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BMCBI
2006
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Genomes as geography: using GIS technology to build interactive genome feature maps
Background: Many commonly used genome browsers display sequence annotations and related attributes as horizontal data tracks that can be toggled on and off according to user prefe...
Mary E. Dolan, Constance C. Holden, M. Kate Beard,...
BMCBI
2006
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MANET: tracing evolution of protein architecture in metabolic networks
Background: Cellular metabolism can be characterized by networks of enzymatic reactions and transport processes capable of supporting cellular life. Our aim is to find evolutionar...
Hee Shin Kim, Jay E. Mittenthal, Gustavo Caetano-A...
BMCBI
2006
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Structure alignment based on coding of local geometric measures
Background: A structure alignment method based on a local geometric property is presented and its performance is tested in pairwise and multiple structure alignments. In this appr...
Peter L. Chang, Andrew W. Rinne, T. Gregory Dewey
BMCBI
2006
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A statistical score for assessing the quality of multiple sequence alignments
Background: Multiple sequence alignment is the foundation of many important applications in bioinformatics that aim at detecting functionally important regions, predicting protein...
Virpi Ahola, Tero Aittokallio, Mauno Vihinen, Esa ...
BMCBI
2006
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Intensity-based hierarchical Bayes method improves testing for differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments
Background: The small sample sizes often used for microarray experiments result in poor estimates of variance if each gene is considered independently. Yet accurately estimating v...
Maureen A. Sartor, Craig R. Tomlinson, Scott C. We...
BMCBI
2006
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XRate: a fast prototyping, training and annotation tool for phylo-grammars
Peter S. Klosterman, Andrew V. Uzilov, Yuri R. Ben...
BMCBI
2006
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SBEAMS-Microarray: database software supporting genomic expression analyses for systems biology
Background: The biological information in genomic expression data can be understood, and computationally extracted, in the context of systems of interacting molecules. The automat...
Bruz Marzolf, Eric W. Deutsch, Patrick Moss, David...
BMCBI
2006
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SigFlux: A novel network feature to evaluate the importance of proteins in signal transduction networks
Background: Measuring each protein's importance in signaling networks helps to identify the crucial proteins in a cellular process, find the fragile portion of the biology sy...
Wei Liu, Dong Li, Jiyang Zhang, Yunping Zhu, Fuchu...
BMCBI
2006
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Comprehensive quality control utilizing the prehybridization third-dye image leads to accurate gene expression measurements by c
Background: Gene expression profiling using microarrays has become an important genetic tool. Spotted arrays prepared in academic labs have the advantage of low cost and high desi...
Xujing Wang, Shuang Jia, Lisa Meyer, Bixia Xiang, ...
BMCBI
2006
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Gene and protein nomenclature in public databases
Background: Frequently, several alternative names are in use for biological objects such as genes and proteins. Applications like manual literature search, automated text-mining, ...
Katrin Fundel, Ralf Zimmer