic cells is often controlled in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Therefore, the correct assignment of cellular phenotypes to cell cycle phases is a crucial task in cell biology research. Nuclear proteins whose localization varies during the cell cycle are valuable and frequently use...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schönenberger F,Deutzmann A,Ferrando-May E,Merhof D

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exome sequencing is a promising method for diagnosing patients with a complex phenotype. However, variant interpretation relative to patient phenotype can be challenging in some scenarios, particularly clinical assessment of rare complex phenotypes. Each patient's sequence reveals many possibly damaging vari...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Masino AJ,Dechene ET,Dulik MC,Wilkens A,Spinner NB,Krantz ID,Pennington JW,Robinson PN,White PS

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern high throughput experimental techniques such as DNA microarrays often result in large lists of genes. Computational biology tools such as clustering are then used to group together genes based on their similarity in expression profiles. Genes in each group are probably functionally related. The functi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tchagang AB,Gawronski A,Bérubé H,Phan S,Famili F,Pan Y

更新日期：2010-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although high-throughput microarray based molecular diagnostic technologies show a great promise in cancer diagnosis, it is still far from a clinical application due to its low and instable sensitivities and specificities in cancer molecular pattern recognition. In fact, high-dimensional and heterogeneous tu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Han H,Li XL

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A rapidly increasing flow of genomic data requires the development of efficient methods for obtaining its compact representation. Feature extraction facilitates classification, clustering and model analysis for testing and refining biological hypotheses. "Shotgun" metagenome is an analytically challenging ty...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dubinkina VB,Ischenko DS,Ulyantsev VI,Tyakht AV,Alexeev DG

更新日期：2016-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress in genome sequencing is proceeding at an exponential pace, and several new algal genomes are becoming available every year. One of the challenges facing the community is the association of protein sequences encoded in the genomes with biological function. While most genome assembly projects generate...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lopez D,Casero D,Cokus SJ,Merchant SS,Pellegrini M

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aberrant expression of microRNAs is closely connected to the occurrence and development of a great deal of human diseases. To study human diseases, numerous effective computational models that are valuable and meaningful have been presented by researchers. RESULTS:Here, we present a computational framew...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gao Z,Wang YT,Wu QW,Ni JC,Zheng CH

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00