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BMCBI
2008
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Allowing for mandatory covariates in boosting estimation of sparse high-dimensional survival models
Background: When predictive survival models are built from high-dimensional data, there are often additional covariates, such as clinical scores, that by all means have to be incl...
Harald Binder, Martin Schumacher
BMCBI
2008
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Using Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) for normalization of cDNA microarray data
Background: Normalization is essential in dual-labelled microarray data analysis to remove nonbiological variations and systematic biases. Many normalization methods have been use...
Huiling Xiong, Dapeng Zhang, Christopher J. Martyn...
BMCBI
2008
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Predikin and PredikinDB: a computational framework for the prediction of protein kinase peptide specificity and an associated da
Background: We have previously described an approach to predicting the substrate specificity of serine-threonine protein kinases. The method, named Predikin, identifies key conser...
Neil F. W. Saunders, Ross I. Brinkworth, Thomas Hu...
BMCBI
2008
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Gene Prospector: An evidence gateway for evaluating potential susceptibility genes and interacting risk factors for human diseas
Background: Millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms have been identified as a result of the human genome project and the rapid advance of high throughput genotyping technology...
Wei Yu, Anja Wulf, Tiebin Liu, Muin J. Khoury, Mar...
BMCBI
2008
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Identification of Proteins Secreted by Malaria Parasite into Erythrocyte using SVM and PSSM profiles
Background: Malaria parasite secretes various proteins in infected RBC for its growth and survival. Thus identification of these secretory proteins is important for developing vac...
Ruchi Verma, Ajit Tiwari, Sukhwinder Kaur, Grish C...
BMCBI
2008
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A compatible exon-exon junction database for the identification of exon skipping events using tandem mass spectrum data
Background: Alternative splicing is an important gene regulation mechanism. It is estimated that about 74% of multi-exon human genes have alternative splicing. High throughput tan...
Fan Mo, Xu Hong, Feng Gao, Lin Du, Jun Wang, Gilbe...
BMCBI
2008
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HAPSIMU: a genetic simulation platform for population-based association studies
Background: Population structure is an important cause leading to inconsistent results in population-based association studies (PBAS) of human diseases. Various statistical method...
Feng Zhang, Jianfeng Liu, Jie Chen, Hong-Wen Deng
BMCBI
2008
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CBESW: Sequence Alignment on the Playstation 3
Background: The exponential growth of available biological data has caused bioinformatics to be rapidly moving towards a data-intensive, computational science. As a result, the co...
Adrianto Wirawan, Chee Keong Kwoh, Nim Tri Hieu, B...
BMCBI
2008
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Statistical methodology for the analysis of dye-switch microarray experiments
Background: In individually dye-balanced microarray designs, each biological sample is hybridized on two different slides, once with Cy3 and once with Cy5. While this strategy ens...
Tristan Mary-Huard, Julie Aubert, Nadera Mansouri-...