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BMCBI
2005
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Identifying differential expression in multiple SAGE libraries: an overdispersed log-linear model approach
Background: In testing for differential gene expression involving multiple serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) libraries, it is critical to account for both between and with...
Jun Lu, John K. Tomfohr, Thomas B. Kepler
BMCBI
2005
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Can Zipf's law be adapted to normalize microarrays?
Background: Normalization is the process of removing non-biological sources of variation between array experiments. Recent investigations of data in gene expression databases for ...
Timothy Lu, Christine M. Costello, Peter J. P. Cro...
BMCBI
2005
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stam - a Bioconductor compliant R package for structured analysis of microarray data
Background: Genome wide microarray studies have the potential to unveil novel disease entities. Clinically homogeneous groups of patients can have diverse gene expression profiles...
Claudio Lottaz, Rainer Spang
BMCBI
2005
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A method for aligning RNA secondary structures and its application to RNA motif detection
Background: Alignment of RNA secondary structures is important in studying functional RNA motifs. In recent years, much progress has been made in RNA motif finding and structure a...
Jianghui Liu, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Jun Hu, Bin Tia...
BMCBI
2005
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Principal component analysis for predicting transcription-factor binding motifs from array-derived data
Background: The responses to interleukin 1 (IL-1) in human chondrocytes constitute a complex regulatory mechanism, where multiple transcription factors interact combinatorially to...
Yunlong Liu, Matthew P. Vincenti, Hiroki Yokota
BMCBI
2005
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Quadratic regression analysis for gene discovery and pattern recognition for non-cyclic short time-course microarray experiments
Background: Cluster analyses are used to analyze microarray time-course data for gene discovery and pattern recognition. However, in general, these methods do not take advantage o...
Hua Liu, Sergey Tarima, Aaron S. Borders, Thomas V...
BMCBI
2005
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Quantitative analysis of EGR proteins binding to DNA: assessing additivity in both the binding site and the protein
Background: Recognition codes for protein-DNA interactions typically assume that the interacting positions contribute additively to the binding energy. While this is known to not ...
Jiajian Liu, Gary D. Stormo
BMCBI
2005
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An Entropy-based gene selection method for cancer classification using microarray data
Background: Accurate diagnosis of cancer subtypes remains a challenging problem. Building classifiers based on gene expression data is a promising approach; yet the selection of n...
Xiaoxing Liu, Arun Krishnan, Adrian Mondry
BMCBI
2005
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DynGO: a tool for visualizing and mining of Gene Ontology and its associations
Background: A large volume of data and information about genes and gene products has been stored in various molecular biology databases. A major challenge for knowledge discovery ...
Hongfang Liu, Zhang-Zhi Hu, Cathy H. Wu
BMCBI
2005
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Are scale-free networks robust to measurement errors?
Background: Many complex random networks have been found to be scale-free. Existing literature on scale-free networks has rarely considered potential false positive and false nega...
Nan Lin, Hongyu Zhao