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BMCBI
2008
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Protein evolution driven by symmetric structural repeats
Anne-Laure Abraham, Joël Pothier, Eduardo P. ...
BMCBI
2008
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BioGraphE: high-performance bionetwork analysis using the Biological Graph Environment
Background: Graphs and networks are common analysis representations for biological systems. Many traditional graph algorithms such as k-clique, k-coloring, and subgraph matching h...
George Chin Jr., Daniel G. Chavarría-Mirand...
BMCBI
2008
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Mapping proteins to disease terminologies: from UniProt to MeSH
Background: Although the UniProt KnowledgeBase is not a medical-oriented database, it contains information on more than 2,000 human proteins involved in pathologies. However, thes...
Anaïs Mottaz, Yum Lina Yip, Patrick Ruch, Ann...
BMCBI
2008
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Gene Ontology density estimation and discourse analysis for automatic GeneRiF extraction
Background: This paper describes and evaluates a sentence selection engine that extracts a GeneRiF (Gene Reference into Functions) as defined in ENTREZ-Gene based on a MEDLINE rec...
Julien Gobeill, Imad Tbahriti, Frédé...
BMCBI
2008
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Ontology-based, Tissue MicroArray oriented, image centered tissue bank
Background: Tissue MicroArray technique is becoming increasingly important in pathology for the validation of experimental data from transcriptomic analysis. This approach produce...
Federica Viti, Ivan Merelli, Andrea Caprera, Barba...
BMCBI
2008
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Application of the Linux cluster for exhaustive window haplotype analysis using the FBAT and Unphased programs
Background: Genetic association studies have been used to map disease-causing genes. A newly introduced statistical method, called exhaustive haplotype association study, analyzes...
Hiroyuki Mishima, Andrew C. Lidral, Jun Ni
BMCBI
2008
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Terminologies for text-mining; an experiment in the lipoprotein metabolism domain
Background: The engineering of ontologies, especially with a view to a text-mining use, is still a new research field. There does not yet exist a well-defined theory and technolog...
Dimitra Alexopoulou, Thomas Wächter, Laura Pi...
BMCBI
2008
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Validation of an NSP-based (negative selection pattern) gene family identification strategy
Background: Gene family identification from ESTs can be a valuable resource for analysis of genome evolution but presents unique challenges in organisms for which the entire genom...
Ronald L. Frank, Cyriac Kandoth, Fikret Erç...
BMCBI
2008
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Word correlation matrices for protein sequence analysis and remote homology detection
Background: Classification of protein sequences is a central problem in computational biology. Currently, among computational methods discriminative kernel-based approaches provid...
Thomas Lingner, Peter Meinicke
BMCBI
2008
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SCPRED: Accurate prediction of protein structural class for sequences of twilight-zone similarity with predicting sequences
Background: Protein structure prediction methods provide accurate results when a homologous protein is predicted, while poorer predictions are obtained in the absence of homologou...
Lukasz A. Kurgan, Krzysztof J. Cios, Ke Chen 0003