Background: Present-day `-omics' technologies produce overwhelming amounts of data which include genome sequences, information on gene expression (transcripts and proteins) a...
Maria Luisa Chiusano, Nunzio D'Agostino, Alessandr...
Background: Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are crucial in the regulation of gene transcription. Recently, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by cDNA microarray hyb...
Background: Many bioinformatics applications rely on controlled vocabularies or ontologies to consistently interpret and seamlessly integrate information scattered across public r...
Irena Spasic, Daniel Schober, Susanna-Assunta Sans...
Background: Network Component Analysis (NCA) has shown its effectiveness in discovering regulators and inferring transcription factor activities (TFAs) when both microarray data a...
Chen Wang, Jianhua Xuan, Li Chen, Po Zhao, Yue Wan...
Background: Associating literature with pathways poses new challenges to the Text Mining (TM) community. There are three main challenges to this task: (1) the identification of th...
Kanae Oda, Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Daisuke Okan...
This paper describes the use and customization of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to infer indexing rules from MEDLINE citations. Preliminary results suggest this method may enh...
Background: In the study of adaptive evolution, it is important to detect the protein coding sites where natural selection is acting. In general, the ratio of the rate of non-syno...
Yong Seok Lee, Tae-Hyung Kim, Tae-Wook Kang, Won-H...
Background: Localization of complex traits by genetic linkage analysis may involve exploration of a vast multidimensional parameter space. The posterior probability of linkage (PP...
Manika Govil, Alberto Maria Segre, Veronica J. Vie...