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BMCBI
2007
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A full Bayesian hierarchical mixture model for the variance of gene differential expression
Background: In many laboratory-based high throughput microarray experiments, there are very few replicates of gene expression levels. Thus, estimates of gene variances are inaccur...
Samuel O. M. Manda, Rebecca E. Walls, Mark S. Gilt...
BMCBI
2007
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A cis-regulatory logic simulator
Background: A major goal of computational studies of gene regulation is to accurately predict the expression of genes based on the cis-regulatory content of their promoters. The d...
Robert D. Zeigler, Jason Gertz, Barak A. Cohen
BMCBI
2007
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UbiProt: a database of ubiquitylated proteins
Background: Post-translational protein modification with ubiquitin, or ubiquitylation, is one of the hottest topics in a modern biology due to a dramatic impact on diverse metabol...
Alexander L. Chernorudskiy, Alejandro Garcia, Euge...
BMCBI
2007
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A Hidden Markov Model to estimate population mixture and allelic copy-numbers in cancers using Affymetrix SNP arrays
Background: Affymetrix SNP arrays can interrogate thousands of SNPs at the same time. This allows us to look at the genomic content of cancer cells and to investigate the underlyi...
Philippe Lamy, Claus L. Andersen, Lars Dyrskjot, N...
BMCBI
2007
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Orthology prediction at scalable resolution by phylogenetic tree analysis
Background: Orthology is one of the cornerstones of gene function prediction. Dividing the phylogenetic relations between genes into either orthologs or paralogs is however an ove...
René T. J. M. van der Heijden, Berend Snel,...
BMCBI
2007
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Efficient pairwise RNA structure prediction using probabilistic alignment constraints in Dynalign
Background: Joint alignment and secondary structure prediction of two RNA sequences can significantly improve the accuracy of the structural predictions. Methods addressing this p...
Arif Ozgun Harmanci, Gaurav Sharma, David H. Mathe...
BMCBI
2007
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Investigations into the relationship between feedback loops and functional importance of a signal transduction network based on
Background: A number of studies on biological networks have been carried out to unravel the topological characteristics that can explain the functional importance of network nodes...
Yung-Keun Kwon, Sun Shim Choi, Kwang-Hyun Cho
BMCBI
2007
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A comparison of Affymetrix gene expression arrays
Background: Affymetrix GeneChips™ are an important tool in many facets of biological research. Recently, notable design changes to the chips have been made. In this study, we us...
Mark D. Robinson, Terence P. Speed
BMCBI
2007
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Gene network interconnectedness and the generalized topological overlap measure
Background: Network methods are increasingly used to represent the interactions of genes and/ or proteins. Genes or proteins that are directly linked may have a similar biological...
Andy M. Yip, Steve Horvath
BMCBI
2007
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Automatic extraction of gene ontology annotation and its correlation with clusters in protein networks
Background: Uncovering cellular roles of a protein is a task of tremendous importance and complexity that requires dedicated experimental work as well as often sophisticated data ...
Nikolai Daraselia, Anton Yuryev, Sergei Egorov, Il...