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BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Flexible taxonomic assignment of ambiguous sequencing reads
Background: To characterize the diversity of bacterial populations in metagenomic studies, sequencing reads need to be accurately assigned to taxonomic units in a given reference ...
José Carlos Clemente, Jesper Jansson, Gabri...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
PICS-Ord: Unlimited Coding of Ambiguous Regions by Pairwise Identity and Cost Scores Ordination
Background: We present a novel method to encode ambiguously aligned regions in fixed multiple sequence alignments by ‘Pairwise Identity and Cost Scores Ordination’ (PICS-Ord)....
Robert K. Luecking, Brendan P. Hodkinson, Alexandr...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Context-dependent transcriptional regulations between signal transduction pathways
Background: Cells coordinate their metabolism, proliferation, and cellular communication according to environmental cues through signal transduction. Because signal transduction h...
Sohyun Hwang, Sangwoo Kim, Heesung Shin, Doheon Le...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Logical Development of the Cell Ontology
Background: The Cell Ontology (CL) is an ontology for the representation of in vivo cell types. As biological ontologies such as the CL grow in complexity, they become increasingl...
Terrence F. Meehan, Anna Maria Masci, Amina Abdull...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Using Stochastic Causal Trees to Augment Bayesian Networks for Modeling eQTL Datasets
Background: The combination of genotypic and genome-wide expression data arising from segregating populations offers an unprecedented opportunity to model and dissect complex phen...
Kyle C. Chipman, Ambuj K. Singh
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
N-gram analysis of 970 microbial organisms reveals presence of biological language models
Background: It has been suggested previously that genome and proteome sequences show characteristics typical of natural-language texts such as “signature-style” word usage ind...
Hatice U. Osmanbeyoglu, Madhavi Ganapathiraju
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
CNV-WebStore: Online CNV Analysis, Storage and Interpretation
Background: Microarray technology allows the analysis of genomic aberrations at an ever increasing resolution, making functional interpretation of these vast amounts of data the m...
Geert Vandeweyer, Edwin Reyniers, Wim Wuyts, Liesb...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A Platform for Processing Expression of Short Time Series (PESTS)
Background: Time course microarray profiles examine the expression of genes over a time domain. They are necessary in order to determine the complete set of genes that are dynamic...
Anshu Sinha, Marianthi Markatou
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Pathway-based analysis using reduced gene subsets in genome-wide association studies
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) analysis only captures a small proportion of associated genetic variants in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) partly due to s...
Jingyuan Zhao, Simone Gupta, Mark Seielstad, Jianj...