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BMCBI
2010
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Revealing and avoiding bias in semantic similarity scores for protein pairs
Background: Semantic similarity scores for protein pairs are widely applied in functional genomic researches for finding functional clusters of proteins, predicting protein functi...
Jing Wang 0004, Xianxiao Zhou, Jing Zhu, Chenggui ...
BMCBI
2010
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Machine learning methods for metabolic pathway prediction
Background: A key challenge in systems biology is the reconstruction of an organism's metabolic network from its genome sequence. One strategy for addressing this problem is ...
Joseph M. Dale, Liviu Popescu, Peter D. Karp
BMCBI
2010
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Towards the systematic discovery of signal transduction networks using phosphorylation dynamics data
Background: Phosphorylation is a ubiquitous and fundamental regulatory mechanism that controls signal transduction in living cells. The number of identified phosphoproteins and th...
Haruna Imamura, Nozomu Yachie, Rintaro Saito, Yasu...
BMCBI
2010
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Shared probe design and existing microarray reanalysis using PICKY
Background: Large genomes contain families of highly similar genes that cannot be individually identified by microarray probes. This limitation is due to thermodynamic restriction...
Hui-Hsien Chou
BMCBI
2010
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A semi-supervised learning approach to predict synthetic genetic interactions by combining functional and topological properties
Background: Genetic interaction profiles are highly informative and helpful for understanding the functional linkages between genes, and therefore have been extensively exploited ...
Zhuhong You, Zheng Yin, Kyungsook Han, De-Shuang H...
BMCBI
2010
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Detecting internally symmetric protein structures
Background: Many functional proteins have a symmetric structure. Most of these are multimeric complexes, which are made of non-symmetric monomers arranged in a symmetric manner. H...
Changhoon Kim, Jodi Basner, Byungkook Lee
BMCBI
2010
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OLS Dialog: An open-source front end to the Ontology Lookup Service
Background: With the growing amount of biomedical data available in public databases it has become increasingly important to annotate data in a consistent way in order to allow ea...
Harald Barsnes, Richard G. Côté, Ingv...
BMCBI
2010
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An automatic method for identifying surface proteins in bacteria: SLEP
Background: Bacterial infections represent a global health challenge. The identification of novel antibacterial targets for both therapy and vaccination is needed on a constant ba...
Emanuela Giombini, Massimiliano Orsini, Danilo Car...
BMCBI
2010
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A classification model for distinguishing copy number variants from cancer-related alterations
Background: Both somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) and germline copy number variants (CNVs) that are prevalent in healthy individuals can appear as recurrent changes in compa...
Irina Ostrovnaya, Gouri Nanjangud, Adam B. Olshen
BMCBI
2010
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FRASS: the web-server for RNA structural comparison
Background: The impressive increase of novel RNA structures, during the past few years, demands automated methods for structure comparison. While many algorithms handle only small...
Svetlana Kirillova, Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Oliviero...