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Bioinformatics in Jordan: Status, challenges, and future directions.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2019
Bioinformatics plays a key role in supporting the life sciences. In this work, we examine bioinformatics in Jordan, beginning with the current status of bioinformatics education and research, then exploring the challenges of advancing bioinformatics, and
Qanita Bani Baker, Maryam S Nuser
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Overview of Random Forest Methodology and Practical Guidance with Emphasis on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics [PDF]

, 2012
The Random Forest (RF) algorithm by Leo Breiman has become a standard data analysis tool in bioinformatics. It has shown excellent performance in settings where the number of variables is much larger than the number of observations, can cope with ...
Boulesteix, Anne-Laure, Janitza, Silke, Kruppa, Jochen, König, Inke R.   +3 more
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Establishing bioinformatics research in the Asia Pacific

BMC Bioinformatics, 2006
In 1998, the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation was set up to champion the advancement of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific.
Tammi Martti, Ranganathan Shoba, Gribskov Michael, Tan Tin Wee   +3 more
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Women in the European Virus Bioinformatics Center

Viruses, 2022
Viruses are the cause of a considerable burden to human, animal and plant health, while on the other hand playing an important role in regulating entire ecosystems. The power of new sequencing technologies combined with new tools for processing “Big Data”
Franziska Hufsky, Ana Abecasis, Patricia Agudelo-Romero, Magda Bletsa, Katherine Brown, Claudia Claus, Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer, Li Deng, Caroline C. Friedel, María Inés Gismondi, Evangelia Georgia Kostaki, Denise Kühnert, Urmila Kulkarni-Kale, Karin J. Metzner, Irmtraud M. Meyer, Laura Miozzi, Luca Nishimura, Sofia Paraskevopoulou, Alba Pérez-Cataluña, Janina Rahlff, Emma Thomson, Charlotte Tumescheit, Lia van der Hoek, Lore Van Espen, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Maryam Zaheri, Neta Zuckerman, Manja Marz   +27 more
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Bioinformatics-Based Activities in High School: Fostering Students’ Literacy, Interest, and Attitudes on Gene Regulation, Genomics, and Evolution

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
The key role of bioinformatics in explaining biological phenomena calls for the need to rethink didactic approaches at high school aligned with a new scientific reality.
Ana Martins, Ana Martins, Maria João Fonseca, Marina Lemos, Leonor Lencastre, Fernando Tavares, Fernando Tavares   +6 more
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The provision of bioinformatics services in Canadian academic libraries

Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2014
Introduction – This article describes the level of bioinformatics services offered by academic libraries across Canada. It also assesses faculty use of bioinformatics resources and the need for library bioinformatics services at one academic institution,
Danielle Dennie
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Keemei: cloud-based validation of tabular bioinformatics file formats in Google Sheets. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundBioinformatics software often requires human-generated tabular text files as input and has specific requirements for how those data are formatted.
Ackermann, Gail, Bolyen, Evan, Caporaso, J Gregory, Chase, John H, González, Antonio, Knight, Rob, Rideout, Jai Ram   +6 more
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Bioinformatics Databases: State of the Art and Research Perspectives [PDF]

, 2003
Bioinformatics or computational biology, i.e. the application of mathematical and computer science methods to solving problems in molecular biology that require large scale data, computation, and analysis, is a research area currently receiving a ...
Bry, François, Kröger, Peer
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Predicting enhancers with deep convolutional neural networks

BMC Bioinformatics, 2017
Background With the rapid development of deep sequencing techniques in the recent years, enhancers have been systematically identified in such projects as FANTOM and ENCODE, forming genome-wide landscapes in a series of human cell lines.
Xu Min, Wanwen Zeng, Shengquan Chen, Ning Chen, Ting Chen, Rui Jiang   +5 more
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Prospects and limitations of full-text index structures in genome analysis [PDF]

, 2012
The combination of incessant advances in sequencing technology producing large amounts of data and innovative bioinformatics approaches, designed to cope with this data flood, has led to new interesting results in the life sciences.
Dawyndt, Peter, De Baets, Bernard, Fack, Veerle, Vyverman, Michaël   +3 more
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