Statistical shape analysis of tap roots: a methodological case study on laser scanned sugar beets.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying similarities between patterns of differential gene expression provides an opportunity to identify similarities between the experimental and biological conditions that give rise to these gene expression alterations. The growing volume of gene expression data in open data repositories such as the N...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gower AC,Spira A,Lenburg ME

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most of the current disease candidate gene identification and prioritization methods depend on functional annotations, the coverage of the gene functional annotations is a limiting factor. In the current study, we describe a candidate gene prioritization method that is entirely based on protein-prot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen J,Aronow BJ,Jegga AG

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biological network is highly dynamic. Functional relations between genes can be activated or deactivated depending on the biological conditions. On the genome-scale network, subnetworks that gain or lose local expression consistency may shed light on the regulatory mechanisms related to the changing biol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu J,Lu Y,Ding Y,Xiao Q,Liu L,Cai Q,Kong Y,Bai Y,Yu T

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of when and in which cells each gene is expressed across multicellular organisms is critical in understanding both gene function and regulation of cell type diversity. However, methods for measuring expression typically involve a trade-off between imaging-based methods, which give the precise locat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Burdick JT,Murray JI

更新日期：2013-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in sequencing and genotyping technologies are leading to the widespread availability of multi-species variation data, dense genotype data and large-scale resequencing projects. The 1000 Genomes Project and similar efforts in other species are challenging the methods previously used for storage and m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rios D,McLaren WM,Chen Y,Birney E,Stabenau A,Flicek P,Cunningham F

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimation of individual ancestry from genetic data is useful for the analysis of disease association studies, understanding human population history and interpreting personal genomic variation. New, computationally efficient methods are needed for ancestry inference that can effectively utilize existing inf...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bansal V,Libiger O

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many bacteria, intragenomic diversity in synonymous codon usage among genes has been reported. However, no quantitative attempt has been made to compare the diversity levels among different genomes. Here, we introduce a mean dissimilarity-based index (Dmean) for quantifying the level of diversity in synon...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Suzuki H,Saito R,Tomita M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent explosion in biological and other real-world network data has created the need for improved tools for large network analyses. In addition to well established global network properties, several new mathematical techniques for analyzing local structural properties of large networks have been develop...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Milenković T,Lai J,Przulj N

更新日期：2008-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The scientific literature contains millions of microbial gene identifiers within the full text and tables, but these annotations rarely get incorporated into public sequence databases. We propose to utilize the Open Access (OA) subset of PubMed Central (PMC) as a gene annotation database and have developed a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stubben CJ,Challacombe JF

更新日期：2014-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart disease (HD) is one of the most common diseases nowadays, and an early diagnosis of such a disease is a crucial task for many health care providers to prevent their patients for such a disease and to save lives. In this paper, a comparative analysis of different classifiers was performed for the classi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Almustafa KM

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-Seq is revolutionizing the way transcript abundances are measured. A key challenge in transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data is the handling of reads that map to multiple genes or isoforms. This issue is particularly important for quantification with de novo transcriptome assemblies in the absence o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li B,Dewey CN

更新日期：2011-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins are comprised of one or several building blocks, known as domains. Such domains can be classified into families according to their evolutionary origin. Whereas sequencing technologies have advanced immensely in recent years, there are no matching computational methodologies for large-scale determina...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Portugaly E,Harel A,Linial N,Linial M

更新日期：2006-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The challenge of classifying cortical interneurons is yet to be solved. Data-driven classification into established morphological types may provide insight and practical value. RESULTS:We trained models using 217 high-quality morphologies of rat somatosensory neocortex interneurons reconstructed by a single...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mihaljević B,Larrañaga P,Benavides-Piccione R,Hill S,DeFelipe J,Bielza C

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-pass, partial sequencing of complementary DNA (cDNA) libraries generates thousands of chromatograms that are processed into high quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs), and then assembled into contigs representative of putative genes. Usually, to be of value, ESTs and contigs must be associated with m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kumar CG,LeDuc R,Gong G,Roinishivili L,Lewin HA,Liu L

更新日期：2004-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Formal classification of a large collection of protein structures aids the understanding of evolutionary relationships among them. Classifications involving manual steps, such as SCOP and CATH, face the challenge of increasing volume of available structures. Automatic methods such as FSSP or Dali Domain Dict...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sam V,Tai CH,Garnier J,Gibrat JF,Lee B,Munson PJ

