Accurate determination of node and arc multiplicities in de bruijn graphs using conditional random fields.

abstract：BACKGROUND:InterPro is a collection of protein signatures for the classification and automated annotation of proteins. Interproscan is a software tool that scans protein sequences against Interpro member databases using a variety of profile-based, hidden markov model and positional specific score matrix methods. It not...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kelly RJ,Vincent DE,Friedberg I

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since RNA molecules regulate genes and control alternative splicing by allostery, it is important to develop algorithms to predict RNA conformational switches. Some tools, such as paRNAss, RNAshapes and RNAbor, can be used to predict potential conformational switches; nevertheless, no existent tool can detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clote P,Lou F,Lorenz WA

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A standardized and cost-effective molecular identification system is now an urgent need for Fungi owing to their wide involvement in human life quality. In particular the potential use of mitochondrial DNA species markers has been taken in account. Unfortunately, a serious difficulty in the PCR and bioinform...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Santamaria M,Vicario S,Pappadà G,Scioscia G,Scazzocchio C,Saccone C

更新日期：2009-06-16 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:Distance-based methods are popular for reconstructing evolutionary trees thanks to their speed and generality. A number of methods exist for estimating distances from sequence alignments, which often involves some sort of correction for multiple substitutions. The problem is to accurately estimate the number...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sonnhammer EL,Hollich V

更新日期：2005-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of homologous genes is fundamental to comparative genomics, functional genomics and phylogenomics. Extensive public homology databases are of great value for investigating homology but need to be continually updated to incorporate new sequences. As new sequences are rapidly being generated, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sheikhizadeh Anari S,de Ridder D,Schranz ME,Smit S

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing availability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data and specifically free-text patient notes presents opportunities for phenotype extraction. Text-mining methods in particular can help disease modeling by mapping named-entities mentions to terminologies and clustering semantically related term...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cohen R,Elhadad M,Elhadad N

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of differentially methylated regions (DMRs) is the initial step towards the study of DNA methylation-mediated gene regulation. Previous approaches to call DMRs suffer from false prediction, use extreme resources, and/or require library installation and input conversion. RESULTS:We developed a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Condon DE,Tran PV,Lien YC,Schug J,Georgieff MK,Simmons RA,Won KJ

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analysis (MA) is widely used to pool genome-wide association studies (GWASes) in order to a) increase the power to detect strong or weak genotype effects or b) as a result verification method. As a consequence of differing SNP panels among genotyping chips, imputation is the method of choice within GWAS...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meesters C,Leber M,Herold C,Angisch M,Mattheisen M,Drichel D,Lacour A,Becker T

更新日期：2012-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies in computational primary protein sequence analysis have leveraged the power of unlabeled data. For example, predictive models based on string kernels trained on sequences known to belong to particular folds or superfamilies, the so-called labeled data set, can attain significantly improved acc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kuksa P,Huang PH,Pavlovic V

更新日期：2009-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:REX1 and REX2 are protein components of the RNA editing complex (the editosome) and function as exouridylylases. The exact roles of REX1 and REX2 in the editosome are unclear and the consequences of the presence of two related proteins are not fully understood. Here, a variety of computational studies were p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mian IS,Worthey EA,Salavati R

更新日期：2006-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important question in the analysis of biochemical data is that of identifying subsets of molecular variables that may jointly influence a biological response. Statistical variable selection methods have been widely used for this purpose. In many settings, it may be important to incorporate ancillary biolo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hill SM,Neve RM,Bayani N,Kuo WL,Ziyad S,Spellman PT,Gray JW,Mukherjee S

更新日期：2012-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomedical research projects deal with data management requirements from multiple sources like funding agencies' guidelines, publisher policies, discipline best practices, and their own users' needs. We describe functional and quality requirements based on many years of experience implementing data managemen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Suhr M,Lehmann C,Bauer CR,Bender T,Knopp C,Freckmann L,Öst Hansen B,Henke C,Aschenbrandt G,Kühlborn LK,Rheinländer S,Weber L,Marzec B,Hellkamp M,Wieder P,Sax U,Kusch H,Nussbeck SY

