Characteristics and evolution of the ecosystem of software tools supporting research in molecular biology.

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：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 the number of completely sequenced genomes rapidly increases, including now the complete Human Genome sequence, the post-genomic problems of genome-scale protein structure determination and the issue of gene function identification become ever more pressing. In fact, these problems can be seen as interrelated in th...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Jones DT

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Prognostic tests using expression profiles of several dozen genes help provide treatment choices for prostate cancer (PCa). However, these tests require improvement to meet the clinical need for resolving overtreatment, which continues to be a pervasive problem in PCa management. Genomic selection (GS) methodology, wh...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li R,Wang S,Cui Y,Qu H,Chater JM,Zhang L,Wei J,Wang M,Xu Y,Yu L,Lu J,Feng Y,Zhou R,Huang Y,Ma R,Zhu J,Zhong W,Jia Z

更新日期：2020-09-08 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：: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：:Understanding the functioning of biological systems depends on tackling complexity spanning spatial scales from genome to organ to whole organism. The basic unit of life, the cell, acts to co-ordinate information received across these scales and processes the myriad of signals to produce an integrated cellular respons...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Walker DC,Southgate J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many complex diseases, an earlier and more reliable diagnosis is considered a key prerequisite for developing more effective therapies to prevent or delay disease progression. Classical statistical learning approaches for specimen classification using omics data, however, often cannot provide diagnostic models wit...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Glaab E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective drug discovery contributes to the treatment of numerous diseases but is limited by high costs and long cycles. The Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) method was introduced to evaluate the activity of a large number of compounds virtually, reducing the time and labor costs required for chemic...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang YL,Wang F,Shi XX,Jia CY,Wu FX,Hao GF,Yang GF

更新日期：2020-11-03 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：:Biologists very often use enrichment methods based on statistical hypothesis tests to identify gene properties that are significantly over-represented in a given set of genes of interest, by comparison with a 'background' set of genes. These enrichment methods, although based on rigorous statistical foundations, are n...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Fabris F,Palmer D,de Magalhães JP,Freitas AA

更新日期：2020-05-21 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：:Data from the SEER reports reveal that the occurrence rate of a cancer type generally follows a unimodal distribution over age, peaking at an age that is cancer-type specific and ranges from 30+ through 70+. Previous studies attribute such bell-shaped distributions to the reduced proliferative potential in senior year...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Qiu S,An Z,Tan R,He PA,Jing J,Li H,Wu S,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-12-30 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：: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：: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：:Plant transcriptome encompasses numerous endogenous, regulatory non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that play a major biological role in regulating key physiological mechanisms. While studies have shown that ncRNAs are extremely diverse and ubiquitous, the functions of the vast majority of ncRNAs are still unknown. With ever-inc...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Vivek AT,Kumar S

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Effectively representing Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) headings (terms) such as disease and drug as discriminative vectors could greatly improve the performance of downstream computational prediction models. However, these terms are often abstract and difficult to quantify. In this paper, we converted the MeSH tree ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Guo ZH,You ZH,Huang DS,Yi HC,Zheng K,Chen ZH,Wang YB

更新日期：2020-03-31 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：: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：:Verification in phylogenetics represents an extremely difficult subject. Phylogenetic analysis deals with the reconstruction of evolutionary histories of species, and as long as mankind is not able to travel in time, it will not be possible to verify deep evolutionary histories reconstructed with modern computational ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Stamatakis A,Izquierdo-Carrasco F

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The products of multi-exon genes are a mixture of alternatively spliced isoforms, from which the translated proteins can have similar, different or even opposing functions. It is therefore essential to differentiate and annotate functions for individual isoforms. Computational approaches provide an efficient complemen...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li HD,Omenn GS,Guan Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of microarray technology to measure gene expression on a genome-wide scale has been well established for more than a decade. Methods to process and analyse the vast quantity of expression data generated by a typical microarray experiment are similarly well-established. The Affymetrix Exon 1.0 ST array is a rel...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Lockstone HE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to gene expression data has become increasingly common in recent years; however, analysis has become more difficult as it is often desirable to integrate data from different platforms. Probe mapping across microarray platforms is the first and most crucial step for data integration. In this article, we systemat...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Allen JD,Wang S,Chen M,Girard L,Minna JD,Xie Y,Xiao G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of bioinformatics tools and resources that support molecular and cell biology approaches is continuously expanding. Moreover, systems and network biology analyses are accompanied more and more by integrated bioinformatics methods. Traditional information-centered university teaching methods often fail, as (...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Korcsmaros T,Dunai ZA,Vellai T,Csermely P

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Relative changes in mRNA as well as protein levels induced by sublethal doses of antibiotics on bacteria are measured and results visualised in the context of metabolic pathway diagrams. The mRNA levels present at a given time point after the addition of the antibiotic are measured using microarrays from Affymetrix. A...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wolf D,Gray CP,de Saizieu A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining the consistency of genomic annotations is an increasingly complex task because of the iterative and dynamic nature of assembly and annotation, growing numbers of biological databases and insufficient integration of annotations across databases. As information exchange among databases is poor, a 'novel' seq...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Weirick T,John D,Uchida S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00