Current development of integrated web servers for preclinical safety and pharmacokinetics assessments in drug development.

abstract：:DNA-binding hot spot residues of proteins are dominant and fundamental interface residues that contribute most of the binding free energy of protein-DNA interfaces. As experimental methods for identifying hot spots are expensive and time consuming, computational approaches are urgently required in predicting hot spots...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang S,Zhao L,Zheng CH,Xia J

更新日期：2020-05-21 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：: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：: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：:Data from the SEER reports reveal that the occurrence rate of a cancer type generally follows a unimodal distribution over age, peaking at an age that is cancer-type specific and ranges from 30+ through 70+. Previous studies attribute such bell-shaped distributions to the reduced proliferative potential in senior year...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Qiu S,An Z,Tan R,He PA,Jing J,Li H,Wu S,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell lines are widely used as in vitro models of tumorigenesis. However, an increasing number of researchers have found that cell lines differ from their sourced tumour samples after long-term cell culture. The application of unsuitable cell lines in experiments will affect the experimental accuracy and the treatment ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhao N,Liu Y,Wei Y,Yan Z,Zhang Q,Wu C,Chang Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypes have gained increased notoriety in the clinical and biological domain owing to their application in numerous areas such as the discovery of disease genes and drug targets, phylogenetics and pharmacogenomics. Phenotypes, defined as observable characteristics of organisms, can be seen as one of the bridges th...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Oellrich A,Collier N,Groza T,Rebholz-Schuhmann D,Shah N,Bodenreider O,Boland MR,Georgiev I,Liu H,Livingston K,Luna A,Mallon AM,Manda P,Robinson PN,Rustici G,Simon M,Wang L,Winnenburg R,Dumontier M

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) constitute an important concern in drug development and postmarketing pharmacovigilance. They are considered the cause of many adverse drug effects exposing patients to higher risks and increasing public health system costs. Methods to follow-up and discover possible DDIs causing harm to ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Vilar S,Friedman C,Hripcsak G

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional crosstalk and communication between RNAs yield large regulatory competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks via shared microRNAs (miRNAs), as well as miRNA synergistic networks. The ceRNA crosstalk represents a novel layer of gene regulation that controls both physiological and pathological processes...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Jin X,Wang Z,Li L,Chen H,Lin X,Yi S,Zhang Y,Xu J

更新日期：2019-07-19 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：: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：:Mediation analysis has been a useful tool for investigating the effect of mediators that lie in the path from the independent variable to the outcome. With the increasing dimensionality of mediators such as in (epi)genomics studies, high-dimensional mediation model is needed. In this work, we focus on epigenetic studi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Fang R,Yang H,Gao Y,Cao H,Goode EL,Cui Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CyanoPATH is a database that curates and analyzes the common genomic functional repertoire for cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) in eutrophic waters. Based on the literature of empirical studies and genome/protein databases, it summarizes four types of information: common biological functions (pathways) d...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Du W,Li G,Ho N,Jenkins L,Hockaday D,Tan J,Cao H

更新日期：2020-12-16 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The structural description of peptide ligands bound to G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is important for the discovery of new drugs and deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms of life. Here we describe a three-stage protocol for the molecular docking of peptides to GPCRs using a set of different programs: ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Badaczewska-Dawid AE,Kmiecik S,Koliński M

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-organism metabolic rate co-varies allometrically with body mass, and is also affected by temperature through different biochemical mechanisms. Here we implement a computational platform to map specific quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that govern the dependence of metabolic rate on size and temperature. The model ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yan Q,Zhu X,Jiang L,Ye M,Sun L,Terblanche JS,Wu R

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A proliferation of chemical, reaction and enzyme databases, new computational methods and software tools for data-driven rational biosynthesis design have emerged in recent years. With the coming of the era of big data, particularly in the bio-medical field, data-driven rational biosynthesis design could potentially b...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Chen F,Yuan L,Ding S,Tian Y,Hu QN

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation profile in liquid biopsy has been utilized to diagnose early-stage disease and estimate therapy response. However, typical clinical procedures are capable of purifying only very small amounts of cfDNA. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the gold standard for measuring DNA...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yin Y,Li J,Li J,Lee M,Zhao S,Guo L,Li J,Zhang M,Huang Y,Li XN,Deng Z,Sun D

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Short tandem repeats are highly polymorphic and associated with a wide range of phenotypic variation, some of which cause neurodegenerative disease in humans. With advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, there are novel opportunities to study genetic variation. While available sequencing technologies and ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Cao MD,Balasubramanian S,Bodén M

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：MOTIVATION:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) correspond to a eukaryotic noncoding RNA class that gained great attention in the past years as a higher layer of regulation for gene expression in cells. There is, however, a lack of specific computational approaches to reliably predict lncRNA in plants, which contrast the vari...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Negri TDC,Alves WAL,Bugatti PH,Saito PTM,Domingues DS,Paschoal AR

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, high-throughput genomic technologies like chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIp-seq) and transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) have been becoming both more refined and less expensive, making them more accessible. Many circular RNAs (circRNAs) that originate from back-spliced exons have been iden...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Tang Z,Li X,Zhao J,Qian F,Feng C,Li Y,Zhang J,Jiang Y,Yang Y,Wang Q,Li C

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge of the post-genomic era is the identification of the function(s) of all the molecules in a given organism. Here, we review the status of sequence and structure-based approaches to protein function inference and ligand screening that can provide functional insights for a significant fraction of the appr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Skolnick J,Brylinski M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00