BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Advanced Text Mining (TM) such as semantic enrichment of papers, event or relation extraction, and intelligent Question Answering have increasingly attracted attention...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: The structure of many eukaryotic cell regulatory proteins is highly modular. They are assembled from globular domains, segments of natively disordered polypeptides and...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: For the past few years, scientific controversy has surrounded the large number of errors in forensic and literature mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data. However, recent res...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Non-sequence gene data (images, literature, etc.) can be found in many different public databases. Access to these data is mostly by text based methods using gene name...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Several eukaryotic proteins associated to the extracellular leaflet of the plasma membrane carry a Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor, which is linked to the C-...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Identification of biomarkers among thousands of genes arrayed for disease classification has been the subject of considerable research in recent years. These studies h...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
nd: Biological pathways are a useful abstraction of biological concepts, and software tools to deal with pathway diagrams can help biological research. PathVisio is a new visualiz...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Array-based comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) is commonly used to determine the genomic content of bacterial strains. Since prokaryotes in general have less cons...
BMCBI
2008
2008
RPPAML/RIMS: A metadata format and an information management system for reverse phase protein arrays
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Background: Reverse Phase Protein Arrays (RPPA) are convenient assay platforms to investigate the presence of biomarkers in tissue lysates. As with other high-throughput technolog...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: As one of the most common protein post-translational modifications, glycosylation is involved in a variety of important biological processes. Computational identificat...