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously described an approach to predicting the substrate specificity of serine-threonine protein kinases. The method, named Predikin, identifies key conserved substrate-determining residues in the kinase catalytic domain that contact the substrate in the region of the phosphorylation site and so ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saunders NF,Brinkworth RI,Huber T,Kemp BE,Kobe B

更新日期：2008-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mixed models have a long and fruitful history in statistics. They are pertinent to genomics problems because they are highly versatile, accommodating a wide variety of situations within the same theoretical and algorithmic framework. RESULTS:Qxpak is a package for versatile statistical genomics, specificall...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pérez-Enciso M,Misztal I

更新日期：2011-05-25 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the use of clustering methods has rapidly become one of the standard computational approaches in the literature of microarray gene expression data analysis, little attention has been paid to uncertainty in the results obtained. RESULTS:We present an R/Bioconductor port of a fast novel algorithm for...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Savage RS,Heller K,Xu Y,Ghahramani Z,Truman WM,Grant M,Denby KJ,Wild DL

更新日期：2009-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, the availability of high-resolution microscopy together with the advancements in the development of biomarkers as reporters of biomolecular interactions increased the importance of imaging methods in molecular cell biology. These techniques enable the investigation of cellular characteristics like ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stoma S,Fröhlich M,Gerber S,Klipp E

更新日期：2011-04-28 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:Domain fusion analysis is a useful method to predict functionally linked proteins that may be involved in direct protein-protein interactions or in the same metabolic or signaling pathway. As separate domain databases like BLOCKS, PROSITE, Pfam, SMART, PRINTS-S, ProDom, TIGRFAMs, and amalgamated domain datab...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Truong K,Ikura M

更新日期：2003-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enrichment analysis is a popular approach to identify pathways or sets of genes which are significantly enriched in the context of differentially expressed genes. The traditional gene set enrichment approach considers a pathway as a simple gene list disregarding any knowledge of gene or protein interactions....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bayerlová M,Jung K,Kramer F,Klemm F,Bleckmann A,Beißbarth T

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of software packages are available to generate DNA multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) evolved under continuous-time Markov processes on phylogenetic trees. On the other hand, methods of simulating the DNA MSA directly from the transition matrices do not exist. Moreover, existing software restricts ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kedzierska AM,Casanellas M

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next (second) generation sequencing is an increasingly important tool for many areas of molecular biology, however, care must be taken when interpreting its output. Even a low error rate can cause a large number of errors due to the high number of nucleotides being sequenced. Identifying sequencing errors fr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sleep JA,Schreiber AW,Baumann U

更新日期：2013-12-18 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:Reproducibility of results can have a significant impact on the acceptance of new technologies in gene expression analysis. With the recent introduction of the so-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology and established microarrays, one is able to choose between two completely different platforms f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stiglic G,Bajgot M,Kokol P

更新日期：2010-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently copy number variation (CNV) has gained considerable interest as a type of genomic/genetic variation that plays an important role in disease susceptibility. Advances in sequencing technology have created an opportunity for detecting CNVs more accurately. Recently whole exome sequencing (WES) has beco...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zare F,Dow M,Monteleone N,Hosny A,Nabavi S

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Network co-regulated modules are believed to have the functionality of packaging multiple biological entities, and can thus be assumed to coordinate many biological functions in their network neighbouring regions. RESULTS:Here, we weighted edges of a human protein interaction network and a transcriptional r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen L,Wang H,Zhang L,Li W,Wang Q,Shang Y,He Y,He W,Li X,Tai J,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most known eukaryotic genomes contain mobile copied elements called transposable elements. In some species, these elements account for the majority of the genome sequence. They have been subject to many mutations and other genomic events (copies, deletions, captures) during transposition. The identification ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tempel S,Rousseau C,Tahi F,Nicolas J

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer is caused through a multistep process, in which a succession of genetic changes, each conferring a competitive advantage for growth and proliferation, leads to the progressive conversion of normal human cells into malignant cancer cells. Interrogation of cancer genomes holds the promise of understandi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sanchez-Garcia F,Akavia UD,Mozes E,Pe'er D

更新日期：2010-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most gene finders score candidate gene models with state-based methods, typically HMMs, by combining local properties (coding potential, splice donor and acceptor patterns, etc). Competing models with similar state-based scores may be distinguishable with additional information. In particular, functional and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Crammer K,Pereira FC,Roos DS

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00