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BMCBI
2010
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Nonparametric methods for the analysis of single-color pathogen microarrays
Background: The analysis of oligonucleotide microarray data in pathogen surveillance and discovery is a challenging task. Target template concentration, nucleic acid integrity, an...
Omar J. Jabado, Sean Conlan, P. Lan Quan, Jeffrey ...
BMCBI
2010
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A temporal precedence based clustering method for gene expression microarray data
Background: Time-course microarray experiments can produce useful data which can help in understanding the underlying dynamics of the system. Clustering is an important stage in m...
Ritesh Krishna, Chang-Tsun Li, Vicky Buchanan-Woll...
BMCBI
2010
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Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification
Background: The quality of automated gene prediction in microbial organisms has improved steadily over the past decade, but there is still room for improvement. Increasing the num...
Doug Hyatt, Gwo-Liang Chen, Philip F. LoCascio, Mi...
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2010
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SeqTrim: a high-throughput pipeline for pre-processing any type of sequence read
Background: High-throughput automated sequencing has enabled an exponential growth rate of sequencing data. This requires increasing sequence quality and reliability in order to a...
Juan Falgueras, Antonio J. Lara, Noé Fern&a...
BMCBI
2010
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Integrating gene expression and GO classification for PCA by preclustering
Background: Gene expression data can be analyzed by summarizing groups of individual gene expression profiles based on GO annotation information. The mean expression profile per g...
Jorn R. de Haan, Ester Piek, René C. van Sc...
BMCBI
2010
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Modelling p-value distributions to improve theme-driven survival analysis of cancer transcriptome datasets
Background: Theme-driven cancer survival studies address whether the expression signature of genes related to a biological process can predict patient survival time. Although this...
Esteban Czwan, Benedikt Brors, David Kipling
BMCBI
2010
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Predicting gene function using hierarchical multi-label decision tree ensembles
Background: S. cerevisiae, A. thaliana and M. musculus are well-studied organisms in biology and the sequencing of their genomes was completed many years ago. It is still a challe...
Leander Schietgat, Celine Vens, Jan Struyf, Hendri...
BMCBI
2010
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Dynamic probe selection for studying microbial transcriptome with high-density genomic tiling microarrays
Background: Current commercial high-density oligonucleotide microarrays can hold millions of probe spots on a single microscopic glass slide and are ideal for studying the transcr...
Hedda Høvik, Tsute Chen
BMCBI
2010
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KiDoQ: using docking based energy scores to develop ligand based model for predicting antibacterials
Background: Identification of novel drug targets and their inhibitors is a major challenge in the field of drug designing and development. Diaminopimelic acid (DAP) pathway is a u...
Aarti Garg, Rupinder Tewari, Gajendra P. S. Raghav...
BMCBI
2010
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A boundary delimitation algorithm to approximate cell soma volumes of bipolar cells from topographical data obtained by scanning
Background: Cell volume determination plays a pivotal role in the investigation of the biophysical mechanisms underlying various cellular processes. Whereas light microscopy in pr...
Patrick Happel, Kerstin Moller, Ralf Kunz, Irmgard...