Closing the gap between formats for storing layout information in systems biology.

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：: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：: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：: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 residence of spliceosomal introns within protein-coding genes can fluctuate over time, with genes gaining, losing or conserving introns in a complex process that is not entirely understood. One approach for studying intron evolution is to compare introns with respect to position and type within closely related gen...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wilkerson MD,Ru Y,Brendel VP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the small RNA-sequencing (sRNA-seq) technology became available, it allowed the discovery of thousands new microRNAs (miRNAs) in humans and many other species, providing new data on these small RNAs (sRNAs) of high biological and translational relevance. MiRNA discovery has not yet reached saturation, even in th...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bortolomeazzi M,Gaffo E,Bortoluzzi S

更新日期：2019-05-21 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

abstract：:Functional annotation of protein sequence with high accuracy has become one of the most important issues in modern biomedical studies, and computational approaches of significantly accelerated analysis process and enhanced accuracy are greatly desired. Although a variety of methods have been developed to elevate prote...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hong J,Luo Y,Zhang Y,Ying J,Xue W,Xie T,Tao L,Zhu F

更新日期：2020-07-15 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：: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：: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：:Heterophylly, i.e. morphological changes in leaves along the axis of an individual plant, is regarded as a strategy used by plants to cope with environmental change. However, little is known of the extent to which heterophylly is controlled by genes and how each underlying gene exerts its effect on heterophyllous vari...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sun L,Wang J,Zhu X,Jiang L,Gosik K,Sang M,Sun F,Cheng T,Zhang Q,Wu R

更新日期：2018-07-20 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：:Integrative analyses of genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features for human and various model organisms have revealed that many such features are nonrandomly distributed in the genome. Significant enrichment (or depletion) of genomic features is anticipated to be biologically important. Detection of genomic regi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： De S,Pedersen BS,Kechris K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of gene expression data by RNA-seq, powerful statistical approaches for grouping similar gene expression profiles across different environments have become increasingly important. We describe and assess a computational model for clustering genes into distinct groups based on the pattern of gene e...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang N,Wang Y,Hao H,Wang L,Wang Z,Wang J,Wu R

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) represents a novel layer of gene regulation that controls both physiological and pathological processes. However, there is still lack of computational tools for quickly identifying ceRNA regulation. To address this problem, we presented an R-package, CeRNASeek, which allows identifyi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang M,Jin X,Li J,Tian Y,Wang Q,Li X,Xu J,Li Y,Li X

更新日期：2020-05-04 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：:Rapidly evolving sequencing technologies produce data on an unparalleled scale. A central challenge to the analysis of this data is sequence alignment, whereby sequence reads must be compared to a reference. A wide variety of alignment algorithms and software have been subsequently developed over the past two years. I...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li H,Homer N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exploring protein-ligand interactions is a subject of immense interest, as it provides deeper insights into molecular recognition, mechanism of interaction and subsequent functions. Predicting an accurate model for a protein-ligand interaction is a challenging task. Molecular docking is a computational method used for...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Mohammad T,Mathur Y,Hassan MI

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Information Integrator is an extension to IBM's relational database DB2, which uses data federation to provide benefits to molecular biology researchers through two unique capabilities: increased flexibility in combining data from disparate sources, and SQL access to non-SQL data, easing the task of automating data an...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Arenson AD

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Biological knowledge can be inferred from three major levels of information: molecules, organisms and ecologies. Bioinformatics is an established field that has made significant advances in the development of systems and techniques to organize contemporary molecular data; biodiversity informatics is an emerging discip...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar IN

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Computational aspects of host-parasite phylogenies form part of a set of general associations between areas and organisms, hosts and parasites, and species and genes. The problem is not new and the commonalities of exploring vicariance biogeography (organisms tracking areas) and host-parasite co-speciation (parasites ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Stevens J

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：: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：:Fibrosis is a key component in the pathogenic mechanism of a variety of diseases. These diseases involving fibrosis may share common mechanisms and therapeutic targets, and therefore common intervention strategies and medicines may be applicable for these diseases. For this reason, deliberately introducing anti-fibros...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wu D,Gao W,Li X,Tian C,Jiao N,Fang S,Xiao J,Xu Z,Zhu L,Zhang G,Zhu R

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An initiative to increase biopharmaceutical research productivity by capturing, sharing and computationally integrating proprietary scientific discoveries with public knowledge is described. This initiative involves both organisational process change and multiple interoperating software systems. The software component...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ficenec D,Osborne M,Pradines J,Richards D,Felciano R,Cho RJ,Chen RO,Liefeld T,Owen J,Ruttenberg A,Reich C,Horvath J,Clark T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00