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  1. The use of sound to represent sequence data—sonification—has great potential as an alternative and complement to visual representation, exploiting features of human psychoacoustic intuitions to convey nuance m...

    Authors: Edward J. Martin, Thomas R. Meagher and Daniel Barker
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:456
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  2. 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
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 10

  3. Adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are the two most prevalent lung cancer types, and their distinction requires different screenings, such as the visual inspection of histology slides by an expert path...

    Authors: Francisco Carrillo-Perez, Juan Carlos Morales, Daniel Castillo-Secilla, Yésica Molina-Castro, Alberto Guillén, Ignacio Rojas and Luis Javier Herrera
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:454
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  6. The liver plays a major role in the metabolic activation of xenobiotics (drugs, chemicals such as pollutants, pesticides, food additives...). Among environmental contaminants of concern, heterocyclic aromatic ...

    Authors: Mael Conan, Nathalie Théret, Sophie Langouet and Anne Siegel
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:450
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  7. This paper exploits recent developments in topological data analysis to present a pipeline for clustering based on Mapper, an algorithm that reduces complex data into a one-dimensional graph.

    Authors: Ewan Carr, Mathieu Carrière, Bertrand Michel, Frédéric Chazal and Raquel Iniesta
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:449
    Content type: Software Published on:

  8. The growing researches of molecular biology reveal that complex life phenomena have the ability to demonstrating various types of interactions in the level of genomics. To establish the interactions between ge...

    Authors: Bin Yang, Wenzheng Bao, Wei Zhang, Haifeng Wang, Chuandong Song, Yuehui Chen and Xiuying Jiang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 3):448
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 3

  9. Studies have proven that the same family of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have similar functions, so predicting the ncRNAs family is helpful to the research of ncRNAs functions. The existing calculation methods ma...

    Authors: Linyu Wang, Xiaodan Zhong, Shuo Wang and Yuanning Liu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:447
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:583

  10. Protein kinases are among the largest druggable family of signaling proteins, involved in various human diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their clinical relevance, nearly 30%...

    Authors: Liang-Chin Huang, Rahil Taujale, Nathan Gravel, Aarya Venkat, Wayland Yeung, Dominic P. Byrne, Patrick A. Eyers and Natarajan Kannan
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:446
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  18. Proteins are integral part of all living beings, which are building blocks of many amino acids. To be functionally active, amino acids chain folds up in a complex way to give each protein a unique 3D shape, wh...

    Authors: Mohammad Shahedul Islam, Md. Abul Kashem Mia, Mohammad Shamsur Rahman, Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Pranab Kumar Dhar and Takeshi Koshiba
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:435
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  19. One of the major challenges in precision medicine is accurate prediction of individual patient’s response to drugs. A great number of computational methods have been developed to predict compounds activity usi...

    Authors: Zhaorui Zuo, Penglei Wang, Xiaowei Chen, Li Tian, Hui Ge and Dahong Qian
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:434
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  20. Imaging data contains a substantial amount of information which can be difficult to evaluate by eye. With the expansion of high throughput microscopy methodologies producing increasingly large datasets, automa...

    Authors: David R. Stirling, Madison J. Swain-Bowden, Alice M. Lucas, Anne E. Carpenter, Beth A. Cimini and Allen Goodman
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:433
    Content type: Software Published on:

  21. Interactions of microbes and diseases are of great importance for biomedical research. However, large-scale of microbe–disease interactions are hidden in the biomedical literature. The structured databases for...

    Authors: Chengkun Wu, Xinyi Xiao, Canqun Yang, JinXiang Chen, Jiacai Yi and Yanlong Qiu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:432
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  22. RNA secondary structure prediction is an important research content in the field of biological information. Predicting RNA secondary structure with pseudoknots has been proved to be an NP-hard problem. Traditi...

