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BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
PhyloSim - Monte Carlo simulation of sequence evolution in the R statistical computing environment
Background: The Monte Carlo simulation of sequence evolution is routinely used to assess the performance of phylogenetic inference methods and sequence alignment algorithms. Progr...
Botond Sipos, Tim Massingham, Gregory E. Jordan, N...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
PheMaDB: A solution for storage, retrieval, and analysis of high throughput phenotype data
Background: OmniLog™ phenotype microarrays (PMs) have the capability to measure and compare the growth responses of biological samples upon exposure to hundreds of growth condit...
Wenling E. Chang, Keri Sarver, Brandon W. Higgs, T...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Ultra-fast sequence clustering from similarity networks with SiLiX
Background: The number of gene sequences that are available for comparative genomics approaches is increasing extremely quickly. A current challenge is to be able to handle this h...
Vincent Miele, Simon Penel, Laurent Duret
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Was the Scanner Calibration Slide Used for Its Intended Purpose?
In the article, Scanner calibration revisited, BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:361, Dr. Pozhitkov used the Scanner Calibration Slide, a key product of Full Moon BioSystems to generate...
Shannon Zhang, Yaping Zong
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
MixtureTree: a program for constructing phylogeny
Shu-Chuan Chen, Michael S. Rosenberg, Bruce G. Lin...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
SAQC: SNP array quality control
Background: Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays containing hundreds of thousands of SNPs from the human genome have proven useful for studying important human ...
Hsin-Chou Yang, Hsin-Chi Lin, Meijyh Kang, Chun-Ho...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Multithreaded comparative RNA secondary structure prediction using stochastic context-free grammars
Background: The prediction of the structure of large RNAs remains a particular challenge in bioinformatics, due to the computational complexity and low levels of accuracy of state...
Zsuzsanna Sukosd, Bjarne Knudsen, Morten Vaerum, J...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
SNP-based pathway enrichment analysis for genome-wide association studies
Background: Recently we have witnessed a surge of interest in using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to discover the genetic basis of complex diseases. Many genetic variatio...
Lingjie Weng, Fabio Macciardi, Aravind Subramanian...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Assessing the benefits of using mate-pairs to resolve repeats in de novo short-read prokaryotic assemblies
Background: Next-generation sequencing technologies allow genomes to be sequenced more quickly and less expensively than ever before. However, as sequencing technology has improve...
Joshua Wetzel, Carl Kingsford, Mihai Pop
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
CDAO-Store: Ontology-driven Data Integration for Phylogenetic Analysis
Brandon Chisham, Ben Wright, Trung Le, Tran Cao So...