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Volume 10 Supplement 12
Edited by Luciano Milanesi and Paolo Romano
Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex Systems Applications (NETTAB2008). Go to conference site.
Varenna, Italy
19-21 May 2008
Research
The integration of data from multiple genome-wide assays is essential for understanding dynamic spatio-temporal interactions within cells. Such integration, which leads to a more complete view of cellular proc...
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Introduction
In this paper we provide an introduction to the techniques for multi-scale complex biological systems, from the single bio-molecule to the cell, combining theoretical modeling, experiments, informatics tools a...
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The NCBI dbEST currently contains more than eight million human Expressed Sequenced Tags (ESTs). This wide collection represents an important source of information for gene expression studies, provided it can ...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S2
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The design of mutants in protein functional regions, such as the ligand binding sites, is a powerful approach to recognize the determinants of specific protein activities in cellular pathways. For an exhaustiv...
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Mechanistic models are becoming more and more popular in Systems Biology; identification and control of models underlying biochemical pathways of interest in oncology is a primary goal in this field. Unfortuna...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S4
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Linking genotypic and phenotypic information is one of the greatest challenges of current genetics research. The definition of an Information Technology infrastructure to support this kind of studies, and in p...
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In the diagnosis of complex diseases such as neurological pathologies, a wealth of clinical and molecular information is often available to help the interpretation. Yet, the pieces of information are usually c...
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The today's public database infrastructure spans a very large collection of heterogeneous biological data, opening new opportunities for molecular biology, bio-medical and bioinformatics research, but raising ...
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The identification of the organisation and dynamics of molecular pathways is crucial for the understanding of cell function. In order to reconstruct the molecular pathways in which a gene of interest is involv...
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Mass spectrometry spectra, widely used in proteomics studies as a screening tool for protein profiling and to detect discriminatory signals, are high dimensional data. A large number of local maxima (a.k.a. peaks
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Complex microarray gene expression datasets can be used for many independent analyses and are particularly interesting for the validation of potential biomarkers and multi-gene classifiers. This article presen...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S10
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One of the topics of major interest in proteomics is protein identification. Protein identification can be achieved by analyzing the mass spectrum of a protein sample through different approaches. One of them,...
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Cell motility plays a central role in development, wound-healing and tumour invasion. Cultures of eucariotic cells are a complex system where most cells move according to 'random' patterns, but may also be ind...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S12
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The associations existing among different biomarkers are important in clinical settings because they contribute to the characterisation of specific pathways related to the natural history of the disease, genet...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S13
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Due to the huge amount of information at genomic level made recently available by high-throughput experimental technologies, networks of regulatory interactions between genes and gene products, the so-called gene...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S14
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Alternative splicing has been demonstrated to affect most of human genes; different isoforms from the same gene encode for proteins which differ for a limited number of residues, thus yielding similar structur...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S15
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The cell cycle is a complex process that allows eukaryotic cells to replicate chromosomal DNA and partition it into two daughter cells. A relevant regulatory step is in the G0/G1 phase, a point called the restric...
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 12):S16
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Protein-protein interactions can be considered the basic skeleton for living organism self-organization and homeostasis. Impressive quantities of experimental data are being obtained and computational tools ar...
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