TY - JOUR TI - Knowledge-based bioinformatics for the study of mammalian oocytes AU - Mulas, Francesca AU - Sacchi, Lucia AU - Zagar, Lan AU - Garagna, Silvia AU - Zuccotti, Maurizio AU - Zupan, Blaz AU - Bellazzi, Riccardo T2 - The International Journal of Developmental Biology AB - Bioinformatics tools have been recently applied to study the differentiation of the mammalian oocyte during folliculogenesis. In this review, we will summarize our knowledge of 1) the use of biological databases for the extraction of relevant information, 2) bioinformatics methods for knowledge extraction and representation, 3) the application of these methods to the study of mammalian oocyte differentiation and 4) state-of the-art prediction approaches for the assessment and estimation of the cell differentiation status. PY - 2012 DO - 10.1387/ijdb.120138fm VL - 56 IS - 10-11-12 SP - 859 EP - 866 J2 - Int. J. Dev. Biol. LA - en SN - 0214-6282 SN - 1696-3547 UR - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/120138fm Y2 - 2024/04/27/20:57:37 ER -