Ivan Merelli

In silico saturation mutagenesis and docking screening for the analysis of protein-ligand interaction: the Endothelial Protein C Receptor case study (2009)

Chiappori, Federica, D'Ursi, Pasqualina, Merelli, Ivan, Milanesi, Luciano, Rovida, Ermanna

Abstract Background The design of mutants in protein functional regions, such as the ligand binding sites, is a powerful approach to recognize the determinants of specific protein activities in...

The Human EST Ontology Explorer: a tissue-oriented visualization system for ontologies distribution in human EST collections (2009)

Merelli, Ivan, Caprera, Andrea, Stella, Alessandra, Del Corvo, Marcello, Milanesi, Luciano, Lazzari, Barbara

Abstract Background The NCBI dbEST currently contains more than eight million human Expressed Sequenced Tags (ESTs). This wide collection represents an important source of information for gene...

Ontology-oriented retrieval of putative microRNAs in Vitis viniferavia GrapeMiRNA: a web database of de novopredicted grape microRNAs (2009)

Lazzari, Barbara, Caprera, Andrea, Cestaro, Alessandro, Merelli, Ivan, Del Corvo, Marcello, Fontana, Paolo, ...

Abstract Background Two complete genome sequences are available for Vitis vinifera Pinot noir. Based on the sequence and gene predictions produced by the IASMA, we performed an in silico detection of...

Experimenting Grid Protocols to Improve Privacy Preservation in Efficient Distributed Image Processing (2009)

Antonella Galizia, Federica Viti, Ivan Merelli, Luciano Milanesi, Andrea Clematis, C. Bischof, ...

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the Reconstruction of Molecular Surfaces (2008)

Ivan Merelli, Andrea Clematis, Luciano Milanesi, Ro Orro, C. Bischof, M. Bücker, ...

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Ontology-based, Tissue MicroArray oriented, image centered tissue bank (2008)

Viti, Federica, Merelli, Ivan, Caprera, Andrea, Lazzari, Barbara, Stella, Alessandra, Milanesi, Luciano

Abstract Background Tissue MicroArray technique is becoming increasingly important in pathology for the validation of experimental data from transcriptomic analysis. This approach produces many...

Bioinformatics Workflow using ASSIST on GRID (2008)

Ivan Merelli, Giulia Morra, Luciano Milanesi, Istituto Tecnologie, Biomediche Consiglio, Nazionale Ricerche

Workflows are very common in bioinformatics because they allow the elaboration of data by delegating the resources management to the information streaming. By the composition of different analysis...

BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS NOTE doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm063 Databases and ontologies GoSh: a web-based database for goat and sheep EST sequences (2008)

Andrea Caprera, Barbara Lazzari, Ra Stella, Ivan Merelli, Re R. Caetano, Paola Mariani

Summary: The GoSh database is a collection of 58 990 Capra hircus and Ovis aries expressed sequence tags. A perl pipeline was prepared to process sequences, and data were collected in a MySQL...

Version VI of the ESTree db: an improved tool for peach transcriptome analysis (2008)

Lazzari, Barbara, Caprera, Andrea, Vecchietti, Alberto, Merelli, Ivan, Barale, Francesca, Milanesi, Luciano, ...

Abstract Background The ESTree database (db) is a collection of Prunus persica and Prunus dulcis EST sequences that in its current version encompasses 75,404 sequences from 3 almond and 19 peach...

The cell cycle DB: a systems biology approach to cell cycle analysis (2008)

Alfieri, Roberta, Merelli, Ivan, Mosca, Ettore, Milanesi, Luciano

The cell cycle database is a biological resource that collects the most relevant information related to genes and proteins involved in human and yeast cell cycle processes. The database, which is...

Mining the Bovine Genome with the "Bovine SNP Retriever" (2008)

Panzitta, Francesca, Caprera, Andrea, Merelli, Ivan, Milanesi, Luciano, Williams, John L., Lazzari, Barbara, ...

Online resources for the bovine genome analysis are provided at the most important Web sites. Nonetheless, retrieval of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)–related information is not always easy...

GoSh: a web-based database for goat and sheep EST sequences (2007)

Caprera, Andrea, Lazzari, Barbara, Stella, Alessandra, Merelli, Ivan, Caetano, Alexandre R., Mariani, Paola

Summary: The GoSh database is a collection of 58 990 Capra hircus and Ovis aries expressed sequence tags. A perl pipeline was prepared to process sequences, and data were collected in a MySQL...

BMC Systems Biology Database (2007)

Roberta Alfieri, Ivan Merelli, Ettore Mosca, Luciano Milanesi, Biomed Central

A data integration approach for cell cycle analysis oriented to model simulation in systems biology

High performance workflow implementation for protein surface characterization using grid technology (2005)

Merelli, Ivan, Morra, Giulia, D'Agostino, Daniele, Clematis, Andrea, Milanesi, Luciano

Abstract Background This study concerns the development of a high performance workflow that, using grid technology, correlates different kinds of Bioinformatics data, starting from the base pairs of...

BioMed Central (2005)

Bmc Bioinformatics, Ivan Merelli, Giulia Morra, Andrea Clematis, Luciano Milanesi, Andrea Clematis, ...

Research article High performance workflow implementation for protein surface characterization using grid technology

The cell cycle DB: a systems biology approach to cell cycle analysis

Alfieri, Roberta, Merelli, Ivan, Mosca, Ettore, Milanesi, Luciano

The cell cycle database is a biological resource that collects the most relevant information related to genes and proteins involved in human and yeast cell cycle processes. The database, which is...