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  1. Article

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    GRAPES-DD: exploiting decision diagrams for index-driven search in biological graph databases

    Graphs are mathematical structures widely used for expressing relationships among elements when representing biomedical and biological information. On top of these representations, several analyses are perform...

    Nicola Licheri, Vincenzo Bonnici, Marco Beccuti, Rosalba Giugno in BMC Bioinformatics (2021)

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    The 2017 Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB) workshop: aims, topics and outcomes

    The 17th International NETTAB workshop was held in Palermo, Italy, on October 16-18, 2017. The special topic for the meeting was “Methods, tools and platforms for Personalised Medicine in the Big Data Era”, bu...

    Paolo Romano, Arnaud Céol, Andreas Dräger, Antonino Fiannaca in BMC Bioinformatics (2019)

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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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    PanDelos: a dictionary-based method for pan-genome content discovery

    Pan-genome approaches afford the discovery of homology relations in a set of genomes, by determining how some gene families are distributed among a given set of genomes. The retrieval of a complete gene distri...

    Vincenzo Bonnici, Rosalba Giugno, Vincenzo Manca in BMC Bioinformatics (2018)

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    Correction to: cuRnet: an R package for graph traversing on GPU

    After publication of this supplement article [1], it was brought to our attention that reference 10 and reference 12 in the article are incorrect.

    Vincenzo Bonnici, Federico Busato, Stefano Aldegheri in BMC Bioinformatics (2018)

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    cuRnet: an R package for graph traversing on GPU

    R has become the de-facto reference analysis environment in Bioinformatics. Plenty of tools are available as packages that extend the R functionality, and many of them target the analysis of biological network...

    Vincenzo Bonnici, Federico Busato, Stefano Aldegheri in BMC Bioinformatics (2018)

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    Arena-Idb: a platform to build human non-coding RNA interaction networks

    High throughput technologies have provided the scientific community an unprecedented opportunity for large-scale analysis of genomes. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), for a long time believed to be non-functional, ar...

    Vincenzo Bonnici, Giorgio De Caro, Giorgio Constantino, Sabino Liuni in BMC Bioinformatics (2018)

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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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    Recommendation Techniques for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction and Drug Repositioning

    The usage of computational methods in drug discovery is a common practice. More recently, by exploiting the wealth of biological knowledge bases, a novel approach called drug repositioning has raised. Several ...

    Salvatore Alaimo, Rosalba Giugno in Data Mining Techniques for the Life Scienc… (2016)

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    A knowledge base for Vitis vinifera functional analysis

    Vitis vinifera (Grapevine) is the most important fruit species in the modern world. Wine and table grapes sales contribute significantly to the economy of major wine producing countries. The most relevant goals i...

    Alfredo Pulvirenti, Rosalba Giugno, Rosario Distefano in BMC Systems Biology (2015)

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    DT-Web: a web-based application for drug-target interaction and drug combination prediction through domain-tuned network-based inference

    The identification of drug-target interactions (DTI) is a costly and time-consuming step in drug discovery and design. Computational methods capable of predicting reliable DTI play an important role in the fie...

    Salvatore Alaimo, Vincenzo Bonnici, Damiano Cancemi, Alfredo Ferro in BMC Systems Biology (2015)

  12. Protocol

    Computational Design of Artificial RNA Molecules for Gene Regulation

    RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool for the regulation of gene expression. Small exogenous noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) such as siRNA and shRNA are the active silencing agents, intended to target and cleave ...

    Alessandro Laganà, Dario Veneziano, Francesco Russo in RNA Bioinformatics (2015)

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    A knowledge base for the discovery of function, diagnostic potential and drug effects on cellular and extracellular miRNAs

    MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that play an important role in the regulation of various biological processes through their interaction with cellular mRNAs. A significant amount of miRNAs has been ...

    Francesco Russo, Sebastiano Di Bella, Vincenzo Bonnici, Alessandro Laganà in BMC Genomics (2014)

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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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    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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    Enhancing Graph Database Indexing by Suffix Tree Structure

    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, scientists require syste...

    Vincenzo Bonnici, Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno in Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (2010)

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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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    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)