Molecular dynamics simulations for genetic interpretation in protein coding regions: where we are, where to go and when.

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：:Computational and mathematical modelling has become a valuable tool for investigating biological systems. Modelling enables prediction of how biological components interact to deliver system-level properties and extrapolation of biological system performance to contexts and experimental conditions where this is unknow...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Read MN,Alden K,Timmis J,Andrews PS

更新日期：2018-09-18 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：: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：: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：:A class-imbalanced classifier is a decision rule to predict the class membership of new samples from an available data set where the class sizes differ considerably. When the class sizes are very different, most standard classification algorithms may favor the larger (majority) class resulting in poor accuracy in the ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Lin WJ,Chen JJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have long been presented with the challenge imposed by the role of genetic heterogeneity in drug response. For many years, Pharmacogenomics and pharmacomicrobiomics has been investigating the influence of an individual's genetic background to drug response and disposition. More recently, the human gut micr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hassan R,Allali I,Agamah FE,Elsheikh SSM,Thomford NE,Dandara C,Chimusa ER

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Correlated reaction sets (Co-Sets) are mathematically defined modules in biochemical reaction networks which facilitate the study of biological processes by decomposing complex reaction networks into conceptually simple units. According to the degree of association, Co-Sets can be classified into three types: perfect,...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xi Y,Chen YP,Qian C,Wang F

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：:Verification in phylogenetics represents an extremely difficult subject. Phylogenetic analysis deals with the reconstruction of evolutionary histories of species, and as long as mankind is not able to travel in time, it will not be possible to verify deep evolutionary histories reconstructed with modern computational ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Stamatakis A,Izquierdo-Carrasco F

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：: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：:Circular RNA (circRNA) is a group of RNA family generated by RNA circularization, which was discovered ubiquitously across different species and tissues. However, there is no global view of tissue specificity for circRNAs to date. Here we performed the comprehensive analysis to characterize the features of human and m...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xia S,Feng J,Lei L,Hu J,Xia L,Wang J,Xiang Y,Liu L,Zhong S,Han L,He C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous mutations do not change the encoded amino acids but may alter the structure or function of an mRNA in ways that impact gene function. Advances in next generation sequencing technologies have detected numerous synonymous mutations in the human genome. Several computational models have been proposed to predic...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Cheng N,Li M,Zhao L,Zhang B,Yang Y,Zheng CH,Xia J

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:Computational methods accelerate drug discovery and play an important role in biomedicine, such as molecular property prediction and compound-protein interaction (CPI) identification. A key challenge is to learn useful molecular representation. In the early years, molecular properties are mainly calculated b...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li P,Li Y,Hsieh CY,Zhang S,Liu X,Liu H,Song S,Yao X

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of multiple testing procedures in the context of gene-set testing is an important but relatively underexposed topic. If a multiple testing method is used, this is usually a standard familywise error rate (FWER) or false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedure in which the logical relationships that exist be...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Meijer RJ,Goeman JJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenomic databases provide orthology predictions for species with fully sequenced genomes. Although the goal seems well-defined, the content of these databases differs greatly. Seven ortholog databases (Ensembl Compara, eggNOG, HOGENOM, InParanoid, OMA, OrthoDB, Panther) were compared on the basis of reference tre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Boeckmann B,Robinson-Rechavi M,Xenarios I,Dessimoz C

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Gene expression data have played an essential role in many biomedical studies. When the number of genes is large and sample size is limited, there is a 'lack of information' problem, leading to low-quality findings. To tackle this problem, both horizontal and vertical data integrations have been developed, where verti...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wu M,Yi H,Ma S

更新日期：2020-08-14 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：: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：: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：: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：: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