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BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
A comparison and user-based evaluation of models of textual information structure in the context of cancer risk assessment
Background: Many practical tasks in biomedicine require accessing specific types of information in scientific literature; e.g. information about the results or conclusions of the ...
Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, Maria Liakata, Ilona Sil...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
LabKey Server: An open source platform for scientific data integration, analysis and collaboration
Background: Broad-based collaborations are becoming increasingly common among disease researchers. For example, the Global HIV Enterprise has united cross-disciplinary consortia t...
Elizabeth K. Nelson, Britt Piehler, Josh Eckels, A...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves
Background: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are useful tools to evaluate classifiers in biomedical and bioinformatics applications. However, conclusions are often r...
Xavier Robin, Natacha Turck, Alexandre Hainard, Na...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Outer membrane proteins can be simply identified using secondary structure element alignment
Background: Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are frequently found in the outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts and have been found to play diverse...
Ren-Xiang Yan, Zhen Chen, Ziding Zhang
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Meta-analysis of gene expression microarrays with missing replicates
Background: Many different microarray experiments are publicly available today. It is natural to ask whether different experiments for the same phenotypic conditions can be combin...
Fan Shi, Gad Abraham, Christopher Leckie, Izhak Ha...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
The dChip survival analysis module for microarray data
Background: Genome-wide expression signatures are emerging as potential marker for overall survival and disease recurrence risk as evidenced by recent commercialization of gene ex...
Samir B. Amin, Parantu K. Shah, Aimin Yan, Sophia ...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Motif-guided sparse decomposition of gene expression data for regulatory module identification
Background: Genes work coordinately as gene modules or gene networks. Various computational approaches have been proposed to find gene modules based on gene expression data; for e...
Ting Gong, Jianhua Xuan, Li Chen, Rebecca B. Riggi...