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BMCBI
2007
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msBayes: Pipeline for testing comparative phylogeographic histories using hierarchical approximate Bayesian computation
Background: Although testing for simultaneous divergence (vicariance) across different population-pairs that span the same barrier to gene flow is of central importance to evoluti...
Michael J. Hickerson, Eli Stahl, Naoki Takebayashi
BMCBI
2007
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Benchmarking natural-language parsers for biological applications using dependency graphs
Background: Interest is growing in the application of syntactic parsers to natural language processing problems in biology, but assessing their performance is difficult because di...
Andrew B. Clegg, Adrian J. Shepherd
BMCBI
2007
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NeuroTerrain - a client-server system for browsing 3D biomedical image data sets
Background: Three dimensional biomedical image sets are becoming ubiquitous, along with the canonical atlases providing the necessary spatial context for analysis. To make full us...
Carl Gustafson, William J. Bug, Jonathan Nissanov
BMCBI
2007
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Characterization of protein-interaction networks in tumors
Background: Analyzing differential-gene-expression data in the context of protein-interaction networks (PINs) yields information on the functional cellular status. PINs can be for...
Alexander Platzer, Paul Perco, Arno Lukas, Bernd M...
BMCBI
2007
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Computational analysis of the relationship between allergenicity and digestibility of allergenic proteins in simulated gastric f
Background: Safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) food, with regard to allergenic potential of transgene-encoded xenoproteins, typically involves several different method...
Bingjun Jiang, Hong Qu, Yuanlei Hu, Ting Ni, Zhong...
BMCBI
2007
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ASMPKS: an analysis system for modular polyketide synthases
Background: Polyketides are secondary metabolites of microorganisms with diverse biological activities, including pharmacological functions such as antibiotic, antitumor and agroc...
Hongseok Tae, Eun-Bae Kong, Kiejung Park
BMCBI
2007
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Benchmarking consensus model quality assessment for protein fold recognition
Background: Selecting the highest quality 3D model of a protein structure from a number of alternatives remains an important challenge in the field of structural bioinformatics. M...
Liam J. McGuffin
BMCBI
2007
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PARE: A tool for comparing protein abundance and mRNA expression data
Background: Techniques for measuring protein abundance are rapidly advancing and we are now in a situation where we anticipate many protein abundance data sets will be available i...
Eric Z. Yu, Anne E. Counterman Burba, Mark Gerstei...
BMCBI
2007
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PathFinder: mining signal transduction pathway segments from protein-protein interaction networks
Background: A Signal transduction pathway is the chain of processes by which a cell converts an extracellular signal into a response. In most unicellular organisms, the number of ...
Gürkan Bebek, Jiong Yang