Background: Schizophrenia is a complex disease with multiple factors contributing to its pathogenesis. In addition to environmental factors, genetic factors may also increase susc...
Background: Like text in other domains, biomedical documents contain a range of terms with more than one possible meaning. These ambiguities form a significant obstacle to the aut...
Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo, Robert J. Gaizauskas, D...
Background: Protein identification is one of the most challenging problems in proteomics. Tandem mass spectrometry provides an important tool to handle the protein identification ...
Sara Brunetti, Elena Lodi, Elisa Mori, Maria Stell...
Background: Data clustering is a powerful technique for identifying data with similar characteristics, such as genes with similar expression patterns. However, not all implementat...
Background: Research in life sciences is benefiting from a large availability of formal description techniques and analysis methodologies. These allow both the phenomena investiga...
Andrea Bracciali, Marcello Brunelli, Enrico Catald...
Background: The indexing of scientific literature and content is a relevant and contemporary requirement within life science information systems. Navigating information available ...
Christopher J. O. Baker, Kanagasabai Rajaraman, We...
To address the challenges of information integration and retrieval, the computational genomics community increasingly has come to rely on the methodology of creating annotations o...
David P. Hill, Barry Smith, Monica S. McAndrews-Hi...
Background: Biological chemistry is very stereospecific. Nonetheless, the diastereotopic oxygen atoms of diphosphate-containing molecules in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) are often ...
Background: MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNA gene products that play diversified roles from species to species. The explosive growth of microRNA researches in recent years prove...
Wing-Sze Leung, Marie C. M. Lin, David Wai-Lok Che...