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BMCBI
2008
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Merging microsatellite data: enhanced methodology and software to combine genotype data for linkage and association analysis
Background: Correctly merged data sets that have been independently genotyped can increase statistical power in linkage and association studies. However, alleles from microsatelli...
Angela P. Presson, Eric M. Sobel, Paivi Pajukanta,...
BMCBI
2008
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Probe signal correction for differential methylation hybridization experiments
Background: Non-biological signal (or noise) has been the bane of microarray analysis. Hybridization effects related to probe-sequence composition and DNA dye-probe interactions h...
Dustin P. Potter, Pearlly Yan, Tim Hui-Ming Huang,...
BMCBI
2008
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13C labeling experiments at metabolic nonstationary conditions: An exploratory study
Background: Stimulus Response Experiments to unravel the regulatory properties of metabolic networks are becoming more and more popular. However, their ability to determine enzyme...
Sebastian Aljoscha Wahl, Katharina Nöh, Wolfg...
BMCBI
2008
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Structural descriptor database: a new tool for sequence-based functional site prediction
Background: The Structural Descriptor Database (SDDB) is a web-based tool that predicts the function of proteins and functional site positions based on the structural properties o...
Juliana S. Bernardes, Jorge H. Fernandez, Ana Tere...
BMCBI
2008
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Nuclear staining and relative distance for quantifying epidermal differentiation in biomarker expression profiling
Background: The epidermal physiology results from a complex regulated homeostasis of keratinocyte proliferation, differentiation and death and is tightly regulated by a specific p...
Thora Pommerencke, Thorsten Steinberg, Hartmut Dic...
BMCBI
2008
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Mining phenotypes for gene function prediction
Background: Health and disease of organisms are reflected in their phenotypes. Often, a genetic component to a disease is discovered only after clearly defining its phenotype. In ...
Philip Groth, Bertram Weiss, Hans-Dieter Pohlenz, ...
BMCBI
2008
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A mixture model approach to sample size estimation in two-sample comparative microarray experiments
Background: Choosing the appropriate sample size is an important step in the design of a microarray experiment, and recently methods have been proposed that estimate sample sizes ...
Tommy S. Jørstad, Herman Midelfart, Atle M....
BMCBI
2008
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Subfamily specific conservation profiles for proteins based on n-gram patterns
Background: A new algorithm has been developed for generating conservation profiles that reflect the evolutionary history of the subfamily associated with a query sequence. It is ...
John K. Vries, Xiong Liu