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BMCBI
2005
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Automated generation of heuristics for biological sequence comparison
Background: Exhaustive methods of sequence alignment are accurate but slow, whereas heuristic approaches run quickly, but their complexity makes them more difficult to implement. ...
Guy St. C. Slater, Ewan Birney
BMCBI
2005
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An ant colony optimisation algorithm for the 2D and 3D hydrophobic polar protein folding problem
Background: The protein folding problem is a fundamental problems in computational molecular biology and biochemical physics. Various optimisation methods have been applied to for...
Alena Shmygelska, Holger H. Hoos
BMCBI
2005
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Integration of the Gene Ontology into an object-oriented architecture
Background: To standardize gene product descriptions, a formal vocabulary defined as the Gene Ontology (GO) has been developed. GO terms have been categorized into biological proc...
Daniel Shegogue, W. Jim Zheng
BMCBI
2005
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Comparison of seven methods for producing Affymetrix expression scores based on False Discovery Rates in disease profiling data
Background: A critical step in processing oligonucleotide microarray data is combining the information in multiple probes to produce a single number that best captures the express...
Kerby Shedden, Wei Chen, Rork Kuick, Debashis Ghos...
BMCBI
2005
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TmaDB: a repository for tissue microarray data
Background: Tissue microarray (TMA) technology has been developed to facilitate large, genome-scale molecular pathology studies. This technique provides a high-throughput method f...
Archana Sharma-Oates, Philip Quirke, David R. West...
BMCBI
2005
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Dynamic covariation between gene expression and proteome characteristics
Background: Cells react to changing intra- and extracellular signals by dynamically modulating complex biochemical networks. Cellular responses to extracellular signals lead to ch...
Mansour Taghavi Azar Sharabiani, Markku Siermala, ...
BMCBI
2005
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EXPANDER - an integrative program suite for microarray data analysis
Ron Shamir, Adi Maron-Katz, Amos Tanay, Chaim Linh...
BMCBI
2005
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SNP-VISTA: An interactive SNP visualization tool
Nameeta Shah, Michael V. Teplitsky, Simon Minovits...
BMCBI
2005
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Atlas - a data warehouse for integrative bioinformatics
Background: We present a biological data warehouse called Atlas that locally stores and integrates biological sequences, molecular interactions, homology information, functional a...
Sohrab P. Shah, Yong Huang, Tao Xu, Macaire M. S. ...
BMCBI
2005
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A method for the prediction of GPCRs coupling specificity to G-proteins using refined profile Hidden Markov Models
Background: G- Protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) comprise the largest group of eukaryotic cell surface receptors with great pharmacological interest. A broad range of native ligan...
Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, Pantelis G. Bagos, Panagiot...