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In-house Editor Maria Kowalczuk
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BMC Bioinformatics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of computational methods used in the analysis and annotation of sequences and structures, as well as all other areas of computational biology.
BMC Bioinformatics (ISSN 1471-2105) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :205
PubMed abstracts can now be effectively screened for articles related to human genetic association studies and genome epidemiology using GAPscreener, a free java-based tool.
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :148
An extended coulomb/accessible surface area solvent model acts as an empirical scoring function for assessing protein stability and ligand binding affinities in protein structure prediction and computational protein design.
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :122
Simple metrics of folding energy and optimal structures accurately measure evolutionary conservation of RNA secondary structure and should form the basis of tools to predict non-coding RNAs, whereas complex methods fail to improve performance.
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :70
GraphCrunch is a new software tool for network analysis that incorporates the calculation of network structural properties and model fitting at both global and local scales and also introduces measures of network structural similarity based on graphlets.
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :48
A new kind of genomic signature, based on average mutual information profiles, offers species-specific signatures derived from a phylogenetically informative genomic distance measure and can use short sequences while being computationally simple to calculate.
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Discovery and assembly of repeat family pseudomolecules from sparse genomic sequence data using the Assisted Automated Assembler of Repeat Families (AAARF) algorithm Jeremy D DeBarry, Renyi Liu, Jeffrey L Bennetzen BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :235 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comprehensive inventory of protein complexes in the Protein Data Bank from consistent classification of interfaces Andrew J Bordner, Andrey A Gorin BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :234 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Triad pattern algorithm for predicting strong promoter candidates in bacterial genomes Michael Dekhtyar, Amelie Morin, Vehary Sakanyan BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :233 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Bioinformatic analyses of mammalian 5'-UTR sequence properties of mRNAs predicts alternative translation initiation sites
Jill L Wegrzyn, Thomas M Drudge, Faramarz Valafar, Vivian Hook BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :232 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Automating dChip: toward reproducible sharing of microarray data analysis Cheng Li BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :231 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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CPSP-tools - exact and complete algorithms for high-throughput 3D lattice protein studies Martin Mann, Sebastian Will, Rolf Backofen BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :230 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A tree-based conservation scoring method for short linear motifs in multiple alignments of protein sequences Claudia Chica, Alberto Labarga, Cathryn M Gould, Rodrigo Lopez, Toby J Gibson BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :229 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Inferring the role of transcription factors in regulatory networks Philippe Veber, Carito Guziolowski, Michel Le Borgne, Ovidiu Radulescu, Anne Siegel BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :228 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The pairwise disconnectivity index as a new metric for the topological analysis of regulatory networks Anatolij P. Potapov, Bjorn Goemann, Edgar Wingender BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :227 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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SCPRED: Accurate prediction of protein structural class for sequences of twilight-zone similarity with predicting sequences Lukasz Kurgan, Krzysztof Cios, Ke Chen BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :226 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Biocomputational prediction of small non-coding RNAs in Streptomyces Josef Panek, Jan Bobek, Karel Mikulik, Marek Basler, Jiri Vohradsky BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :217 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Complete Sequence and Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome of Hemiselmis andersenii CCMP644 (Cryptophyceae)
Eunsoo Kim, Christopher E Lane, Bruce A Curtis, Catherine Kozera, Sharen Bowman, John M Archibald BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :215 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A universal DNA mini-barcode for biodiversity analysis Isabelle Meusnier, Gregory AC Singer, Jean-Francois Landry, Donal A Hickey, Paul DN Hebert, Mehrdad Hajibabaei BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :214 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comparative expression profiling in grape (Vitis vinifera) berries derived from frequency analysis of ESTs and MPSS signatures Alberto Iandolino, Kan Nobuta, Francisco Goes da Silva, Douglas R Cook, Blake C Meyers BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :53 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals Peter C Austin BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8 :30 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A kinetic-based sigmoidal model for the polymerase chain reaction and its application to high-capacity absolute quantitative real-time PCR Robert G Rutledge, Donald Stewart BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8 :47 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A Dominated Coupling From The Past algorithm for the stochastic
simulation of networks of biochemical reactions Martin Hemberg, Mauricio Barahona BMC Systems Biology 2008, 2 :42 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Breast cancer tumor growth estimated through mammography screening data Harald HWF Weedon-Fekjaer mr, Bo Henry BHL Lindqvist prof, Odd Olai OOA Aalen prof, Lars Johan LJV Vatten prof, Steinar ST Tretli prof Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10 :R41 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Extraction of elementary rate constants from global network analysis of E. coli central metabolism Jiao Zhao, Douglas Ridgway, Gordon Broderick, Andriy Kovalenko, Michael Ellison BMC Systems Biology 2008, 2 :41 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Improving the accuracy of template-based predictions by mixing and matching between initial models Tianyun Liu, Michal Guerquin, Ram Samudrala BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8 :24 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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