FocAn: automated 3D analysis of DNA repair foci in image stacks acquired by confocal fluorescence microscopy.

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: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:High-throughput screens comparing growth rates of arrays of distinct micro-organism cultures on solid agar are useful, rapid methods of quantifying genetic interactions. Growth rate is an informative phenotype which can be estimated by measuring cell densities at one or more times after inoculation. Precise ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lawless C,Wilkinson DJ,Young A,Addinall SG,Lydall DA

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of gene expression data in terms of a priori-defined gene sets has recently received significant attention as this approach typically yields more compact and interpretable results than those produced by traditional methods that rely on individual genes. The set-level strategy can also be adopted wit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Holec M,Kléma J,Zelezný F,Tolar J

更新日期：2012-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemical named entities represent an important facet of biomedical text. RESULTS:We have developed a system to use character-based n-grams, Maximum Entropy Markov Models and rescoring to recognise chemical names and other such entities, and to make confidence estimates for the extracted entities. An adjusta...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corbett P,Copestake A

更新日期：2008-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Feed-forward loops (FFLs), consisting of miRNAs, transcription factors (TFs) and their common target genes, have been validated to be important for the initialization and development of complex diseases, including cancer. Esophageal Carcinoma (ESCA) and Stomach Adenocarcinoma (STAD) are two types of malignan...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Qin G,Yang L,Ma Y,Liu J,Huo Q

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The median of k≥3 genomes was originally defined to find a compromise genome indicative of a common ancestor. However, in gene order comparisons, the usual definitions based on minimizing the sum of distances to the input genomes lead to degenerate medians reflecting only one of the input genomes. "Near-medi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Larlee CA,Brandts A,Sankoff D

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reverse engineering of transcriptional regulatory networks (TRN) from genomics data has always represented a computational challenge in System Biology. The major issue is modeling the complex crosstalk among transcription factors (TFs) and their target genes, with a method able to handle both the high number...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sauta E,Demartini A,Vitali F,Riva A,Bellazzi R

更新日期：2020-05-29 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:In the post-genomic era, systems-level studies are being performed that seek to explain complex biological systems by integrating diverse resources from fields such as genomics, proteomics or transcriptomics. New information management systems are now needed for the collection, validation and analysis of the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thompson JD,Muller A,Waterhouse A,Procter J,Barton GJ,Plewniak F,Poch O

更新日期：2006-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of its broad and ambitious mission, the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project reported the results of experiments using External RNA Controls (ERCs) on five microarray platforms. For most platforms, several different methods of data processing were considered. However, there was no similar consid...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kerr KF

更新日期：2007-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Introduction of spaced speeds opened a way of sensitivity improvement in homology search without loss of search speed. Since then, the efforts of finding optimal seed which maximizes the sensitivity have been continued today. The sensitivity of a seed is generally computed by its hit probability. However, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chung WH,Park SB

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome and metagenome studies have identified thousands of protein families whose functions are poorly understood and for which techniques for functional characterization provide only partial information. For such proteins, the genome context can give further information about their functional context. RESU...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Konietzny SG,Dietz L,McHardy AC

更新日期：2011-05-09 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:In two-channel competitive genomic hybridization microarray experiments, the ratio of the two fluorescent signal intensities at each spot on the microarray is commonly used to infer the relative amounts of the test and reference sample DNA levels. This ratio may be influenced by systematic measurement effect...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khojasteh M,Lam WL,Ward RK,MacAulay C

更新日期：2005-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of protein structures from structural genomics centers dramatically increases in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Many of these structures are functionally unannotated because they have no sequence similarity to proteins of known function. However, it is possible to successfully infer function using o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： von Grotthuss M,Plewczynski D,Ginalski K,Rychlewski L,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：2006-02-06 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:FREGENE simulates sequence-level data over large genomic regions in large populations. Because, unlike coalescent simulators, it works forwards through time, it allows complex scenarios of selection, demography, and recombination to be modelled simultaneously. Detailed tracking of sites under selection is im...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chadeau-Hyam M,Hoggart CJ,O'Reilly PF,Whittaker JC,De Iorio M,Balding DJ

