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Welcome to BMC Bioinformatics published by BioMed Central
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, EMBASE, Scopus, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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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Research article
Prediction of protein binding sites in protein structures using hidden Markov support vector machine Bin Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Lei Lin, Buzhou Tang, Qiwen Dong, Xuan Wang BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :381 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology article
An experimental loop design for the detection of constitutional chromosomal aberrations by array CGH Joke Allemeersch, Steven Van Vooren, Femke Hannes, Bart De Moor, Joris Robert Vermeesch, Yves Moreau BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :380 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Software
SitesIdentify: a protein functional site prediction tool Tracey Bray, Pedro Chan, Salim Bougouffa, Richard Greaves, Andrew J Doig, Jim Warwicker BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :379 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology article
Nonlinear preprocessing method for detecting peaks from gas chromatograms Byonghyo Shim, Hyeyoung Min, Sungroh Yoon BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :378 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology article
The ontology of biological sequences Robert Hoehndorf, Janet Kelso, Heinrich Herre BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :377 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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 ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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 ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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 ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
A theoretical approach to spot active regions in antimicrobial proteins Marc Torrent, Vict BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :373 (11 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [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 ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genome-wide analysis of major intrinsic proteins in the tree plant Populus trichocarpa: Characterization of XIP subfamily of aquaporins from evolutionary perspective Anjali B. Gupta, Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :134 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Software
Searching for SNPs with cloud computing Ben Langmead, Michael C Schatz, Jimmy Lin, Mihai Pop, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R134 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Method
COMIT: Identification of noncoding motifs under selection in coding sequences Deniz Kural, Yang Ding, Jiantao Wu, Alicia Korpi, Jeffrey H Chuang Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R133 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology
HAMSTER: visualizing microarray experiments as a set of minimum spanning trees Raymond Wan, Larisa Kiseleva, Hajime Harada, Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Paul Horton Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2009, 4 :8 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
Ligand-specific sequential regulation of transcription factors for differentiation of MCF-7 cells Yuko Saeki, Takaho Endo, Kaori Ide, Takeshi Nagashima, Noriko Yumoto, Tetsuro Toyoda, Harukazu Suzuki, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Mariko Okada-Hatakeyama BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :545 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
Differentially expressed genes for aggressive pecking behaviour in laying hens Bart Buitenhuis, Jakob Hedgaard, Luc Janss, Peter Sorensen BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :544 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Exceptional error minimization in putative primordial genetic codes Artem S Novozhilov, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2009, 4 :44 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Transcriptomic analysis of pathways regulated by toll-like receptor 4 in a murine model of chronic pulmonary inflammation and carcinogenesis Alison K. Bauer, Jennifer Fostel, Laura M. Degraff, Elizabeth A. Rondini, Christopher Walker, Sherry F. Grissom, Julie Foley, Steven R. Kleeberger Molecular Cancer 2009, 8 :107 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Commentary
Make it better but don't change anything Jerry M Wright Automated Experimentation 2009, 1 :5 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
CTCF binding site classes exhibit distinct evolutionary, genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features Kobby Essien, Sebastien Vigneau, Sofia Apreleva, Larry N Singh, Marisa S Bartolomei, Sridhar Hannenhalli Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R131 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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