Multilevel heterogeneous omics data integration with kernel fusion.

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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：:Most of the microRNAs (miRNAs) play their regulatory roles through posttranscriptional target decay or translational inhibition. For both plants and animals, these regulatory events were previously considered to take place in cytoplasm, as mature miRNAs were observed to be exported to the cytoplasm for Argonaute (AGO)...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yu D,Tang Z,Shao C,Ma X,Xiang T,Fan Z,Wang H,Meng Y

更新日期：2018-11-27 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：: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：: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 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：:In therapeutic research, the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products are necessarily tested on humans via clinical trials after an extensive and expensive preclinical development period. Methodologies such as computer modeling and clinical trial simulation (CTS) might represent a valuable option to reduce anima...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gal J,Milano G,Ferrero JM,Saâda-Bouzid E,Viotti J,Chabaud S,Gougis P,Le Tourneau C,Schiappa R,Paquet A,Chamorey E

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ontologies are now pervasive in biomedicine, where they serve as a means to standardize terminology, to enable access to domain knowledge, to verify data consistency and to facilitate integrative analyses over heterogeneous biomedical data. For this purpose, research on biomedical ontologies applies theories and metho...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hoehndorf R,Dumontier M,Gkoutos GV

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:With the increasing recognition of its role in trait and disease development, it is crucial to account for genetic imprinting to illustrate the genetic architecture of complex traits. Genetic mapping can be innovated to test and estimate effects of genetic imprinting in a segregating population derived from experiment...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sun L,Zhu X,Bo W,Xu F,Cheng T,Zhang Q,Wu R

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：: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：: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

abstract：:Systematic sequencing of cancer genomes has revealed prevalent heterogeneity, with patients harboring various combinatorial patterns of genetic alteration. In particular, a phenomenon that a group of genes exhibits mutually exclusive patterns has been widespread across cancers, covering a broad spectrum of crucial can...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Deng Y,Luo S,Deng C,Luo T,Yin W,Zhang H,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Lan Y,Ping Y,Xiao Y,Li X

更新日期：2019-01-18 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：:Regulation of proteolysis plays a critical role in a myriad of important cellular processes. The key to better understanding the mechanisms that control this process is to identify the specific substrates that each protease targets. To address this, we have developed iProt-Sub, a powerful bioinformatics tool for the a...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Song J,Wang Y,Li F,Akutsu T,Rawlings ND,Webb GI,Chou KC

更新日期：2019-03-25 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Research into genome assembly algorithms has experienced a resurgence due to new challenges created by the development of next generation sequencing technologies. Several genome assemblers have been published in recent years specifically targeted at the new sequence data; however, the ever-changing technological lands...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pop M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00