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  1. Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to human diseases. Most common diseases are influenced by a large number of genetic and environmental factors, most of which individually have only a modest ef...

    Authors: Yueyi I Liu, Paul H Wise and Atul J Butte
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S14
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  2. In response to the frequently overwhelming output of high-throughput microarray experiments, we propose a methodology to facilitate interpretation of biological data in the context of existing knowledge. Throu...

    Authors: Hannah J Tipney, Sonia M Leach, Weiguo Feng, Richard Spritz, Trevor Williams and Lawrence Hunter
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S12
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  3. This paper proposes a novel framework for bioinformatics assisted biosurveillance and early warning to address the inefficiencies in traditional surveillance as well as the need for more timely and comprehensi...

    Authors: Vitali Sintchenko, Blanca Gallego, Grace Chung and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S10
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  4. BioProspecting is a novel approach that enabled our team to mine data related to genetic markers from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) utilizing SNOMED CT and the Human Gene Onotology (HUGO). The Bio...

    Authors: Peter L Elkin, Mark S Tuttle, Brett E Trusko and Steven H Brown
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S9
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  5. Bayesian networks are powerful instruments to learn genetic models from association studies data. They are able to derive the existing correlation between genetic markers and phenotypic traits and, at the same...

    Authors: Alberto Malovini, Angelo Nuzzo, Fulvia Ferrazzi, Annibale A Puca and Riccardo Bellazzi
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S7
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  6. Summarization of gene information in the literature has the potential to help genomics researchers translate basic research into clinical benefits. Gene expression microarrays have been used to study biomarker...

    Authors: Jianji Yang, Aaron Cohen and William Hersh
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S5
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  7. This paper proposes that interoperability across biomedical databases can be improved by utilizing a repository of Common Data Elements (CDEs), UML model class-attributes and simple lexical algorithms to facil...

    Authors: Isaac Kunz, Ming-Chin Lin and Lewis Frey
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S4
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  8. A critical challenge in neuroscience is organizing, managing, and accessing the explosion in neuroscientific knowledge, particularly anatomic knowledge. We believe that explicit knowledge-based approaches to m...

    Authors: Daniel L Rubin, Ion-Florin Talos, Michael Halle, Mark A Musen and Ron Kikinis
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S3
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  9. Semantic Web technologies offer a promising framework for integration of disparate biomedical data. In this paper we present the semantic information integration platform under development at the Center for Cl...

    Authors: Parsa Mirhaji, Min Zhu, Mattew Vagnoni, Elmer V Bernstam, Jiajie Zhang and Jack W Smith
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S2
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  10. The volume of publicly available genomic scale data is increasing. Genomic datasets in public repositories are annotated with free-text fields describing the pathological state of the studied sample. These ann...

    Authors: Nigam H Shah, Clement Jonquet, Annie P Chiang, Atul J Butte, Rong Chen and Mark A Musen
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S1
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  11. The volume of data available on genetic variations has increased considerably with the recent development of high-density, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays. Several software programs have been devel...

    Authors: Sergio Barlati, Sergio Chiesa and Chiara Magri
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:49
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  12. Since the inception of the GO annotation project, a variety of tools have been developed that support exploring and searching the GO database. In particular, a variety of tools that perform GO enrichment analy...

    Authors: Eran Eden, Roy Navon, Israel Steinfeld, Doron Lipson and Zohar Yakhini
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:48
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  13. Analysis of microarray and other high-throughput data on the basis of gene sets, rather than individual genes, is becoming more important in genomic studies. Correspondingly, a large number of statistical appr...

    Authors: Marit Ackermann and Korbinian Strimmer
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:47
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  17. Many studies have provided algorithms or methods to assess a statistical significance in quantitative proteomics when multiple replicates for a protein sample and a LC/MS analysis are available. But, confidenc...

    Authors: Qingbo Li and Bryan AP Roxas
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:43
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  18. Gene expression analysis has emerged as a major biological research area, with real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-QPCR) being one of the most accurate and widely used techniques for expressio...

    Authors: Vlad Popovici, Darlene R Goldstein, Janine Antonov, Rolf Jaggi, Mauro Delorenzi and Pratyaksha Wirapati
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:42
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  19. In addition to single-locus (main) effects of disease variants, there is a growing consensus that gene-gene and gene-environment interactions may play important roles in disease etiology. However, for the very...

