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BMCBI
2010
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Prediction of RNA secondary structure by maximizing pseudo-expected accuracy
Background: Recent studies have revealed the importance of considering the entire distribution of possible secondary structures in RNA secondary structure predictions; therefore, ...
Michiaki Hamada, Kengo Sato, Kiyoshi Asai
BMCBI
2010
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A genome alignment algorithm based on compression
Background: Traditional genome alignment methods consider sequence alignment as a variation of the string edit distance problem, and perform alignment by matching characters of th...
Minh Duc Cao, Trevor I. Dix, Lloyd Allison
BMCBI
2010
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BrEPS: a flexible and automatic protocol to compute enzyme-specific sequence profiles for functional annotation
Background: Models for the simulation of metabolic networks require the accurate prediction of enzyme function. Based on a genomic sequence, enzymatic functions of gene products a...
Constantin Bannert, A. Welfle, C. aus dem Spring, ...
BMCBI
2010
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Preprocessing of gene expression data by optimally robust estimators
Background: The preprocessing of gene expression data obtained from several platforms routinely includes the aggregation of multiple raw signal intensities to one expression value...
Matthias Kohl, Hans-Peter Deigner
BMCBI
2010
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SNPexp - A web tool for calculating and visualizing correlation between HapMap genotypes and gene expression levels
Background: Expression levels for 47294 transcripts in lymphoblastoid cell lines from all 270 HapMap phase II individuals, and genotypes (both HapMap phase II and III) of 3.96 mil...
Kristian Holm, Espen Melum, Andre Franke, Tom H. K...
BMCBI
2010
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A grammar-based distance metric enables fast and accurate clustering of large sets of 16S sequences
Background: We propose a sequence clustering algorithm and compare the partition quality and execution time of the proposed algorithm with those of a popular existing algorithm. T...
David J. Russell, Samuel F. Way, Andrew K. Benson,...
BMCBI
2010
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BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level
Background: The opportunities for bacterial population genomics that are being realised by the application of parallel nucleotide sequencing require novel bioinformatics platforms...
Keith A. Jolley, Martin C. J. Maiden
BMCBI
2010
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Computing DNA duplex instability profiles efficiently with a two-state model: trends of promoters and binding sites
Background: DNA instability profiles have been used recently for predicting the transcriptional start site and the location of core promoters, and to gain insight into promoter ac...
Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Zoi Rapti, Vladimir Gelev, ...