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BMCBI
2006
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Recursive gene selection based on maximum margin criterion: a comparison with SVM-RFE
Background: In class prediction problems using microarray data, gene selection is essential to improve the prediction accuracy and to identify potential marker genes for a disease...
Satoshi Niijima, Satoru Kuhara
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2006
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Predicting protein subcellular locations using hierarchical ensemble of Bayesian classifiers based on Markov chains
Background: The subcellular location of a protein is closely related to its function. It would be worthwhile to develop a method to predict the subcellular location for a given pr...
Alla Bulashevska, Roland Eils
BMCBI
2006
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Correlated fragile site expression allows the identification of candidate fragile genes involved in immunity and associated with
Background: Common fragile sites (cfs) are specific regions in the human genome that are particularly prone to genomic instability under conditions of replicative stress. Several ...
Angela Re, Davide Corà, Alda Maria Puliti, ...
BMCBI
2006
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Feature selection using Haar wavelet power spectrum
Background: Feature selection is an approach to overcome the 'curse of dimensionality' in complex researches like disease classification using microarrays. Statistical m...
Prabakaran Subramani, Rajendra Sahu, Shekhar Verma
BMCBI
2006
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Taking U out, with two nucleases?
Background: REX1 and REX2 are protein components of the RNA editing complex (the editosome) and function as exouridylylases. The exact roles of REX1 and REX2 in the editosome are ...
I. Saira Mian, Elizabeth A. Worthey, Reza Salavati
BMCBI
2006
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ROKU: a novel method for identification of tissue-specific genes
Background: One of the important goals of microarray research is the identification of genes whose expression is considerably higher or lower in some tissues than in others. We wo...
Koji Kadota, Jiazhen Ye, Yuji Nakai, Tohru Terada,...
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2006
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bioNMF: a versatile tool for non-negative matrix factorization in biology
Background: In the Bioinformatics field, a great deal of interest has been given to Non-negative matrix factorization technique (NMF), due to its capability of providing new insig...
Alberto D. Pascual-Montano, Pedro Carmona-Saez, Mo...
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2006
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A maximum likelihood framework for protein design
Background: The aim of protein design is to predict amino-acid sequences compatible with a given target structure. Traditionally envisioned as a purely thermodynamic question, thi...
Claudia L. Kleinman, Nicolas Rodrigue, Céci...
BMCBI
2006
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Gene Designer: a synthetic biology tool for constructing artificial DNA segments
Background: Direct synthesis of genes is rapidly becoming the most efficient way to make functional genetic constructs and enables applications such as codon optimization, RNAi re...
Alan Villalobos, Jon E. Ness, Claes Gustafsson, Je...
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2006
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Novel knowledge-based mean force potential at the profile level
Background: The development and testing of functions for the modeling of protein energetics is an important part of current research aimed at understanding protein structure and f...
Qiwen Dong, Xiaolong Wang, Lei Lin