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ArticleGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2015

Bicoid signal extraction with a selection of parametric and nonparametric signal processing techniques.

Zara Ghodsi, Emmanuel Sirimal Silva, Hossein Hassani

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Article in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors.

Zara GhodsiThe Statistical Research Centre, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH8 8EB, UK.
Emmanuel Sirimal SilvaThe Statistical Research Centre, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH8 8EB, UK.
Hossein HassaniThe Statistical Research Centre, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH8 8EB, UK; Institute for International Energy Studies (IIES), Tehran 1967743 711, Iran. Electronic address: hhassani@bournemouth.ac.uk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The maternal segmentation coordinate gene bicoid plays a significant role during Drosophila embryogenesis. The gradient of Bicoid, the protein encoded by this gene, determines most aspects of head and thorax development. This paper seeks to explore the applicability of a variety of signal processing techniques at extracting bicoid expression signal, and whether these methods can outperform the current model. We evaluate the use of six different powerful and widely-used models representing both parametric and nonparametric signal processing techniques to determine the most efficient method for signal extraction in bicoid. The results are evaluated using both real and simulated data. Our findings show that the Singular Spectrum Analysis technique proposed in this paper outperforms the synthesis diffusion degradation model for filtering the noisy protein profile of bicoid whilst the exponential smoothing technique was found to be the next best alternative followed by the autoregressive integrated moving average.

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Computer SimulationSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsFemaleHomeodomain ProteinsSignal-To-Noise RatioTrans-Activatorsbcd protein, DrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsHomeodomain ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsBicoidDrosophila melanogasterSignal extractionSignal processing

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PMID26197438
PMCPMC4563350

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