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BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Analysis on the reconstruction accuracy of the Fitch method for inferring ancestral states
Background: As one of the most widely used parsimony methods for ancestral reconstruction, the Fitch method minimizes the total number of hypothetical substitutions along all bran...
Jialiang Yang, Jun Li, Liuhuan Dong, Stefan Gr&uum...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Errors in CGAP xProfiler and cDNA DGED: the importance of library parsing and gene selection algorithms
Background: The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) xProfiler and cDNA Digital Gene Expression Displayer (DGED) have been made available to the scientific community over a decade...
Andrew T. Milnthorpe, Mikhail Soloviev
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Using context to improve protein domain identification
Alejandro Ochoa, Manuel Llinás, Mona Singh
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Statistical learning techniques applied to epidemiology: a simulated case-control comparison study with logistic regression
Background: When investigating covariate interactions and group associations with standard regression analyses, the relationship between the response variable and exposure may be ...
John J. Heine, Walker H. Land Jr., Kathleen M. Ega...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Implementation of Force Distribution Analysis for Molecular Dynamics simulations
Background: The way mechanical stress is distributed inside and propagated by proteins and other biopolymers largely defines their function. Yet, determining the network of intera...
Wolfram Stacklies, Christian Seifert, Frauke Graet...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Screening synteny blocks in pairwise genome comparisons through integer programming
Background: It is difficult to accurately interpret chromosomal correspondences such as true orthology and paralogy due to significant divergence of genomes from a common ancestor...
Haibao Tang, Eric Lyons, Brent S. Pedersen, James ...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Statistical Test of Expression Pattern (STEPath): a new strategy to integrate gene expression data with genomic information in i
Background: In the last decades, microarray technology has spread, leading to a dramatic increase of publicly available datasets. The first statistical tools developed were focuse...
Paolo G. V. Martini, Davide Risso, Gabriele Sales,...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Detection of viral sequence fragments of HIV-1 subfamilies yet unknown
Background: Methods of determining whether or not any particular HIV-1 sequence stems - completely or in part - from some unknown HIV-1 subtype are important for the design of vac...
Thomas Unterthiner, Anne-Kathrin Schultz, Jan Bull...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Classification of viral zoonosis through receptor pattern analysis
Background: Viral zoonosis, the transmission of a virus from its primary vertebrate reservoir species to humans, requires ubiquitous cellular proteins known as receptor proteins. ...
Se-Eun Bae, Hyeon Seok Son
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Empirical Bayesian models for analysing molecular serotyping microarrays
Background: Microarrays offer great potential as a platform for molecular diagnostics, testing clinical samples for the presence of numerous biomarkers in highly multiplexed assay...
Richard Newton, Jason Hinds, Lorenz Wernisch