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BMCBI
2010
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A grammar-based distance metric enables fast and accurate clustering of large sets of 16S sequences
Background: We propose a sequence clustering algorithm and compare the partition quality and execution time of the proposed algorithm with those of a popular existing algorithm. T...
David J. Russell, Samuel F. Way, Andrew K. Benson,...
BMCBI
2010
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BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level
Background: The opportunities for bacterial population genomics that are being realised by the application of parallel nucleotide sequencing require novel bioinformatics platforms...
Keith A. Jolley, Martin C. J. Maiden
BMCBI
2010
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Computing DNA duplex instability profiles efficiently with a two-state model: trends of promoters and binding sites
Background: DNA instability profiles have been used recently for predicting the transcriptional start site and the location of core promoters, and to gain insight into promoter ac...
Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Zoi Rapti, Vladimir Gelev, ...
BMCBI
2010
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Comparison of Beta-value and M-value methods for quantifying methylation levels by microarray analysis
Background: High-throughput profiling of DNA methylation status of CpG islands is crucial to understand the epigenetic regulation of genes. The microarray-based Infinium methylati...
Pan Du, Xiao Zhang, Chiang-Ching Huang, Nadereh Ja...
BMCBI
2010
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Kernel based methods for accelerated failure time model with ultra-high dimensional data
Background: Most genomic data have ultra-high dimensions with more than 10,000 genes (probes). Regularization methods with L1 and Lp penalty have been extensively studied in survi...
Zhenqiu Liu, Dechang Chen, Ming Tan, Feng Jiang, R...
BMCBI
2010
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The complexity of gene expression dynamics revealed by permutation entropy
Background: High complexity is considered a hallmark of living systems. Here we investigate the complexity of temporal gene expression patterns using the concept of Permutation En...
Xiaoliang Sun, Yong Zou, Victoria J. Nikiforova, J...
BMCBI
2010
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New insights into protein-protein interaction data lead to increased estimates of the S. cerevisiae interactome size
Background: As protein interactions mediate most cellular mechanisms, protein-protein interaction networks are essential in the study of cellular processes. Consequently, several ...
Laure Sambourg, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
BMCBI
2010
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The INTERPRET Decision-Support System version 3.0 for evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy data from human brain tumour
Background: Proton Magnetic Resonance (MR) Spectroscopy (MRS) is a widely available technique for those clinical centres equipped with MR scanners. Unlike the rest of MR-based tec...
Alexander Pérez-Ruiz, Margarida Julià...
BMCBI
2010
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Application of Wavelet Packet Transform to detect genetic polymorphisms by the analysis of inter-Alu PCR patterns
Background: The analysis of Inter-Alu PCR patterns obtained from human genomic DNA samples is a promising technique for a simultaneous analysis of many genomic loci flanked by Alu...
Maurizio Cardelli, Matteo Nicoli, Armando Bazzani,...