Computational knowledge integration in biopharmaceutical research.

abstract：:We discuss and review different ways to map cellular components and their temporal interaction with other such components to different non-spatially explicit mathematical models. The essential choices made in the literature are between discrete and continuous state spaces, between rule and event-based state updates an...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kirkilionis M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily work in molecular biology presently depends on a large number of computational tools. An in-depth, large-scale study of that 'ecosystem' of Web tools, its characteristics, interconnectivity, patterns of usage/citation, temporal evolution and rate of decay is crucial for understanding the forces that shape it and...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pazos F,Chagoyen M

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-organism metabolic rate co-varies allometrically with body mass, and is also affected by temperature through different biochemical mechanisms. Here we implement a computational platform to map specific quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that govern the dependence of metabolic rate on size and temperature. The model ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yan Q,Zhu X,Jiang L,Ye M,Sun L,Terblanche JS,Wu R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) founded during the first AgentLink III Technical Forum meeting on the 2nd of July, 2004, in Rome. The meetin...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Merelli E,Armano G,Cannata N,Corradini F,d'Inverno M,Doms A,Lord P,Martin A,Milanesi L,Möller S,Schroeder M,Luck M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models can serve as a tool to formalize biological knowledge from diverse sources, to investigate biological questions in a formal way, to test experimental hypotheses, to predict the effect of perturbations and to identify underlying mechanisms. We present a pipeline of computational tools that performs ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Montagud A,Traynard P,Martignetti L,Bonnet E,Barillot E,Zinovyev A,Calzone L

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the functioning of biological systems depends on tackling complexity spanning spatial scales from genome to organ to whole organism. The basic unit of life, the cell, acts to co-ordinate information received across these scales and processes the myriad of signals to produce an integrated cellular respons...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Walker DC,Southgate J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) constitute an important concern in drug development and postmarketing pharmacovigilance. They are considered the cause of many adverse drug effects exposing patients to higher risks and increasing public health system costs. Methods to follow-up and discover possible DDIs causing harm to ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Vilar S,Friedman C,Hripcsak G

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The bipartite network representation of the drug-target interactions (DTIs) in a biosystem enhances understanding of the drugs' multifaceted action modes, suggests therapeutic switching for approved drugs and unveils possible side effects. As experimental testing of DTIs is costly and time-consuming, computational pre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Durán C,Daminelli S,Thomas JM,Haupt VJ,Schroeder M,Cannistraci CV

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchanging and sharing scientific results are essential for researchers in the field of computational modelling. BioModels.net defines agreed-upon standards for model curation. A fundamental one, MIRIAM (Minimum Information Requested in the Annotation of Models), standardises the annotation and curation process of qua...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li C,Courtot M,Le Novère N,Laibe C

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have long been presented with the challenge imposed by the role of genetic heterogeneity in drug response. For many years, Pharmacogenomics and pharmacomicrobiomics has been investigating the influence of an individual's genetic background to drug response and disposition. More recently, the human gut micr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hassan R,Allali I,Agamah FE,Elsheikh SSM,Thomford NE,Dandara C,Chimusa ER

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Array-based gene expression studies frequently serve to identify genes that are expressed differently under two or more conditions. The actual analysis of the data, however, may be hampered by a number of technical and statistical problems. Possible remedies on the level of computational analysis lie in appropriate pr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Steinhoff C,Vingron M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are susceptible to the respiratory infections and might be at a heightened risk of poor clinical outcomes upon contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential associations of SMA with the susceptibility to and prognosticat...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li Z,Li X,Shen J,Tan H,Rong T,Lin Y,Feng E,Chen Z,Jiao Y,Liu G,Zhang L,Vai Chan MT,Kei Wu WK

更新日期：2020-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the SEER reports reveal that the occurrence rate of a cancer type generally follows a unimodal distribution over age, peaking at an age that is cancer-type specific and ranges from 30+ through 70+. Previous studies attribute such bell-shaped distributions to the reduced proliferative potential in senior year...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Qiu S,An Z,Tan R,He PA,Jing J,Li H,Wu S,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational aspects of host-parasite phylogenies form part of a set of general associations between areas and organisms, hosts and parasites, and species and genes. The problem is not new and the commonalities of exploring vicariance biogeography (organisms tracking areas) and host-parasite co-speciation (parasites ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Stevens J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of DNA bisulfite treatment with high-throughput sequencing technologies has enabled investigation of genome-wide DNA methylation beyond CpG sites and CpG islands. These technologies have opened new avenues to understand the interplay between epigenetic events, chromatin plasticity and gene regulation. ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Adusumalli S,Mohd Omar MF,Soong R,Benoukraf T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bioinformatics problems, such as sequence alignment, gene prediction, phylogenetic tree estimation and RNA secondary structure prediction, are often affected by the 'uncertainty' of a solution, that is, the probability of the solution is extremely small. This situation arises for estimation problems on high-dimen...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hamada M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately identifying the interactions between genomic factors and the response of cancer drugs plays important roles in drug discovery, drug repositioning and cancer treatment. A number of studies revealed that interactions between genes and drugs were 'many-genes-to-many drugs' interactions, i.e. common modules, op...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Huang J,Chen J,Zhang B,Zhu L,Cai H

