InstaDock: A single-click graphical user interface for molecular docking-based virtual high-throughput screening.

abstract：:Recent development of high-throughput technology has accelerated interest in the development of molecular biomarker classifiers for safety assessment, disease diagnostics and prognostics, and prediction of response for patient assignment. This article reviews and evaluates some important aspects and key issues in the ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Baek S,Tsai CA,Chen JJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Understanding biological complexity demands a combination of high-throughput data and interdisciplinary skills. One way to bring to bear the necessary combination of data types and expertise is by encapsulating domain knowledge in software and composing that software to create a customized data analysis environment. T...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bare JC,Baliga NS

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Many bioinformatics problems, such as sequence alignment, gene prediction, phylogenetic tree estimation and RNA secondary structure prediction, are often affected by the 'uncertainty' of a solution, that is, the probability of the solution is extremely small. This situation arises for estimation problems on high-dimen...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hamada M

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:RNA editing is a widespread co/posttranscriptional mechanism affecting primary RNAs by specific nucleotide modifications, which plays relevant roles in molecular processes including regulation of gene expression and/or the processing of noncoding RNAs. In recent years, the detection of editing sites has been improved ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Diroma MA,Ciaccia L,Pesole G,Picardi E

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite gene expression programs being notoriously complex, RNA abundance is usually assumed as a proxy for transcriptional activity. Recently developed approaches, able to disentangle transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory processes, have revealed a more complex scenario. It is now possible to work out h...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Furlan M,de Pretis S,Pelizzola M

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In therapeutic research, the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products are necessarily tested on humans via clinical trials after an extensive and expensive preclinical development period. Methodologies such as computer modeling and clinical trial simulation (CTS) might represent a valuable option to reduce anima...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gal J,Milano G,Ferrero JM,Saâda-Bouzid E,Viotti J,Chabaud S,Gougis P,Le Tourneau C,Schiappa R,Paquet A,Chamorey E

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular interrogation of a biological sample through DNA sequencing, RNA and microRNA profiling, proteomics and other assays, has the potential to provide a systems level approach to predicting treatment response and disease progression, and to developing precision therapies. Large publicly funded projects have gene...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kannan L,Ramos M,Re A,El-Hachem N,Safikhani Z,Gendoo DM,Davis S,Gomez-Cabrero D,Castelo R,Hansen KD,Carey VJ,Morgan M,Culhane AC,Haibe-Kains B,Waldron L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into genome assembly algorithms has experienced a resurgence due to new challenges created by the development of next generation sequencing technologies. Several genome assemblers have been published in recent years specifically targeted at the new sequence data; however, the ever-changing technological lands...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pop M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precision medicine promises to revolutionize treatment, shifting therapeutic approaches from the classical one-size-fits-all to those more tailored to the patient's individual genomic profile, lifestyle and environmental exposures. Yet, to advance precision medicine's main objective-ensuring the optimum diagnosis, tre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gutiérrez-Sacristán A,De Niz C,Kothari C,Kong SW,Mandl KD,Avillach P

更新日期：2021-01-18 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：: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：: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：: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：:Mathematical models can serve as a tool to formalize biological knowledge from diverse sources, to investigate biological questions in a formal way, to test experimental hypotheses, to predict the effect of perturbations and to identify underlying mechanisms. We present a pipeline of computational tools that performs ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Montagud A,Traynard P,Martignetti L,Bonnet E,Barillot E,Zinovyev A,Calzone L

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Development of novel informatics methods focused on improving pregnancy outcomes remains an active area of research. The purpose of this study is to systematically review the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), including deep learning (DL), methodologies can inform patient care d...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Davidson L,Boland MR

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:While leading to millions of people's deaths every year the treatment of viral infectious diseases remains a huge public health challenge.Therefore, an in-depth understanding of human-virus protein-protein interactions (PPIs) as the molecular interface between a virus and its host cell is of paramount importance to ob...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang X,Lian X,Fu C,Wuchty S,Yang S,Zhang Z

更新日期：2021-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Online sequence repositories are teeming with RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data from a wide range of eukaryotes. Although most of these data sets contain large numbers of organelle-derived reads, researchers tend to ignore these data, focusing instead on the nuclear-derived transcripts. Consequently, GenBank contains mass...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Smith DR,Sanitá Lima M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small noncoding RNAs (sRNA/sncRNAs) are generated from different genomic loci and play important roles in biological processes, such as cell proliferation and the regulation of gene expression. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to discover and quantify diverse kinds of sncRNA, ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Ding C,Lang X,Guo G,Chen J,Su X

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00