Briefings in bioinformatics
May 20, 2021
Quantifying DNA properties is a challenging task in the broad field of human genomics. Since the vast majority of non-coding DNA is still poorly understood in terms of function, this task is particularly important to have enormous benefit for biology...
Briefings in bioinformatics
May 20, 2021
DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is an important epigenetic modification that plays a vital role in regulating DNA replication and expression. However, it is challenging to detect 4mC sites through experimental methods, which are time-consuming and costly...
Briefings in functional genomics
Mar 2, 2021
Modifications of protein, RNA and DNA play an important role in many biological processes and are related to some diseases. Therefore, accurate identification and comprehensive understanding of protein, RNA and DNA modification sites can promote rese...
The Journal of chemical physics
Jan 28, 2021
DNA molecules can electrophoretically be driven through a nanoscale opening in a material, giving rise to rich and measurable ionic current blockades. In this work, we train machine learning models on experimental ionic blockade data from DNA nucleot...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Jun 25, 2020
In this article, based on z-curve theory and position weight matrix (PWM), a model for nucleosome sequences was constructed. Nucleosome sequence dataset was transformed into three-dimensional coordinates, PWM of the nucleosome sequences was calculate...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Jun 1, 2020
MOTIVATION: DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is a crucial epigenetic modification. However, the knowledge about its biological functions is limited. Effective and accurate identification of 4mC sites will be helpful to reveal its biological functions and ...
Briefings in bioinformatics
May 21, 2020
With the explosive growth of biological sequences generated in the post-genomic era, one of the most challenging problems in bioinformatics and computational biology is to computationally characterize sequences, structures and functions in an efficie...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Feb 15, 2020
MOTIVATION: Identification of enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs) is of great significance to human development. However, experimental methods to identify EPIs cost too much in terms of time, manpower and money. Therefore, more and more research ef...
Protein and peptide letters
Jan 1, 2020
Protein-related interaction prediction is critical to understanding life processes, biological functions, and mechanisms of drug action. Experimental methods used to determine proteinrelated interactions have always been costly and inefficient. In re...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Jan 1, 2020
MOTIVATION: We expect novel pathogens to arise due to their fast-paced evolution, and new species to be discovered thanks to advances in DNA sequencing and metagenomics. Moreover, recent developments in synthetic biology raise concerns that some stra...