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BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Bioinformatics Web Services
- Web services is distributed computing technology that provides software services over the Web. The Cyberinfrastructure Group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has ad...
Boyu Yang, Tian Xue, Jing Zhao, Chaitanya Kommidi,...
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Study on Properties of Protein Folding Conformation Network
- Protein folding conformations take the form of networks, sets of conformations (vertices) joined together in pairs by links or edges. Protein folding conformation network is a co...
Nengchao Wang, Zhongjun Wang
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Surgeon's Magic Wand: A Screen Pointing Interactive Method
: A novel, non-touch, screen pointing "magic wand" interface is proposed for surgeon's use in an environment requiring simultaneous display of several patients'...
Naren Vira, Shaleen Vira
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Relational Genomics Search Engine
We report on the development of a relational genomic search engine that integrates search of structured biological data and biomedical literature. After identifying an optimal prep...
Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Data Mining of ESTs for Genetic Improvement of Salt Tolerance in Wheat
A total of 4,131 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were selected from wheat EST database (http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/cgi-bin/westsql/est_lib.cgi.) to identify genic regions differing a...
Meral Unal, Ismail Cakmak, Yildiz Aydin, Aysen Yum...
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Structure Prediction of Potato Large Subunit ADP - Glucose Pyrophosphorylase
- ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of starch in higher plants, is composed of pairs of large (LS) and small subunits (SS). Its catalytic act...
Aytug Tuncel, I. Halil Kavakli, Ozlem Keskin
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Support Vector Machines for Predicting microRNA Hairpins
- microRNAs (miRNAs) are 20-22 nt noncoding RNAs which are rapidly emerging as crucial regulators of gene expression in plants and animals. Identification of the hairpins which yie...
Karol Szafranski, Molly Megraw, Martin Reczko, Art...
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Computational Inference of Compound-induced Anti-inflammatory Effects Across Time in an Adjuvant-induced Arthritis Rat Model
A number of diseases, such as arthritis and cardiovascular disorders impacting the lives of many people have strong inflammatory components. To elucidate the antiinflammatory mecha...
Jing Yu, Gabriel Helmlinger, Muriel Saulnier, Anna...
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
The Use of Context-Sensitive Grammar For Modeling RNA Pseudoknots
- In this study, a context-sensitive grammar is suggested to model various forms of RNA secondary structures, especially pseudoknots. Comparing with a conventional context-free gra...
Keum-Young Sung