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BMCBI
2008
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Prediction of protein-protein binding site by using core interface residue and support vector machine
Background: The prediction of protein-protein binding site can provide structural annotation to the protein interaction data from proteomics studies. This is very important for th...
Nan Li, Zhonghua Sun, Fan Jiang
BMCBI
2008
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Improving the prediction of mRNA extremities in the parasitic protozoan Leishmania
Background: Leishmania and other members of the Trypanosomatidae family diverged early on in eukaryotic evolution and consequently display unique cellular properties. Their appare...
Martin Smith, Mathieu Blanchette, Barbara Papadopo...
BMCBI
2008
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A nonparametric model for quality control of database search results in shotgun proteomics
Background: Analysis of complex samples with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) has become routine in proteomic research. However, validation of database search results creates a bo...
Jiyang Zhang, Jianqi Li, Xin Liu, Hongwei Xie, Yun...
BMCBI
2008
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Increasing the efficiency of bacterial transcription simulations: When to exclude the genome without loss of accuracy
Background: Simulating the major molecular events inside an Escherichia coli cell can lead to a very large number of reactions that compose its overall behaviour. Not only should ...
Marco A. J. Iafolla, Guang Qiang Dong, David R. Mc...
BMCBI
2008
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Visualization of large influenza virus sequence datasets using adaptively aggregated trees with sampling-based subscale represen
Background: With the amount of influenza genome sequence data growing rapidly, researchers need machine assistance in selecting datasets and exploring the data. Enhanced visualiza...
Leonid Zaslavsky, Yiming Bao, Tatiana A. Tatusova
BMCBI
2008
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Gene Vector Analysis (Geneva): A unified method to detect differentially-regulated gene sets and similar microarray experiments
Background: Microarray experiments measure changes in the expression of thousands of genes. The resulting lists of genes with changes in expression are then searched for biologica...
Stephen W. Tanner, Pankaj Agarwal
BMCBI
2008
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Inferring transcriptional compensation interactions in yeast via stepwise structure equation modeling
Background: With the abundant information produced by microarray technology, various approaches have been proposed to infer transcriptional regulatory networks. However, few appro...
Grace S. Shieh, Chung-Ming Chen, Ching-Yun Yu, Jui...
BMCBI
2008
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GAPscreener: An automatic tool for screening human genetic association literature in PubMed using the support vector machine tec
Background: Synthesis of data from published human genetic association studies is a critical step in the translation of human genome discoveries into health applications. Although...
Wei Yu, Melinda Clyne, Siobhan M. Dolan, Ajay Yesu...
BMCBI
2008
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Evolutionary Pareto-optimization of stably folding peptides
Background: As a rule, peptides are more flexible and unstructured than proteins with their substantial stabilizing hydrophobic cores. Nevertheless, a few stably folding peptides ...
Wolfram Gronwald, Tim Hohm, Daniel Hoffmann