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2008
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Evaluation of genomic island predictors using a comparative genomics approach
Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
Morgan G. I. Langille, William W. L. Hsiao, Fiona ...
BMCBI
2008
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A comprehensive comparison of random forests and support vector machines for microarray-based cancer classification
Background: Cancer diagnosis and clinical outcome prediction are among the most important emerging applications of gene expression microarray technology with several molecular sig...
Alexander R. Statnikov, Lily Wang, Constantin F. A...
BMCBI
2008
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Gene Ontology term overlap as a measure of gene functional similarity
Background: The availability of various high-throughput experimental and computational methods allows biologists to rapidly infer functional relationships between genes. It is oft...
Meeta Mistry, Paul Pavlidis
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
2008
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A database of phylogenetically atypical genes in archaeal and bacterial genomes, identified using the DarkHorse algorithm
Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...
Sheila Podell, Terry Gaasterland, Eric E. Allen