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BMCBI
2010
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Bi-directional gene set enrichment and canonical correlation analysis identify key diet-sensitive pathways and biomarkers of met
Background: Currently, a number of bioinformatics methods are available to generate appropriate lists of genes from a microarray experiment. While these lists represent an accurat...
Melissa J. Morine, Jolene McMonagle, Sinead Toomey...
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BMCBI
2007
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Benchmarking consensus model quality assessment for protein fold recognition
Background: Selecting the highest quality 3D model of a protein structure from a number of alternatives remains an important challenge in the field of structural bioinformatics. M...
Liam J. McGuffin
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BMCBI
2008
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A novel representation of RNA secondary structure based on element-contact graphs
Background: Depending on their specific structures, noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play important roles in many biological processes. Interest in developing new topological indices based...
Wenjie Shu, Xiaochen Bo, Zhiqiang Zheng, Shengqi W...
BMCBI
2008
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Pairwise covariance adds little to secondary structure prediction but improves the prediction of non-canonical local structure
Background: Amino acid sequence probability distributions, or profiles, have been used successfully to predict secondary structure and local structure in proteins. Profile models ...
Christopher Bystroff, Bobbie-Jo M. Webb-Robertson
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BMCBI
2007
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A machine learning approach for the identification of odorant binding proteins from sequence-derived properties
Background: Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are believed to shuttle odorants from the environment to the underlying odorant receptors, for which they could potentially serve as od...
Ganesan Pugalenthi, E. Ke Tang, Ponnuthurai N. Sug...