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BMCBI
2007
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Constructing gene co-expression networks and predicting functions of unknown genes by random matrix theory
Background: Large-scale sequencing of entire genomes has ushered in a new age in biology. One of the next grand challenges is to dissect the cellular networks consisting of many i...
Feng Luo, Yunfeng Yang, Jianxin Zhong, Haichun Gao...
BMCBI
2007
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RepSeq - A database of amino acid repeats present in lower eukaryotic pathogens
Background: Amino acid repeat-containing proteins have a broad range of functions and their identification is of relevance to many experimental biologists. In human-infective prot...
Daniel P. Depledge, Ryan P. J. Lower, Deborah F. S...
BMCBI
2007
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MATLIGN: a motif clustering, comparison and matching tool
Background: Sequence motifs representing transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) are commonly encoded as position frequency matrices (PFM) or degenerate consensus sequences (CS)...
Matti Kankainen, Ari Löytynoja
BMCBI
2007
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160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...
Isaac T. S. Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong
BMCBI
2007
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Discovering biomarkers from gene expression data for predicting cancer subgroups using neural networks and relational fuzzy clus
Background: The four heterogeneous childhood cancers, neuroblastoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and Ewing sarcoma present a similar histology of small round blue cell...
Nikhil R. Pal, Kripamoy Aguan, Animesh Sharma, Shu...
BMCBI
2007
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OReFiL: an online resource finder for life sciences
Background: Many online resources for the life sciences have been developed and introduced in peer-reviewed papers recently, ranging from databases and web applications to data-an...
Yasunori Yamamoto, Toshihisa Takagi
BMCBI
2007
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Characterization and simulation of cDNA microarray spots using a novel mathematical model
Background: The quality of cDNA microarray data is crucial for expanding its application to other research areas, such as the study of gene regulatory networks. Despite the fact t...
Hye Young Kim, Seo Eun Lee, Min Jung Kim, Jin Il H...
BMCBI
2007
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A constrained polynomial regression procedure for estimating the local False Discovery Rate
Background: In the context of genomic association studies, for which a large number of statistical tests are performed simultaneously, the local False Discovery Rate (lFDR), which...
Cyril Dalmasso, Avner Bar-Hen, Philippe Broët
BMCBI
2007
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Improving model construction of profile HMMs for remote homology detection through structural alignment
Background: Remote homology detection is a challenging problem in Bioinformatics. Arguably, profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMMs) are one of the most successful approaches in addre...
Juliana S. Bernardes, Alberto M. R. Dávila,...
BMCBI
2007
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Requirements and ontology for a G protein-coupled receptor oligomerization knowledge base
Background: G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) are a large and diverse family of membrane proteins whose members participate in the regulation of most cellular and physiological ...
Lucy Skrabanek, Marta Murcia, Michel Bouvier, Laks...