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BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating developmental states of tumors and normal tissues using a linear time-ordered model
Background: Tumor cells are considered to have an aberrant cell state, and some evidence indicates different development states appearing in the tumorigenesis. Embryonic developme...
Bo Zhang, Beibei Chen, Tao Wu, Zhenyu Xuan, Xiaope...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A quality metric for homology modeling: the H-factor
Background: The analysis of protein structures provides fundamental insight into most biochemical functions and consequently into the cause and possible treatment of diseases. As ...
Eric di Luccio, Patrice Koehl
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A novel approach to the clustering of microarray data via nonparametric density estimation
Background: Cluster analysis is a crucial tool in several biological and medical studies dealing with microarray data. Such studies pose challenging statistical problems due to di...
Riccardo De Bin, Davide Risso
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
RAIphy: Phylogenetic classification of metagenomics samples using iterative refinement of relative abundance index profiles
Background: Computational analysis of metagenomes requires the taxonomical assignment of the genome contigs assembled from DNA reads of environmental samples. Because of the diver...
Ozkan U. Nalbantoglu, Samuel F. Way, Steven H. Hin...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Accurate statistics for local sequence alignment with position-dependent scoring by rare-event sampling
Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons
Background: In many environmental genomics applications a homologous region of DNA from a diverse sample is first amplified by PCR and then sequenced. The next generation sequenci...
Christopher Quince, Anders Lanzén, Russell ...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
ChIPseqR: Analysis of ChIP-seq Experiments
Peter Humburg, Chris A. Helliwell, David Bulger, G...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
DoBo: Protein domain boundary prediction by integrating evolutionary signals and machine learning
Background: Accurate identification of protein domain boundaries is useful for protein structure determination and prediction. However, predicting protein domain boundaries from a...
Jesse Eickholt, Xin Deng, Jianlin Cheng
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Dr. PIAS: an integrative system for assessing the druggability of protein-protein interactions
Background: The amount of data on protein-protein interactions (PPIs) available in public databases and in the literature has rapidly expanded in recent years. PPI data can provid...
Nobuyoshi Sugaya, Toshio Furuya
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
RedundancyMiner: De-replication of redundant GO categories in microarray and proteomics analysis
Background: The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium organizes genes into hierarchical categories based on biological process, molecular function and subcellular localization. Tools such...
Barry Zeeberg, Hongfang Liu, Ari B. Kahn, Martin E...