HostPhinder: A Phage Host Prediction Tool
Viruses, 2016 The current dramatic increase of antibiotic resistant bacteria has revitalised the interest in bacteriophages as alternative antibacterial treatment. Meanwhile, the development of bioinformatics methods for analysing genomic data places high-throughput ...
Julia Villarroel +6 more
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The EM Algorithm and the Rise of Computational Biology [PDF]
, 2010 In the past decade computational biology has grown from a cottage industry with a handful of researchers to an attractive interdisciplinary field, catching the attention and imagination of many quantitatively-minded scientists.
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Sequence Alignment in Molecular Biology
Journal of Computational Biology, 1998 Molecular biology is becoming a computationally intense realm of contemporary science and faces some of the current grand scientific challenges. In its context, tools that identify, store, compare and analyze effectively large and growing numbers of bio-sequences are found of increasingly crucial importance.
Apostolico, Alberto, Fiancarlo, Raffaele
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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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SaPt-CNN-LSTM-AR-EA: a hybrid ensemble learning framework for time series-based multivariate DNA sequence prediction [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Biological sequence data mining is hot spot in bioinformatics. A biological sequence can be regarded as a set of characters. Time series is similar to biological sequences in terms of both representation and mechanism.
Wu Yan +5 more
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What Can We Learn from a Metagenomic Analysis of a Georgian Bacteriophage Cocktail?
Viruses, 2015 Phage therapy, a practice widespread in Eastern Europe, has untapped potential in the combat against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. However, technology transfer to Western medicine is proving challenging. Bioinformatics analysis could help to
Henrike Zschach +11 more
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An improved Plasmodium cynomolgi genome assembly reveals an unexpected methyltransferase gene expansion. [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Plasmodium cynomolgi, a non-human primate malaria parasite species, has been an important model parasite since its discovery in 1907. Similarities in the biology of P.
Berriman, Matt +7 more
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Rapid Nickel-based Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Different Biological Fluids
Bio-Protocol, 2020 Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membranous structures that cells massively release in extracellular fluids. EVs are cargo of cellular components such as lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids that can work as a formidable source in liquid biopsy studies ...
Michela Notarangelo +8 more
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Simple sequence repeats in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) expressed sequence tags: a new resource for evolutionary genetic studies of passerines [PDF]
, 2007 Background Passerines (perching birds) are widely studied across many biological disciplines including ecology, population biology, neurobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.
Birkhead, T.R., Hale, M.C., Slate, J.
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Biology of Genomes: making sense of sequence [PDF]
Genome Medicine, 2009 A report on the Biology of Genomes meeting held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA, 5-9 May 2009.
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