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：: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 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：:Functional annotation of protein sequence with high accuracy has become one of the most important issues in modern biomedical studies, and computational approaches of significantly accelerated analysis process and enhanced accuracy are greatly desired. Although a variety of methods have been developed to elevate prote...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hong J,Luo Y,Zhang Y,Ying J,Xue W,Xie T,Tao L,Zhu F

更新日期：2020-07-15 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：:Accurately identifying the interactions between genomic factors and the response of cancer drugs plays important roles in drug discovery, drug repositioning and cancer treatment. A number of studies revealed that interactions between genes and drugs were 'many-genes-to-many drugs' interactions, i.e. common modules, op...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Huang J,Chen J,Zhang B,Zhu L,Cai H

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is a key component in the pathogenic mechanism of a variety of diseases. These diseases involving fibrosis may share common mechanisms and therapeutic targets, and therefore common intervention strategies and medicines may be applicable for these diseases. For this reason, deliberately introducing anti-fibros...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wu D,Gao W,Li X,Tian C,Jiao N,Fang S,Xiao J,Xu Z,Zhu L,Zhang G,Zhu R

更新日期：2020-06-22 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：: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：:The outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has been declared a global health emergency. G-quadruplex structures in genomes have long been considered essential for regulating a number of biological processes in a plethora of organisms. We have analyzed and identified 25 four contiguous GG runs (G2NxG2NyG2N...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ji D,Juhas M,Tsang CM,Kwok CK,Li Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:Dissecting the genetic mechanism underlying a complex disease hinges on discovering gene-environment interactions (GXE). However, detecting GXE is a challenging problem especially when the genetic variants under study are rare. Haplotype-based tests have several advantages over the so-called collapsing tests for detec...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Papachristou C,Biswas S

更新日期：2020-05-21 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：: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

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：: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：: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：: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：:Competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) represents a novel layer of gene regulation that controls both physiological and pathological processes. However, there is still lack of computational tools for quickly identifying ceRNA regulation. To address this problem, we presented an R-package, CeRNASeek, which allows identifyi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Zhang M,Jin X,Li J,Tian Y,Wang Q,Li X,Xu J,Li Y,Li X

更新日期：2020-05-04 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：: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：: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：:Effectively representing Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) headings (terms) such as disease and drug as discriminative vectors could greatly improve the performance of downstream computational prediction models. However, these terms are often abstract and difficult to quantify. In this paper, we converted the MeSH tree ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Guo ZH,You ZH,Huang DS,Yi HC,Zheng K,Chen ZH,Wang YB

更新日期：2020-03-31 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：: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：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：: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：:It is easy for today's students and researchers to believe that modern bioinformatics emerged recently to assist next-generation sequencing data analysis. However, the very beginnings of bioinformatics occurred more than 50 years ago, when desktop computers were still a hypothesis and DNA could not yet be sequenced. T...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gauthier J,Vincent AT,Charette SJ,Derome N

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative regulation among multiple microRNAs (miRNAs) is a complex type of posttranscriptional regulation in human; however, the global view of the system-level regulatory principles across cancers is still unclear. Here, we investigated miRNA-miRNA cooperative regulatory landscape across 18 cancer types and summar...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Shao T,Wang G,Chen H,Xie Y,Jin X,Bai J,Xu J,Li X,Huang J,Jin Y,Li Y

更新日期：2019-09-27 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：: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：:Daily work in molecular biology presently depends on a large number of computational tools. An in-depth, large-scale study of that 'ecosystem' of Web tools, its characteristics, interconnectivity, patterns of usage/citation, temporal evolution and rate of decay is crucial for understanding the forces that shape it and...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pazos F,Chagoyen M

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Success in precision medicine depends on accessing high-quality genetic and molecular data from large, well-annotated patient cohorts that couple biological samples to comprehensive clinical data, which in conjunction can lead to effective therapies. From such a scenario emerges the need for a new professional profile...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gómez-López G,Dopazo J,Cigudosa JC,Valencia A,Al-Shahrour F

更新日期：2019-05-21 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：:Since the small RNA-sequencing (sRNA-seq) technology became available, it allowed the discovery of thousands new microRNAs (miRNAs) in humans and many other species, providing new data on these small RNAs (sRNAs) of high biological and translational relevance. MiRNA discovery has not yet reached saturation, even in th...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bortolomeazzi M,Gaffo E,Bortoluzzi S

更新日期：2019-05-21 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：: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：: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：: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：:Pathway enrichment analysis has been widely used to identify cancer risk pathways, and contributes to elucidating the mechanism of tumorigenesis. However, most of the existing approaches use the outdated pathway information and neglect the complex gene interactions in pathway. Here, we first reviewed the existing wide...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang Q,Wang S,Dai E,Zhou S,Liu D,Liu H,Meng Q,Jiang B,Jiang W

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00