BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Interaction data for a given protein may be spread across multiple databases. We set out to create a unifying index that would facilitate searching for these data and ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Reliable prediction of antibody, or B-cell, epitopes remains challenging yet highly desirable for the design of vaccines and immunodiagnostics. A correlation between a...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: A better understanding of the mechanisms involved in gas-phase fragmentation of peptides is essential for the development of more reliable algorithms for high-throughp...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: The information from different data sets experimented under different conditions may be inconsistent even though they are performed with the same research objectives. ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: This paper addresses key biological problems and statistical issues in the analysis of large gene expression data sets that describe systemic temporal response cascade...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Repbase is a reference database of eukaryotic repetitive DNA, which includes prototypic sequences of repeats and basic information described in annotations. Repbase al...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Although carbohydrates are the third major class of biological macromolecules, after proteins and DNA, there is neither a comprehensive database for carbohydrate struc...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: The exponential growth of research in molecular biology has brought concomitant proliferation of databases for stocking its findings. A variety of protein sequence dat...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Translation initiation site (TIS) identification is an important aspect of the gene annotation process, requisite for the accurate delineation of protein sequences fro...