Automatic extraction of biological network information is one of the most desired and most complex tasks in biological text mining. The BioCreative track 4 provides training data and an evaluation environment for the extraction of causal relationships in Biological Expression Language (BEL). BEL is a modeling language that is easily editable by humans or by automatic systems and can express cau...

Environmental pollution assessment and control are priority issues for both developed and developing countries of the world. The use of plant material for a more complete picture of environmental health appears to be particularly appealing. Here we validate a previous plant-adapted Comet assay on leaf tissues of Nicotiana tabacum cultivars Bel B and Bel W3. The effects of H(2)O(2) on DNA damage...

Network-based approaches have become extremely important in systems biology to achieve a better understanding of biological mechanisms. For network representation, the Biological Expression Language (BEL) is well designed to collate findings from the scientific literature into biological network models. To facilitate encoding and biocuration of such findings in BEL, a BEL Information Extraction...

The assumptions needed to prove Cox’s Theorem are discussed and examined. Various sets of assumptions under which a Cox-style theorem can be proved are provided, although all are rather strong and, arguably, not natural. I recently wrote a paper (Halpern, 1999) casting doubt on how compelling a justification for probability is provided by Cox’s celebrated theorem (Cox, 1946). I have received (w...

The assumptions needed to prove Cox’s Theorem are discussed and examined. Various sets of assumptions under which a Cox-style theorem can be proved are provided, although all are rather strong and, arguably, not natural. I recently wrote a paper (Halpern, 1999) casting doubt on how compelling a justification for probability is provided by Cox’s celebrated theorem (Cox, 1946). I have received (w...

BACKGROUND Based on clinical medications and related studies, we established a Yang-Gan Jie-Du Sang-Jie (YGJDSJ) herbal formula for hepatocarcinoma treatment. In present study, we evaluated the anti-cancer potential of YGJDSJ on suspension-grown human hepatocellular carcinoma Bel-7402 cells. METHODS Bel-7402 cells were cultured in poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (poly-HEMA) coated plates an...

OBJECTIVE MiR-183 acts as an oncomiR and is usually upregulated in hepatocellular cancer (HCC). This study aims to study the association between miR-183 dysregulation and multi-drug resistance (MDR). Also, how it is dysregulated in HCC cells was investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS The association between miR-183 and HIF-1α in HCC cell line BEL-7402 and the multidrug-resistant variant BEL-7402...

Optimal Design of 60-Degree Bend in Two Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguides L. Dekkiche1 ∗ and R. Naoum2 113, Rue Maarouf Larbi, Sidi bel Abbes 22000, Algeria 2Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Traitement Numérique du Signal, département d’électronique, Faculté des Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Université Djillali Liabes de Sidi Bel Abbés, Algérie, 08 rue Saad Ibn Rabie cité Béni Ammeur Sidi ...

Biological expression language (BEL) is one of the main formal representation models of biological networks. The primary source of information for curating biological networks in BEL representation has been literature. It remains a challenge to identify relevant articles and the corresponding evidence statements for curating and validating BEL statements. In this paper, we describe BELTracker, ...