Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Dec 26, 2024
MOTIVATION: T-cell receptors (TCRs) elicit and mediate the adaptive immune response by recognizing antigenic peptides, a process pivotal for cancer immunotherapy, vaccine design, and autoimmune disease management. Understanding the intricate binding ...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Dec 26, 2024
MOTIVATION: The knowledge of protein stability upon residue variation is an important step for functional protein design and for understanding how protein variants can promote disease onset. Computational methods are important to complement experimen...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Dec 26, 2024
MOTIVATION: Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are extensively used in biology, from phylogenetic reconstruction to structure and function prediction. Here, we suggest an out-of-the-box approach for the inference of MSAs, which relies on algorithms ...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Dec 26, 2024
MOTIVATION: Skeletal muscle cells (skMCs) combine together to create long, multi-nucleated structures called myotubes. By studying the size, length, and number of nuclei in these myotubes, we can gain a deeper understanding of skeletal muscle develop...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Dec 26, 2024
MOTIVATION: Accurately identifying ligands plays a crucial role in the process of structure-guided drug design. Based on density maps from X-ray diffraction or cryogenic-sample electron microscopy (cryoEM), scientists verify whether small-molecule li...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Dec 26, 2024
MOTIVATION: Peptides and their derivatives hold potential as therapeutic agents. The rising interest in developing peptide drugs is evidenced by increasing approval rates by the FDA of USA. To identify the most potential peptides, study on peptide-pr...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Dec 25, 2024
Gastric tumors are neoplastic lesions that occur in the stomach, posing a great threat to human health. Gastric cancer represents the malignant form of gastric tumors, and early detection and treatment are crucial for patient recovery. Endoscopic exa...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Dec 25, 2024
Currently, the types of kidney stones before surgery are mainly identified by human beings, which directly leads to the problems of low classification accuracy and inconsistent diagnostic results due to the reliance on human knowledge. To address thi...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Dec 25, 2024
To address the issue of a large number of network parameters and substantial floating-point operations in deep learning networks applied to image segmentation for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), this paper proposes a lightweight dilated par...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Dec 25, 2024
Manual segmentation of coronary arteries in computed tomography angiography (CTA) images is inefficient, and existing deep learning segmentation models often exhibit low accuracy on coronary artery images. Inspired by the Transformer architecture, th...