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BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Identifying hypermethylated CpG islands using a quantile regression model
Background: DNA methylation has been shown to play an important role in the silencing of tumor suppressor genes in various tumor types. In order to have a system-wide understandin...
Shuying Sun, Zhengyi Chen, Pearlly Yan, Yi-Wen Hua...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Support vector machines-based identification of alternative splicing in Arabidopsis thaliana from whole-genome tiling arrays
Background: Alternative splicing (AS) is a process which generates several distinct mRNA isoforms from the same gene by splicing different portions out of the precursor transcript...
Johannes Eichner, Georg Zeller, Sascha Laubinger, ...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Tiling array data analysis: a multiscale approach using wavelets
Background: Tiling array data is hard to interpret due to noise. The wavelet transformation is a widely used technique in signal processing for elucidating the true signal from no...
Alexander Karpikov, Joel S. Rozowsky, Mark Gerstei...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Simulated evolution applied to study the genetic code optimality using a model of codon reassignments
Background: As the canonical code is not universal, different theories about its origin and organization have appeared. The optimization or level of adaptation of the canonical ge...
Jose Santos, Ángel Monteagudo
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating developmental states of tumors and normal tissues using a linear time-ordered model
Background: Tumor cells are considered to have an aberrant cell state, and some evidence indicates different development states appearing in the tumorigenesis. Embryonic developme...
Bo Zhang, Beibei Chen, Tao Wu, Zhenyu Xuan, Xiaope...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A quality metric for homology modeling: the H-factor
Background: The analysis of protein structures provides fundamental insight into most biochemical functions and consequently into the cause and possible treatment of diseases. As ...
Eric di Luccio, Patrice Koehl
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
A novel approach to the clustering of microarray data via nonparametric density estimation
Background: Cluster analysis is a crucial tool in several biological and medical studies dealing with microarray data. Such studies pose challenging statistical problems due to di...
Riccardo De Bin, Davide Risso
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
RAIphy: Phylogenetic classification of metagenomics samples using iterative refinement of relative abundance index profiles
Background: Computational analysis of metagenomes requires the taxonomical assignment of the genome contigs assembled from DNA reads of environmental samples. Because of the diver...
Ozkan U. Nalbantoglu, Samuel F. Way, Steven H. Hin...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Accurate statistics for local sequence alignment with position-dependent scoring by rare-event sampling
Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons
Background: In many environmental genomics applications a homologous region of DNA from a diverse sample is first amplified by PCR and then sequenced. The next generation sequenci...
Christopher Quince, Anders Lanzén, Russell ...