BMCBI
2010
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2010
Background: Computational comparison of two protein structures is the starting point of many methods that build on existing knowledge, such as structure modeling (including modeli...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Correction to Chakrabarti S, Lanczycki CJ, Panchenko AR, Przytycka TM, Thiessen PA and Bryant SH: State of the art: refinement of multiple sequence alignments. BMC Bioinformatics ...
BMCBI
2010
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2010
Background: Understanding the community structure of microbes is typically accomplished by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. These community data can be represented b...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Overlapping genes (OGs) are defined as adjacent genes whose coding sequences overlap partially or entirely. In fact, they are ubiquitous in microbial genomes and more ...
BMCBI
2010
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2010
Background: Despite the recent success of genome-wide association studies in identifying novel loci contributing effects to complex human traits, such as type 2 diabetes and obesi...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: The knowledge about proteins with specific interaction capacity to the protein partners is very important for the modeling of cell signaling networks. However, the exp...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: While in principle a seemingly infinite variety of combinations of mutations could result in tumor development, in practice it appears that most human cancers fall int...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Inference of gene regulatory networks is a key goal in the quest for understanding fundamental cellular processes and revealing underlying relations among genes. With ...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Modern high throughput experimental techniques such as DNA microarrays often result in large lists of genes. Computational biology tools such as clustering are then us...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: With the current technological advances in high-throughput biology, the necessity to develop tools that help to analyse the massive amount of data being generated is e...