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In the past two decades, genomics has advanced significantly, with single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) marking a pivotal milestone. ScRNA-seq provides unparalleled insights into cellular diversity and has s...
More accurate prediction of phenotype traits can increase the success of genomic selection in both plant and animal breeding studies and provide more reliable disease risk prediction in humans. Traditional app...
Several computational and mathematical models of protein synthesis have been explored to accomplish the quantitative analysis of protein synthesis components and polysome structure. The effect of gene sequence...
Efficient DNA-based storage systems offer substantial capacity and longevity at reduced costs, addressing anticipated data growth. However, encoding data into DNA sequences is limited by two key constraints: 1...
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) offers powerful insights, but the surge in sample sizes demands more computational power than local workstations can provide. Consequently, high-performance computing (HPC...
The increased interest in research on DNA damage in neurodegeneration has created a need for the development of tools dedicated to the analysis of DNA damage in neurons. Double-stranded breaks (DSBs) are among...
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology has emerged as a crucial tool for studying cellular heterogeneity. However, dropouts are inherent to the sequencing process, known as dropout events, posing ch...
The active functionalities of RNA are recognized to be heavily dependent on the structure and sequence. Therefore, a model that can accurately evaluate a design by giving RNA sequence-structure pairs would be ...
Structural variations play a significant role in genetic diseases and evolutionary mechanisms. Extensive research has been conducted over the past decade to detect simple structural variations, leading to the ...
The interpretation of large datasets, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), for scientific and research purposes, remains challenging despite their public availability. In this study, we focused on identifyi...
Clustering of sequences into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and denoising methods are a mainstream stopgap to taxonomically classifying large numbers of 16S rRNA gene sequences. Environment-specific refere...
Derivative profiling is a novel approach to identify differential signals from dynamic omics data sets. This approach applies variable step-size differentiation to time dynamic omics data. This work assumes th...
Determining the composition of artifact residues is a central problem in ancient residue metabolomics. This is done by comparing mass spectral features in common with an experimental artifact and an ancient ar...
Antigen presentation is a central step in initiating and shaping the adaptive immune response. To activate CD8+ T cells, pathogen-derived peptides are presented on the cell surface of antigen-presenting cells bou...
The study of codon usage bias is important for understanding gene expression, evolution and gene design, providing critical insights into the molecular processes that govern the function and regulation of gene...
The application of Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) for dimensionality reduction and visualization has revolutionized the analysis of single-cell RNA expression and population genetics. How...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a class of complex neurodevelopment disorders with high genetic heterogeneity. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are vital regulators that perform specific functions within diver...
Locating small molecule binding sites in target proteins, in the resolution of either pocket or residue, is critical in many drug-discovery scenarios. Since it is not always easy to find such binding sites usi...
Many approaches have been developed to overcome technical noise in single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNAseq). As researchers dig deeper into data—looking for rare cell types, subtleties of cell states, and details...
In high-throughput sequencing studies, sequencing depth, which quantifies the total number of reads, varies across samples. Unequal sequencing depth can obscure true biological signals of interest and prevent ...
Literature-based discovery (LBD) aims to help researchers to identify relations between concepts which are worthy of further investigation by text-mining the biomedical literature. While the LBD literature is ...
Visualization approaches transform high-dimensional data from single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) experiments into two-dimensional plots that are used for analysis of cell relationships, and as a means of r...
Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are very suited for biological sequence data, because of analogies to natural language. Complex relationships can be learned, because a concept of "words" can be ...
Overall Survival (OS) and Progression-Free Interval (PFI) as survival times have been collected in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). It is of biomedical interest to consider their dependence in pathway detection...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the transition stage between the cognitive decline expected in normal aging and more severe cognitive decline such as dementia. The early diagnosis of MCI plays an important ...
The detection of uniparental disomies (the inheritance of both chromosome homologues from a single parent, UPDs) is not part of most standard or commercial NGS-pipelines in human genetics and thus a common gap...
One of the aims of population genetics is to identify genetic differences/similarities among individuals of multiple ancestries. Many approaches including principal component analysis, clustering, and maximum ...
Chemical bioproduction has attracted attention as a key technology in a decarbonized society. In computational design for chemical bioproduction, it is necessary to predict changes in metabolic fluxes when up-...
Chromosome organization plays an important role in biological processes such as replication, regulation, and transcription. One way to study the relationship between chromosome structure and its biological fun...
A variant can be pathogenic or benign with relation to a human disease. Current classification categories from benign to pathogenic reflect a probabilistic summary of the current understanding. A primary metri...
Mouse (Mus musculus) models have been heavily utilized in developmental biology research to understand mammalian embryonic development, as mice share many genetic, physiological, and developmental characteristics...
Gene expression and alternative splicing are strictly regulated processes that shape brain development and determine the cellular identity of differentiated neural cell populations. Despite the availability of...
With the advance in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology, deriving inherent biological system information from expression profiles at a single-cell resolution has become possible. It has been know...
Genomics methods have uncovered patterns in a range of biological systems, but obscure important aspects of cell behavior: the shapes, relative locations, movement, and interactions of cells in space. Spatial ...
Advancements over the past decade in DNA sequencing technology and computing power have created the potential to revolutionize medicine. There has been a marked increase in genetic data available, allowing for...
The variant call format (VCF) file is a structured and comprehensive text file crucial for researchers and clinicians in interpreting and understanding genomic variation data. It contains essential information...
Recently, the process of evolution information and the deep learning network has promoted the improvement of protein contact prediction methods. Nevertheless, still remain some bottleneck: (1) One of the bottl...
SmithRNAs (Small MITochondrial Highly-transcribed RNAs) are a novel class of small RNA molecules that are encoded in the mitochondrial genome and regulate the expression of nuclear transcripts. Initial evidenc...
We consider a problem of inferring contact network from nodal states observed during an epidemiological process. In a black-box Bayesian optimisation framework this problem reduces to a discrete likelihood opt...
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are fundamental to essential biological processes, exerting significant influence over gene expression, protein localization, stability, and genome replication. Sumoylat...
Copy number variants (CNVs) have become increasingly instrumental in understanding the etiology of all diseases and phenotypes, including Neurocognitive Disorders (NDs). Among the well-established regions asso...
Thermostability is a fundamental property of proteins to maintain their biological functions. Predicting protein stability changes upon mutation is important for our understanding protein structure–function re...
Mining the vast pool of biomedical literature to extract accurate responses and relevant references is challenging due to the domain's interdisciplinary nature, specialized jargon, and continuous evolution. Ea...
Commonly used approaches for genomic investigation of bacterial outbreaks, including SNP and gene-by-gene approaches, are limited by the requirement for background genomes and curated allele schemes, respectiv...
The prevention and treatment of many herpesvirus associated diseases is based on the utilization of antiviral therapies, however therapeutic success is limited by the development of drug resistance. Currently ...
Honey bees are the principal commercial pollinators. Along with other arthropods, they are increasingly under threat from anthropogenic factors such as the incursion of invasive honey bee subspecies, pathogens...
Over the past two decades, scientists have increasingly realized the importance of the three-dimensional (3D) genome organization in regulating cellular activity. Hi-C and related experiments yield 2D contact ...
Sparse multiple canonical correlation network analysis (SmCCNet) is a machine learning technique for integrating omics data along with a variable of interest (e.g., phenotype of complex disease), and reconstru...
The rise of network pharmacology has led to the widespread use of network-based computational methods in predicting drug target interaction (DTI). However, existing DTI prediction models typically rely on a li...
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