BACKGROUND: Predicting protein-DNA binding sites in vivo is a challenging but urgent task in many fields such as drug design and development. Most promoters contain many transcription factor (TF) binding sites, yet only a few have been identified thr...
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) is the central conduit for information transfer in the cell. Identifying potential RNA targets in disease conditions is a challenging task, given the vast repertoire of functional non-coding RNAs in a human cell. A potential dr...
Binding proteins play a crucial role in biological systems by selectively interacting with specific molecules, such as DNA, RNA, or peptides, to regulate various cellular processes. Their ability to recognize and bind target molecules with high speci...
RNAs are a vast reservoir of untapped drug targets. Structure-based virtual screening (VS) identifies candidate molecules by leveraging binding site information, traditionally using molecular docking simulations. However, docking struggles to scale w...
Tools available for inferring enzyme function from general sequence, fold, or evolutionary information are generally successful. However, they can lead to misclassification if a deviation in local structural features influences the function. Here, we...
It is challenging to identify regulatory transcriptional regulators (TRs), which control gene expression via regulatory elements and epigenomic signals, in context-specific studies on the onset and progression of diseases. The use of large-scale mult...
Sirtuins, a class of NAD+ -dependent deacetylases, play a key role in aging, metabolism, and longevity. Their interaction with NAD+ at the catalytic site is crucial for function, but experimental methods to map NAD+ binding sites are time consuming. ...
The DNA binding of most Escherichia coli Transcription Factors (TFs) has not been comprehensively mapped, and few have models that can quantitatively predict binding affinity. We report the global mapping of in vivo DNA binding for 139 E. coli TFs us...
Understanding how genetic variation impacts transcription factor (TF) binding remains a major challenge, limiting our ability to model disease-associated variants. Here, we used a highly controlled system of F crosses with extensive genetic diversity...
Protein-DNA interactions play a crucial role in cellular biology, essential for maintaining life processes and regulating cellular functions. We propose a method called iProtDNA-SMOTE, which utilizes non-equilibrium graph neural networks along with p...