    Authors: Quan Long, Qingrun Zhang and Jurg Ott
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S75
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  20. Identifying the genetic components of common diseases has long been an important area of research. Recently, genotyping technology has reached the level where it is cost effective to genotype single nucleotide...

    Authors: Søren Besenbacher, Christian NS Pedersen and Thomas Mailund
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S74
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  21. Gene copy number and gene expression values play important roles in cancer initiation and progression. Both can be measured with high-throughput microarrays and some methodologies to integrate and analyze thes...

    Authors: Reija Autio, Matti Saarela, Anna-Kaarina Järvinen, Sampsa Hautaniemi and Jaakko Astola
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S70
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  22. Genome-wide association studies prove to be a powerful approach to identify the genetic basis of different human diseases. We studied the relationship between seven diseases characterized in a previous genome-...

    Authors: Wenhui Huang, Pengyuan Wang, Zhen Liu and Liqing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S68
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  23. Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) play important roles in many biological functions. Protein domains, which are defined as independently folding structural blocks of proteins, physically interact with each o...

    Authors: Kelvin X Zhang and BF Francis Ouellette
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S60
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  24. Supervised learning and many stochastic methods for predicting protein-protein interactions require both negative and positive interactions in the training data set. Unlike positive interactions, negative inte...

    Authors: Jisu Kim, De-Shuang Huang and Kyungsook Han
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S57
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  25. Genes show different sensitivities in expression corresponding to various biological conditions. Systematical study of this concept is required because of its important implications in microarray analysis etc....

    Authors: Pei Hao, Siyuan Zheng, Jie Ping, Kang Tu, Christian Gieger, Rui Wang-Sattler, Yang Zhong and Yixue Li
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S56
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  26. The gene shaving algorithm and many other clustering algorithms identify gene clusters showing high variation across samples. However, gene expression in many signaling pathways show only modest and concordant...

    Authors: Dongxiao Zhu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S54
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  27. The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathway is one of the most important targets for myeloproliferative disorder (MPD). Although several efforts toward modeling the pat...

    Authors: Hong-Hee Won, Inho Park, Eunjung Lee, Jong-Won Kim and Doheon Lee
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S53
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  28. Although microarray gene expression analysis has become popular, it remains difficult to interpret the biological changes caused by stimuli or variation of conditions. Clustering of genes and associating each ...

    Authors: Taiji Suzuki, Masashi Sugiyama, Takafumi Kanamori and Jun Sese
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S52
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  29. Spectra resulting from Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionisation (SELDI) mass spectrometry measurements are constructed by combining sub-spectra, each of which are the result of a single firing of the laser...

    Authors: Wouter Meuleman, Judith YMN Engwegen, Marie-Christine W Gast, Lodewyk FA Wessels and Marcel JT Reinders
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S51
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  30. Peptide identification via tandem mass spectrometry is the basic task of current proteomics research. Due to the complexity of mass spectra, the majority of mass spectra cannot be interpreted at present. The e...

    Authors: Yan Fu, Wei Jia, Zhuang Lu, Haipeng Wang, Zuofei Yuan, Hao Chi, You Li, Liyun Xiu, Wenping Wang, Chao Liu, Leheng Wang, Ruixiang Sun, Wen Gao, Xiaohong Qian and Si-Min He
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S50
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  31. SARS coronavirus main proteinase (SARS CoVMpro) is an important enzyme for the replication of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus. The active site region of SARS CoVMpro is divided into 8 subsites. Underst...

    Authors: Krongsakda Phakthanakanok, Khanok Ratanakhanokchai, Khin Lay Kyu, Pornthep Sompornpisut, Aaron Watts and Surapong Pinitglang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S48
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  32. Automatic identification of structure fingerprints from a group of diverse protein structures is challenging, especially for proteins whose divergent amino acid sequences may fall into the "twilight-" or "midn...

    Authors: Yi Jia, Jun Huan, Vincent Buhr, Jintao Zhang and Leonidas N Carayannopoulos
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S46
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  33. The studies on protein folding/unfolding indicate that the native state topology is an important determinant of protein folding mechanism. The folding/unfolding behaviors of proteins which have similar topolog...

