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BMCBI
2010
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A model-independent approach to infer hierarchical codon substitution dynamics
Background: Codon substitution constitutes a fundamental process in molecular biology that has been studied extensively. However, prior studies rely on various assumptions, e.g. r...
Olof Görnerup, Martin Nilsson Jacobi
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2010
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A robust method for estimating gene expression states using Affymetrix microarray probe level data
Background: Microarray technology is a high-throughput method for measuring the expression levels of thousand of genes simultaneously. The observed intensities combine a non-speci...
Megu Ohtaki, Keiko Otani, Keiko Hiyama, Naomi Kame...
BMCBI
2010
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Semi-automated screening of biomedical citations for systematic reviews
Background: Systematic reviews address a specific clinical question by unbiasedly assessing and analyzing the pertinent literature. Citation screening is a time-consuming and crit...
Byron C. Wallace, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Joseph Lau...
BMCBI
2010
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Artificial and natural duplicates in pyrosequencing reads of metagenomic data
Beifang Niu, Limin Fu, Shulei Sun, Weizhong Li
BMCBI
2010
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Cloud computing for comparative genomics
Dennis P. Wall, Parul Kudtarkar, Vincent A. Fusaro...
BMCBI
2010
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PCA2GO: a new multivariate statistics based method to identify highly expressed GO-Terms
Background: Several tools have been developed to explore and search Gene Ontology (GO) databases allowing efficient GO enrichment analysis and GO tree visualization. Nevertheless,...
Marc Bruckskotten, Mario Looso, Franz Cemic, Anne ...
BMCBI
2010
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Integrative analysis of gene expression and copy number alterations using canonical correlation analysis
Background: With the rapid development of new genetic measurement methods, several types of genetic alterations can be quantified in a high-throughput manner. While the initial fo...
Charlotte Soneson, Henrik Lilljebjörn, Thoas ...
BMCBI
2010
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A novel scoring function for discriminating hyperthermophilic and mesophilic proteins with application to predicting relative th
Background: The ability to design thermostable proteins is theoretically important and practically useful. Robust and accurate algorithms, however, remain elusive. One critical pr...
Yunqi Li, C. Russell Middaugh, Jianwen Fang
BMCBI
2010
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Integration of multiple data sources to prioritize candidate genes using discounted rating system
Background: Identifying disease gene from a list of candidate genes is an important task in bioinformatics. The main strategy is to prioritize candidate genes based on their simil...
Yongjin Li, Jagdish Chandra Patra
BMCBI
2010
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Conditional random pattern model for copy number aberration detection
Background: DNA copy number aberration (CNA) is very important in the pathogenesis of tumors and other diseases. For example, CNAs may result in suppression of anti-oncogenes and ...
Fuhai Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Wanting Huang, Chung-Che Ch...