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BMCBI
2007
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MED: a new non-supervised gene prediction algorithm for bacterial and archaeal genomes
Background: Despite a remarkable success in the computational prediction of genes in Bacteria and Archaea, a lack of comprehensive understanding of prokaryotic gene structures pre...
Huaiqiu Zhu, Gang-Qing Hu, Yi-Fan Yang, Jin Wang, ...
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2007
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Assessing the ability of sequence-based methods to provide functional insight within membrane integral proteins: a case study an
Background: Efforts to predict functional sites from globular proteins is increasingly common; however, the most successful of these methods generally require structural insight. ...
Dennis R. Livesay, Patrick D. Kidd, Sepehr Eskanda...
BMCBI
2007
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ISHAPE: new rapid and accurate software for haplotyping
Background: We have developed a new haplotyping program based on the combination of an iterative multiallelic EM algorithm (IEM), bootstrap resampling and a pseudo Gibbs sampler. ...
Olivier Delaneau, Cédric Coulonges, Pierre-...
BMCBI
2007
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Transcript-level annotation of Affymetrix probesets improves the interpretation of gene expression data
Background: The wide use of Affymetrix microarray in broadened fields of biological research has made the probeset annotation an important issue. Standard Affymetrix probeset anno...
Hui Yu, Feng Wang, Kang Tu, Lu Xie, Yuan-Yuan Li, ...
BMCBI
2007
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Predicting gene ontology functions from protein's regional surface structures
Zhi-Ping Liu, Ling-Yun Wu, Yong Wang, Luonan Chen,...
BMCBI
2007
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WeederH: an algorithm for finding conserved regulatory motifs and regions in homologous sequences
Background: This work addresses the problem of detecting conserved transcription factor binding sites and in general regulatory regions through the analysis of sequences from homo...
Giulio Pavesi, Federico Zambelli, Graziano Pesole
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2007
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Selection of long oligonucleotides for gene expression microarrays using weighted rank-sum strategy
Background: The design of long oligonucleotides for spotted DNA microarrays requires detailed attention to ensure their optimal performance in the hybridization process. The main ...
Guangan Hu, Manuel Llinás, Jingguang Li, Pe...
BMCBI
2007
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Automatic reconstruction of a bacterial regulatory network using Natural Language Processing
Background: Manual curation of biological databases, an expensive and labor-intensive process, is essential for high quality integrated data. In this paper we report the implement...
Carlos Rodríguez Penagos, Heladia Salgado, ...
BMCBI
2007
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A novel approach to detect hot-spots in large-scale multivariate data
Background: Progressive advances in the measurement of complex multifactorial components of biological processes involving both spatial and temporal domains have made it difficult...
Jianhua Wu, Keith M. Kendrick, Jianfeng Feng
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2007
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Comparison of protein structures by growing neighborhood alignments
Background: Design of protein structure comparison algorithm is an important research issue, having far reaching implications. In this article, we describe a protein structure com...
Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, ...