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BMCBI
2010
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eCOMPAGT integrates mtDNA: import, validation and export of mitochondrial DNA profiles for population genetics, tumour dynamics
Background: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is widely being used for population genetics, forensic DNA fingerprinting and clinical disease association studies. The recent past has uncov...
Hansi Weißensteiner, Sebastian Schönher...
BMCBI
2008
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Genome-scale study of the importance of binding site context for transcription factor binding and gene regulation
Background: The rate of mRNA transcription is controlled by transcription factors that bind to specific DNA motifs in promoter regions upstream of protein coding genes. Recent res...
Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Feifei Xu, Hans Ronne,...
BMCBI
2008
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H2r: Identification of evolutionary important residues by means of an entropy based analysis of multiple sequence alignments
Background: A multiple sequence alignment (MSA) generated for a protein can be used to characterise residues by means of a statistical analysis of single columns. In addition to t...
Rainer Merkl, Matthias Zwick
BMCBI
2008
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Very Important Pool (VIP) genes - an application for microarray-based molecular signatures
Background: Advances in DNA microarray technology portend that molecular signatures from which microarray will eventually be used in clinical environments and personalized medicin...
Zhenqiang Su, Huixiao Hong, Hong Fang, Leming M. S...
TOMACS
2010
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State-dependent importance sampling for a Jackson tandem network
This paper considers importance sampling as a tool for rare-event simulation. The focus is on estimating the probability of overflow in the downstream queue of a Jacksonian two-n...
Denis I. Miretskiy, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt, Mich...