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Volume 18 Supplement 14
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Little Rock, AR, USA23-25 March 2017
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Edited by Jonathan D. Wren, Mikhail Dozmorov, Inimary Toby, Bindu Nanduri, Ramin Homayouni, Prashanti Manda and Shraddha Thakkar
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):498
NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is a rich community resource containing millions of gene expression experiments from human, mouse, rat, and other model organisms. However, information about each experimen...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):509
Much effort has been devoted to the discovery of specific mechanisms between drugs and single targets to date. However, as biological systems maintain homeostasis at the level of functional networks robustly c...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):532
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in diverse biological processes and play an essential role in various human diseases. The number of lncRNAs identified has increased rapidly in recent years owing to ...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):489
Endometrial cancers (ECs) are one of the most common types of malignant tumor in females. Substantial efforts had been made to identify significantly mutated genes (SMGs) in ECs and use them as biomarkers for ...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):472
Abruptness of pigment patterns at the periphery of a skin lesion is one of the most important dermoscopic features for detection of malignancy. In current clinical setting, abrupt cutoff of a skin lesion deter...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):484
Phenotypic classification is problematic because small samples are ubiquitous; and, for these, use of prior knowledge is critical. If knowledge concerning the feature-label distribution – for instance, genetic...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):552
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging human pathogen. Since its arrival in the Western hemisphere, from Africa via Asia, it has become a serious threat to pregnant women, causing microcephaly and other neuropathies...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):471
Blockage of some ion channels and in particular, the hERG (human Ether-a’-go-go-Related Gene) cardiac potassium channel delays cardiac repolarization and can induce arrhythmia. In some cases it leads to a pote...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):497
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a new class of small non-coding RNAs that are known to be associated with RNA silencing. The piRNAs play an important role in protecting the genome from invasive transposons ...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):517
Small noncoding regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators, regulating mRNAs, proteins, and DNA in bacteria. One class of sRNAs, trans-acting sRNAs, are the most abundant sRNAs transcribed from t...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):540
Multi-label classification of data remains to be a challenging problem. Because of the complexity of the data, it is sometimes difficult to infer information about classes that are not mutually exclusive. For ...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):523
Functional modules in biological networks consist of numerous biomolecules and their complicated interactions. Recent studies have shown that biomolecules in a functional module tend to have similar interactio...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):500
It is well-known that genome sequencing technologies are becoming significantly cheaper and faster. As a result of this, the exponential growth in sequencing data in public databases allows us to explore ever ...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):483
Quantification and identification of microbial genomes based on next-generation sequencing data is a challenging problem in metagenomics. Although current methods have mostly focused on analyzing bacteria whos...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):499
Recent breakthroughs in molecular biology and next generation sequencing technologies have led to the expenential growh of the sequence databases. Researchrs use BLAST for processing these sequences. However t...
Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18(Suppl 14):501
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