Background: Structure prediction of membrane proteins is still a challenging computational problem. Hidden Markov models (HMM) have been successfully applied to the problem of pre...
Piero Fariselli, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio
Background: The identification of mentions of gene or gene products in biomedical texts is a critical step in the development of text mining applications in biosciences. The compl...
Background: Population genetics studies based on the analysis of mtDNA and mitochondrial disease studies have produced a huge quantity of sequence data and related information. Th...
Background: The ESTree db http://www.itb.cnr.it/estree/ represents a collection of Prunus persica expressed sequenced tags (ESTs) and is intended as a resource for peach functiona...
Barbara Lazzari, Andrea Caprera, Alberto Vecchiett...
Background: The advent of the technology of DNA microarrays constitutes an epochal change in the classification and discovery of different types of cancer because the information ...
We present a maximum-entropy based system incorporating a diverse set of features for identifying genes and proteins in biomedical s. This system was entered in the BioCreative co...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Shipra Dingare, Christopher D. ...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Background: Systematic evaluation and study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) made possible by high throughput genotyping technologies and bioinformatics promises to provi...
Qian Xie, Luke D. Ratnasinghe, Huixiao Hong, Roger...
Background: Analysis of inherited diseases and their associated phenotypes is of great importance to gain knowledge of underlying genetic interactions and could ultimately give cl...
Marco Masseroli, Osvaldo Galati, Mauro Manzotti, K...
Background: Within the emerging field of text mining and statistical natural language processing (NLP) applied to biomedical articles, a broad variety of techniques have been deve...