DNA methylation dynamics emerged as a promising biomarker of mammalian aging, with multivariate machine learning models ('epigenetic clocks') enabling measurement of biological age in bulk tissue samples. However, intrinsically sparse and binarized m...
BACKGROUND: DNA Methylation is one of the most important epigenetic processes that are crucial to regulating the functioning of the human genome without altering the DNA sequence. DNA Methylation data for cancer patients are becoming more accessible ...
With the presentation of the blueprint of the first human genome in 2001 and the advent of technologies for high-throughput genetic analysis, personalized nutrition (PN) becomes a new scientific field and the first commercial offerings of genotype-ba...
Metazoa gene expression is controlled by modular DNA segments called cis-regulatory modules (CRMs). CRMs can convey promoter/enhancer/insulator roles, generating additional regulation layers in transcription. Experiments for understanding CRM roles a...
N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is an important epigenetic mechanism, which regulates many cellular processes such as cell differentiation and gene expression. The knowledge about the 4mC sites is a key foundation to exploring its roles. Due to the limitatio...
Accurate prediction of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) modifications is essential to explore and discern the process of cell differentiation, gene expression and epigenetic regulation. Several computational approaches have been proposed for particular ty...
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) N4-methylcytosine (4mC), a kind of epigenetic modification of DNA, is important for modifying gene functions, such as protein interactions, conformation, and stability in DNA, as well as for the control of gene expression ...
Methylation is a major DNA epigenetic modification for regulating the biological processes without altering the DNA sequence, and multiple types of DNA methylations have been discovered, including 6mA, 5hmC, and 4mC. Multiple computational approaches...
Enhancers are crucial cis-regulatory elements that control gene expression in a cell-type-specific manner. Despite extensive genetic and computational studies, accurately predicting enhancer activity in different cell types remains a challenge, and t...
Silencers are noncoding DNA sequence fragments located on the genome that suppress gene expression. The variation of silencers in specific cells is closely related to gene expression and cancer development. Computational approaches that exclusively r...