Evaluation of gene-drug common module identification methods using pharmacogenomics data.

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 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：: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

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：: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：: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：:Patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are susceptible to the respiratory infections and might be at a heightened risk of poor clinical outcomes upon contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential associations of SMA with the susceptibility to and prognosticat...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li Z,Li X,Shen J,Tan H,Rong T,Lin Y,Feng E,Chen Z,Jiao Y,Liu G,Zhang L,Vai Chan MT,Kei Wu WK

更新日期：2020-11-14 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：: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：:P53 is the 'guardian of the genome' and is responsible for regulating cell cycle and apoptosis. The genomic p53 binding regions, where activating transcriptional factors and cofactors like p300 simultaneously bind, are called 'p53-dependent enhancers', which play an important role in tumorigenesis. Current experimenta...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Niu X,Deng K,Liu L,Yang K,Hu X

更新日期：2020-05-11 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Alternative polyadenylation (APA) in breast tumor samples results in the removal/addition of cis-regulatory elements such as microRNA (miRNA) target sites in the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTRs) of genes. Although previous computational APA studies focused on a subset of genes strongly affected by APA (APA genes), we ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kim S,Bai Y,Fan Z,Diergaarde B,Tseng GC,Park HJ

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that copy number variation (CNV) in lncRNA regions play critical roles in the initiation and progression of cancer. However, our knowledge about their functionalities is still limited. Here, we firstly provided a computational method to identify lncRNAs with copy number variation (lncRNAs-C...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xu Y,Wu T,Li F,Dong Q,Wang J,Shang D,Xu Y,Zhang C,Dou Y,Hu C,Yang H,Zheng X,Zhang Y,Wang L,Li X

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of new drug-target interactions (DTIs) is an important but a time-consuming and costly step in drug discovery. In recent years, to mitigate these drawbacks, researchers have sought to identify DTIs using computational approaches. However, most existing methods construct drug networks and target networks...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhao T,Hu Y,Valsdottir LR,Zang T,Peng J

更新日期：2020-05-04 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：: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：: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：:The prevalence of dropout events is a serious problem for single-cell Hi-C (scHiC) data due to insufficient sequencing depth and data coverage, which brings difficulties in downstream studies such as clustering and structural analysis. Complicating things further is the fact that dropouts are confounded with structura...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Han C,Xie Q,Lin S

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression profiling holds great potential as a new approach to histological diagnosis and precision medicine of cancers of unknown primary (CUP). Batch effects and different data types greatly decrease the predictive performance of biomarker-based algorithms, and few methods have been widely applied to identify ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Shen Y,Chu Q,Yin X,He Y,Bai P,Wang Y,Fang W,Timko MP,Fan L,Jiang W

更新日期：2020-04-08 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：:Atomic charges play a very important role in drug-target recognition. However, computation of atomic charges with high-level quantum mechanics (QM) calculations is very time-consuming. A number of machine learning (ML)-based atomic charge prediction methods have been proposed to speed up the calculation of high-accura...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang J,Cao D,Tang C,Xu L,He Q,Yang B,Chen X,Sun H,Hou T

更新日期：2020-08-25 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：: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