    Authors: Liling Zhao, Jihua Wang, Xianghua Dou and Zanxia Cao
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S44
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  34. Intrinsically unstructured or disordered proteins are common and functionally important. Prediction of disordered regions in proteins can provide useful information for understanding protein function and for h...

    Authors: Pengfei Han, Xiuzhen Zhang and Zhi-Ping Feng
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S42
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  35. Microsatellites (MSs) are DNA markers with high analytical power, which are widely used in population genetics, genetic mapping, and forensic studies. Currently available software solutions for high-throughput...

    Authors: Lars Kraemer, Bánk Beszteri, Steffi Gäbler-Schwarz, Christoph Held, Florian Leese, Christoph Mayer, Kevin Pöhlmann and Stephan Frickenhaus
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:41
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  36. Electron cryomicroscopy is a fast developing technique aiming at the determination of the 3-dimensional structures of large protein complexes. Using this technique, protein density maps can be generated with 6...

    Authors: Weitao Sun and Jing He
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S40
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  37. RNA secondary structure prediction is one major task in bioinformatics, and various computational methods have been proposed so far. Pseudoknot is one of the typical substructures appearing in several RNAs, an...

    Authors: Unyanee Poolsap, Yuki Kato and Tatsuya Akutsu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S38
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  38. Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes do not encode proteins but produce functional RNA molecules that play crucial roles in many key biological processes. Recent genome-wide transcriptional profiling studies using til...

    Authors: Dandan Song, Yang Yang, Bin Yu, Binglian Zheng, Zhidong Deng, Bao-Liang Lu, Xuemei Chen and Tao Jiang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S36
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  39. RNA interference (RNAi) mediated by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) or short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) has become a powerful technique for eukaryotic gene knockdown. siRNA GC-content negatively correlates with RNA...

    Authors: Chi Yu Chan, C Steven Carmack, Dang D Long, Anil Maliyekkel, Yu Shao, Igor B Roninson and Ye Ding
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S33
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  40. MicroRNA (miRNA) target prediction is an important component in understanding gene regulation. One approach is computational: searching nucleotide sequences for miRNA complementary base pairing. An alternative...

    Authors: Brian J Parker and Jiayu Wen
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S32
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  41. Clustering analysis is a common statistical tool for knowledge discovery. It is mainly conducted when a project still is in the exploratory phase without any priori hypotheses. However, the statistical signifi...

    Authors: Wensheng Zhang, Hong-Bin Fang and Jiuzhou Song
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S26
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  42. The importance of network-based approach to identifying biological markers for diagnostic classification and prognostic assessment in the context of microarray data has been increasingly recognized. To our kno...

    Authors: Yanni Zhu, Xiaotong Shen and Wei Pan
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S21
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  43. The emerging next-generation sequencing method based on PCR technology boosts genome sequencing speed considerably, the expense is also get decreased. It has been utilized to address a broad range of bioinform...

    Authors: Wendi Wang, Peiheng Zhang and Xinchun Liu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S17
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  44. DNA assembling is the problem of determining the nucleotide sequence of a genome from its substrings, called reads. In the experiments, there may be some errors on the reads which affect the performance of the DN...

    Authors: Francis YL Chin, Henry CM Leung, Wei-Lin Li and Siu-Ming Yiu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S15
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  46. Metagenomics is a rapidly growing field of research that aims at studying uncultured organisms to understand the true diversity of microbes, their functions, cooperation and evolution, in environments such as ...

    Authors: Daniel H Huson, Daniel C Richter, Suparna Mitra, Alexander F Auch and Stephan C Schuster
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S12
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  47. A phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a group of organisms. To date, sequence data is still the most used data type for phylogenetic reconstruction. Before any sequences can be used for phylogeny reconstr...

    Authors: Feng Yue, Jian Shi and Jijun Tang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S11
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  48. Generating sequence alignments from superimposed structures is an important part of many structure comparison programs. The accuracy of the alignment affects structure recognition, classification and possibly ...

    Authors: Chin-Hsien Tai, James J Vincent, Changhoon Kim and Byungkook Lee
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S4
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  49. Sequence mutations represent a driving force of adaptive evolution in bacterial pathogens. It is especially evident in reductive genome evolution where bacteria underwent lifestyles shifting from a free-living...

    Authors: GX Yu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S3
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