BMCBI
2011
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2011
Background: While there are many methods for predicting protein-protein interaction, very few can determine the specific site of interaction on each protein. Characterization of t...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: Estimation of allele frequency is of fundamental importance in population genetic analyses and in association mapping. In most studies using next-generation sequencing...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: Automated genotype calling in tetraploid species was until recently not possible, which hampered genetic analysis. Modern genotyping assays often produce two signals, ...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: Patterns of genome-wide methylation vary between tissue types. For example, cancer tissue shows markedly different patterns from those of normal tissue. In this paper ...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: The analysis of gene expression from time series underpins many biological studies. Two basic forms of analysis recur for data of this type: removing inactive (quiet) ...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: Elucidating the exact relationship between gene copy number and expression would enable identification of regulatory mechanisms of abnormal gene expression and biologi...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: Constraint-based approaches facilitate the prediction of cellular metabolic capabilities, based, in turn on predictions of the repertoire of enzymes encoded in the gen...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a large digital archive of legacy biological literature, comprising over 31 million pages scanned from books, monographs, an...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: Conotoxin has been proven to be effective in drug design and could be used to treat various disorders such as schizophrenia, neuromuscular disorders and chronic pain. ...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Background: The secondary structure of RNA molecules is intimately related to their function and often more conserved than the sequence. Hence, the important task of searching dat...