BACKGROUND: Multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a significant global public health threat. Genotypic resistance prediction from Mtb DNA sequences offers an alternative to laboratory-based drug-susceptibility testing. User-friendly...
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Gene regulatory mechanisms
Aug 28, 2021
Transcription plays a central role in defining the identity and functionalities of cells, as well as in their responses to changes in the cellular environment. The Gene Ontology (GO) provides a rigorously defined set of concepts that describe the fun...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Aug 26, 2021
In contrast to artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches, KEGG (https://www.kegg.jp) has relied on human intelligence to develop "models" of biological systems, especially in the form of KEGG pathway maps that are manually created by ca...
Drug resistance mutations (DRMs) appear in HIV under treatment pressure. DRMs are commonly transmitted to naive patients. The standard approach to reveal new DRMs is to test for significant frequency differences of mutations between treated and naive...
Traditional methods to understand leukemia stem cell (LSC)'s biological characteristics include constructing LSC-like cells and mouse models by transgenic or knock-in methods. However, there are some potential pitfalls in using this method, such as r...
Aging is universal, yet characterizing the molecular changes that occur in aging which lead to an increased risk for neurological disease remains a challenging problem. Aging affects the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which governs executive function, lear...
Isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency (ISOD) is a rare hereditary metabolic disease caused by absence of functional sulfite oxidase (SO) due to mutations of the SUOX gene. SO oxidizes toxic sulfite and sulfite accumulation is associated with neurologic...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Aug 6, 2021
Topological data analysis (TDA) is a powerful method for reducing data dimensionality, mining underlying data relationships, and intuitively representing the data structure. The Mapper algorithm is one such tool that projects high-dimensional data to...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Aug 6, 2021
With a variety of tumor subtypes, personalized treatments need to identify the subtype of a tumor as accurately as possible. The development of DNA microarrays provides an opportunity to predict tumor classification. One strategy is to use gene expre...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Aug 6, 2021
Reconstruction of time-varying gene regulatory networks underlying a time-series gene expression data is a fundamental challenge in the computational systems biology. The challenge increases multi-fold if the target networks need to be constructed fo...