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Volume 9 Supplement 2
Edited by Mary Qu Yang, Jack Y Yang, Hamid R Arabnia and Youping Deng
IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School. Go to conference site.
Boston, MA, USA
14-17 October 2007
Introductory Review
Supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM), International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design and International Journal of Fun...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):I1
Published on: 16 September 2008
Research
Our first predictor of protein disorder was published just over a decade ago in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (Romero P, Obradovic Z, Kissinger C, Villafranca JE, Dunker ...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S1
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Structural genomics efforts contribute new protein structures that often lack significant sequence and fold similarity to known proteins. Traditional sequence and structure-based methods may not be sufficient ...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S2
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Bidirectional promoters lie between adjacent genes, which are transcribed from opposite strands of DNA. The functional mechanisms underlying the activation of bidirectional promoters are currently uncharacteri...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S3
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To examine the usefulness of protein disorder predictions as a tool for the comparative analysis of viral proteins, a relational database has been constructed. The database includes proteins from influenza A a...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S4
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Using genomic DNA as common reference in microarray experiments has recently been tested by different laboratories. Conflicting results have been reported with regard to the reliability of microarray results u...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S5
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Sudden death syndrome (SDS) of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) is an economically important disease, caused by the semi-biotrophic fungus Fusarium solani f. sp. glycines, recently renamed Fusarium virguliforme (Fv...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S6
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The growing body of DNA microarray data has the potential to advance our understanding of the molecular basis of disease. However annotating microarray datasets with clinically useful information is not always...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S7
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Many protein regions and some entire proteins have no definite tertiary structure, presenting instead as dynamic, disorder ensembles under different physiochemical circumstances. These proteins and regions are...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S8
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Adjuvant Radiotherapy (RT) after surgical removal of tumors proved beneficial in long-term tumor control and treatment planning. For many years, it has been well concluded that radio-sensitivities of tumors up...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S9
Published on: 16 September 2008
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BLAST programs are very efficient in finding similarities for sequences. However for large datasets such as ESTs, manual extraction of the information from the batch BLAST output is needed. This can be time co...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S10
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Microarray technology is widely applied to address complex scientific questions. However, there remain fundamental issues on how to design experiments to ensure that the resulting data enables robust statistic...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S11
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As studies of molecular biology system attempt to achieve a comprehensive understanding of a particular system, Type 1 errors may be a significant problem. However, few investigators are inclined to accept the...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S12
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Computational gene prediction tools routinely generate large volumes of predicted coding exons (putative exons). One common limitation of these tools is the relatively low specificity due to the large amount of n...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S13
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Gene expression data extracted from microarray experiments have been used to study the difference between mRNA abundance of genes under different conditions. In one of such experiments, thousands of genes are ...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S14
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Because of the advent of high-throughput sequencing and the consequent reduction in the cost of sequencing, many organisms have been completely sequenced and most of their genes identified. It thus has become ...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S15
Published on: 16 September 2008
Research
Being formal, declarative knowledge representation models, ontologies help to address the problem of imprecise terminologies in biological and biomedical research. However, ontologies constructed under the aus...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S16
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) is a highly efficient technique, allowing the simultaneous measurement of genomic DNA copy number at hundreds or thousands of loci and the reliable det...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S17
Published on: 16 September 2008
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Microarray technology is often used to identify the genes that are differentially expressed between two biological conditions. On the other hand, since microarray datasets contain a small number of samples and...
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S18
Published on: 16 September 2008
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To date, the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks from gene expression data has primarily relied on the correlation between the expression of transcription regulators and that of target genes.
BMC Genomics 2008 9(Suppl 2):S19
Published on: 16 September 2008
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