Normalization and quantification of differential expression in gene expression microarrays.

abstract：:Next generation sequencers have greatly improved our ability to mine polymorphisms and mutations out of entire (or portions of) genomes. The reliability of their outputs, though, showed to be very related to the sequencing chemistry and to deeply affect the quality of the downstream analyses. We focus here on the two-...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Castellana S,Romani M,Valente EM,Mazza T

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing is a widespread co/posttranscriptional mechanism affecting primary RNAs by specific nucleotide modifications, which plays relevant roles in molecular processes including regulation of gene expression and/or the processing of noncoding RNAs. In recent years, the detection of editing sites has been improved ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Diroma MA,Ciaccia L,Pesole G,Picardi E

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein remote homology detection is one of the most fundamental and central problems for the studies of protein structures and functions, aiming to detect the distantly evolutionary relationships among proteins via computational methods. During the past decades, many computational approaches have been proposed to sol...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Chen J,Guo M,Wang X,Liu B

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate inference of orthologous genes is a pre-requisite for most comparative genomics studies, and is also important for functional annotation of new genomes. Identification of orthologous gene sets typically involves phylogenetic tree analysis, heuristic algorithms based on sequence conservation, synteny analysis,...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kristensen DM,Wolf YI,Mushegian AR,Koonin EV

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many complex diseases, an earlier and more reliable diagnosis is considered a key prerequisite for developing more effective therapies to prevent or delay disease progression. Classical statistical learning approaches for specimen classification using omics data, however, often cannot provide diagnostic models wit...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Glaab E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical cancer treatment, genomic alterations would often affect the response of patients to anticancer drugs. Studies have shown that molecular features of tumors could be biomarkers predictive of sensitivity or resistance to anticancer agents, but the identification of actionable mutations are often constrained ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yao H,Liang Q,Qian X,Wang J,Sham PC,Li MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) represents a novel layer of gene regulation that controls both physiological and pathological processes. However, there is still lack of computational tools for quickly identifying ceRNA regulation. To address this problem, we presented an R-package, CeRNASeek, which allows identifyi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang M,Jin X,Li J,Tian Y,Wang Q,Li X,Xu J,Li Y,Li X

更新日期：2020-05-04 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：:In the business and healthcare sectors data warehousing has provided effective solutions for information usage and knowledge discovery from databases. However, data warehousing applications in the biological research and development (R&D) sector are lagging far behind. The fuzziness and complexity of biological data r...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Schönbach C,Kowalski-Saunders P,Brusic V

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Occurrence and development of cancers are governed by complex networks of interacting intercellular and intracellular signals. The technology of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides an unprecedented opportunity for dissecting the interplay between the cancer cells and the associated microenvironment. Here w...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang J,Guan M,Wang Q,Zhang J,Zhou T,Sun X

更新日期：2020-05-21 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：:With the increasing recognition of its role in trait and disease development, it is crucial to account for genetic imprinting to illustrate the genetic architecture of complex traits. Genetic mapping can be innovated to test and estimate effects of genetic imprinting in a segregating population derived from experiment...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sun L,Zhu X,Bo W,Xu F,Cheng T,Zhang Q,Wu R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are an important source of human genetic variation with demonstrable effects on phenotype. Recently, a number of computational methods for the detection of polymorphic TE (polyTE) insertion sites from next-generation sequence data have been developed. The use of such tools will become incre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Rishishwar L,Mariño-Ramírez L,Jordan IK

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Research into genome assembly algorithms has experienced a resurgence due to new challenges created by the development of next generation sequencing technologies. Several genome assemblers have been published in recent years specifically targeted at the new sequence data; however, the ever-changing technological lands...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pop M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technical advances such as the development of molecular cloning, Sanger sequencing, PCR and oligonucleotide microarrays are key to our current capacity to sequence, annotate and study complete organismal genomes. Recent years have seen the development of a variety of so-called 'next-generation' sequencing platforms, w...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Horner DS,Pavesi G,Castrignanò T,De Meo PD,Liuni S,Sammeth M,Picardi E,Pesole G

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are compartmentalized by numerous membrane-bounded organelles and membraneless organelles (MLOs) to ensure temporal and spatial regulation of various biological processes. A number of MLOs, such as nucleoli, nuclear speckles and stress granules, exist as liquid droplets within the cells and arise from the conden...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hou C,Xie H,Fu Y,Ma Y,Li T

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissecting the genetic mechanism underlying a complex disease hinges on discovering gene-environment interactions (GXE). However, detecting GXE is a challenging problem especially when the genetic variants under study are rare. Haplotype-based tests have several advantages over the so-called collapsing tests for detec...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Papachristou C,Biswas S

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic charges play a very important role in drug-target recognition. However, computation of atomic charges with high-level quantum mechanics (QM) calculations is very time-consuming. A number of machine learning (ML)-based atomic charge prediction methods have been proposed to speed up the calculation of high-accura...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang J,Cao D,Tang C,Xu L,He Q,Yang B,Chen X,Sun H,Hou T

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative analyses of genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features for human and various model organisms have revealed that many such features are nonrandomly distributed in the genome. Significant enrichment (or depletion) of genomic features is anticipated to be biologically important. Detection of genomic regi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： De S,Pedersen BS,Kechris K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent development of high-throughput technology has accelerated interest in the development of molecular biomarker classifiers for safety assessment, disease diagnostics and prognostics, and prediction of response for patient assignment. This article reviews and evaluates some important aspects and key issues in the ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Baek S,Tsai CA,Chen JJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of phenotypic traits, such as biomass production, tumor volume and viral abundance, undergoes a complex process in which interactions between genes and developmental stimuli take place at each level of biological organization from cells to organisms. Traditional studies emphasize the impact of genes by d...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang Z,Wang Y,Wang N,Wang J,Wang Z,Vallejos CE,Wu R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational detection methods have been widely used in studies on the biogenesis and the function of circular RNAs (circRNAs). However, all of the existing tools showed disadvantages on certain aspects of circRNA detection. Here, we propose an improved multithreading detection tool, CIRI2, which used an adapted maxi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gao Y,Zhang J,Zhao F

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation profile in liquid biopsy has been utilized to diagnose early-stage disease and estimate therapy response. However, typical clinical procedures are capable of purifying only very small amounts of cfDNA. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the gold standard for measuring DNA...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yin Y,Li J,Li J,Lee M,Zhao S,Guo L,Li J,Zhang M,Huang Y,Li XN,Deng Z,Sun D

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous non-coding RNAs that function as the universal specificity factors in post-transcriptional gene silencing. Discovering miRNAs, identifying their targets and further inferring miRNA functions have been a critical strategy for understanding normal biological processes of miRNAs an...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu B,Li J,Cairns MJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational biology is essential in the process of translating biological knowledge into clinical practice, as well as in the understanding of biological phenomena based on the resources and technologies originating from the clinical environment. One such key contribution of computational biology is the discovery of...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Azuaje F,Devaux Y,Wagner D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding hot spot residues of proteins are dominant and fundamental interface residues that contribute most of the binding free energy of protein-DNA interfaces. As experimental methods for identifying hot spots are expensive and time consuming, computational approaches are urgently required in predicting hot spots...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang S,Zhao L,Zheng CH,Xia J

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid replication is one of the most crucial tasks taking place in the cell, and it has to be precisely regulated. This process is initiated in the replication origins (ORIs), and thus it is essential to identify such sites for a deeper understanding of the cellular processes and functions related to t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Manavalan B,Basith S,Shin TH,Lee G

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00