更新日期：2008-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is a core element of many different, systemic and chronic diseases that usually involve an important autoimmune component. The clinical phase of inflammatory diseases is often the culmination of a long series of pathologic events that started years before. The systemic characteristics and relate...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao H,Bartoszek K,Lio' P

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate somatic mutation-calling is essential for insightful mutation analyses in cancer studies. Several mutation-callers are publicly available and more are likely to appear. Nonetheless, mutation-calling is still challenging and there is unlikely to be one established caller that systematically outperfor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim SY,Jacob L,Speed TP

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simulated nucleotide or amino acid sequences are frequently used to assess the performance of phylogenetic reconstruction methods. BEAST, a Bayesian statistical framework that focuses on reconstructing time-calibrated molecular evolutionary processes, supports a wide array of evolutionary models, but lacked ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bielejec F,Lemey P,Carvalho LM,Baele G,Rambaut A,Suchard MA

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of classification algorithms is becoming increasingly important for the field of computational biology. However, not only the quality of the classification, but also its biological interpretation is important. This interpretation may be eased if interacting elements can be identified and visualized, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bornelöv S,Marillet S,Komorowski J

更新日期：2014-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology provides an efficient means for globally exploring physiological processes governed by the coordinated expression of multiple genes. However, identification of genes differentially expressed in microarray experiments is challenging because of their potentially high type I error rate. Me...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tan YD,Fornage M,Xu H

更新日期：2008-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ontologies are widely used to represent knowledge in biomedicine. Systematic approaches for detecting errors and disagreements are needed for large ontologies with hundreds or thousands of terms and semantic relationships. A recent approach of defining terms using logical definitions is now increasingly bein...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Köhler S,Bauer S,Mungall CJ,Carletti G,Smith CL,Schofield P,Gkoutos GV,Robinson PN

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression data can be analyzed by summarizing groups of individual gene expression profiles based on GO annotation information. The mean expression profile per group can then be used to identify interesting GO categories in relation to the experimental settings. However, the expression profiles present...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： De Haan JR,Piek E,van Schaik RC,de Vlieg J,Bauerschmidt S,Buydens LM,Wehrens R

更新日期：2010-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The behaviour of biological systems can be deduced from their mathematical models. However, multiple sources of data in diverse forms are required in the construction of a model in order to define its components and their biochemical reactions, and corresponding parameters. Automating the assembly and use of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li P,Dada JO,Jameson D,Spasic I,Swainston N,Carroll K,Dunn W,Khan F,Malys N,Messiha HL,Simeonidis E,Weichart D,Winder C,Wishart J,Broomhead DS,Goble CA,Gaskell SJ,Kell DB,Westerhoff HV,Mendes P,Paton NW

更新日期：2010-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primer design for highly variable DNA sequences is difficult, and experimental success requires attention to many interacting constraints. The advent of next-generation sequencing methods allows the investigation of rare variants otherwise hidden deep in large populations, but requires attention to populatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brodin J,Krishnamoorthy M,Athreya G,Fischer W,Hraber P,Gleasner C,Green L,Korber B,Leitner T

更新日期：2013-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed an extendable open-source Loop-mediated isothermal AMPlification (LAMP) signature design program called LAVA (LAMP Assay Versatile Analysis). LAVA was created in response to limitations of existing LAMP signature programs. RESULTS:LAVA identifies combinations of six primer regions for basic LAM...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Torres C,Vitalis EA,Baker BR,Gardner SN,Torres MW,Dzenitis JM

更新日期：2011-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Techniques for reconstruction of biological networks which are based on perturbation experiments often predict direct interactions between nodes that do not exist. Transitive reduction removes such relations if they can be explained by an indirect path of influences. The existing algorithms for transitive re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bošnački D,Odenbrett MR,Wijs A,Ligtenberg W,Hilbers P

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of many diseases can be often formulated as a decision problem; uncertainty affects these problems so that many computerized Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (in the following, DDSSs) have been developed to aid the physician in interpreting clinical data and thus to improve the quality of th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： d'Acierno A,Esposito M,De Pietro G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00