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BMCBI
2005
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T.I.M.S: TaqMan Information Management System, tools to organize data flow in a genotyping laboratory
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping is a major activity in biomedical research. The Taqman technology is one of the most commonly used approaches. It produ...
Stéphanie Monnier, David G. Cox, Tim Albion...
BMCBI
2005
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A restraint molecular dynamics and simulated annealing approach for protein homology modeling utilizing mean angles
Background: We have developed the program PERMOL for semi-automated homology modeling of proteins. It is based on restrained molecular dynamics using a simulated annealing protoco...
Andreas Möglich, Daniel Weinfurtner, Till Mau...
BMCBI
2005
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Satellog: A database for the identification and prioritization of satellite repeats in disease association studies
Background: To date, 35 human diseases, some of which also exhibit anticipation, have been associated with unstable repeats. Anticipation has been reported in a number of diseases...
Perseus I. Missirlis, Carri-Lyn R. Mead, Stefanie ...
BMCBI
2005
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A linear memory algorithm for Baum-Welch training
Background: Baum-Welch training is an expectation-maximisation algorithm for training the emission and transition probabilities of hidden Markov models in a fully automated way. I...
István Miklós, Irmtraud M. Meyer
BMCBI
2005
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SuperLigands - a database of ligand structures derived from the Protein Data Bank
Background: Currently, the PDB contains approximately 29,000 protein structures comprising over 70,000 experimentally determined three-dimensional structures of over 5,000 differe...
Elke Michalsky, Mathias Dunkel, Andrean Goede, Rob...
BMCBI
2005
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arrayCGHbase: an analysis platform for comparative genomic hybridization microarrays
Background: The availability of the human genome sequence as well as the large number of physically accessible oligonucleotides, cDNA, and BAC clones across the entire genome has ...
Björn Menten, Filip Pattyn, Katleen De Preter...
BMCBI
2005
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Computational identification of strain-, species- and genus-specific proteins
Background: The identification of unique proteins at different taxonomic levels has both scientific and practical value. Strain-, species- and genus-specific proteins can provide ...
Raja Mazumder, Darren A. Natale, Sudhir Murthy, Ra...
BMCBI
2005
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MARS: Microarray analysis, retrieval, and storage system
Background: Microarray analysis has become a widely used technique for the study of geneexpression patterns on a genomic scale. As more and more laboratories are adopting microarr...
Michael Maurer, Robert Molidor, Alexander Sturn, J...
BMCBI
2005
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MAPPER: a search engine for the computational identification of putative transcription factor binding sites in multiple genomes
Background: Cis-regulatory modules are combinations of regulatory elements occurring in close proximity to each other that control the spatial and temporal expression of genes. Th...
Voichita D. Marinescu, Isaac S. Kohane, Alberto Ri...