abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been successful in identifying loci contributing genetic effects to a wide range of complex human diseases and quantitative traits. The traditional approach to GWAS analysis is to consider each phenotype separately, despite...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mägi R,Suleimanov YV,Clarke GM,Kaakinen M,Fischer K,Prokopenko I,Morris AP

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of DNA copy number variants (CNV) has increasing impact in the field of genetic diagnostics and research. However, the interpretation of CNV data derived from high resolution array CGH or NGS platforms is complicated by the considerable variability of the human genome. Therefore, tools for multi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tebel K,Boldt V,Steininger A,Port M,Ebert G,Ullmann R

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Targeted resequencing offers a cost-effective alternative to whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing when investigating regions known to be associated with a trait or disease. There are a number of approaches to targeted resequencing, including microfluidic PCR amplification, which may be enhanced by multipl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wingo TS,Kotlar A,Cutler DJ

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Annotations of the phylogenetic tree of the human kinome is an intuitive way to visualize compound profiling data, structural features of kinases or functional relationships within this important class of proteins. The increasing volume and complexity of kinase-related data underlines the need for a tool tha...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eid S,Turk S,Volkamer A,Rippmann F,Fulle S

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data extraction and integration methods are becoming essential to effectively access and take advantage of the huge amounts of heterogeneous genomics and clinical data increasingly available. In this work, we focus on The Cancer Genome Atlas, a comprehensive archive of tumoral data containing the results of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cumbo F,Fiscon G,Ceri S,Masseroli M,Weitschek E

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer is a complex disease which is characterized by the accumulation of genetic alterations during the patient's lifetime. With the development of the next-generation sequencing technology, multiple omics data, such as cancer genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic data etc., can be measured from each indiv...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wei PJ,Zhang D,Xia J,Zheng CH

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) aspartic protease is an important enzyme owing to its imperative part in viral development and a causative agent of deadliest disease known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Development of HIV-1 protease inhibitors can help understand the specifici...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Singh O,Su EC

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) lack an ordered three-dimensional structure and are enriched in various biological processes. The Molecular Recognition Features (MoRFs) are functional regions within IDPs that undergo a disorder-to-order transition on binding to a partner protein. Identifying MoRFs i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sharma R,Kumar S,Tsunoda T,Patil A,Sharma A

更新日期：2016-12-22 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:Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping is often used to identify genetic loci and candidate genes correlated with traits. Although usually a group of genes affect complex traits, genes in most eQTL mapping methods are considered as independent. Recently, some eQTL mapping methods have accounted fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Richard R,Pan Y

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, successful contact prediction methods and contact-guided ab initio protein structure prediction methods have highlighted the importance of incorporating contact information into protein structure prediction methods. It is also observed that for almost all globular proteins, the quality of co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Adhikari B,Nowotny J,Bhattacharya D,Hou J,Cheng J

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein quality assessment (QA) useful for ranking and selecting protein models has long been viewed as one of the major challenges for protein tertiary structure prediction. Especially, estimating the quality of a single protein model, which is important for selecting a few good models out of a large model ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cao R,Bhattacharya D,Hou J,Cheng J

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on reproducibility of published research in the last few years has led to the large-scale archiving of sequencing data. While this data can, in theory, be used to reproduce results in papers, it is difficult to use in practice. We introduce a series of tools for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pimentel H,Sturmfels P,Bray N,Melsted P,Pachter L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The complexity and dynamics of microbial communities are major factors in the ecology of a system. With the NGS technique, metagenomics data provides a new way to explore microbial interactions. Lotka-Volterra models, which have been widely used to infer animal interactions in dynamic systems, have recently ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shaw GT,Pao YY,Wang D

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many methods for species tree inference require data from a sufficiently large sample of genomic loci in order to produce accurate estimates. However, few studies have attempted to use analytical theory to quantify "sufficiently large". RESULTS:Using the multispecies coalescent model, we report a general an...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Uricchio LH,Warnow T,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Orthologs inference is the starting point of most comparative genomics studies, and a plethora of methods have been designed in the last decade to address this challenging task. In this paper we focus on the problems of deciding consistency with a species tree (known or not) of a partial set of orthology/par...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jones M,Paul C,Scornavacca C

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurately prioritizing candidate disease genes is an important and challenging problem. Various network-based methods have been developed to predict potential disease genes by utilizing the disease similarity network and molecular networks such as protein interaction or gene co-expression networks. Although...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ni J,Koyuturk M,Tong H,Haines J,Xu R,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PCR clonal artefacts originating from NGS library preparation can affect both genomic as well as RNA-Seq applications when protocols are pushed to their limits. In RNA-Seq however the artifactual reads are not easy to tell apart from normal read duplication due to natural over-sequencing of highly expressed ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sayols S,Scherzinger D,Klein H

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-transcriptional regulation is a complex mechanism that plays a central role in defining multiple cellular identities starting from a common genome. Modifications in the length of 3'UTRs have been found to play an important role in this context, since alternative 3' UTRs could lead to differences for exa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Grassi E,Mariella E,Lembo A,Molineris I,Provero P

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The amount of scientific information about MicroRNAs (miRNAs) is growing exponentially, making it difficult for researchers to interpret experimental results. In this study, we present an automated text mining approach using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) for prioritization, clustering and functional annotat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roy S,Curry BC,Madahian B,Homayouni R

