Strategies for calibrating models of biology.

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：:The discipline of bioinformatics has developed rapidly since the complete sequencing of the first genomes in the 1990s. The development of many high-throughput techniques during the last decades has ensured that bioinformatics has grown into a discipline that overlaps with, and is required for, the modern practice of ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Tastan Bishop Ö,Adebiyi EF,Alzohairy AM,Everett D,Ghedira K,Ghouila A,Kumuthini J,Mulder NJ,Panji S,Patterton HG,H3ABioNet Consortium.,H3Africa Consortium.

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：: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：:The bipartite network representation of the drug-target interactions (DTIs) in a biosystem enhances understanding of the drugs' multifaceted action modes, suggests therapeutic switching for approved drugs and unveils possible side effects. As experimental testing of DTIs is costly and time-consuming, computational pre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Durán C,Daminelli S,Thomas JM,Haupt VJ,Schroeder M,Cannistraci CV

更新日期：2018-11-27 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：: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：: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：:Glycosylation of proteins is involved in immune defense, cell-cell adhesion, cellular recognition and pathogen binding and is one of the most common and complex post-translational modifications. Science is still struggling to assign detailed mechanisms and functions to this form of conjugation. Even the structural ana...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Dallas DC,Martin WF,Hua S,German JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:The presence of different transcripts of a gene across samples can be analysed by whole-transcriptome microarrays. Reproducing results from published microarray data represents a challenge owing to the vast amounts of data and the large variety of preprocessing and filtering steps used before the actual analysis is ca...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Rodrigo-Domingo M,Waagepetersen R,Bødker JS,Falgreen S,Kjeldsen MK,Johnsen HE,Dybkær K,Bøgsted M

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Small noncoding RNAs (sRNA/sncRNAs) are generated from different genomic loci and play important roles in biological processes, such as cell proliferation and the regulation of gene expression. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to discover and quantify diverse kinds of sncRNA, ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Ding C,Lang X,Guo G,Chen J,Su X

更新日期：2021-01-18 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：:Phase separation is an important mechanism that mediates the spatial distribution of proteins in different cellular compartments. While phase-separated proteins share certain sequence characteristics, including intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) and prion-like domains, such characteristics are insufficient for ma...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yu C,Shen B,You K,Huang Q,Shi M,Wu C,Chen Y,Zhang C,Li T

更新日期：2020-09-02 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：:It is easy for today's students and researchers to believe that modern bioinformatics emerged recently to assist next-generation sequencing data analysis. However, the very beginnings of bioinformatics occurred more than 50 years ago, when desktop computers were still a hypothesis and DNA could not yet be sequenced. T...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gauthier J,Vincent AT,Charette SJ,Derome N

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the business and healthcare sectors data warehousing has provided effective solutions for information usage and knowledge discovery from databases. However, data warehousing applications in the biological research and development (R&D) sector are lagging far behind. The fuzziness and complexity of biological data r...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Schönbach C,Kowalski-Saunders P,Brusic V

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA structures are widely distributed across all life forms. The global conformation of these structures is defined by a variety of constituent structural units such as helices, hairpin loops, kissing-loop motifs and pseudoknots, which often behave in a modular way. Their ubiquitous distribution is associated with a v...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gupta A,Bansal M

更新日期：2020-07-15 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：:Understanding the genetic basis of human traits/diseases and the underlying mechanisms of how these traits/diseases are affected by genetic variations is critical for public health. Current genome-wide functional genomics data uncovered a large number of functional elements in the noncoding regions of human genome, pr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li MJ,Yan B,Sham PC,Wang J

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Development of novel informatics methods focused on improving pregnancy outcomes remains an active area of research. The purpose of this study is to systematically review the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), including deep learning (DL), methodologies can inform patient care d...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Davidson L,Boland MR

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of great difficulties in the pathogenesis analysis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) presently, profiling the modifiable risk factors is crucial for early detection and intervention of AD. However, the causal associations among them have yet to be identified, and the effective integration and application of these da...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang Z,Meng L,Liu H,Shen L,Ji HF

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 is an intensively investigated virus from the order Nidovirales (Coronaviridae family) that causes COVID-19 disease in humans. Through enormous scientific effort, thousands of viral strains have been sequenced to date, thereby creating a strong background for deep bioinformatics studies of the SARS-CoV-2 ge...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Goswami P,Bartas M,Lexa M,Bohálová N,Volná A,Červeň J,Červeňová V,Pečinka P,Špunda V,Fojta M,Brázda V

更新日期：2020-12-21 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：: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：: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：: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