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Volume 15 Supplement 1
Edited by Paolo Romano and Marco Masseroli
Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. The source of funding used to cover the open access charges is declared by the authors in each article. Articles have undergone the journal's standard peer-review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.
Integrated Bio-Search: 12th International Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB 2012). Go to conference site.
Como, Italy
14-16 November 2012
Introduction
The NETTAB 2012 workshop, held in Como on November 14-16, 2012, was devoted to "Integrated Bio-Search", that is to technologies, methods, architectures, systems and applications for searching, retrieving, inte...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S1
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Review
Many efforts exist to design and implement approaches and tools for data capture, integration and analysis in the life sciences. Challenges are not only the heterogeneity, size and distribution of information ...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S2
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Research
The huge amount of biomedical-molecular data increasingly produced is providing scientists with potentially valuable information. Yet, such data quantity makes difficult to find and extract those data that are...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S3
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Research
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs which play a key role in the post-transcriptional regulation of many genes. Elucidating miRNA-regulated gene networks is crucial for the understanding of mechanisms...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S4
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Research
Prioritization methods have become an useful tool for mining large amounts of data to suggest promising hypotheses in early research stages. Particularly, network-based prioritization tools use a network repre...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S5
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Software
The amount of gene expression data available in public repositories has grown exponentially in the last years, now requiring new data mining tools to transform them in information easily accessible to biologists.
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S6
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Research
In the last decade, Next-Generation Sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to quantitative transcriptomics, making RNA sequencing a valuable alternative to microarrays for measuring and comparin...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S7
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Software
Modern genomic technologies produce large amounts of data that can be mapped to specific regions in the genome. Among the first steps in interpreting the results is annotation of genomic regions with known fea...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S8
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Research
Recent progress in method development for characterising the branched structures of complex carbohydrates has now enabled higher throughput technology. Automation of structure analysis then calls for software ...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S9
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Research
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping analysis is very susceptible to SNPs chromosomal position errors. As it is known, SNPs mapping data are provided along the SNP arrays without any necessary infor...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S10
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Research
The ISA-Tab format and software suite have been developed to break the silo effect induced by technology-specific formats for a variety of data types and to better support experimental metadata tracking. Exper...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S11
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Research
Scientific workflows management systems are increasingly used to specify and manage bioinformatics experiments. Their programming model appeals to bioinformaticians, who can use them to easily specify complex ...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S12
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Software
In recent years, the experimental aspects of the laboratory activities have been growing in complexity in terms of amount and diversity of data produced, equipment used, of computer-based workflows needed to p...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S13
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Research
In the last decades, a wide number of researchers/clinicians involved in tissue engineering field published several works about the possibility to induce a tissue regeneration guided by the use of biomaterials...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S14
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Research
The large increase in the size of patent collections has led to the need of efficient search strategies. But the development of advanced text-mining applications dedicated to patents of the biomedical field re...
BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15(Suppl 1):S15
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