Survey of miRNA-miRNA cooperative regulation principles across cancer types.

abstract：:Precision and personalized medicine will be increasingly based on the integration of various type of information, particularly electronic health records and genome sequences. The availability of cheap genome sequencing services and the information interoperability will increase the role of online bioinformatics analys...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bianchi L,Liò P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite The Central Dogma states the destiny of gene as 'DNA makes RNA and RNA makes protein', the nucleic acids not only store and transmit genetic information but also, surprisingly, join in intracellular vital movement as a regulator of gene expression. Bioinformatics has contributed to knowledge for a series of em...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang S,Zhou Y,Wang Y,Wang Z,Xiao Q,Zhang Y,Lou Y,Qiu Y,Zhu F

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of transposable elements (TEs) to genome structure and evolution as well as their impact on genome sequencing, assembly, annotation and alignment has generated increasing interest in developing new methods for their computational analysis. Here we review the diversity of innovative approaches to ident...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bergman CM,Quesneville H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein dynamics is central to all biological processes, including signal transduction, cellular regulation and biological catalysis. Among them, in-depth exploration of ligand-driven protein dynamics contributes to an optimal understanding of protein function, which is particularly relevant to drug discovery. Hence, ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang JF,Wang F,Chen YZ,Hao GF,Yang GF

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:If the completion of the first draft of the human genome represents the coming of age of bioinformatics, then the emergence of bioinformatics as a university degree subject represents its establishment. In this paper bioinformatics as a subject for formal study is discussed, rather than as a subject for research, and ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Counsell D

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 prevalence of dropout events is a serious problem for single-cell Hi-C (scHiC) data due to insufficient sequencing depth and data coverage, which brings difficulties in downstream studies such as clustering and structural analysis. Complicating things further is the fact that dropouts are confounded with structura...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Han C,Xie Q,Lin S

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:P53 is the 'guardian of the genome' and is responsible for regulating cell cycle and apoptosis. The genomic p53 binding regions, where activating transcriptional factors and cofactors like p300 simultaneously bind, are called 'p53-dependent enhancers', which play an important role in tumorigenesis. Current experimenta...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Niu X,Deng K,Liu L,Yang K,Hu X

更新日期：2020-05-11 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：:The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) founded during the first AgentLink III Technical Forum meeting on the 2nd of July, 2004, in Rome. The meetin...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Merelli E,Armano G,Cannata N,Corradini F,d'Inverno M,Doms A,Lord P,Martin A,Milanesi L,Möller S,Schroeder M,Luck M

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:We introduce the Beta Workbench (BWB), a scalable tool built on top of the newly defined BlenX language to model, simulate and analyse biological systems. We show the features and the incremental modelling process supported by the BWB on a running example based on the mitogen-activated kinase pathway. Finally, we prov...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Dematté L,Priami C,Romanel A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The explosion in genomic sequence available in public databases has resulted in an unprecedented opportunity for computational whole genome analyses. A number of promising comparative-based approaches have been developed for gene finding, regulatory element discovery and other purposes, and it is clear that these tool...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Dubchak I,Pachter L

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:While the number of sequenced genes is increasing dramatically, the number of different protein structural families is expected to be more limited. Changes in enzymatic activity or protein interactions can dramatically modify the role of homologous proteins in different organisms or mutants. However, experimental data...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Chatonnet A,Cousin X,Robinson A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated modelling of biological systems is challenged by composing components with sufficient kinetic data and components with insufficient kinetic data or components built only using experts' experience and knowledge. Fuzzy continuous Petri nets (FCPNs) combine continuous Petri nets with fuzzy inference systems, a...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu F,Sun W,Heiner M,Gilbert D

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00