BACKGROUND: Essential genes encode functions that play a vital role in the life activities of organisms, encompassing growth, development, immune system functioning, and cell structure maintenance. Conventional experimental techniques for identifying...
Gene essentiality is a genetic concept crucial for a comprehensive understanding of life and evolution. In the last decade, many essential genes (EGs) have been determined using different experimental and computational approaches, and this informatio...
Machine Learning models have been frequently used in transcriptome analyses. Particularly, Representation Learning (RL), e.g., autoencoders, are effective in learning critical representations in noisy data. However, learned representations, e.g., the...
BACKGROUND: The ability to accurately predict essential genes intolerant to loss-of-function (LOF) mutations can dramatically improve the identification of disease-associated genes. Recently, there have been numerous computational methods developed t...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Jun 3, 2022
Identifying essential genes and proteins is a critical step towards a better understanding of human biology and pathology. Computational approaches helped to mitigate experimental constraints by exploring machine learning (ML) methods and the correla...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Oct 7, 2021
Identifying essential genes in comparison states (EGS) is vital to understanding cell differentiation, performing drug discovery, and identifying disease causes. Here, we present a machine learning method termed Prediction of Essential Genes in Compa...
International journal of molecular sciences
May 11, 2021
Experimental studies of and have contributed substantially to our understanding of molecular and cellular processes in metazoans at large. Since the publication of their genomes, functional genomic investigations have identified genes that are esse...
Essential gene prediction helps to find minimal genes indispensable for the survival of any organism. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have been useful for the prediction of gene essentiality. However, currently available ML pipelines perform poorly ...
International journal of molecular sciences
Nov 28, 2020
Essential genes contain key information of genomes that could be the key to a comprehensive understanding of life and evolution. Because of their importance, studies of essential genes have been considered a crucial problem in computational biology. ...
BACKGROUND: Essential genes are those genes that are critical for the survival of an organism. The prediction of essential genes in bacteria can provide targets for the design of novel antibiotic compounds or antimicrobial strategies.
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