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BMCBI
2007
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A statistical method to incorporate biological knowledge for generating testable novel gene regulatory interactions from microar
Background: The incorporation of prior biological knowledge in the analysis of microarray data has become important in the reconstruction of transcription regulatory networks in a...
Peter Larsen, Eyad Almasri, Guanrao Chen, Yang Dai
BMCBI
2007
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Comparative evaluation of gene-set analysis methods
Background: Multiple data-analytic methods have been proposed for evaluating gene-expression levels in specific biological pathways, assessing differential expression associated w...
Qi Liu, Irina Dinu, Adeniyi J. Adewale, John D. Po...
BMCBI
2007
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FUNC: a package for detecting significant associations between gene sets and ontological annotations
Background: Genome-wide expression, sequence and association studies typically yield large sets of gene candidates, which must then be further analysed and interpreted. Informatio...
Kay Prüfer, Bjoern Muetzel, Hong Hai Do, Gunt...
BMCBI
2007
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Constructing a meaningful evolutionary average at the phylogenetic center of mass
Background: As a consequence of the evolutionary process, data collected from related species tend to be similar. This similarity by descent can obscure subtler signals in the dat...
Eric A. Stone, Arend Sidow
BMCBI
2007
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Kernel-imbedded Gaussian processes for disease classification using microarray gene expression data
Background: Designing appropriate machine learning methods for identifying genes that have a significant discriminating power for disease outcomes has become more and more importa...
Xin Zhao, Leo Wang-Kit Cheung
BMCBI
2007
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A Latent Variable Approach for Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Data from Multiple Microarray Experiments
Background: With the explosion in data generated using microarray technology by different investigators working on similar experiments, it is of interest to combine results across...
Hyungwon Choi, Ronglai Shen, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, D...
BMCBI
2007
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RNAspa: a shortest path approach for comparative prediction of the secondary structure of ncRNA molecules
Background: In recent years, RNA molecules that are not translated into proteins (ncRNAs) have drawn a great deal of attention, as they were shown to be involved in many cellular ...
Yair Horesh, Tirza Doniger, Shulamit Michaeli, Ron...
BMCBI
2007
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TPRpred: a tool for prediction of TPR-, PPR- and SEL1-like repeats from protein sequences
Background: Solenoid repeat proteins of the Tetratrico Peptide Repeat (TPR) family are involved as scaffolds in a broad range of protein-protein interactions. Several resources ar...
Manjunatha R. Karpenahalli, Andrei N. Lupas, Johan...
BMCBI
2007
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Genomorama: genome visualization and analysis
Background: The ability to visualize genomic features and design experimental assays that can target specific regions of a genome is essential for modern biology. To assist in the...
Jason D. Gans, Murray Wolinsky
BMCBI
2007
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Convergent algorithms for protein structural alignment
Background: Many algorithms exist for protein structural alignment, based on internal protein coordinates or on explicit superposition of the structures. These methods are usually...
Leandro Martínez, Roberto Andreani, Jos&eac...