Around 50 years ago, molecular biology opened the path to understand changes in forms, adaptations, complexity, or the basis of human diseases through myriads of reports on gene birth, gene duplication, gene expression regulation, and splicing regula...
MOTIVATION: Coding and noncoding RNA molecules participate in many important biological processes. Noncoding RNAs fold into well-defined secondary structures to exert their functions. However, the computational prediction of the secondary structure f...
Several enhanced sampling techniques rely on the definition of collective variables to effectively explore free energy landscapes. The existing variables that describe the progression along a reactive pathway offer an elegant solution but face a numb...
MOTIVATION: The diverse structures and functions inherent in RNAs present a wealth of potential drug targets. Some small molecules are anticipated to serve as leading compounds, providing guidance for the development of novel RNA-targeted therapeutic...
MOTIVATION: Accurate prediction of RNA subcellular localization plays an important role in understanding cellular processes and functions. Although post-transcriptional processes are governed by trans-acting RNA binding proteins (RBPs) through intera...
Compared with proteins, DNA and RNA are more difficult languages to interpret because four-letter coded DNA/RNA sequences have less information content than 20-letter coded protein sequences. While BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Tra...
BACKGROUND: RNA-RNA interactions are key to a wide range of cellular functions. The detection of potential interactions helps to understand the underlying processes. However, potential interactions identified via in silico or experimental high-throug...
2'-O-methylation (2OM) is the most common post-transcriptional modification of RNA. It plays a crucial role in RNA splicing, RNA stability and innate immunity. Despite advances in high-throughput detection, the chemical stability of 2OM makes it diff...
The interactions between nucleic acids and proteins are important in diverse biological processes. The high-quality prediction of nucleic-acid-binding sites continues to pose a significant challenge. Presently, the predictive efficacy of sequence-bas...
MOTIVATION: Learning low-dimensional representations of single-cell transcriptomics has become instrumental to its downstream analysis. The state of the art is currently represented by neural network models, such as variational autoencoders, which us...