Common introns within orthologous genes: software and application to plants.

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：: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 However, most of the existing approaches use the outdated pathway information and neglect the complex gene interactions in pathway.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：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：:The modelling of biological systems is accompanied with epistemic uncertainties that range from structural uncertainty to parametric uncertainty due to such limitations as insufficient understanding of the underlying mechanism and incomplete measurement data of a system. Fuzzy logic approaches such as fuzzy Petri nets...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu F,Heiner M,Gilbert D

更新日期：2018-12-27 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 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：:Phenotypes have gained increased notoriety in the clinical and biological domain owing to their application in numerous areas such as the discovery of disease genes and drug targets, phylogenetics and pharmacogenomics. Phenotypes, defined as observable characteristics of organisms, can be seen as one of the bridges th...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Oellrich A,Collier N,Groza T,Rebholz-Schuhmann D,Shah N,Bodenreider O,Boland MR,Georgiev I,Liu H,Livingston K,Luna A,Mallon AM,Manda P,Robinson PN,Rustici G,Simon M,Wang L,Winnenburg R,Dumontier M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called 'omics' approaches used in modern biology aim at massively characterizing the molecular repertories of living systems at different levels. Metabolomics is one of the last additions to the 'omics' family and it deals with the characterization of the set of metabolites in a given biological system. As meta...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Chagoyen M,Pazos F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of complex biological networks often relies on both a dedicated layout and a topology. Currently, there are three major competing layout-aware systems biology formats, but there are no software tools or software libraries supporting all of them. This complicates the management of molecular network la...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hoksza D,Gawron P,Ostaszewski M,Hasenauer J,Schneider R

更新日期：2020-07-15 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：:Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, it has been widely established that most DNA is not transcribed into proteins. These non-protein-coding regions are believed to be moderators within transcriptional and post-transcriptional processes, which play key roles in the onset of diseases. Long non-coding RNAs ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yotsukura S,duVerle D,Hancock T,Natsume-Kitatani Y,Mamitsuka H

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Aberrant DNA methylation is a fundamental characterization of epigenetics for carcinogenesis. Abnormality of DNA methylation-related functional elements (DMFEs) may lead to dysfunction of regulatory genes in the progression of cancers, contributing to prognosis of many cancers. There is an urgent need to construct a t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang C,Zhao N,Zhang X,Xiao J,Li J,Lv D,Zhou W,Li Y,Xu J,Li X

更新日期：2020-08-11 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：: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：:Posttranscriptional crosstalk and communication between RNAs yield large regulatory competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks via shared microRNAs (miRNAs), as well as miRNA synergistic networks. The ceRNA crosstalk represents a novel layer of gene regulation that controls both physiological and pathological processes...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Jin X,Wang Z,Li L,Chen H,Lin X,Yi S,Zhang Y,Xu J

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Exploring protein-ligand interactions is a subject of immense interest, as it provides deeper insights into molecular recognition, mechanism of interaction and subsequent functions. Predicting an accurate model for a protein-ligand interaction is a challenging task. Molecular docking is a computational method used for...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Mohammad T,Mathur Y,Hassan MI

更新日期：2020-10-26 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：:The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics has been offering hands-on training courses in Oeiras, PT for more than a decade. This article is a review of its functional organization and evolution. We aim to share our experience with people considering setting-up similar training facilities elsewhere. More than...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Fernandes PL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression profiling holds great potential as a new approach to histological diagnosis and precision medicine of cancers of unknown primary (CUP). Batch effects and different data types greatly decrease the predictive performance of biomarker-based algorithms, and few methods have been widely applied to identify ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Shen Y,Chu Q,Yin X,He Y,Bai P,Wang Y,Fang W,Timko MP,Fan L,Jiang W

更新日期：2020-04-08 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：:High-throughput omics data are generated almost with no limit nowadays. It becomes increasingly important to integrate different omics data types to disentangle the molecular machinery of complex diseases with the hope for better disease prevention and treatment. Since the relationship among different omics data featu...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang H,Cao H,He T,Wang T,Cui Y

更新日期：2018-11-29 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