Bioinformatics education--perspectives and challenges out of Africa.

abstract：:Cooperative regulation among multiple microRNAs (miRNAs) is a complex type of posttranscriptional regulation in human; however, the global view of the system-level regulatory principles across cancers is still unclear. Here, we investigated miRNA-miRNA cooperative regulatory landscape across 18 cancer types and summar...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Shao T,Wang G,Chen H,Xie Y,Jin X,Bai J,Xu J,Li X,Huang J,Jin Y,Li Y

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Moonlighting proteins provide more options for cells to execute multiple functions without increasing the genome and transcriptome complexity. Although there have long been calls for computational methods for the prediction of moonlighting proteins, no method has been designed for determining moonlighting long noncodi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu X,Xu Y,Wang R,Liu S,Wang J,Luo Y,Leung KS,Cheng L

更新日期：2021-01-18 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Heterophylly, i.e. morphological changes in leaves along the axis of an individual plant, is regarded as a strategy used by plants to cope with environmental change. However, little is known of the extent to which heterophylly is controlled by genes and how each underlying gene exerts its effect on heterophyllous vari...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sun L,Wang J,Zhu X,Jiang L,Gosik K,Sang M,Sun F,Cheng T,Zhang Q,Wu R

更新日期：2018-07-20 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：: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：:As a group of important plant species in agriculture and biology, polyploids have been increasingly studied in terms of their genome structure and organization. There are two types of polyploids, allopolyploids and autopolyploids, each resulting from a different genetic origin, which undergo meiotic divisions of a dis...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xu F,Tong C,Lyu Y,Bo W,Pang X,Wu R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that copy number variation (CNV) in lncRNA regions play critical roles in the initiation and progression of cancer. However, our knowledge about their functionalities is still limited. Here, we firstly provided a computational method to identify lncRNAs with copy number variation (lncRNAs-C...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xu Y,Wu T,Li F,Dong Q,Wang J,Shang D,Xu Y,Zhang C,Dou Y,Hu C,Yang H,Zheng X,Zhang Y,Wang L,Li X

更新日期：2020-12-01 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 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：:DNA methylation plays an essential role in cancer. Differential variability (DV) in cancer was recently observed that contributes to cancer heterogeneity and has been shown to be crucial in detecting epigenetic field defects, DNA methylation alterations happening early in carcinogenesis. As neighboring CpG sites are h...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Teschendorff AE,Widschwendter M,Wang S

更新日期：2019-01-18 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：:While leading to millions of people's deaths every year the treatment of viral infectious diseases remains a huge public health challenge.Therefore, an in-depth understanding of human-virus protein-protein interactions (PPIs) as the molecular interface between a virus and its host cell is of paramount importance to ob...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang X,Lian X,Fu C,Wuchty S,Yang S,Zhang Z

更新日期：2021-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Precision medicine has changed thinking in cancer therapy, highlighting a better understanding of the individual clinical interventions. But what role do the drivers and pathways identified from pan-cancer genome analysis play in the tumor? In this letter, we will highlight the importance of in silico modeling in prec...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kunz M,Jeromin J,Fuchs M,Christoph J,Veronesi G,Flentje M,Nietzer S,Dandekar G,Dandekar T

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most complex and computationally intensive tasks of genome sequence analysis is genome assembly. Even today, few centres have the resources, in both software and hardware, to assemble a genome from the thousands or millions of individual sequences generated in a whole-genome shotgun sequencing project. With...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pop M,Phillippy A,Delcher AL,Salzberg SL

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The structural description of peptide ligands bound to G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is important for the discovery of new drugs and deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms of life. Here we describe a three-stage protocol for the molecular docking of peptides to GPCRs using a set of different programs: ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Badaczewska-Dawid AE,Kmiecik S,Koliński M

更新日期：2020-06-10 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：: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：: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