Experiments

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• Increased DNA microarray hybridization specificity using sscDNA targets.

  PMID 15847692 · PMC1090574 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A single round of ribo-SPIA amplification produces sufficient sscDNA for microarray hybridization from as little as 5 ng of starting total RNA

  cuhr k562 input sscdna microarray quantitative capillary

• A qualitative assessment of direct-labeled cDNA products prior to microarray analysis.

  PMID 15762992 · PMC1079821 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 5 claims · 5 setups

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  The Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer can be used in a novel assay to assess the quality/quantity of direct-labeled Cy-dye cDNA prior to microarray hybridization

  mcf-7 same 16lu bioanalyzer agarose cdna

• Tracing the origin of functional and conserved domains in the human proteome: implications for protein evolution at the modular level.

  PMID 17090320 · PMC1654190 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  HHpred (HMM-HMM comparison) detects remote homologs in the human proteome with higher sensitivity than hmmpfam (HMMER), giving 10% more functional domain coverage and 20% higher residue coverage against Pfam-A families.

  proteome homo domains hmm-hmm hmm subtractive

• Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA.

  PMID 16893451 · PMC1569435 · BMC genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Mitochondrial DNA shows no significant difference between Indian tribal and caste populations except higher frequency of west Eurasian-specific haplogroups in upper castes, especially in northwest India

  pardhan same comparative mtdna y-chromosome y-str

• CEAS: cis-regulatory element annotation system.

  PMID 16845068 · PMC1538818 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  CEAS is the first web server to streamline genome-scale ChIP-chip downstream analyses for biologists without strong bioinformatics support

  genome genomic chip-chip repeat-masked conservation

• Computing Ka and Ks with a consideration of unequal transitional substitutions.

  PMID 16740169 · PMC1552089 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  MYN, a modified version of the Yang-Nielsen (YN) algorithm based on the Tamura-Nei Model, allows unequal transitional substitution rates between purines (κR) and pyrimidines (κY) plus codon frequency bias

  simulated pairs human-mouse human-dog computer comparative

• EPD in its twentieth year: towards complete promoter coverage of selected model organisms.

  PMID 16381980 · PMC1347508 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  EPD is an annotated, non-redundant collection of experimentally defined eukaryotic POL II promoters accessed via genome position pointers.

  rice preliminary primer sequence quality

• Direct inference of SNP heterozygosity rates and resolution of LOH detection.

  PMID 18052545 · PMC2098867 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A large proportion of SNPs in dbSNP have high-variance HET rate estimates, limiting their reliability for LOH study design.

  dbsnp theoretical simulated hapmap snp probability sequential

• A Hidden Markov Model to estimate population mixture and allelic copy-numbers in cancers using Affymetrix SNP arrays.

  PMID 17996079 · PMC2206057 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  An HMM using paired germline genotype calls and tumour allelic SNP intensities can estimate allele-specific copy-numbers, distinguishing events like uniparental disomy from allelic imbalance.

  hapmap bladder prostate simulated affymetrix simulation

• Does distance matter? Variations in alternative 3' splicing regulation.

  PMID 17704130 · PMC2018619 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Alternative 3' splice sites can be distinguished from constitutive splice sites by a combination of sequence/conservation properties that vary depending on the distance between the splice sites.

  intronic human-mouse same comparative polypyrimidine branch

• Recovery of bisulfite-converted genomic sequences in the methylation-sensitive QPCR.

  PMID 17439964 · PMC1888819 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Bisulfite treatment causes DNA strand breakage (via abasic site formation and beta-elimination) in addition to cytosine deamination.

  genomic synthetic bisulfite-treated cloned methylation-sensitive quantitative gel

• FLAME, a novel fuzzy clustering method for the analysis of DNA microarray data.

  PMID 17204155 · PMC1774579 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  FLAME captures non-linear relationships and non-globular clusters by approximating fuzzy membership from each object's nearest neighbors rather than global centroids

  reduced yeast hypoxia tissues microarray gene

• Genome-wide analysis of human disease alleles reveals that their locations are correlated in paralogous proteins.

  PMID 18989397 · PMC2565504 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The locations of sequence variants are correlated between paralogous human proteins more than expected by chance.

  dbsnp best-hit omicia hgmd genome-wide correlation disease

• Information-based methods for predicting gene function from systematic gene knock-downs.

  PMID 18959798 · PMC2596148 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Information-based metrics, which incorporate a phenotype's genomic frequency, outperform non-information-based metrics for detecting gene-gene functional similarity from phenotypic knock-down profiles.

  caenorhabditis elegans saccharomyces interference computational genome-wide

• Statistical challenges in preprocessing in microarray experiments in cancer.

  PMID 18829474 · PMC3529914 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Choice of pre-processing method materially changes which features are found significantly associated with survival in the Beer et al. lung cancer microarray dataset

  lung beer individual outlier expression rank-covariance quality-control

• Potential biomarkers of human salivary function: a modified proteomic approach.

  PMID 18804197 · PMC2633945 · Archives of oral biology · 2009 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Two SDS-PAGE bands, identified by MS-MS as statherin and a truncated (N-terminal 8-aa-missing) cystatin S, are the strongest and most consistent predictors of HAA/LAA group membership and clinical/microbiological outcomes

  resting pooled saliva quantified preparative sds-page western

• A novel wavelet-based thresholding method for the pre-processing of mass spectrometry data that accounts for heterogeneous noise.

  PMID 18615428 · PMC2855839 · Proteomics · 2008 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Noise in SELDI-TOF/MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry data is heteroscedastic across the m/z range, with larger variance at lower m/z values, contrary to the homogeneous noise assumption of existing wavelet denoising methods.

  serum raw denoised simulated seldi-tof wavelet-based peak

• Highly diversified multiply drug-resistant HIV-1 quasispecies in PBMCs: a case report.

  PMID 18513421 · PMC2426714 · Retrovirology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  HIV-1 quasispecies in PBMCs are more genetically heterogeneous than in plasma

  plasma proviral cloned pbmc hiv-1 nested clonal

• Functional importance of different patterns of correlation between adjacent cassette exons in human and mouse.

  PMID 18439302 · PMC2432081 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Adjacent cassette exon pairs can be categorized by EST-derived correlation coefficient into three groups: mutually exclusive (ME, r<=-0.7), independent (IND, -0.2<=r<=0.2), and linked (LNK, r>=0.7)

  human-mouse adjacent est genome splice

• The biological function of some human transcription factor binding motifs varies with position relative to the transcription start site.

  PMID 18367472 · PMC2377430 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  1226 eight-letter DNA words show statistically significant positional preferences relative to the TSS across 7914 human promoter regions

  putative nonredundant homo genes computational pssm semantic