更新日期：2008-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolome analysis with GC/MS has meanwhile been established as one of the "omics" techniques. Compound identification is done by comparison of the MS data with compound libraries. Mass spectral libraries in the field of metabolomics ought to connect the relevant mass traces of the metabolites to other rele...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thielen B,Heinen S,Schomburg D

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One approach to improving the personalized treatment of cancer is to understand the cellular signaling transduction pathways that cause cancer at the level of the individual patient. In this study, we used unsupervised deep learning to learn the hierarchical structure within cancer gene expression data. Deep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Young JD,Cai C,Lu X

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Time course gene expression experiments are a popular means to infer co-expression. Many methods have been proposed to cluster genes or to build networks based on similarity measures of their expression dynamics. In this paper we apply a correlation based approach to network reconstruction to three datasets of time se...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Neretti N,Remondini D,Tatar M,Sedivy JM,Pierini M,Mazzatti D,Powell J,Franceschi C,Castellani GC

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic interaction profiles are highly informative and helpful for understanding the functional linkages between genes, and therefore have been extensively exploited for annotating gene functions and dissecting specific pathway structures. However, our understanding is rather limited to the relationship bet...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： You ZH,Yin Z,Han K,Huang DS,Zhou X

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput experiments, such as with DNA microarrays, typically result in hundreds of genes potentially relevant to the process under study, rendering the interpretation of these experiments problematic. Here, we propose and evaluate an approach to find functional associations between large numbers of g...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jelier R,Jenster G,Dorssers LC,Wouters BJ,Hendriksen PJ,Mons B,Delwel R,Kors JA

更新日期：2007-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most single stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses mutate rapidly to generate large number of strains having highly divergent capsid sequences. Accurate strain recognition in uncharacterized target capsid sequences is essential for epidemiology, diagnostics, and vaccine development. Strain recognition based on similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhu D,Fox GE,Chakravarty S

更新日期：2007-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the growing availability of full-text articles online, scientists and other consumers of the life sciences literature now have the ability to go beyond searching bibliographic records (title, abstract, metadata) to directly access full-text content. Motivated by this emerging trend, I posed the followin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lin J

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severity gradation of missense mutations is a big challenge for exome annotation. Predictors of deleteriousness that are most frequently used to filter variants found by next generation sequencing, produce qualitative predictions, but also numerical scores. It has never been tested if these scores correlate ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cimmaruta C,Citro V,Andreotti G,Liguori L,Cubellis MV,Hay Mele B

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The secondary structure of RNA molecules is intimately related to their function and often more conserved than the sequence. Hence, the important task of searching databases for RNAs requires to match sequence-structure patterns. Unfortunately, current tools for this task have, in the best case, a running ti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meyer F,Kurtz S,Backofen R,Will S,Beckstette M

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phylogenetic trees are an important tool to study the evolutionary relationships among organisms. The huge amount of available taxa poses difficulties in their interactive visualization. This hampers the interaction with the users to provide feedback for the further improvement of the taxonomic framework. R...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Beccati A,Gerken J,Quast C,Yilmaz P,Glöckner FO

更新日期：2017-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring molecular pathway activity is an important step towards reducing the complexity of genomic data, understanding the heterogeneity in clinical outcome, and obtaining molecular correlates of cancer imaging traits. Increasingly, approaches towards pathway activity inference combine molecular profiles (...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jiao Y,Lawler K,Patel GS,Purushotham A,Jones AF,Grigoriadis A,Tutt A,Ng T,Teschendorff AE

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graph theory provides a computational framework for modeling a variety of datasets including those emerging from genomics, proteomics, and chemical genetics. Networks of genes, proteins, small molecules, or other objects of study can be represented as graphs of nodes (vertices) and interactions (edges) that ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Forman JJ,Clemons PA,Schreiber SL,Haggarty SJ

更新日期：2005-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Gene Ontology, the "Molecular Function" (MF) categorization is a widely used knowledge framework for gene function comparison and prediction. Its structure and annotation provide a convenient way to compare gene functional similarities at the molecular level. The existing gene similarity measures, however...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng J,Wang Y,Chen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 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:Biological sequences play a major role in molecular and computational biology. They are studied as information-bearing entities that make up DNA, RNA or proteins. The Sequence Ontology, which is part of the OBO Foundry, contains descriptions and definitions of sequences and their properties. Yet the most bas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hoehndorf R,Kelso J,Herre H

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00