Gene-based mediation analysis in epigenetic studies.

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：:The explosion in genomic sequence available in public databases has resulted in an unprecedented opportunity for computational whole genome analyses. A number of promising comparative-based approaches have been developed for gene finding, regulatory element discovery and other purposes, and it is clear that these tool...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Dubchak I,Pachter L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant transcriptome encompasses numerous endogenous, regulatory non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that play a major biological role in regulating key physiological mechanisms. While studies have shown that ncRNAs are extremely diverse and ubiquitous, the functions of the vast majority of ncRNAs are still unknown. With ever-inc...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Vivek AT,Kumar S

更新日期：2020-12-18 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：:Scoring functions (SFs) based on complex machine learning (ML) algorithms have gradually emerged as a promising alternative to overcome the weaknesses of classical SFs. However, extensive efforts have been devoted to the development of SFs based on new protein-ligand interaction representations and advanced alternativ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xiong GL,Ye WL,Shen C,Lu AP,Hou TJ,Cao DS

更新日期：2020-06-04 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：: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：:Glycosylation of proteins is involved in immune defense, cell-cell adhesion, cellular recognition and pathogen binding and is one of the most common and complex post-translational modifications. Science is still struggling to assign detailed mechanisms and functions to this form of conjugation. Even the structural ana...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Dallas DC,Martin WF,Hua S,German JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precision medicine has changed thinking in cancer therapy, highlighting a better understanding of the individual clinical interventions. But what role do the drivers and pathways identified from pan-cancer genome analysis play in the tumor? In this letter, we will highlight the importance of in silico modeling in prec...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kunz M,Jeromin J,Fuchs M,Christoph J,Veronesi G,Flentje M,Nietzer S,Dandekar G,Dandekar T

更新日期：2020-05-21 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：: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：: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：:Despite The Central Dogma states the destiny of gene as 'DNA makes RNA and RNA makes protein', the nucleic acids not only store and transmit genetic information but also, surprisingly, join in intracellular vital movement as a regulator of gene expression. Bioinformatics has contributed to knowledge for a series of em...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang S,Zhou Y,Wang Y,Wang Z,Xiao Q,Zhang Y,Lou Y,Qiu Y,Zhu F

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Broader functional annotation of known as well as putative genetic variations is a valuable mean for prioritizing targets in disease studies and large-scale genotyping projects. In this article, we present a practical guide to SNPnexus, a web-based tool that provides an aggregate set of functional annotations for geno...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Dayem Ullah AZ,Lemoine NR,Chelala C

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：: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：: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：:We discuss and review different ways to map cellular components and their temporal interaction with other such components to different non-spatially explicit mathematical models. The essential choices made in the literature are between discrete and continuous state spaces, between rule and event-based state updates an...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kirkilionis M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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：: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：MOTIVATION:With the recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies, the study of the genetic composition of living organisms has become more accessible for researchers. Several advances have been achieved because of it, especially in the health sciences. However, many challenges which emerge from the complexity of sequ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Padovani de Souza K,Setubal JC,Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho AC,Oliveira G,Chateau A,Alves R

更新日期：2019-11-27 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：: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：:RNA structures are widely distributed across all life forms. The global conformation of these structures is defined by a variety of constituent structural units such as helices, hairpin loops, kissing-loop motifs and pseudoknots, which often behave in a modular way. Their ubiquitous distribution is associated with a v...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gupta A,Bansal M

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognostic tests using expression profiles of several dozen genes help provide treatment choices for prostate cancer (PCa). However, these tests require improvement to meet the clinical need for resolving overtreatment, which continues to be a pervasive problem in PCa management. Genomic selection (GS) methodology, wh...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li R,Wang S,Cui Y,Qu H,Chater JM,Zhang L,Wei J,Wang M,Xu Y,Yu L,Lu J,Feng Y,Zhou R,Huang Y,Ma R,Zhu J,Zhong W,Jia Z

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00