Key challenges for human genetics, precision medicine and evolutionary biology include deciphering the regulatory code of gene expression and understanding the transcriptional effects of genome variation. However, this is extremely difficult because ...
BACKGROUND: An open challenge in translational bioinformatics is the analysis of sequenced metagenomes from various environmental samples. Of course, several studies demonstrated the 16S ribosomal RNA could be considered as a barcode for bacteria cla...
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
May 25, 2018
PURPOSE: Acquired resistance (AR) to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) is a major issue worldwide, for both patients and healthcare providers. However, precise prediction is currently infeasible due to the lack o...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Apr 26, 2018
Control of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) to shift gene expression from undesirable states to desirable ones has received much attention in recent years. Most of the existing methods assume that the cost of intervention at each state and time point,...
Hybridization and gene flow between species appears to be common. Even though it is clear that hybridization is widespread across all surveyed taxonomic groups, the magnitude and consequences of introgression are still largely unknown. Thus it is cru...
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a very effective research tool to identify genetic variants of underlying various complex diseases. In spite of the success of GWAS in identifying thousands of reproducible associations between genet...
International journal of molecular sciences
Mar 29, 2018
Protein-protein interactions (PPI) are key to protein functions and regulations within the cell cycle, DNA replication, and cellular signaling. Therefore, detecting whether a pair of proteins interact is of great importance for the study of molecular...
Models for predicting phenotypic outcomes from genotypes have important applications to understanding genomic function and improving human health. Here, we develop a machine-learning system to predict cell-type-specific epigenetic and transcriptional...
BACKGROUND: Testing predefined gene categories has become a common practice for scientists analyzing high throughput transcriptome data. A systematic way of testing gene categories leads to testing hundreds of null hypotheses that correspond to nodes...