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BMCBI
2008
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TOPS++FATCAT: Fast flexible structural alignment using constraints derived from TOPS+ Strings Model
Background: Protein structure analysis and comparison are major challenges in structural bioinformatics. Despite the existence of many tools and algorithms, very few of them have ...
Mallika Veeramalai, Yuzhen Ye, Adam Godzik
BMCBI
2007
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Heritable clustering and pathway discovery in breast cancer integrating epigenetic and phenotypic data
Background: In order to recapitulate tumor progression pathways using epigenetic data, we developed novel clustering and pathway reconstruction algorithms, collectively referred t...
Zailong Wang, Pearlly Yan, Dustin P. Potter, Chari...
BMCBI
2008
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Piecewise multivariate modelling of sequential metabolic profiling data
Background: Modelling the time-related behaviour of biological systems is essential for understanding their dynamic responses to perturbations. In metabolic profiling studies, the...
Mattias Rantalainen, Olivier Cloarec, Timothy M. D...
BMCBI
2008
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Estimation and testing for the effect of a genetic pathway on a disease outcome using logistic kernel machine regression via log
Background: Growing interest on biological pathways has called for new statistical methods for modeling and testing a genetic pathway effect on a health outcome. The fact that gen...
Dawei Liu, Debashis Ghosh, Xihong Lin
BMCBI
2008
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Probe-specific mixed-model approach to detect copy number differences using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (ML
Background: MLPA method is a potentially useful semi-quantitative method to detect copy number alterations in targeted regions. In this paper, we propose a method for the normaliz...
Juan R. González, Josep L. Carrasco, Llu&ia...