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of current gene expression signatures for cancer prognosis are based on risk scores, usually calculated as some summaries of expression levels of the signature genes, whose applications require presetting risk score thresholds and data normalization. In this study, we demonstrate the critical limitations of such ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Qi L,Chen L,Li Y,Qin Y,Pan R,Zhao W,Gu Y,Wang H,Wang R,Chen X,Guo Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterophylly, i.e. morphological changes in leaves along the axis of an individual plant, is regarded as a strategy used by plants to cope with environmental change. However, little is known of the extent to which heterophylly is controlled by genes and how each underlying gene exerts its effect on heterophyllous vari...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sun L,Wang J,Zhu X,Jiang L,Gosik K,Sang M,Sun F,Cheng T,Zhang Q,Wu R

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has undergone rapid advancements in recent years, creating challenging problems for bioinformatics. We focus on four aspects where bioinformatics plays a crucial role (and proteomics is needed for clinical application): peptide-spectra matching (PSM) based on the new data-indepe...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Goh WWB,Wong L

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:Over the past decade, the field of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has seen dramatic advances in methods and a decrease in costs. Consequently, a large expansion of data has been generated by NGS, most of which have originated from RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments. Because mitochondrial genes are expres...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Nachtigall PG,Grazziotin FG,Junqueira-de-Azevedo ILM

更新日期：2021-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite gene expression programs being notoriously complex, RNA abundance is usually assumed as a proxy for transcriptional activity. Recently developed approaches, able to disentangle transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory processes, have revealed a more complex scenario. It is now possible to work out h...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Furlan M,de Pretis S,Pelizzola M

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathway enrichment analysis has been widely used to identify cancer risk pathways, and contributes to elucidating the mechanism of tumorigenesis. However, most of the existing approaches use the outdated pathway information and neglect the complex gene interactions in pathway. Here, we first reviewed the existing wide...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang Q,Wang S,Dai E,Zhou S,Liu D,Liu H,Meng Q,Jiang B,Jiang W

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of multiple testing procedures in the context of gene-set testing is an important but relatively underexposed topic. If a multiple testing method is used, this is usually a standard familywise error rate (FWER) or false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedure in which the logical relationships that exist be...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Meijer RJ,Goeman JJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) research. Countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden face important challenges to integrate WGS into surveillance and research. METHODS:We assessed the global status of Mtb WGS and developed a 3-week training co...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Rivière E,Heupink TH,Ismail N,Dippenaar A,Clarke C,Abebe G,Heusden P,Warren R,Meehan CJ,Van Rie A

更新日期：2020-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Effectively representing Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) headings (terms) such as disease and drug as discriminative vectors could greatly improve the performance of downstream computational prediction models. However, these terms are often abstract and difficult to quantify. In this paper, we converted the MeSH tree ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Guo ZH,You ZH,Huang DS,Yi HC,Zheng K,Chen ZH,Wang YB

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular interrogation of a biological sample through DNA sequencing, RNA and microRNA profiling, proteomics and other assays, has the potential to provide a systems level approach to predicting treatment response and disease progression, and to developing precision therapies. Large publicly funded projects have gene...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kannan L,Ramos M,Re A,El-Hachem N,Safikhani Z,Gendoo DM,Davis S,Gomez-Cabrero D,Castelo R,Hansen KD,Carey VJ,Morgan M,Culhane AC,Haibe-Kains B,Waldron L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In drug development, preclinical safety and pharmacokinetics assessments of candidate drugs to ensure the safety profile are a must. While in vivo and in vitro tests are traditionally used, experimental determinations have disadvantages, as they are usually time-consuming and costly. In silico predictions of these pre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hsiao Y,Su BH,Tseng YJ

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:As a group of important plant species in agriculture and biology, polyploids have been increasingly studied in terms of their genome structure and organization. There are two types of polyploids, allopolyploids and autopolyploids, each resulting from a different genetic origin, which undergo meiotic divisions of a dis...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xu F,Tong C,Lyu Y,Bo W,Pang X,Wu R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:So-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) has provided the ability to sequence on a massive scale at low cost, enabling biologists to perform powerful experiments and gain insight into biological processes. BamView has been developed to visualize and analyse sequence reads from NGS platforms, which have bee...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Carver T,Harris SR,Otto TD,Berriman M,Parkhill J,McQuillan JA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00