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BMCBI
2010
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Pash 3.0: A versatile software package for read mapping and integrative analysis of genomic and epigenomic variation using massi
Background: Massively parallel sequencing readouts of epigenomic assays are enabling integrative genome-wide analyses of genomic and epigenomic variation. Pash 3.0 performs sequen...
Cristian Coarfa, Fuli Yu, Christopher A. Miller, Z...
BMCBI
2010
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Empirical Bayes Analysis of Sequencing-based Transcriptional Profiling without Replicates
Background: Recent technological advancements have made high throughput sequencing an increasingly popular approach for transcriptome analysis. Advantages of sequencing-based tran...
Zhijin Wu, Bethany D. Jenkins, Tatiana A. Rynearso...
BMCBI
2010
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DeltaProt: a software toolbox for comparative genomics
Background: Statistical bioinformatics is the study of biological data sets obtained by new micro-technologies by means of proper statistical methods. For a better understanding o...
Steinar Thorvaldsen, Tor Flå, Nils Willassen
BMCBI
2010
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The oligodeoxynucleotide sequences corresponding to never-expressed peptide motifs are mainly located in the non-coding strand
Background: We study the usage of specific peptide platforms in protein composition. Using the pentapeptide as a unit of length, we find that in the universal proteome many pentap...
Giovanni Capone, Giuseppe Novello, Candida Fasano,...
BMCBI
2010
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Conserved residue clusters at protein-protein interfaces and their use in binding site identification
Background: Biological evolution conserves protein residues that are important for structure and function. Both protein stability and function often require a certain degree of st...
Mainak Guharoy, Pinak Chakrabarti
BMCBI
2010
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Peptide binding predictions for HLA DR, DP and DQ molecules
Background: MHC class II binding predictions are widely used to identify epitope candidates in infectious agents, allergens, cancer and autoantigens. The vast majority of predicti...
Peng Wang, John Sidney, Yohan Kim, Alessandro Sett...
BMCBI
2010
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Comparative study of unsupervised dimension reduction techniques for the visualization of microarray gene expression data
Background: Visualization of DNA microarray data in two or three dimensional spaces is an important exploratory analysis step in order to detect quality issues or to generate new ...
Christoph Bartenhagen, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Christia...
BMCBI
2010
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Knowledge-based biomedical word sense disambiguation: comparison of approaches
Background: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms attempt to select the proper sense of ambiguous terms in text. Resources like the UMLS provide a reference thesaurus to be u...
Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alan R. Aronson
BMCBI
2010
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Semi-automatic identification of punching areas for tissue microarray building: the tubular breast cancer pilot study
Background: Tissue MicroArray technology aims to perform immunohistochemical staining on hundreds of different tissue samples simultaneously. It allows faster analysis, considerab...
Federica Viti, Ivan Merelli, Mieke Timmermans, Mic...