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    Sequence similarity is more relevant than species specificity in probabilistic backtranslation

    Backtranslation is the process of decoding a sequence of amino acids into the corresponding codons. All synthetic gene design systems include a backtranslation module. The degeneracy of the genetic code makes ...

    Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno, Giuseppe Pigola, Alfredo Pulvirenti in BMC Bioinformatics (2007)

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    GraphFind: enhancing graph searching by low support data mining techniques

    Biomedical and chemical databases are large and rapidly growing in size. Graphs naturally model such kinds of data. To fully exploit the wealth of information in these graph databases, a key role is played by ...

    Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno, Misael Mongiovì, Alfredo Pulvirenti in BMC Bioinformatics (2008)

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    SING: Subgraph search In Non-homogeneous Graphs

    Finding the subgraphs of a graph database that are isomorphic to a given query graph has practical applications in several fields, from cheminformatics to image understanding. Since subgraph isomorphism is a c...

    Raffaele Di Natale, Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno, Misael Mongiovì in BMC Bioinformatics (2010)

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    Bioinformatics in Italy: BITS2012, the ninth annual meeting of the Italian Society of Bioinformatics

    The BITS2012 meeting, held in Catania on May 2-4, 2012, brought together almost 100 Italian researchers working in the field of Bioinformatics, as well as students in the same or related disciplines. About 90 ...

    Carmela Gissi, Paolo Romano, Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno in BMC Bioinformatics (2013)

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    VIRGO: visualization of A-to-I RNA editing sites in genomic sequences

    RNA Editing is a type of post-transcriptional modification that takes place in the eukaryotes. It alters the sequence of primary RNA transcripts by deleting, inserting or modifying residues. Several forms of R...

    Rosario Distefano, Giovanni Nigita, Valentina Macca in BMC Bioinformatics (2013)

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    A subgraph isomorphism algorithm and its application to biochemical data

    Graphs can represent biological networks at the molecular, protein, or species level. An important query is to find all matches of a pattern graph to a target graph. Accomplishing this is inherently difficult ...

    Vincenzo Bonnici, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Dennis Shasha in BMC Bioinformatics (2013)

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    KAOS: a new automated computational method for the identification of overexpressed genes

    Kinase over-expression and activation as a consequence of gene amplification or gene fusion events is a well-known mechanism of tumorigenesis. The search for novel rearrangements of kinases or other druggable ...

    Angelo Nuzzo, Giovanni Carapezza, Sebastiano Di Bella in BMC Bioinformatics (2016)

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    INBIA: a boosting methodology for proteomic network inference

    The analysis of tissue-specific protein interaction networks and their functional enrichment in pathological and normal tissues provides insights on the etiology of diseases. The Pan-cancer proteomic project, ...

    Davide S. Sardina, Giovanni Micale, Alfredo Ferro, Alfredo Pulvirenti in BMC Bioinformatics (2018)

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    Fast Subgraph Matching Strategies Based on Pattern-Only Heuristics

    Many scientific applications entail solving the subgraph isomorphism problem, i.e., given an input pattern graph, find all the subgraphs of a (usually much larger) target graph that are structurally equivalent...

    Antonino Aparo, Vincenzo Bonnici in Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational … (2019)

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    TACITuS: transcriptomic data collector, integrator, and selector on big data platform

    Several large public repositories of microarray datasets and RNA-seq data are available. Two prominent examples include ArrayExpress and NCBI GEO. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to import and manipulate d...

    Salvatore Alaimo, Antonio Di Maria, Dennis Shasha, Alfredo Ferro in BMC Bioinformatics (2019)

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    RNAdetector: a free user-friendly stand-alone and cloud-based system for RNA-Seq data analysis

    RNA-Seq is a well-established technology extensively used for transcriptome profiling, allowing the analysis of coding and non-coding RNA molecules. However, this technology produces a vast amount of data requ...

    Alessandro La Ferlita, Salvatore Alaimo, Sebastiano Di Bella in BMC Bioinformatics (2021)