BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Interaction data for a given protein may be spread across multiple databases. We set out to create a unifying index that would facilitate searching for these data and ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Reliable prediction of antibody, or B-cell, epitopes remains challenging yet highly desirable for the design of vaccines and immunodiagnostics. A correlation between a...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: A better understanding of the mechanisms involved in gas-phase fragmentation of peptides is essential for the development of more reliable algorithms for high-throughp...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: The information from different data sets experimented under different conditions may be inconsistent even though they are performed with the same research objectives. ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: This paper addresses key biological problems and statistical issues in the analysis of large gene expression data sets that describe systemic temporal response cascade...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Repbase is a reference database of eukaryotic repetitive DNA, which includes prototypic sequences of repeats and basic information described in annotations. Repbase al...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Although carbohydrates are the third major class of biological macromolecules, after proteins and DNA, there is neither a comprehensive database for carbohydrate struc...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: The exponential growth of research in molecular biology has brought concomitant proliferation of databases for stocking its findings. A variety of protein sequence dat...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Translation initiation site (TIS) identification is an important aspect of the gene annotation process, requisite for the accurate delineation of protein sequences fro...