Bioinformatics

A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for detecting transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences

D. Karaboga, Aslan, S., Karaboga, D., Aslan, S., Karaboga, D., and Aslan, S., “A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for detecting transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences”, vol. 15, p. -, 2016.

The great majority of biological sequences share significant similarity with other sequences as a result of evolutionary processes, and identifying these sequence similarities is one of the most challenging problems in bioinformatics. In this paper, we present a discrete artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, which is inspired by the intelligent foraging behavior of real honey bees, for the detection of highly conserved residue patterns or motifs within sequences.

miRQuest: integration of tools on a Web server for microRNA research

R. R. Aguiar, Ambrosio, L. A., Sepúlveda-Hermosilla, G., Maracaja-Coutinho, V., Paschoal, A. R., Aguiar, R. R., Ambrosio, L. A., Sepúlveda-Hermosilla, G., Maracaja-Coutinho, V., Paschoal, A. R., Aguiar, R. R., Ambrosio, L. A., Sepúlveda-Hermosilla, G., Maracaja-Coutinho, V., and Paschoal, A. R., “miRQuest: integration of tools on a Web server for microRNA research”, vol. 15, p. -, 2016.

This report describes the miRQuest - a novel middleware available in a Web server that allows the end user to do the miRNA research in a user-friendly way. It is known that there are many prediction tools for microRNA (miRNA) identification that use different programming languages and methods to realize this task. It is difficult to understand each tool and apply it to diverse datasets and organisms available for miRNA analysis. miRQuest can easily be used by biologists and researchers with limited experience with bioinformatics.

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