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BMCBI
2005
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Evaluation of BioCreAtIvE assessment of task 2
Background: Molecular Biology accumulated substantial amounts of data concerning functions of genes and proteins. Information relating to functional descriptions is generally extr...
Christian Blaschke, Eduardo Andrés Le&oacut...
BMCBI
2005
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HomoMINT: an inferred human network based on orthology mapping of protein interactions discovered in model organisms
Background: The application of high throughput approaches to the identification of protein interactions has offered for the first time a glimpse of the global interactome of some ...
Maria Persico, Arnaud Ceol, Caius Gavrila, Robert ...
BMCBI
2005
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Query3d: a new method for high-throughput analysis of functional residues in protein structures
Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...
Gabriele Ausiello, Allegra Via, Manuela Helmer-Cit...
BMCBI
2005
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Mining protein function from text using term-based support vector machines
Background: Text mining has spurred huge interest in the domain of biology. The goal of the BioCreAtIvE exercise was to evaluate the performance of current text mining systems. We...
Simon B. Rice, Goran Nenadic, Benjamin J. Stapley
BMCBI
2005
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ProMiner: rule-based protein and gene entity recognition
Background: Identification of gene and protein names in biomedical text is a challenging task as the corresponding nomenclature has evolved over time. This has led to multiple syn...
Daniel Hanisch, Katrin Fundel, Heinz-Theodor Mevis...
BMCBI
2005
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Comparative mapping of sequence-based and structure-based protein domains
Background: Protein domains have long been an ill-defined concept in biology. They are generally described as autonomous folding units with evolutionary and functional independenc...
Ya Zhang, John-Marc Chandonia, Chris H. Q. Ding, S...
BMCBI
2005
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Protein subcellular localization prediction for Gram-negative bacteria using amino acid subalphabets and a combination of multip
Background: Predicting the subcellular localization of proteins is important for determining the function of proteins. Previous works focused on predicting protein localization in...
Jiren Wang, Wing-Kin Sung, Arun Krishnan, Kuo-Bin ...
BMCBI
2005
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Dynamic covariation between gene expression and proteome characteristics
Background: Cells react to changing intra- and extracellular signals by dynamically modulating complex biochemical networks. Cellular responses to extracellular signals lead to ch...
Mansour Taghavi Azar Sharabiani, Markku Siermala, ...
BMCBI
2005
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Variation in structural location and amino acid conservation of functional sites in protein domain families
Background: The functional sites of a protein present important information for determining its cellular function and are fundamental in drug design. Accordingly, accurate methods...
Birgit Pils, Richard R. Copley, Jörg Schultz
BMCBI
2005
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SuperLigands - a database of ligand structures derived from the Protein Data Bank
Background: Currently, the PDB contains approximately 29,000 protein structures comprising over 70,000 experimentally determined three-dimensional structures of over 5,000 differe...
Elke Michalsky, Mathias Dunkel, Andrean Goede, Rob...