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BMC Bioinformatics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the development, testing and novel application of computational and statistical methods for the modeling and analysis of all kinds of biological data, as well as other areas of computational biology.
BMC Bioinformatics (ISSN 1471-2105) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :S6
Scratchpads, a new social networking tool for natural history researchers and enthusiasts, links information from disparate sources, encourages data sharing, and promotes the ultimate goal of describing and synthesising all facets of the diversity of life.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :350
Methods for quantifying cell– cell contact often rely on global descriptors, such as overall cell density, but a new statistical model that accounts for local interactions, such as individual cell-cell distances, reduces noisy data and effectively describes contact inhibition effects.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :342
IQuantitator is a sophisticated and novel software package, which uses a statistical inference approach to integrate multiple iTRAQ experiments, allowing users to estimate changes in protein expression levels under various treatment conditions
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :334
Magellanes is a discovery engine that searches the web for bioinformatics services and organizes them into workflows using a semantic approach.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :324
KEGGconverter offers users a single workflow software which merges selected KGML pathway files into a fully functional metabolic network SBML model, enhanced with default kinetics, and ready for simulation purposes.
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Methodology article
Algorithms for effective querying of compound graph-based pathway databases Ugur Dogrusoz, Ahmet Cetintas, Emek Demir, Ozgun Babur BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :376 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
A generic algorithm for layout of biological networks Falk Schreiber, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Michael Wybrow BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :375 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
Linguistic feature analysis for protein interaction extraction Timur Fayruzov, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis, Veronique Hoste BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :374 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology article
A theoretical approach to spot active regions in antimicrobial proteins Marc Torrent, Victoria M Nogues, Ester Boix BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :373 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
Illumina WG-6 BeadChip strips should be normalized separately Wei Shi, Ashish Banerjee, Matthew E Ritchie, Steve Gerondakis, Gordon K Smyth BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :372 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
An empirical Bayesian approach for model-based inference of cellular signaling networks David J Klinke II BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :371 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Elucidation of functional consequences of signalling pathway interactions Adaoha E C Ihekwaba, Phuong T Nguyen, Corrado Priami BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :370 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
RNA folding on the 3D triangular lattice Joel Gillespie, Martin Mayne, Minghui Jiang BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :369 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Database
A biosegmentation benchmark for evaluation of bioimage analysis methods Elisa Drelie Gelasca, Boguslaw Obara, Dmitry Fedorov, Kristian Kvilekval, BS Manjunath BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :368 (1 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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GLIDERS - A web-based search engine for genome-wide linkage disequilibrium between HapMap SNPs Robert Lawrence, Aaron G Day-Williams, Richard Mott, John Broxholme, Lon R Cardon, Eleftheria Zeggini BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :367 (31 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Comparative analysis of the complete sequence of the plastid genome of Parthenium argentatum and identification of DNA barcodes to differentiate Parthenium species and lines Shashi Kumar, Frederick M. Hahn, Colleen M. McMahan, Katrina Cornish, Maureen C. Whalen BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :131 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Hepatitis B virus genotypes and evolutionary profiles of blood donors from Northwest region of China Xing-bin Hu, Qiao-hong Yue, Xian-qing Zhang, Xue-qing Xu, Wen Yin, Yao-zhen Chen, Xiao-dong Cheng, Liu Yang, Shi-jie Mu Virology Journal 2009, 6 :199 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
3' tag digital gene expression profiling of human brain and universal reference RNA using Illumina Genome Analyzer Yan W Asmann, Eric W Klee, E AUBREY Thompson, Edith A Perez, Sumit Middha, Ann L Oberg, Terry M Therneau, David I Smith, Gregory A Poland, Eric D Wieben, Jean-Pierre A Kocher BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :531 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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GExplore: a web server for integrated queries of protein domains, gene expression and mutant phenotypes Harald Hutter, Man-Ping Ng, Nansheng Chen BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :529 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Evidence for a novel gene associated with human influenza A viruses Monica Clifford, James Twigg, Chris Upton Virology Journal 2009, 6 :198 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Software article
Linear model for fast background subtraction in oligonucleotide microarrays K Myriam Kroll, Gerard T Barkema, Enrico Carlon Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2009, 4 :15 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology article
Splitting statistical potentials into meaningful scoring functions: Testing the prediction of near-native structures from decoy conformations. Patrick Aloy, Baldo Oliva BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :71 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
Analysis of expressed sequence tags and identification of genes encoding cell-wall-degrading enzymes from the fungivorous nematode Aphelenchus avenae Nurul Karim, John T Jones, Hiroaki Okada, Taisei Kikuchi BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :525 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species induce protein and DNA modifications driving arthrofibrosis following total knee arthroplasty Theresa A Freeman, Javad Parvizi, Craig J Della Valle, Marla J Steinbeck Fibrogenesis & Tissue Repair 2009, 2 :5 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Technical advance
An informatics supported web-based data annotation and query tool to expedite translational research for head and neck malignancies Waqas Amin, Hyunseok P Kang, Ann M Egloff, Harpreet Singh, Kerry Trent, Jennifer Ridge-Hetrick, Raja R Seethala, Jennifer Grandis, Anil V Parwani BMC Cancer 2009, 9 :396 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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