Marcio Luis Acencio

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Is anyone aware of some database containing protein-protein interactions associated with functional annotations?

When a life scientist is willing to know the functional role of a given gene product, he/she usually consults the Gene Ontology (GO) database to retrieve functional annotations associated with...

16 September 2021 881 4 View

Is there any estimate available for the total amount of transcriptional regulatory interactions in Escherichia coli?

Dear all, I would like to know if someone can provide me an estimate for the total number of transcriptional regulatory interactions (transcription factor -> target gene) in E. coli. Currently,...

13 October 2015 1,021 2 View

Is it possible to reliably predict plant miRNA targets using solely blastn?

Hi everyone! Although I am aware of the existence of several tools for predicting miRNA targets, I would like to know if it is possible to use only blastn to this end in case of plant miRNAs. As...

25 August 2015 8,309 4 View

Can I construct biologically meaningful networks using WGCNA with fewer than 7 samples?

Hi everyone! Would it be possible to use WGCNA to find biologically meaningful networks from RNA-seq data generated by fewer than 7 samples? I have read in WGCNA Package FAQ that it is not...

21 May 2015 7,655 9 View

Is there available in Internet any tissue, organ or cell ontology containing clear connections with biological process terms in Gene Ontology (GO)?

Hi everyone! I annotated thousands of genes of a given organism using GO biological process terms and I would like to map these terms and/or genes to specific tissues/organs. For example, gene A...

30 April 2015 8,481 5 View

Any suggestion in RNA-seq when different fragments arise from the same transcript?

Hi everyone! I got trapped in the following situation: I have some pairs of transcripts obtained by RNA-seq that were annotated with same terms, e.g. contigs A and B were annotated as 2-alkenal...

23 February 2015 2,332 8 View

In gene set enrichment analysis, do the reported "corrected p-values" equal false discovery rates?

Hi everyone! I have used BINGO -- a Cytoscape plugin that performs gene set enrichment analysis -- for ages and only recently the following question has arisen in my mind: do the reported...

07 August 2014 9,768 1 View