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BMCBI
2010
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eCOMPAGT integrates mtDNA: import, validation and export of mitochondrial DNA profiles for population genetics, tumour dynamics
Background: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is widely being used for population genetics, forensic DNA fingerprinting and clinical disease association studies. The recent past has uncov...
Hansi Weißensteiner, Sebastian Schönher...
BMCBI
2010
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Evaluation of statistical methods for normalization and differential expression in mRNA-Seq experiments
Background: High-throughput sequencing technologies, such as the Illumina Genome Analyzer, are powerful new tools for investigating a wide range of biological and medical question...
James H. Bullard, Elizabeth Purdom, Kasper D. Hans...
BMCBI
2010
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Modeling expression quantitative trait loci in data combining ethnic populations
Background: Combining data from different ethnic populations in a study can increase efficacy of methods designed to identify expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) compared to...
Ching-Lin Hsiao, Ie-Bin Lian, Ai-Ru Hsieh, Cathy S...
BMCBI
2010
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Modelling p-value distributions to improve theme-driven survival analysis of cancer transcriptome datasets
Background: Theme-driven cancer survival studies address whether the expression signature of genes related to a biological process can predict patient survival time. Although this...
Esteban Czwan, Benedikt Brors, David Kipling
BMCBI
2010
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Improving pairwise sequence alignment accuracy using near-optimal protein sequence alignments
Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...