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BMCBI
2008
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Parallel and serial computing tools for testing single-locus and epistatic SNP effects of quantitative traits in genome-wide ass
Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers provide opportunities to detect epistatic SNPs associated with quantitative t...
Li Ma, H. Birali Runesha, Daniel Dvorkin, John R. ...
BMCBI
2008
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NullHap - a versatile application to estimate haplotype frequencies from unphased genotypes in the presence of null alleles
Background: Laboratory techniques used to determine haplotypes are often too expensive for large-scale studies and lack of phase information is commonly overcome using likelihood-...
Robert M. Nowak, Rafal Ploski
BMCBI
2008
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Unsupervised reduction of random noise in complex data by a row-specific, sorted principal component-guided method
Background: Large biological data sets, such as expression profiles, benefit from reduction of random noise. Principal component (PC) analysis has been used for this purpose, but ...
Joseph W. Foley, Fumiaki Katagiri
BMCBI
2008
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CORE_TF: a user-friendly interface to identify evolutionary conserved transcription factor binding sites in sets of co-regulated
Background: The identification of transcription factor binding sites is difficult since they are only a small number of nucleotides in size, resulting in large numbers of false po...
Matthew S. Hestand, Michiel van Galen, Michel P. V...
BMCBI
2008
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Novel methodology for construction and pruning of quasi-median networks
Background: Visualising the evolutionary history of a set of sequences is a challenge for molecular phylogenetics. One approach is to use undirected graphs, such as median network...
Sarah C. Ayling, Terence A. Brown
BMCBI
2008
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An enhanced partial order curve comparison algorithm and its application to analyzing protein folding trajectories
Background: Understanding how proteins fold is essential to our quest in discovering how life works at the molecular level. Current computation power enables researchers to produc...
Hong Sun, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Motonori Ota, Yus...
BMCBI
2008
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The comparative analysis of statistics, based on the likelihood ratio criterion, in the automated annotation problem
Background: This paper discusses the problem of automated annotation. It is a continuation of the previous work on the A4-algorithm (Adaptive algorithm of automated annotation) de...
Andrey M. Leontovich, Konstantin Y. Tokmachev, Han...
BMCBI
2008
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A PATO-compliant zebrafish screening database (MODB): management of morpholino knockdown screen information
Background: The zebrafish is a powerful model vertebrate amenable to high throughput in vivo genetic analyses. Examples include reverse genetic screens using morpholino knockdown,...
Michelle N. Knowlton, Tongbin Li, Yongliang Ren, B...
BMCBI
2008
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Semantic role labeling for protein transport predicates
Steven Bethard, Zhiyong Lu, James H. Martin, Lawre...
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2008
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A machine vision system for automated non-invasive assessment of cell viability via dark field microscopy, wavelet feature selec
Background: Cell viability is one of the basic properties indicating the physiological state of the cell, thus, it has long been one of the major considerations in biotechnologica...
Ning Wei, Erwin Flaschel, Karl Friehs, Tim W. Natt...