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BMCBI
2008
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MScanner: a classifier for retrieving Medline citations
Background: Keyword searching through PubMed and other systems is the standard means of retrieving information from Medline. However, ad-hoc retrieval systems do not meet all of t...
Graham L. Poulter, Daniel L. Rubin, Russ B. Altman...
BMCBI
2008
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New application of intelligent agents in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies unexpected specific genetic backgroun
Background: Few genetic factors predisposing to the sporadic form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been identified, but the pathology itself seems to be a true multifac...
Silvana Penco, Massimo Buscema, Maria Cristina Pat...
BMCBI
2008
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Mixture models for analysis of melting temperature data
Background: In addition to their use in detecting undesired real-time PCR products, melting temperatures are useful for detecting variations in the desired target sequences. Metho...
Christoffer Nellåker, Fredrik Uhrzander, Joa...
BMCBI
2008
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A comprehensive re-analysis of the Golden Spike data: Towards a benchmark for differential expression methods
Background: The Golden Spike data set has been used to validate a number of methods for summarizing Affymetrix data sets, sometimes with seemingly contradictory results. Much less...
Richard D. Pearson
BMCBI
2008
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Estimation and testing for the effect of a genetic pathway on a disease outcome using logistic kernel machine regression via log
Background: Growing interest on biological pathways has called for new statistical methods for modeling and testing a genetic pathway effect on a health outcome. The fact that gen...
Dawei Liu, Debashis Ghosh, Xihong Lin
BMCBI
2008
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SIGMA2: A system for the integrative genomic multi-dimensional analysis of cancer genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes
Background: High throughput microarray technologies have afforded the investigation of genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes at unprecedented resolution. However, software packa...
Raj Chari, Bradley P. Coe, Craig Wedseltoft, Marie...
BMCBI
2008
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Human Pol II promoter recognition based on primary sequences and free energy of dinucleotides
Background: Promoter region plays an important role in determining where the transcription of a particular gene should be initiated. Computational prediction of eukaryotic Pol II ...
Jian-Yi Yang, Yu Zhou, Zu-Guo Yu, Vo Anh, Li-Qian ...
BMCBI
2008
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Extended Newick: it is time for a standard representation of phylogenetic networks
Background: Phylogenetic trees resulting from molecular phylogenetic analysis are available in Newick format from specialized databases but when it comes to phylogenetic networks,...
Gabriel Cardona, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel...
BMCBI
2008
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An analysis of the positional distribution of DNA motifs in promoter regions and its biological relevance
Background: Motif finding algorithms have developed in their ability to use computationally efficient methods to detect patterns in biological sequences. However the posterior cla...
Ana C. Casimiro, Susana Vinga, Ana T. Freitas, Arl...