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BMCBI
2008
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LOMA: A fast method to generate efficient tagged-random primers despite amplification bias of random PCR on pathogens
Background: Pathogen detection using DNA microarrays has the potential to become a fast and comprehensive diagnostics tool. However, since pathogen detection chips currently utili...
Wah-Heng Lee, Christopher W. Wong, Wan Yee Leong, ...
BMCBI
2008
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Determining significance of pairwise co-occurrences of events in bursty sequences
Background: Event sequences where different types of events often occur close together arise, e.g., when studying potential transcription factor binding sites (TFBS, events) of ce...
Niina Haiminen, Heikki Mannila, Evimaria Terzi
BMCBI
2008
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EMAAS: An extensible grid-based Rich Internet Application for microarray data analysis and management
Background: Microarray experimentation requires the application of complex analysis methods as well as the use of non-trivial computer technologies to manage the resultant large d...
Geraint Barton, J. C. Abbott, Norie Chiba, D. W. H...
BMCBI
2008
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Peak intensity prediction in MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: A machine learning study to support quantitative proteomics
Background: Mass spectrometry is a key technique in proteomics and can be used to analyze complex samples quickly. One key problem with the mass spectrometric analysis of peptides...
Wiebke Timm, Alexandra Scherbart, Sebastian Bö...
BMCBI
2008
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easyExon - A Java-based GUI tool for processing and visualization of Affymetrix exon array data
Background: Alternative RNA splicing greatly increases proteome diversity and thereby contribute to species- or tissue-specific functions. The possibility to study alternative spl...
Ting-Yu Chang, Yin-Yi Li, Chih-Hung Jen, Tsun-Po Y...
BMCBI
2008
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A novel method for high accuracy sumoylation site prediction from protein sequences
Background: Protein sumoylation is an essential dynamic, reversible post translational modification that plays a role in dozens of cellular activities, especially the regulation o...
Jialin Xu, Yun He, Boqin Qiang, Jiangang Yuan, Xia...
BMCBI
2008
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Nonparametric relevance-shifted multiple testing procedures for the analysis of high-dimensional multivariate data with small sa
Background: In many research areas it is necessary to find differences between treatment groups with several variables. For example, studies of microarray data seek to find a sign...
Cornelia Frömke, Ludwig A. Hothorn, Siegfried...
BMCBI
2008
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Proteochemometric modeling of HIV protease susceptibility
Background: A major obstacle in treatment of HIV is the ability of the virus to mutate rapidly into drug-resistant variants. A method for predicting the susceptibility of mutated ...
Maris Lapinsh, Martin Eklund, Ola Spjuth, Peteris ...
BMCBI
2008
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Combining Shapley value and statistics to the analysis of gene expression data in children exposed to air pollution
Background: In gene expression analysis, statistical tests for differential gene expression provide lists of candidate genes having, individually, a sufficiently low p-value. Howe...
Stefano Moretti, Danitsja van Leeuwen, Hans Gmuend...