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BMCBI
2008
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Impact of residue accessible surface area on the prediction of protein secondary structures
Background: The problem of accurate prediction of protein secondary structure continues to be one of the challenging problems in Bioinformatics. It has been previously suggested t...
Amir Momen-Roknabadi, Mehdi Sadeghi, Hamid Pezeshk...
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2008
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Integrated multi-level quality control for proteomic profiling studies using mass spectrometry
Background: Proteomic profiling using mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the most promising methods for the analysis of complex biological samples such as urine, serum and tissue fo...
David A. Cairns, David N. Perkins, Anthea J. Stanl...
BMCBI
2008
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Discovery of dominant and dormant genes from expression data using a novel generalization of SNR for multi-class problems
Background: The Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) is often used for identification of biomarkers for two-class problems and no formal and useful generalization of SNR is available for m...
Yu-Shuen Tsai, Chin-Teng Lin, George C. Tseng, I-F...
BMCBI
2008
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Normalization of Illumina Infinium whole-genome SNP data improves copy number estimates and allelic intensity ratios
Background: Illumina Infinium whole genome genotyping (WGG) arrays are increasingly being applied in cancer genomics to study gene copy number alterations and allele-specific aber...
Johan Staaf, Johan Vallon-Christersson, David Lind...
BMCBI
2008
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Identifying differential correlation in gene/pathway combinations
Rosemary Braun, Leslie Cope, Giovanni Parmigiani
BMCBI
2008
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Application of nonnegative matrix factorization to improve profile-profile alignment features for fold recognition and remote ho
Background: Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a feature extraction method that has the property of intuitive part-based representation of the original features. This uniqu...
Inkyung Jung, Jaehyung Lee, Soo-Young Lee, Dongsup...
BMCBI
2008
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RIPCAL: a tool for alignment-based analysis of repeat-induced point mutations in fungal genomic sequences
Background: Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) is a fungal-specific genome defence mechanism that alters the sequences of repetitive DNA, thereby inactivating coding genes. Repea...
James K. Hane, Richard P. Oliver
BMCBI
2008
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Predicting protein folding pathways at the mesoscopic level based on native interactions between secondary structure elements
Background: Since experimental determination of protein folding pathways remains difficult, computational techniques are often used to simulate protein folding. Most current techn...
Qingwu Yang, Sing-Hoi Sze
BMCBI
2008
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An efficient method for the prediction of deleterious multiple-point mutations in the secondary structure of RNAs using suboptim
Background: RNAmute is an interactive Java application which, given an RNA sequence, calculates the secondary structure of all single point mutations and organizes them into categ...
Alexander Churkin, Danny Barash
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2008
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Enhancing the prediction of protein pairings between interacting families using orthology information
Background: It has repeatedly been shown that interacting protein families tend to have similar phylogenetic trees. These similarities can be used to predicting the mapping betwee...
José M. G. Izarzugaza, David de Juan, Carle...