    Authors: Weizhong Lu, Yan Cao, Hongjie Wu, Yijie Ding, Zhengwei Song, Yu Zhang, Qiming Fu and Haiou Li
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 3):431
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 3

  23. Essential proteins have great impacts on cell survival and development, and played important roles in disease analysis and new drug design. However, since it is inefficient and costly to identify essential pro...

    Authors: Shiyuan Li, Zhen Zhang, Xueyong Li, Yihong Tan, Lei Wang and Zhiping Chen
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:430
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. With the broad application of high-throughput sequencing and its reduced cost, simple sequence repeat (SSR) genotyping by sequencing (SSR-GBS) has been widely used for interpreting genetic data across differen...

    Authors: Yongxue Huo, Yikun Zhao, Liwen Xu, Hongmei Yi, Yunlong Zhang, Xianqing Jia, Han Zhao, Jiuran Zhao and Fengge Wang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:429
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  26. In mammalian cells the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) comprises a highly complex reticular morphology that is spread throughout the cytoplasm. This organelle is of particular interest to biologists, as its dysfunc...

    Authors: M. Elena Garcia-Pardo, Jeremy C. Simpson and Niamh C. O’Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:427
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  28. Interactions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and environmental factors play an important role in understanding complex diseases' pathogenesis. A growing number of SNP-environment studies have been co...

    Authors: Hui-Yi Lin, Po-Yu Huang, Tung-Sung Tseng and Jong Y. Park
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:425
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  29. In systems biology, it is important to reconstruct regulatory networks from quantitative molecular profiles. Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) are one of the most popular methods to this end. A GGM consists of ...

    Authors: Victor Bernal, Rainer Bischoff, Peter Horvatovich, Victor Guryev and Marco Grzegorczyk
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:424
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Assessing the reproducibility of measurements is an important first step for improving the reliability of downstream analyses of high-throughput metabolomics experiments. We define a metabolite to be reproduci...

    Authors: Tusharkanti Ghosh, Daisy Philtron, Weiming Zhang, Katerina Kechris and Debashis Ghosh
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:423
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  31. With more T cell receptor sequence data becoming available, the need for bioinformatics approaches to predict T cell receptor specificity is even more pressing. Here we present SwarmTCR, a method that uses lab...

    Authors: Ryan Ehrlich, Larisa Kamga, Anna Gil, Katherine Luzuriaga, Liisa K. Selin and Dario Ghersi
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:422
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  32. Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image processing and analysis. It is a very time-consuming and error-prone task. In order to reduce the burden on physicians and improve the segment...

    Authors: Siyu Xiong, Guoqing Wu, Xitian Fan, Xuan Feng, Zhongcheng Huang, Wei Cao, Xuegong Zhou, Shijin Ding, Jinhua Yu, Lingli Wang and Zhifeng Shi
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:421
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  33. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary malignant brain tumor with grim prognosis. Aberrant DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that promotes GBM carcinogenesis, while th...

    Authors: Xiaoxiao Zhao, Jianghuai Ji, Shijia Wang, Rendong Wang, Qiuhong Yu and Dongguo Li
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:420
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  34. RNA velocity is a novel and powerful concept which enables the inference of dynamical cell state changes from seemingly static single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. However, accurate estimation of RNA v...

    Authors: Xin Wang and Jie Zheng
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 10):419
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 10

  36. Variation in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) identified by genotyping microarrays or by sequencing only the hypervariable regions of the genome may be insufficient to reliably assign mitochondrial genomes to phyloge...

    Authors: Tim W. McInerney, Brian Fulton-Howard, Christopher Patterson, Devashi Paliwal, Lars S. Jermiin, Hardip R. Patel, Judy Pa, Russell H. Swerdlow, Alison Goate, Simon Easteal and Shea J. Andrews
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:417
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  37. Genetic heterogeneity of a cancer tumor that develops during clonal evolution is one of the reasons for cancer treatment failure, by increasing the chance of drug resistance. Clones are cell populations with d...

