Development of biomarker classifiers from high-dimensional data.

abstract：:While elementary flux mode (EFM) analysis is now recognized as a cornerstone computational technique for cellular pathway analysis and engineering, EFM application to genome-scale models remains computationally prohibitive. This article provides a review of aspects of EFM computation that elucidates bottlenecks in sca...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ullah E,Yosafshahi M,Hassoun S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of supervised machine learning models have recently been introduced for the prediction of drug-target interactions based on chemical structure and genomic sequence information. Although these models could offer improved means for many network pharmacology applications, such as repositioning of drugs for new t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pahikkala T,Airola A,Pietilä S,Shakyawar S,Szwajda A,Tang J,Aittokallio T

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：: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：:RNA structures are widely distributed across all life forms. The global conformation of these structures is defined by a variety of constituent structural units such as helices, hairpin loops, kissing-loop motifs and pseudoknots, which often behave in a modular way. Their ubiquitous distribution is associated with a v...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gupta A,Bansal M

更新日期：2020-07-15 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：:Alternative polyadenylation (APA) in breast tumor samples results in the removal/addition of cis-regulatory elements such as microRNA (miRNA) target sites in the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTRs) of genes. Although previous computational APA studies focused on a subset of genes strongly affected by APA (APA genes), we ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kim S,Bai Y,Fan Z,Diergaarde B,Tseng GC,Park HJ

更新日期：2020-08-26 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：: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：:With the availability of gene expression data by RNA-seq, powerful statistical approaches for grouping similar gene expression profiles across different environments have become increasingly important. We describe and assess a computational model for clustering genes into distinct groups based on the pattern of gene e...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang N,Wang Y,Hao H,Wang L,Wang Z,Wang J,Wu R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene set analysis (GSA) is one of the methods of choice for analyzing the results of current omics studies; however, it has been mainly developed to analyze mRNA (microarray, RNA-Seq) data. The following review includes an update regarding general methods and resources for GSA and then emphasizes GSA methods and tools...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Mora A

更新日期：2020-09-25 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：:P53 is the 'guardian of the genome' and is responsible for regulating cell cycle and apoptosis. The genomic p53 binding regions, where activating transcriptional factors and cofactors like p300 simultaneously bind, are called 'p53-dependent enhancers', which play an important role in tumorigenesis. Current experimenta...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Niu X,Deng K,Liu L,Yang K,Hu X

更新日期：2020-05-11 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

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：:Lipidomics, the systematic study of the lipid composition of a cell or tissue, is an invaluable complement to knowledge gained by genomics and proteomics research. Mass spectrometry provides a means to detect hundreds of lipids in parallel, and this includes low abundance species of lipids. Nevertheless, frequently oc...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hartler J,Tharakan R,Köfeler HC,Graham DR,Thallinger GG

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenomic databases provide orthology predictions for species with fully sequenced genomes. Although the goal seems well-defined, the content of these databases differs greatly. Seven ortholog databases (Ensembl Compara, eggNOG, HOGENOM, InParanoid, OMA, OrthoDB, Panther) were compared on the basis of reference tre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Boeckmann B,Robinson-Rechavi M,Xenarios I,Dessimoz C

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic data hold salient information about the characteristics of a living organism. Throughout the past decade, pinnacle developments have given us more accurate and inexpensive methods to retrieve genome sequences of humans. However, with the advancement of genomic research, there is a growing privacy concern regar...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Aziz MMA,Sadat MN,Alhadidi D,Wang S,Jiang X,Brown CL,Mohammed N

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Short tandem repeats are highly polymorphic and associated with a wide range of phenotypic variation, some of which cause neurodegenerative disease in humans. With advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, there are novel opportunities to study genetic variation. While available sequencing technologies and ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Cao MD,Balasubramanian S,Bodén M

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:The iteratively reweighted least square (IRLS) method is mostly identical to maximum likelihood (ML) method in terms of parameter estimation and power of quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection. But the IRLS is greatly superior to ML in terms of computing speed and the robustness of parameter estimation. In conjuncti...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu Y,Yang T,Li H,Yang R

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：: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：BACKGROUND:The most frequently mutated gene pairs in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) are KRAS and TP53, and our goal is to illustrate the multiomics and molecular dynamics landscapes of KRAS/TP53 mutation and also to obtain prospective novel drugs for KRAS- and TP53-mutated PAAD patients. Moreover, we also made an att...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kaushik AC,Wang YJ,Wang X,Wei DQ

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:As one of the most important fundamental problems in protein sequence analysis, protein remote homology detection is critical for both theoretical research (protein structure and function studies) and real world applications (drug design). Although several computational predictors have been proposed, their detection p...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu B,Jiang S,Zou Q

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of proteolysis plays a critical role in a myriad of important cellular processes. The key to better understanding the mechanisms that control this process is to identify the specific substrates that each protease targets. To address this, we have developed iProt-Sub, a powerful bioinformatics tool for the a...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Song J,Wang Y,Li F,Akutsu T,Rawlings ND,Webb GI,Chou KC

更新日期：2019-03-25 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

abstract：:In order to reach precision medicine and improve patients' quality of life, machine learning is increasingly used in medicine. Brain disorders are often complex and heterogeneous, and several modalities such as demographic, clinical, imaging, genetics and environmental data have been studied to improve their understan...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Burgos N,Bottani S,Faouzi J,Thibeau-Sutre E,Colliot O

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In therapeutic research, the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products are necessarily tested on humans via clinical trials after an extensive and expensive preclinical development period. Methodologies such as computer modeling and clinical trial simulation (CTS) might represent a valuable option to reduce anima...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gal J,Milano G,Ferrero JM,Saâda-Bouzid E,Viotti J,Chabaud S,Gougis P,Le Tourneau C,Schiappa R,Paquet A,Chamorey E

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A class-imbalanced classifier is a decision rule to predict the class membership of new samples from an available data set where the class sizes differ considerably. When the class sizes are very different, most standard classification algorithms may favor the larger (majority) class resulting in poor accuracy in the ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Lin WJ,Chen JJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00