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The knowledge base-driven pathway analysis is becoming the first choice for many investigators, in that it not only can reduce the complexity of functional analysis by grouping thousands of genes into just several hundred pathways, but also can increase the explanatory power for the experiment by identifying...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Du J,Li M,Yuan Z,Guo M,Song J,Xie X,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-10-06 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:Although metatranscriptomics-the study of diverse microbial population activity based on RNA-seq data-is rapidly growing in popularity, there are limited options for biologists to analyze this type of data. Current approaches for processing metatranscriptomes rely on restricted databases and a dedicated comp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Westreich ST,Korf I,Mills DA,Lemay DG

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural alignment of proteins is one of the most challenging problems in molecular biology. The tertiary structure of a protein strictly correlates with its function and computationally predicted structures are nowadays a main premise for understanding the latter. However, computationally derived 3D model...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Antczak M,Kasprzak M,Lukasiak P,Blazewicz J

更新日期：2016-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification is a classification task where the classes to be predicted are hierarchically organized. Each instance can be assigned to classes belonging to more than one path in the hierarchy. This scenario is typically found in protein function prediction, considering that each pr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cerri R,Barros RC,P L F de Carvalho AC,Jin Y

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Network enrichment analysis is a powerful method, which allows to integrate gene enrichment analysis with the information on relationships between genes that is provided by gene networks. Existing tests for network enrichment analysis deal only with undirected networks, they can be computationally slow and a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Signorelli M,Vinciotti V,Wit EC

更新日期：2016-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV/AIDS is a serious threat to public health. The emergence of drug resistance mutations diminishes the effectiveness of drug therapy for HIV/AIDS. Developing a computational prediction of drug resistance phenotype will enable efficient and timely selection of the best treatment regimens. RESULTS:A unified...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shen C,Yu X,Harrison RW,Weber IT

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput technology allows for genome-wide measurements at different molecular levels for the same patient, e.g. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression. Correspondingly, it might be beneficial to also integrate complementary information from different molecular levels when building...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hieke S,Benner A,Schlenl RF,Schumacher M,Bullinger L,Binder H

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many centrality measures have been proposed to mine and characterize the correlations between network topological properties and protein essentiality. However, most of them show limited prediction accuracy, and the number of common predicted essential proteins by different methods is very small. RESULTS:In ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang X,Xiao W,Acencio ML,Lemke N,Wang X

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research related to cancer is vast, and continues in earnest in many directions. Due to the complexity of cancer, a better understanding of tumor growth dynamics can be gleaned from a dynamic computational model. We present a comprehensive, fully executable, spatial and temporal 3D computational model of the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloch N,Harel D

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug resistance testing is mandatory in antiretroviral therapy in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients for successful treatment. The emergence of resistances against antiretroviral agents remains the major obstacle in inhibition of viral replication and thus to control infection. Due to the h...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Riemenschneider M,Hummel T,Heider D

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One very important functional domain of proteins is the protein-protein interacting region (PPIR), which forms the binding interface between interacting polypeptide chains. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) that occur in the PPIR can either interfere with or facilitate the interaction between proteins....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saethang T,Payne DM,Avihingsanon Y,Pisitkun T

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffold proteins are known for being crucial regulators of various cellular functions by assembling multiple proteins involved in signaling and metabolic pathways. Identification of scaffold proteins and the study of their molecular mechanisms can open a new aspect of cellular systemic regulation and the re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh K,Yi GS

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When constructing new biomarker or gene signature scores for time-to-event outcomes, the underlying aims are to develop a discrimination model that helps to predict whether patients have a poor or good prognosis and to identify the most influential variables for this task. In practice, this is often done fit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mayr A,Hofner B,Schmid M

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A standard procedure in many areas of bioinformatics is to use a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) as the basis for various types of homology-based inference. Applications include 3D structure modelling, protein functional annotation, prediction of molecular interactions, etc. These applications, however sop...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vanhoutreve R,Kress A,Legrand B,Gass H,Poch O,Thompson JD

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative analysis of whole genome sequence data from closely related prokaryotic species or strains is becoming an increasingly important and accessible approach for addressing both fundamental and applied biological questions. While there are number of excellent tools developed for performing this task, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thakur S,Guttman DS

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Joint and individual variation explained (JIVE), distinct and common simultaneous component analysis (DISCO) and O2-PLS, a two-block (X-Y) latent variable regression method with an integral OSC filter can all be used for the integrated analysis of multiple data sets and decompose them in three terms: a low(e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： van der Kloet FM,Sebastián-León P,Conesa A,Smilde AK,Westerhuis JA

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:G-DOC Plus is a data integration and bioinformatics platform that uses cloud computing and other advanced computational tools to handle a variety of biomedical BIG DATA including gene expression arrays, NGS and medical images so that they can be analyzed in the full context of other omics and clinical inform...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bhuvaneshwar K,Belouali A,Singh V,Johnson RM,Song L,Alaoui A,Harris MA,Clarke R,Weiner LM,Gusev Y,Madhavan S

更新日期：2016-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small ~22 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that function as post-transcriptional regulators of messenger RNA (mRNA) through base-pairing to 6-8 nucleotide long target sites, usually located within the mRNA 3' untranslated region. A common approach to validate and probe microRNA-mRNA interact...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ryan BC,Werner TS,Howard PL,Chow RL

更新日期：2016-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The immune system is multifaceted, structured by diverse components that interconnect using multilayered dynamic cellular processes. Genomic technologies provide a means for investigating, at the molecular level, the adaptations of the immune system in host defense and its dysregulation in pathological condi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Liu J,Toups M,Soos T,Arendt C

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00