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Volume 22 Supplement 10

Selected articles from the 19th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2021): bioinformatics

Research

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Tainan, Taiwan3-5 February 2021

Edited by Sunny Sun, Ping-Chiang Lyu, Chao A. Hsiung, Shaw-Jenq Tsai, and Phoebe Chen

  1. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of renal carcinoma and patients at advanced stage showed poor survival rate. Despite microRNAs (miRNAs) are used as potential biomarkers in ma...

    Authors: Eskezeia Y. Dessie, Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, Jan-Gowth Chang and Ka-Lok Ng
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):270
  2. Translational regulation is one important aspect of gene expression regulation. Dysregulation of translation results in abnormal cell physiology and leads to diseases. Ribosome profiling (RP), also called ribo...

    Authors: Wei-Sheng Wu, Yi-Hong Tsao, Sheng-Cian Shiue, Ting-Yu Chen, Yan-Yuan Tseng and Joseph T. Tseng
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):271
  3. Mitochondria play essential roles in regulating cellular functions. Some drug treatments and molecular interventions have been reported to have off-target effects damaging mitochondria and causing severe side ...

    Authors: Yu-Te Lin, Ko-Hong Lin, Chi-Jung Huang and An-Chi Wei
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):369
  4. Stroke has an acute onset and a high mortality rate, making it one of the most fatal diseases worldwide. Its underlying biology and treatments have been widely studied both in the “Western” biomedicine and the...

    Authors: Xi Yang, Chengkun Wu, Goran Nenadic, Wei Wang and Kai Lu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):387

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:585

  5. Analyses of microbial evolution often use reconciliation methods. However, the standard duplication-transfer-loss (DTL) model does not account for the fact that species trees are often not fully sampled and th...

    Authors: Jingyi Liu, Ross Mawhorter, Nuo Liu, Santi Santichaivekin, Eliot Bush and Ran Libeskind-Hadas
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):394
  6. With the rapid advancement of genomic sequencing techniques, massive production of gene expression data is becoming possible, which prompts the development of precision medicine. Deep learning is a promising a...

    Authors: Victoria Bourgeais, Farida Zehraoui, Mohamed Ben Hamdoune and Blaise Hanczar
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):455
  7. This work aims to help develop new protein engineering techniques based on a structural rearrangement phenomenon called circular permutation (CP), equivalent to connecting the native termini of a protein follo...

    Authors: Teng-Ruei Chen, Yen-Cheng Lin, Yu-Wei Huang, Chih-Chieh Chen and Wei-Cheng Lo
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):494
  8. Protein subcellular localization prediction plays an important role in biology research. Since traditional methods are laborious and time-consuming, many machine learning-based prediction methods have been pro...

    Authors: Zhijun Liao, Gaofeng Pan, Chao Sun and Jijun Tang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):515
  9. Glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism (GRA) is a form of heritable hypertension caused by a chimeric fusion resulting from unequal crossing over between 11β‐hydroxylase (CYP11B1) and aldosterone synthase (CYP11...

    Authors: Yu-Ching Wu, Chia-I Chen, Peng-Ying Chen, Chun-Hung Kuo, Yi-Hsuan Hung, Kang-Yung Peng, Vin-Cent Wu, Jyy-Jih Tsai-Wu and Chia-Lang Hsu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2022 22(Suppl 10):613
  10. The gene signatures have been considered as a promising early diagnosis and prognostic analysis to identify disease subtypes and to determine subsequent treatments. Tissue-specific gene signatures of a specifi...

    Authors: Sing-Han Huang, Yu-Shu Lo, Yong-Chun Luo, Yi-Hsuan Chuang, Jung-Yu Lee and Jinn-Moon Yang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2022 22(Suppl 10):624
  11. The placental barrier protects the fetus from exposure to some toxicants and is vital for drug development and risk assessment of environmental chemicals. However, in vivo experiments for assessing the placent...

    Authors: Che-Yu Chou, Pinpin Lin, Jongwoon Kim, Shan-Shan Wang, Chia-Chi Wang and Chun-Wei Tung
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2022 22(Suppl 10):629
  12. Twitter is a popular social networking site where short messages or “tweets” of users have been used extensively for research purposes. However, not much research has been done in mining the medical profession...

    Authors: Kazi Zainab, Gautam Srivastava and Vijay Mago
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2022 22(Suppl 10):630
  13. Cancers are genetically heterogeneous, so anticancer drugs show varying degrees of effectiveness on patients due to their differing genetic profiles. Knowing patient’s responses to numerous cancer drugs are ne...

    Authors: Conghao Wang, Xintong Lye, Rama Kaalia, Parvin Kumar and Jagath C. Rajapakse
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2022 22(Suppl 10):632
  14. The correct establishment of the barcode classification system for fish can facilitate biotaxonomists to distinguish fish species, and it can help the government to verify the authenticity of the ingredients o...

    Authors: Ting-Hui Wu, Cing-Han Yang, Tun-Wen Pai, Li-Ping Ho, Jen-Leih Wu and Hsin-Yiu Chou
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2022 22(Suppl 10):633

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