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Predicting genes for orphan metabolic activities using phylogenetic profiles

Lifeng Chen email and Dennis Vitkup email

Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, St Nicholas Avenue, Irving Cancer Research Center, New York, NY 10032, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R17doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-2-r17

Published: 15 February 2006

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Biochemistry and structural biology


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Genomes used in this study to generate phylogenetic profiles.

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The effect of connection specificity adjustment.

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Comparison of the performance of the simplex and simulated annealing algorithms.

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Comparison of the predictions based on Equations 2 and 3.

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Ten-fold cross-validation of the algorithm.

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Comparison of the predictions based on all yeast non-metabolic genes as the candidate gene set, all hypothetical genes or a randomly selected subset of yeast non-metabolic genes.

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Context-based association as a function of metabolic network distance in E. coli.

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Comparison of predictions based on normalized gene phylogenetic profiles, mutual information, and the method reported in the paper.

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Dataset of sample predictions for E. coli and S. cerevisiae orphan activities.

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