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BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Learning genetic epistasis using Bayesian network scoring criteria
Background: Gene-gene epistatic interactions likely play an important role in the genetic basis of many common diseases. Recently, machine-learning and data mining methods have be...
Xia Jiang, Richard E. Neapolitan, M. Michael Barma...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
An Agent-Based Model to study the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of Influenza viruses
Background: Influenza A viruses exhibit complex epidemiological patterns in a number of mammalian and avian hosts. Understanding transmission of these viruses necessitates taking ...
Benjamin Roche, John M. Drake, Pejman Rohani
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
DecGPU: distributed error correction on massively parallel graphics processing units using CUDA and MPI
Background: Next-generation sequencing technologies have led to the high-throughput production of sequence data (reads) at low cost. However, these reads are significantly shorter...
Yongchao Liu, Bertil Schmidt, Douglas L. Maskell
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A comparison and user-based evaluation of models of textual information structure in the context of cancer risk assessment
Background: Many practical tasks in biomedicine require accessing specific types of information in scientific literature; e.g. information about the results or conclusions of the ...
Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, Maria Liakata, Ilona Sil...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
LabKey Server: An open source platform for scientific data integration, analysis and collaboration
Background: Broad-based collaborations are becoming increasingly common among disease researchers. For example, the Global HIV Enterprise has united cross-disciplinary consortia t...
Elizabeth K. Nelson, Britt Piehler, Josh Eckels, A...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves
Background: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are useful tools to evaluate classifiers in biomedical and bioinformatics applications. However, conclusions are often r...
Xavier Robin, Natacha Turck, Alexandre Hainard, Na...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Outer membrane proteins can be simply identified using secondary structure element alignment
Background: Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are frequently found in the outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts and have been found to play diverse...
Ren-Xiang Yan, Zhen Chen, Ziding Zhang