    Authors: Leila Baghaarabani, Sama Goliaei, Mohammad-Hadi Foroughmand-Araabi, Seyed Peyman Shariatpanahi and Bahram Goliaei
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:416
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  38. Advances in the expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies have provided valuable insights into the mechanism of diseases and traits-associated genetic variants. However, it remains challenging to evalu...

    Authors: Tao Wang, Yongzhuang Liu, Junpeng Ruan, Xianjun Dong, Yadong Wang and Jiajie Peng
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 9):403
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 9

  39. It is important to understand the composition of cell type and its proportion in intact tissues, as changes in certain cell types are the underlying cause of disease in humans. Although compositions of cell ty...

    Authors: Jiajie Peng, Lu Han and Xuequn Shang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 9):281
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 9

  40. Gene prioritization (gene ranking) aims to obtain the centrality of genes, which is critical for cancer diagnosis and therapy since keys genes correspond to the biomarkers or targets of drugs. Great efforts ha...

    Authors: Yan Wang, Zuheng Xia, Jingjing Deng, Xianghua Xie, Maoguo Gong and Xiaoke Ma
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 9):274
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 9

  41. DNA sequence alignment is a common first step in most applications of high-throughput sequencing technologies. The accuracy of sequence alignments directly affects the accuracy of downstream analyses, such as ...

    Authors: Wei Quan, Bo Liu and Yadong Wang
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 9):172
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 9

  42. Many systems biology studies leverage the integration of multiple data types (across different data sources) to offer a more comprehensive view of the biological system being studied. While SQL (Structured Que...

    Authors: Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, Shrikant Pawar, Jeff Mandell, Steven H. Kleinstein and Kei-Hoi Cheung
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 9):105
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 9

  43. Plant long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play vital roles in many biological processes mainly through interactions with RNA-binding protein (RBP). To understand the function of lncRNAs, a fundamental method is to ...

    Authors: Haoran Zhou, Jael Sanyanda Wekesa, Yushi Luan and Jun Meng
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 3):415
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 3

  44. The analyses of amplification and melting curves have been shown to provide valuable information on the quality of the individual reactions in quantitative PCR (qPCR) experiments and to result in more reliable...

    Authors: Andreas Untergasser, Jan M. Ruijter, Vladimir Benes and Maurice J. B. van den Hoff
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:398
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  47. Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) refer to processes triggered by the administration of two or more drugs leading to side effects beyond those observed when drugs are administered by themselves. Due to the massive...

    Authors: Kyriakos Schwarz, Ahmed Allam, Nicolas Andres Perez Gonzalez and Michael Krauthammer
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:412
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  48. Once bulk RNA-seq data has been processed, i.e. aligned and then expression and differential tables generated, there remains the essential process where the biology is explored, visualized and interpreted. Wit...

    Authors: John J. Cole, Bekir A. Faydaci, David McGuinness, Robin Shaw, Rose A. Maciewicz, Neil A. Robertson and Carl S. Goodyear
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:411
    Content type: Software Published on:

  49. With recent advances in microscopy, recordings of cell behaviour can result in terabyte-size datasets. The lattice light sheet microscope (LLSM) images cells at high speed and high 3D resolution, accumulating ...

    Authors: James G. Lefevre, Yvette W. H. Koh, Adam A. Wall, Nicholas D. Condon, Jennifer L. Stow and Nicholas A. Hamilton
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22:410
    Content type: Software Published on:

  50. Jatropha curcas L. is an important non-edible oilseed crop with a promising future in biodiesel production. However, little is known about the molecular biology of oil biosynthesis in this plant when compared wit...

    Authors: Xuan Zhang, Jing Li, Bang-Zhen Pan, Wen Chen, Maosheng Chen, Mingyong Tang, Zeng-Fu Xu and Changning Liu
    Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2021 22(Suppl 6):409
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 6

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