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BMCBI
2007
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Transcript-based redefinition of grouped oligonucleotide probe sets using AceView: High-resolution annotation for microarrays
Background: Extracting biological information from high-density Affymetrix arrays is a multi-step process that begins with the accurate annotation of microarray probes. Shortfalls...
Jun Lu, Joseph C. Lee, Marc L. Salit, Margaret C. ...
BMCBI
2007
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InPrePPI: an integrated evaluation method based on genomic context for predicting protein-protein interactions in prokaryotic ge
Background: Although many genomic features have been used in the prediction of proteinprotein interactions (PPIs), frequently only one is used in a computational method. After rea...
Jingchun Sun, Yan Sun, Guohui Ding, Qi Liu, Chuan ...
BMCBI
2007
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BranchClust: a phylogenetic algorithm for selecting gene families
Background: Automated methods for assembling families of orthologous genes include those based on sequence similarity scores and those based on phylogenetic approaches. The first ...
Maria S. Poptsova, J. Peter Gogarten
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2007
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Estimation of the number of extreme pathways for metabolic networks
Matthew Yeung, Ines Thiele, Bernhard O. Palsson
BMCBI
2007
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The reactive metabolite target protein database (TPDB) - a web-accessible resource
Background: The toxic effects of many simple organic compounds stem from their biotransformation to chemically reactive metabolites which bind covalently to cellular proteins. To ...
Robert P. Hanzlik, Yakov M. Koen, Bhargav Theertha...
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2007
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Computation of significance scores of unweighted Gene Set Enrichment Analyses
Background: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a computational method for the statistical evaluation of sorted lists of genes or proteins. Originally GSEA was developed for in...
Andreas Keller, Christina Backes, Hans-Peter Lenho...
BMCBI
2007
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SABERTOOTH: protein structural alignment based on a vectorial structure representation
Background: The task of computing highly accurate structural alignments of proteins in very short computation time is still challenging. This is partly due to the complexity of pr...
Florian Teichert, Ugo Bastolla, Markus Porto
BMCBI
2007
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h-Profile plots for the discovery and exploration of patterns in gene expression data with an application to time course data
Background: An ever increasing number of techniques are being used to find genes with similar profiles from microarray studies. Visualization of gene expression profiles can aid t...
Yvonne E. Pittelkow, Susan R. Wilson
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2007
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Discovering structural motifs using a structural alphabet: Application to magnesium-binding sites
Background: For many metalloproteins, sequence motifs characteristic of metal-binding sites have not been found or are so short that they would not be expected to be metal-specifi...
Minko Dudev, Carmay Lim
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2007
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The CRISPRdb database and tools to display CRISPRs and to generate dictionaries of spacers and repeats
Background: In Archeae and Bacteria, the repeated elements called CRISPRs for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" are believed to participate in ...
Ibtissem Grissa, Gilles Vergnaud, Christine Pource...