abstract：:Systematic sequencing of cancer genomes has revealed prevalent heterogeneity, with patients harboring various combinatorial patterns of genetic alteration. In particular, a phenomenon that a group of genes exhibits mutually exclusive patterns has been widespread across cancers, covering a broad spectrum of crucial can...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Deng Y,Luo S,Deng C,Luo T,Yin W,Zhang H,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Lan Y,Ping Y,Xiao Y,Li X

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation plays an essential role in cancer. Differential variability (DV) in cancer was recently observed that contributes to cancer heterogeneity and has been shown to be crucial in detecting epigenetic field defects, DNA methylation alterations happening early in carcinogenesis. As neighboring CpG sites are h...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Teschendorff AE,Widschwendter M,Wang S

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The modelling of biological systems is accompanied with epistemic uncertainties that range from structural uncertainty to parametric uncertainty due to such limitations as insufficient understanding of the underlying mechanism and incomplete measurement data of a system. Fuzzy logic approaches such as fuzzy Petri nets...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu F,Heiner M,Gilbert D

更新日期：2018-12-27 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：: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：: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：: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：:As one of the most important fundamental problems in protein sequence analysis, protein remote homology detection is critical for both theoretical research (protein structure and function studies) and real world applications (drug design). Although several computational predictors have been proposed, their detection p...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu B,Jiang S,Zou Q

更新日期：2018-11-07 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：:Computational detection methods have been widely used in studies on the biogenesis and the function of circular RNAs (circRNAs). However, all of the existing tools showed disadvantages on certain aspects of circRNA detection. Here, we propose an improved multithreading detection tool, CIRI2, which used an adapted maxi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gao Y,Zhang J,Zhao F

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational and mathematical modelling has become a valuable tool for investigating biological systems. Modelling enables prediction of how biological components interact to deliver system-level properties and extrapolation of biological system performance to contexts and experimental conditions where this is unknow...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Read MN,Alden K,Timmis J,Andrews PS

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterophylly, i.e. morphological changes in leaves along the axis of an individual plant, is regarded as a strategy used by plants to cope with environmental change. However, little is known of the extent to which heterophylly is controlled by genes and how each underlying gene exerts its effect on heterophyllous vari...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Sun L,Wang J,Zhu X,Jiang L,Gosik K,Sang M,Sun F,Cheng T,Zhang Q,Wu R

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein remote homology detection is one of the most fundamental and central problems for the studies of protein structures and functions, aiming to detect the distantly evolutionary relationships among proteins via computational methods. During the past decades, many computational approaches have been proposed to sol...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Chen J,Guo M,Wang X,Liu B

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are an important source of human genetic variation with demonstrable effects on phenotype. Recently, a number of computational methods for the detection of polymorphic TE (polyTE) insertion sites from next-generation sequence data have been developed. The use of such tools will become incre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Rishishwar L,Mariño-Ramírez L,Jordan IK

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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：:Precision and personalized medicine will be increasingly based on the integration of various type of information, particularly electronic health records and genome sequences. The availability of cheap genome sequencing services and the information interoperability will increase the role of online bioinformatics analys...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Bianchi L,Liò P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Briefing reviews the widely used, currently active, up-to-date databases derived from the worldwide Protein Data Bank (PDB) to facilitate browsing, finding and exploring its entries. These databases contain visualization and analysis tools tailored to specific kinds of molecules and interactions, often including ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Abriata LA

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：: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：:Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, it has been widely established that most DNA is not transcribed into proteins. These non-protein-coding regions are believed to be moderators within transcriptional and post-transcriptional processes, which play key roles in the onset of diseases. Long non-coding RNAs ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yotsukura S,duVerle D,Hancock T,Natsume-Kitatani Y,Mamitsuka H

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The products of multi-exon genes are a mixture of alternatively spliced isoforms, from which the translated proteins can have similar, different or even opposing functions. It is therefore essential to differentiate and annotate functions for individual isoforms. Computational approaches provide an efficient complemen...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li HD,Omenn GS,Guan Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of multiple testing procedures in the context of gene-set testing is an important but relatively underexposed topic. If a multiple testing method is used, this is usually a standard familywise error rate (FWER) or false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedure in which the logical relationships that exist be...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Meijer RJ,Goeman JJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：: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：:For many complex diseases, an earlier and more reliable diagnosis is considered a key prerequisite for developing more effective therapies to prevent or delay disease progression. Classical statistical learning approaches for specimen classification using omics data, however, often cannot provide diagnostic models wit...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Glaab E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of current gene expression signatures for cancer prognosis are based on risk scores, usually calculated as some summaries of expression levels of the signature genes, whose applications require presetting risk score thresholds and data normalization. In this study, we demonstrate the critical limitations of such ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Qi L,Chen L,Li Y,Qin Y,Pan R,Zhao W,Gu Y,Wang H,Wang R,Chen X,Guo Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-seq has been an increasingly popular high-throughput platform to identify differentially expressed (DE) genes, which is much more reproducible and accurate than the previous microarray technology. Yet, a number of statistical issues remain to be resolved in data analysis, largely due to the high-throughput data vo...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Gu X

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosomes contribute to compacting the genome into the nucleus and regulate the physical access of regulatory proteins to DNA either directly or through the epigenetic modifications of the histone tails. Precise mapping of nucleosome positioning across the genome is, therefore, essential to understanding the genome ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Quintales L,Vázquez E,Antequera F

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：: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：:The combination of DNA bisulfite treatment with high-throughput sequencing technologies has enabled investigation of genome-wide DNA methylation beyond CpG sites and CpG islands. These technologies have opened new avenues to understand the interplay between epigenetic events, chromatin plasticity and gene regulation. ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Adusumalli S,Mohd Omar MF,Soong R,Benoukraf T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discipline of bioinformatics has developed rapidly since the complete sequencing of the first genomes in the 1990s. The development of many high-throughput techniques during the last decades has ensured that bioinformatics has grown into a discipline that overlaps with, and is required for, the modern practice of ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Tastan Bishop Ö,Adebiyi EF,Alzohairy AM,Everett D,Ghedira K,Ghouila A,Kumuthini J,Mulder NJ,Panji S,Patterton HG,H3ABioNet Consortium.,H3Africa Consortium.

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:A number of supervised machine learning models have recently been introduced for the prediction of drug-target interactions based on chemical structure and genomic sequence information. Although these models could offer improved means for many network pharmacology applications, such as repositioning of drugs for new t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Pahikkala T,Airola A,Pietilä S,Shakyawar S,Szwajda A,Tang J,Aittokallio T

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the interconnections of microbial pathogenicity phenomena, such as biofilm formation, quorum sensing and antimicrobial resistance, is a tremendous open challenge for biomedical research. Progress made by wet-lab researchers and bioinformaticians in understanding the underlying regulatory phenomena has be...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Castelhano Santos N,Pereira MO,Lourenço A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has rapidly become a popular tool to characterize transcriptomes. A fundamental research problem in many RNA-seq studies is the identification of reliable molecular markers that show differential expression between distinct sample groups. Together with the growing popularity of RNA-seq, a numb...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Seyednasrollah F,Laiho A,Elo LL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a group of important plant species in agriculture and biology, polyploids have been increasingly studied in terms of their genome structure and organization. There are two types of polyploids, allopolyploids and autopolyploids, each resulting from a different genetic origin, which undergo meiotic divisions of a dis...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xu F,Tong C,Lyu Y,Bo W,Pang X,Wu R

更新日期：2015-01-01 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