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BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
PI: An open-source software package for validation of the SEQUEST result and visualization of mass spectrum
Background: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) has emerged as the leading method for high- throughput protein identification in proteomics. Recent technological breakthroughs have d...
Yantao Qiao, Hong Zhang, Dongbo Bu, Shiwei Sun
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
HomPPI: A Class of Sequence Homology Based Protein-Protein Interface Prediction Methods
Background: Although homology-based methods are among the most widely used methods for predicting the structure and function of proteins, the question as to whether interface sequ...
Li C. Xue, Drena Dobbs, Vasant Honavar
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Determinants of Antigenicity and Specificity in immune response for Protein Sequences
Background: Target specific antibodies are pivotal for the design of vaccines, immunodiagnostic tests, studies on proteomics for cancer biomarker discovery, identification of prot...
Yulong Wang, Wenjun Wu, Nicolas N. Negre, Kevin P....
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
In-silico prediction of disorder content using hybrid sequence representation
Background: Intrinsically disordered proteins play important roles in various cellular activities and their prevalence was implicated in a number of human diseases. The knowledge ...
Marcin J. Mizianty, Tuo Zhang, Bin Xue, Yaoqi Zhou...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
RegNetB: Predicting Relevant Regulator-Gene Relationships in Localized Prostate Tumor Samples
Background: A central question in cancer biology is what changes cause a healthy cell to form a tumor. Gene expression data could provide insight into this question, but it is dif...
Angel Alvarez, Peter J. Woolf
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Dissecting protein loops with a statistical scalpel suggests a functional implication of some structural motifs
Background: One of the strategies for protein function annotation is to search particular structural motifs that are known to be shared by proteins with a given function. Results:...
Leslie Regad, Juliette Martin, Anne-Claude Camprou...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
RAG: An Update to the RNA-As-Graphs Resource
Background: In 2004, we presented a web resource for stimulating the search for novel RNAs, RNA-As-Graphs (RAG), which classified, catalogued, and predicted RNA secondary structur...
Joseph A. Izzo, Namhee Kim, Shereef Elmetwaly, Tam...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Proportion statistics to detect differentially expressed genes: a comparison with log-ratio statistics
Background: In genetic transcription research, gene expression is typically reported in a test sample relative to a reference sample. Laboratory assays that measure gene expressio...
Tracy L. Bergemann, Jason Wilson
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
NeurphologyJ: an automatic neuronal morphology quantification method and its application in pharmacological discovery
Background: Automatic quantification of neuronal morphology from images of fluorescence microscopy plays an increasingly important role in high-content screenings. However, there ...
Shinn-Ying Ho, Chih-Yuan Chao, Hui-Ling Huang, Tza...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Software comparison for evaluating genomic copy number variation for Affymetrix 6.0 SNP array platform
Background: Copy number data are routinely being extracted from genome-wide association study chips using a variety of software. We empirically evaluated and compared four freely-...
Jeanette E. Eckel-Passow, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, S...