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BMCBI
2008
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Conserved co-expression for candidate disease gene prioritization
Background: Genes that are co-expressed tend to be involved in the same biological process. However, co-expression is not a very reliable predictor of functional links between gen...
Martin Oti, Jeroen van Reeuwijk, Martijn A. Huynen...
BMCBI
2010
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FunctSNP: an R package to link SNPs to functional knowledge and dbAutoMaker: a suite of Perl scripts to build SNP databases
Background: Whole genome association studies using highly dense single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a set of methods to identify DNA markers associated with variation in a ...
Stephen J. Goodswen, Cedric Gondro, Nathan S. Wats...
BMCBI
2010
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A comparison of internal validation techniques for multifactor dimensionality reduction
Background: It is hypothesized that common, complex diseases may be due to complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors, which are difficult to detect in high-di...
Stacey J. Winham, Andrew J. Slater, Alison A. Mots...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining for personal name aliases on the web
We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that conv...
Danushka Bollegala, Taiki Honma, Yutaka Matsuo, Mi...
BMCBI
2010
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Inferring gene regression networks with model trees
Background: Novel strategies are required in order to handle the huge amount of data produced by microarray technologies. To infer gene regulatory networks, the first step is to f...
Isabel A. Nepomuceno-Chamorro, Jesús S. Agu...