abstract：MOTIVATION:Over the past decade, the field of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has seen dramatic advances in methods and a decrease in costs. Consequently, a large expansion of data has been generated by NGS, most of which have originated from RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments. Because mitochondrial genes are expres...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Nachtigall PG,Grazziotin FG,Junqueira-de-Azevedo ILM

更新日期：2021-01-30 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：: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

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：:The increasing ease with which massive genetic information can be obtained from patients or healthy individuals has stimulated the development of interpretive bioinformatics tools as aids in clinical practice. Most such tools analyze evolutionary information and simple physical-chemical properties to predict whether r...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Galano-Frutos JJ,García-Cebollada H,Sancho J

更新日期：2021-01-18 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：:Moonlighting proteins provide more options for cells to execute multiple functions without increasing the genome and transcriptome complexity. Although there have long been calls for computational methods for the prediction of moonlighting proteins, no method has been designed for determining moonlighting long noncodi...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Liu X,Xu Y,Wang R,Liu S,Wang J,Luo Y,Leung KS,Cheng L

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In early January 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, was identified using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and readily available bioinformatics pipelines. In addition to virus discovery, these NGS technologies and bioinformatics resources are currently being e...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hu T,Li J,Zhou H,Li C,Holmes EC,Shi W

更新日期：2021-01-08 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 order to reach precision medicine and improve patients' quality of life, machine learning is increasingly used in medicine. Brain disorders are often complex and heterogeneous, and several modalities such as demographic, clinical, imaging, genetics and environmental data have been studied to improve their understan...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Burgos N,Bottani S,Faouzi J,Thibeau-Sutre E,Colliot O

更新日期：2020-12-15 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：:Numerous studies have shown that copy number variation (CNV) in lncRNA regions play critical roles in the initiation and progression of cancer. However, our knowledge about their functionalities is still limited. Here, we firstly provided a computational method to identify lncRNAs with copy number variation (lncRNAs-C...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Xu Y,Wu T,Li F,Dong Q,Wang J,Shang D,Xu Y,Zhang C,Dou Y,Hu C,Yang H,Zheng X,Zhang Y,Wang L,Li X

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical cancer treatment, genomic alterations would often affect the response of patients to anticancer drugs. Studies have shown that molecular features of tumors could be biomarkers predictive of sensitivity or resistance to anticancer agents, but the identification of actionable mutations are often constrained ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yao H,Liang Q,Qian X,Wang J,Sham PC,Li MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have long been presented with the challenge imposed by the role of genetic heterogeneity in drug response. For many years, Pharmacogenomics and pharmacomicrobiomics has been investigating the influence of an individual's genetic background to drug response and disposition. More recently, the human gut micr...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hassan R,Allali I,Agamah FE,Elsheikh SSM,Thomford NE,Dandara C,Chimusa ER

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein dynamics is central to all biological processes, including signal transduction, cellular regulation and biological catalysis. Among them, in-depth exploration of ligand-driven protein dynamics contributes to an optimal understanding of protein function, which is particularly relevant to drug discovery. Hence, ...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yang JF,Wang F,Chen YZ,Hao GF,Yang GF

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While elementary flux mode (EFM) analysis is now recognized as a cornerstone computational technique for cellular pathway analysis and engineering, EFM application to genome-scale models remains computationally prohibitive. This article provides a review of aspects of EFM computation that elucidates bottlenecks in sca...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Ullah E,Yosafshahi M,Hassoun S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid replication is one of the most crucial tasks taking place in the cell, and it has to be precisely regulated. This process is initiated in the replication origins (ORIs), and thus it is essential to identify such sites for a deeper understanding of the cellular processes and functions related to t...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Manavalan B,Basith S,Shin TH,Lee G

更新日期：2020-11-25 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：: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：MOTIVATION:Computational methods accelerate drug discovery and play an important role in biomedicine, such as molecular property prediction and compound-protein interaction (CPI) identification. A key challenge is to learn useful molecular representation. In the early years, molecular properties are mainly calculated b...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Li P,Li Y,Hsieh CY,Zhang S,Liu X,Liu H,Song S,Yao X

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective drug discovery contributes to the treatment of numerous diseases but is limited by high costs and long cycles. The Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) method was introduced to evaluate the activity of a large number of compounds virtually, reducing the time and labor costs required for chemic...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wang YL,Wang F,Shi XX,Jia CY,Wu FX,Hao GF,Yang GF

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are compartmentalized by numerous membrane-bounded organelles and membraneless organelles (MLOs) to ensure temporal and spatial regulation of various biological processes. A number of MLOs, such as nucleoli, nuclear speckles and stress granules, exist as liquid droplets within the cells and arise from the conden...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hou C,Xie H,Fu Y,Ma Y,Li T

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

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：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：BACKGROUND:Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) research. Countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden face important challenges to integrate WGS into surveillance and research. METHODS:We assessed the global status of Mtb WGS and developed a 3-week training co...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Rivière E,Heupink TH,Ismail N,Dippenaar A,Clarke C,Abebe G,Heusden P,Warren R,Meehan CJ,Van Rie A

更新日期：2020-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene set analysis (GSA) is one of the methods of choice for analyzing the results of current omics studies; however, it has been mainly developed to analyze mRNA (microarray, RNA-Seq) data. The following review includes an update regarding general methods and resources for GSA and then emphasizes GSA methods and tools...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Mora A

更新日期：2020-09-25 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：: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

abstract：:Phase separation is an important mechanism that mediates the spatial distribution of proteins in different cellular compartments. While phase-separated proteins share certain sequence characteristics, including intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) and prion-like domains, such characteristics are insufficient for ma...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Yu C,Shen B,You K,Huang Q,Shi M,Wu C,Chen Y,Zhang C,Li T

更新日期：2020-09-02 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：: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：:Gene expression data have played an essential role in many biomedical studies. When the number of genes is large and sample size is limited, there is a 'lack of information' problem, leading to low-quality findings. To tackle this problem, both horizontal and vertical data integrations have been developed, where verti...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Wu M,Yi H,Ma S

更新日期：2020-08-14 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：:In drug development, preclinical safety and pharmacokinetics assessments of candidate drugs to ensure the safety profile are a must. While in vivo and in vitro tests are traditionally used, experimental determinations have disadvantages, as they are usually time-consuming and costly. In silico predictions of these pre...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Hsiao Y,Su BH,Tseng YJ

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most frequently mutated gene pairs in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) are KRAS and TP53, and our goal is to illustrate the multiomics and molecular dynamics landscapes of KRAS/TP53 mutation and also to obtain prospective novel drugs for KRAS- and TP53-mutated PAAD patients. Moreover, we also made an att...

journal_title：Briefings in bioinformatics

authors： Kaushik AC,Wang YJ,Wang X,Wei DQ

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00