Despite advances in determining the factors influencing cleavage activity of a CRISPR-Cas9 single guide RNA (sgRNA) at an (off-)target DNA sequence, a comprehensive assessment of pertinent physico-chemical/structural descriptors is missing. In partic...
Regulation of DNA or RNA at the transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational levels are key steps in the central dogma of molecular biology. DNA-binding proteins (DBPs) and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play pivotal roles in the precise reg...
Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are widespread in bacteria. However, characterizing the targets of sRNA regulation in a way that scales with the increasing number of identified sRNAs has proven challenging. Computational methods offer one means for eff...
Application of machine learning-based methods to identify novel bacterial enzymes capable of degrading a wide range of xenobiotics offers enormous potential for bioremediation of toxic and carcinogenic recalcitrant xenobiotics such as pesticides, pla...
The digenic inheritance hypothesis holds the potential to enhance diagnostic yield in rare diseases. Computational approaches capable of accurately interpreting and prioritizing digenic combinations of variants based on the proband's phenotypes and f...
The spatial conformation of chromosomes and genomes of single cells is relevant to cellular function and useful for elucidating the mechanism underlying gene expression and genome methylation. The chromosomal contacts (i.e. chromosomal regions in spa...
A terminator is a DNA region that ends the transcription process. Currently, multiple computational tools are available for predicting bacterial terminators. However, these methods are specialized for certain bacteria or terminator type (i.e. intrins...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been shown to be beneficial in a wide range of bioinformatics applications. Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) is a driving force of evolutionary changes in prokaryotes. It is widely recognized that it contributes to the ...
Small proteins (≤100 amino acids) play important roles across all life forms, ranging from unicellular bacteria to higher organisms. In this study, we have developed SProtFP which is a machine learning-based method for functional annotation of prokar...
σ serves as an unconventional sigma factor with a distinct mechanism of transcription initiation, which depends on the involvement of a transcription activator. This unique sigma factor σ is indispensable for orchestrating the transcription of genes ...