Sciweavers

BMCBI
2010
104views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Analysis of protein-protein docking decoys using interaction fingerprints: application to the reconstruction of CaM-ligand compl
Background: Protein-protein docking for proteins with large conformational changes was analyzed by using interaction fingerprints, one of the scales for measuring similarities amo...
Nobuyuki Uchikoga, Takatsugu Hirokawa
BMCBI
2010
126views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
A boosting method for maximizing the partial area under the ROC curve
Background: The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a fundamental tool to assess the discriminant performance for not only a single marker but also a score function c...
Osamu Komori, Shinto Eguchi
BMCBI
2010
115views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Importance of replication in analyzing time-series gene expression data: Corticosteroid dynamics and circadian patterns in rat l
Background: Microarray technology is a powerful and widely accepted experimental technique in molecular biology that allows studying genome wide transcriptional responses. However...
Tung T. Nguyen, Richard R. Almon, Debra C. DuBois,...
BMCBI
2010
84views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Testing the additional predictive value of high-dimensional molecular data
Background: While high-dimensional molecular data such as microarray gene expression data have been used for disease outcome prediction or diagnosis purposes for about ten years i...
Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Torsten Hothorn
BMCBI
2010
95views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Spatio-structural granularity of biological material entities
Background: With the continuously increasing demands on knowledge- and data-management that databases have to meet, ontologies and the theories of granularity they use become more...
Lars Vogt
BMCBI
2010
99views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
A statistical method for excluding non-variable CpG sites in high-throughput DNA methylation profiling
Background: High-throughput DNA methylation arrays are likely to accelerate the pace of methylation biomarker discovery for a wide variety of diseases. A potential problem with a ...
Hailong Meng, Andrew R. Joyce, Daniel E. Adkins, P...
BMCBI
2010
88views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
FastTagger: an efficient algorithm for genome-wide tag SNP selection using multi-marker linkage disequilibrium
Background: Human genome contains millions of common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and these SNPs play an important role in understanding the association between genetic ...
Guimei Liu, Yue Wang, Limsoon Wong
BMCBI
2010
139views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
MOTIPS: Automated Motif Analysis for Predicting Targets of Modular Protein Domains
Background: Many protein interactions, especially those involved in signaling, involve short linear motifs consisting of 5-10 amino acid residues that interact with modular protei...
Hugo Y. K. Lam, Philip M. Kim, Janine Mok, Raffi T...
BMCBI
2010
119views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-task learning for cross-platform siRNA efficacy prediction: an in-silico study
Background: Gene silencing using exogenous small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) is now a widespread molecular tool for gene functional study and new-drug target identification. The key...
Qi Liu, Qian Xu, Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Hong Xue, ...