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BMCBI
2010
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On the Choice and Number of Microarrays for Transcriptional Regulatory Network Inference
Background: Transcriptional regulatory network inference (TRNI) from large compendia of DNA microarrays has become a fundamental approach for discovering transcription factor (TF)...
Elissa J. Cosgrove, Timothy S. Gardner, Eric D. Ko...
BMCBI
2010
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Optimizing structural modeling for a specific protein scaffold: knottins or inhibitor cystine knots
Background: Knottins are small, diverse and stable proteins with important drug design potential. They can be classified in 30 families which cover a wide range of sequences (1621...
Jérôme Gracy, Laurent Chiche
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2010
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A global optimization algorithm for protein surface alignment
Background: A relevant problem in drug design is the comparison and recognition of protein binding sites. Binding sites recognition is generally based on geometry often combined w...
Paola Bertolazzi, Concettina Guerra, Giampaolo Liu...
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2010
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GeneBrowser 2: an application to explore and identify common biological traits in a set of genes
Background: The development of high-throughput laboratory techniques created a demand for computer-assisted result analysis tools. Many of these techniques return lists of genes w...
Joel Arrais, João Fernandes, João Pe...
BMCBI
2010
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Analysis of lifestyle and metabolic predictors of visceral obesity with Bayesian Networks
Background: The aim of this study was to provide a framework for the analysis of visceral obesity and its determinants in women, where complex inter-relationships are observed amo...
Alex Aussem, André Tchernof, Sergio Rodrigu...
BMCBI
2010
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An improved method for scoring protein-protein interactions using semantic similarity within the Gene Ontology
Background: Semantic similarity measures are useful to assess the physiological relevance of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). They quantify similarity between proteins based o...
Shobhit Jain, Gary D. Bader
BMCBI
2010
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An improved classification of G-protein-coupled receptors using sequence-derived features
Background: G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a key role in diverse physiological processes and are the targets of almost two-thirds of the marketed drugs. The 3 D structur...
Zhen-Ling Peng, Jian-Yi Yang, Xin Chen
BMCBI
2010
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Extended morphological processing: a practical method for automatic spot detection of biological markers from microscopic images
Background: A reliable extraction technique for resolving multiple spots in light or electron microscopic images is essential in investigations of the spatial distribution and dyn...
Yoshitaka Kimori, Norio Baba, Nobuhiro Morone