Fighting against uncertainty: an essential issue in bioinformatics.

abstract：:Understanding biological complexity demands a combination of high-throughput data and interdisciplinary skills. One way to bring to bear the necessary combination of data types and expertise is by encapsulating domain knowledge in software and composing that software to create a customized data analysis environment. T...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bare JC,Baliga NS

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Gene expression data have played an essential role in many biomedical studies. When the number of genes is large and sample size is limited, there is a 'lack of information' problem, leading to low-quality findings. To tackle this problem, both horizontal and vertical data integrations have been developed, where verti...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wu M,Yi H,Ma S

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is a key component in the pathogenic mechanism of a variety of diseases. These diseases involving fibrosis may share common mechanisms and therapeutic targets, and therefore common intervention strategies and medicines may be applicable for these diseases. For this reason, deliberately introducing anti-fibros...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wu D,Gao W,Li X,Tian C,Jiao N,Fang S,Xiao J,Xu Z,Zhu L,Zhang G,Zhu R

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

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：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：: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：: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

abstract：:This Briefing reviews the widely used, currently active, up-to-date databases derived from the worldwide Protein Data Bank (PDB) to facilitate browsing, finding and exploring its entries. These databases contain visualization and analysis tools tailored to specific kinds of molecules and interactions, often including ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Abriata LA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational and mathematical modelling has become a valuable tool for investigating biological systems. Modelling enables prediction of how biological components interact to deliver system-level properties and extrapolation of biological system performance to contexts and experimental conditions where this is unknow...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Read MN,Alden K,Timmis J,Andrews PS

更新日期：2018-09-18 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-seq has been an increasingly popular high-throughput platform to identify differentially expressed (DE) genes, which is much more reproducible and accurate than the previous microarray technology. Yet, a number of statistical issues remain to be resolved in data analysis, largely due to the high-throughput data vo...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gu X

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Most of the microRNAs (miRNAs) play their regulatory roles through posttranscriptional target decay or translational inhibition. For both plants and animals, these regulatory events were previously considered to take place in cytoplasm, as mature miRNAs were observed to be exported to the cytoplasm for Argonaute (AGO)...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yu D,Tang Z,Shao C,Ma X,Xiang T,Fan Z,Wang H,Meng Y

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:CyanoPATH is a database that curates and analyzes the common genomic functional repertoire for cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) in eutrophic waters. Based on the literature of empirical studies and genome/protein databases, it summarizes four types of information: common biological functions (pathways) d...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Du W,Li G,Ho N,Jenkins L,Hockaday D,Tan J,Cao H

更新日期：2020-12-16 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：:Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) facilitate the delivery of therapeutically relevant molecules, including DNA, proteins and oligonucleotides, into cells both in vitro and in vivo. This unique ability explores the possibility of CPPs as therapeutic delivery and its potential applications in clinical therapy. Over the l...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Su R,Hu J,Zou Q,Manavalan B,Wei L

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:With the development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, a large amount of short read data has been generated. Assembly of these short reads can be challenging for genomes and metagenomes without template sequences, making alignment-based genome sequence comparison difficult. In addition, sequence reads ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Song K,Ren J,Reinert G,Deng M,Waterman MS,Sun F

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems pharmacology is an emerging field that integrates systems biology and pharmacology to advance the process of drug discovery, development and the understanding of therapeutic mechanisms. The aim of the present work is to highlight the role that the systems pharmacology plays across the traditional herbal medici...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Huang C,Zheng C,Li Y,Wang Y,Lu A,Yang L

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Circular RNA (circRNA) is a group of RNA family generated by RNA circularization, which was discovered ubiquitously across different species and tissues. However, there is no global view of tissue specificity for circRNAs to date. Here we performed the comprehensive analysis to characterize the features of human and m...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xia S,Feng J,Lei L,Hu J,Xia L,Wang J,Xiang Y,Liu L,Zhong S,Han L,He C

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Protein phosphorylation is a reversible and ubiquitous post-translational modification that primarily occurs at serine, threonine and tyrosine residues and regulates a variety of biological processes. In this paper, we first briefly summarized the current progresses in computational prediction of eukaryotic protein ph...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Cao M,Chen G,Yu J,Shi S

更新日期：2020-03-23 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：: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