Iteratively reweighted LASSO for mapping multiple quantitative trait loci.

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：: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：: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：: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：:The outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has been declared a global health emergency. G-quadruplex structures in genomes have long been considered essential for regulating a number of biological processes in a plethora of organisms. We have analyzed and identified 25 four contiguous GG runs (G2NxG2NyG2N...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ji D,Juhas M,Tsang CM,Kwok CK,Li Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：: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：:The increasing ease with which massive genetic information can be obtained from patients or healthy individuals has stimulated the development of interpretive bioinformatics tools as aids in clinical practice. Most such tools analyze evolutionary information and simple physical-chemical properties to predict whether r...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Galano-Frutos JJ,García-Cebollada H,Sancho J

更新日期：2021-01-18 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：: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：:The residence of spliceosomal introns within protein-coding genes can fluctuate over time, with genes gaining, losing or conserving introns in a complex process that is not entirely understood. One approach for studying intron evolution is to compare introns with respect to position and type within closely related gen...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wilkerson MD,Ru Y,Brendel VP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its central role in the adaptation and microevolution of traits, the genetic architecture of phenotypic plasticity, i.e. multiple phenotypes produced by a single genotype in changing environments, remains elusive. We know little about the genes that underlie the plastic response of traits to the environment, t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang Z,Pang X,Lv Y,Xu F,Zhou T,Li X,Feng S,Li J,Li Z,Wu R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:With the recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies, the study of the genetic composition of living organisms has become more accessible for researchers. Several advances have been achieved because of it, especially in the health sciences. However, many challenges which emerge from the complexity of sequ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Padovani de Souza K,Setubal JC,Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho AC,Oliveira G,Chateau A,Alves R

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge of the post-genomic era is the identification of the function(s) of all the molecules in a given organism. Here, we review the status of sequence and structure-based approaches to protein function inference and ligand screening that can provide functional insights for a significant fraction of the appr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Skolnick J,Brylinski M

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：:Precision medicine promises to revolutionize treatment, shifting therapeutic approaches from the classical one-size-fits-all to those more tailored to the patient's individual genomic profile, lifestyle and environmental exposures. Yet, to advance precision medicine's main objective-ensuring the optimum diagnosis, tre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gutiérrez-Sacristán A,De Niz C,Kothari C,Kong SW,Mandl KD,Avillach P

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous mutations do not change the encoded amino acids but may alter the structure or function of an mRNA in ways that impact gene function. Advances in next generation sequencing technologies have detected numerous synonymous mutations in the human genome. Several computational models have been proposed to predic...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Cheng N,Li M,Zhao L,Zhang B,Yang Y,Zheng CH,Xia J

更新日期：2020-05-21 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：: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：:Systematic sequencing of cancer genomes has revealed prevalent heterogeneity, with patients harboring various combinatorial patterns of genetic alteration. In particular, a phenomenon that a group of genes exhibits mutually exclusive patterns has been widespread across cancers, covering a broad spectrum of crucial can...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Deng Y,Luo S,Deng C,Luo T,Yin W,Zhang H,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Lan Y,Ping Y,Xiao Y,Li X

更新日期：2019-01-18 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：:Biological knowledge can be inferred from three major levels of information: molecules, organisms and ecologies. Bioinformatics is an established field that has made significant advances in the development of systems and techniques to organize contemporary molecular data; biodiversity informatics is an emerging discip...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar IN

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:In recent years, high-throughput genomic technologies like chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIp-seq) and transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) have been becoming both more refined and less expensive, making them more accessible. Many circular RNAs (circRNAs) that originate from back-spliced exons have been iden...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Tang Z,Li X,Zhao J,Qian F,Feng C,Li Y,Zhang J,Jiang Y,Yang Y,Wang Q,Li C

更新日期：2019-11-27 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：:Since the 1st discovery of transcriptional enhancers in 1981, their textbook definition has remained largely unchanged in the past 37 years. With the emergence of high-throughput assays and genome editing, which are switching the paradigm from bottom-up discovery and testing of individual enhancers to top-down profili...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ho EY,Cao Q,Gu M,Chan RW,Wu Q,Gerstein M,Yip KY

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00