HITS-PR-HHblits: protein remote homology detection by combining PageRank and Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search.

abstract：MOTIVATION:The functional changes of the genes, RNAs and proteins will eventually be reflected in the metabolic level. Increasing number of researchers have researched mechanism, biomarkers and targeted drugs by metabolites. However, compared with our knowledge about genes, RNAs, and proteins, we still know few about d...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhao T,Hu Y,Cheng L

更新日期：2020-10-13 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：: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：:Cell lines are widely used as in vitro models of tumorigenesis. However, an increasing number of researchers have found that cell lines differ from their sourced tumour samples after long-term cell culture. The application of unsuitable cell lines in experiments will affect the experimental accuracy and the treatment ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhao N,Liu Y,Wei Y,Yan Z,Zhang Q,Wu C,Chang Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the interconnections of microbial pathogenicity phenomena, such as biofilm formation, quorum sensing and antimicrobial resistance, is a tremendous open challenge for biomedical research. Progress made by wet-lab researchers and bioinformaticians in understanding the underlying regulatory phenomena has be...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Castelhano Santos N,Pereira MO,Lourenço A

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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 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：: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：:A number of supervised machine learning models have recently been introduced for the prediction of drug-target interactions based on chemical structure and genomic sequence information. Although these models could offer improved means for many network pharmacology applications, such as repositioning of drugs for new t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pahikkala T,Airola A,Pietilä S,Shakyawar S,Szwajda A,Tang J,Aittokallio T

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：: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：:A proliferation of chemical, reaction and enzyme databases, new computational methods and software tools for data-driven rational biosynthesis design have emerged in recent years. With the coming of the era of big data, particularly in the bio-medical field, data-driven rational biosynthesis design could potentially b...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Chen F,Yuan L,Ding S,Tian Y,Hu QN

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) research. Countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden face important challenges to integrate WGS into surveillance and research. METHODS:We assessed the global status of Mtb WGS and developed a 3-week training co...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Rivière E,Heupink TH,Ismail N,Dippenaar A,Clarke C,Abebe G,Heusden P,Warren R,Meehan CJ,Van Rie A

更新日期：2020-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Success in precision medicine depends on accessing high-quality genetic and molecular data from large, well-annotated patient cohorts that couple biological samples to comprehensive clinical data, which in conjunction can lead to effective therapies. From such a scenario emerges the need for a new professional profile...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gómez-López G,Dopazo J,Cigudosa JC,Valencia A,Al-Shahrour F

更新日期：2019-05-21 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：:The increasing ease with which massive genetic information can be obtained from patients or healthy individuals has stimulated the development of interpretive bioinformatics tools as aids in clinical practice. Most such tools analyze evolutionary information and simple physical-chemical properties to predict whether r...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Galano-Frutos JJ,García-Cebollada H,Sancho J

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are compartmentalized by numerous membrane-bounded organelles and membraneless organelles (MLOs) to ensure temporal and spatial regulation of various biological processes. A number of MLOs, such as nucleoli, nuclear speckles and stress granules, exist as liquid droplets within the cells and arise from the conden...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hou C,Xie H,Fu Y,Ma Y,Li T

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1st discovery of transcriptional enhancers in 1981, their textbook definition has remained largely unchanged in the past 37 years. With the emergence of high-throughput assays and genome editing, which are switching the paradigm from bottom-up discovery and testing of individual enhancers to top-down profili...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ho EY,Cao Q,Gu M,Chan RW,Wu Q,Gerstein M,Yip KY

更新日期：2020-05-21 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

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：:While elementary flux mode (EFM) analysis is now recognized as a cornerstone computational technique for cellular pathway analysis and engineering, EFM application to genome-scale models remains computationally prohibitive. This article provides a review of aspects of EFM computation that elucidates bottlenecks in sca...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ullah E,Yosafshahi M,Hassoun S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its central role in the adaptation and microevolution of traits, the genetic architecture of phenotypic plasticity, i.e. multiple phenotypes produced by a single genotype in changing environments, remains elusive. We know little about the genes that underlie the plastic response of traits to the environment, t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang Z,Pang X,Lv Y,Xu F,Zhou T,Li X,Feng S,Li J,Li Z,Wu R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:So-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) has provided the ability to sequence on a massive scale at low cost, enabling biologists to perform powerful experiments and gain insight into biological processes. BamView has been developed to visualize and analyse sequence reads from NGS platforms, which have bee...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Carver T,Harris SR,Otto TD,Berriman M,Parkhill J,McQuillan JA

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Occurrence and development of cancers are governed by complex networks of interacting intercellular and intracellular signals. The technology of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides an unprecedented opportunity for dissecting the interplay between the cancer cells and the associated microenvironment. Here w...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang J,Guan M,Wang Q,Zhang J,Zhou T,Sun X

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:Over the past decade, the field of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has seen dramatic advances in methods and a decrease in costs. Consequently, a large expansion of data has been generated by NGS, most of which have originated from RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments. Because mitochondrial genes are expres...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Nachtigall PG,Grazziotin FG,Junqueira-de-Azevedo ILM

更新日期：2021-01-30 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：: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：: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