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BMCBI
2008
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Methodology capture: discriminating between the "best" and the rest of community practice
Background: The methodologies we use both enable and help define our research. However, as experimental complexity has increased the choice of appropriate methodologies has become...
James M. Eales, John W. Pinney, Robert D. Stevens,...
BMCBI
2008
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Genome-scale study of the importance of binding site context for transcription factor binding and gene regulation
Background: The rate of mRNA transcription is controlled by transcription factors that bind to specific DNA motifs in promoter regions upstream of protein coding genes. Recent res...
Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Feifei Xu, Hans Ronne,...
BMCBI
2008
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Genetic weighted k-means algorithm for clustering large-scale gene expression data
Background: The traditional (unweighted) k-means is one of the most popular clustering methods for analyzing gene expression data. However, it suffers three major shortcomings. It...
Fang-Xiang Wu
BMCBI
2008
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Classification of premalignant pancreatic cancer mass-spectrometry data using decision tree ensembles
Background: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Consequently, identification of clinically relevant biomarkers for the early detect...
Guangtao Ge, G. William Wong
BMCBI
2008
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Protein structure search and local structure characterization
Background: Structural similarities among proteins can provide valuable insight into their functional mechanisms and relationships. As the number of available three-dimensional (3...
Shih-Yen Ku, Yuh-Jyh Hu
BMCBI
2008
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Supervised inference of gene-regulatory networks
Cuong To, Jiri Vohradsky
BMCBI
2008
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PageRank without hyperlinks: Reranking with PubMed related article networks for biomedical text retrieval
Background: Graph analysis algorithms such as PageRank and HITS have been successful in Web environments because they are able to extract important inter-document relationships fr...
Jimmy J. Lin
BMCBI
2008
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Systematic identification of yeast cell cycle transcription factors using multiple data sources
Background: Eukaryotic cell cycle is a complex process and is precisely regulated at many levels. Many genes specific to the cell cycle are regulated transcriptionally and are exp...
Wei-Sheng Wu, Wen-Hsiung Li
BMCBI
2008
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Generating samples for association studies based on HapMap data
Background: With the completion of the HapMap project, a variety of computational algorithms and tools have been proposed for haplotype inference, tag SNP selection and genome-wid...
Jing Li, Yixuan Chen