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Computational methods for biomarker discovery and systems biology research

This special issue consists of recent advances in computational methods, algorithms, and applications in biomarker discovery and systems biology research.

Edited by: Habtom Ressom

  1. It is widely accepted that cellular requirements and environmental conditions dictate the architecture of genetic regulatory networks. Nonetheless, the status quo in regulatory network modeling and analysis as...

    Authors: Jehandad Khan, Nidhal Bouaynaya and Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2014 2014:3
  2. Copy number alterations (CNAs) can be observed in most of cancer patients. Several oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes with CNAs have been identified in different kinds of tumor. However, the systematic surve...

    Authors: Tzu-Hung Hsiao, Hung-I Harry Chen, Stephanie Roessler, Xin Wei Wang and Yidong Chen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:14
  3. We propose methods to integrate data across several genomic platforms using a hierarchical Bayesian analysis framework that incorporates the biological relationships among the platforms to identify genes whose...

    Authors: Elizabeth M Jennings, Jeffrey S Morris, Raymond J Carroll, Ganiraju C Manyam and Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:13
  4. Interaction among different risk factors plays an important role in the development and progress of complex disease, such as diabetes. However, traditional epidemiological methods often focus on analyzing indi...

    Authors: Amin Ahmadi Adl, Xiaoning Qian, Ping Xu, Kendra Vehik and Jeffrey P Krischer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:12
  5. Recent advances in genome technologies and the subsequent collection of genomic information at various molecular resolutions hold promise to accelerate the discovery of new therapeutic targets. A critical step...

    Authors: Sanvesh Srivastava, Wenyi Wang, Ganiraju Manyam, Carlos Ordonez and Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:9
  6. DNA methylation plays an important role in many biological processes by regulating gene expression. It is commonly accepted that turning on the DNA methylation leads to silencing of the expression of the corre...

    Authors: Yihua Liu, Yuan Ji and Peng Qiu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:8
  7. Clustering is an important data processing tool for interpreting microarray data and genomic network inference. In this article, we propose a clustering algorithm based on the hierarchical Dirichlet processes ...

    Authors: Liming Wang and Xiaodong Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:5
  8. There is a growing body of evidence associating microRNAs (miRNAs) with human diseases. MiRNAs are new key players in the disease paradigm demonstrating roles in several human diseases. The functional associat...

    Authors: Ala Qabaja, Mohammed Alshalalfa, Tarek A Bismar and Reda Alhajj
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 2013 2013:3