Background: Within the emerging field of text mining and statistical natural language processing (NLP) applied to biomedical articles, a broad variety of techniques have been deve...
Background: Analysis of inherited diseases and their associated phenotypes is of great importance to gain knowledge of underlying genetic interactions and could ultimately give cl...
Marco Masseroli, Osvaldo Galati, Mauro Manzotti, K...
Background: Systematic evaluation and study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) made possible by high throughput genotyping technologies and bioinformatics promises to provi...
Qian Xie, Luke D. Ratnasinghe, Huixiao Hong, Roger...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Background: The advent of the technology of DNA microarrays constitutes an epochal change in the classification and discovery of different types of cancer because the information ...