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Mining the vast pool of biomedical literature to extract accurate responses and relevant references is challenging due to the domain's interdisciplinary nature, specialized jargon, and continuous evolution. Ea...
Over the past two decades, scientists have increasingly realized the importance of the three-dimensional (3D) genome organization in regulating cellular activity. Hi-C and related experiments yield 2D contact ...
Sparse multiple canonical correlation network analysis (SmCCNet) is a machine learning technique for integrating omics data along with a variable of interest (e.g., phenotype of complex disease), and reconstru...
The rise of network pharmacology has led to the widespread use of network-based computational methods in predicting drug target interaction (DTI). However, existing DTI prediction models typically rely on a li...
Growing evidence suggests that distal regulatory elements are essential for cellular function and states. The sequences within these distal elements, especially motifs for transcription factor binding, provide...
There has been a considerable advancement in AI technologies like LLM and machine learning to support biomedical knowledge discovery.
The availability of transcriptomic data for species without a reference genome enables the construction of de novo transcriptome assemblies as alternative reference resources from RNA-Seq data. A transcriptome...
Selecting informative genes or eliminating uninformative ones before any downstream gene expression analysis is a standard task with great impact on the results. A carefully curated gene set significantly enha...
In the present work, we aimed at modeling a relaxation experiment which consists in selecting a subfraction of a cell population and observing the speed at which the entire initial distribution for a given mar...
Fluorescence microscopy (FM) is an important and widely adopted biological imaging technique. Segmentation is often the first step in quantitative analysis of FM images. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become...
The utilization of long reads for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) phasing has become popular, providing substantial support for research on human diseases and genetic studies in animals and plants. Howeve...
Construction of co-occurrence networks in metagenomic data often employs correlation to infer pairwise relationships between microbes. However, biological systems are complex and often display qualities non-li...
Survival analysis has been used to characterize the time-to-event data. In medical studies, a typical application is to analyze the survival time of specific cancers by using high-dimensional gene expressions....
Circular RNA (CircRNA)–microRNA (miRNA) interaction (CMI) is an important model for the regulation of biological processes by non-coding RNA (ncRNA), which provides a new perspective for the study of human com...
Genome assembly, which involves reconstructing a target genome, relies on scaffolding methods to organize and link partially assembled fragments. The rapid evolution of long read sequencing technologies toward...
In complex agricultural environments, the presence of shadows, leaf debris, and uneven illumination can hinder the performance of leaf segmentation models for cucumber disease detection. This is further exacer...
Conducting traditional wet experiments to guide drug development is an expensive, time-consuming and risky process. Analyzing drug function and repositioning plays a key role in identifying new therapeutic pot...
Quantitative measurement of RNA expression levels through RNA-Seq is an ideal replacement for conventional cancer diagnosis via microscope examination. Currently, cancer-related RNA-Seq studies focus on two as...
Effective identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) has been challenging for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) profiles. Many existing algorithms have high false positive rates (FPRs) and of...
The recent advances in high-throughput single-cell sequencing have created an urgent demand for computational models which can address the high complexity of single-cell multiomics data. Meticulous single-cell...
Antioxidant proteins are involved in several biological processes and can protect DNA and cells from the damage of free radicals. These proteins regulate the body's oxidative stress and perform a significant r...
Drug discovery and development is the extremely costly and time-consuming process of identifying new molecules that can interact with a biomarker target to interrupt the disease pathway of interest. In additio...
High-throughput experimental technologies can provide deeper insights into pathway perturbations in biomedical studies. Accordingly, their usage is central to the identification of molecular targets and the su...
Conditional logistic regression trees have been proposed as a flexible alternative to the standard method of conditional logistic regression for the analysis of matched case–control studies. While they allow t...
Proteins play a pivotal role in the diverse array of biological processes, making the precise prediction of protein–protein interaction (PPI) sites critical to numerous disciplines including biology, medicine ...
Detecting event triggers in biomedical texts, which contain domain knowledge and context-dependent terms, is more challenging than in general-domain texts. Most state-of-the-art models rely mainly on external ...
The potential benefits of drug combination synergy in cancer medicine are significant, yet the risks must be carefully managed due to the possibility of increased toxicity. Although artificial intelligence app...
In this paper, we aim to build a platform that will help bridge the gap between high-dimensional computation and wet-lab experimentation by allowing users to interrogate genomic signatures at multiple molecula...
Normalization is a crucial step in the analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) counts data. Its principal objectives are reduction of systematic biases primarily introduced through technical sources...
Sequence alignment lies at the heart of genome sequence annotation. While the BLAST suite of alignment tools has long held an important role in alignment-based sequence database search, greater sensitivity is ...
Metagenomic data plays a crucial role in analyzing the relationship between microbes and diseases. However, the limited number of samples, high dimensionality, and sparsity of metagenomic data pose significant...
Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is a difficult and long-standing question in Systems Biology. Numerous approaches have been proposed with the latest methods exploring the richness of single-cell d...
Metabolic pathways support the enzyme flux that converts input chemicals into energy and cellular building blocks. With a constant rate of input, steady-state flux is achieved when metabolite concentrations an...
The growing number of portable consumer-grade electroencephalography (EEG) wearables offers potential to track brain activity and neurological disease in real-world environments. However, accompanying open sof...
The progress of the cell cycle of yeast involves the regulatory relationships between genes and the interactions proteins. However, it is still obscure which type of protein plays a decisive role in regulation...
Using next-generation sequencing technologies, scientists can sequence complex microbial communities directly from the environment. Significant insights into the structure, diversity, and ecology of microbial ...
Identification of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) types from DNA-sequenced human samples is important in organ transplantation and cancer immunotherapy and remains a challenging task considering sequence homolog...
Metal ions play vital roles in regulating various biological systems, making it essential to control the concentration of free metal ions in solutions during experimental procedures. Several software applicati...
Alignment of reads to a reference genome sequence is one of the key steps in the analysis of human whole-genome sequencing data obtained through Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. The quality of th...
With the emergence of Oxford Nanopore technology, now the on-site sequencing of 16S rRNA from environments is available. Due to the error level and structure, the analysis of such data demands some database of...
Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) stands as a clinical indicator for discerning responsive outcomes to platinum-based chemotherapy and poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. One of the conventio...
SimSpliceEvol is a tool for simulating the evolution of eukaryotic gene sequences that integrates exon-intron structure evolution as well as the evolution of the sets of transcripts produced from genes. It tak...
The growing abundance of in vitro omics data, coupled with the necessity to reduce animal testing in the safety assessment of chemical compounds and even eliminate it in the evaluation of cosmetics, highlights...
Structural variations play an important role in bacterial genomes. They can mediate genome adaptation quickly in response to the external environment and thus can also play a role in antibiotic resistance. The...
Characterization of microbial growth is of both fundamental and applied interest. Modern platforms can automate collection of high-throughput microbial growth curves, necessitating the development of computati...
In this study, we present DeepVirusClassifier, a tool capable of accurately classifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral sequences among other subtypes of the coronaviridae fa...
Adeno-associated viruses 2 (AAV2) are minute viruses renowned for their capacity to infect human cells and akin organisms. They have recently emerged as prominent candidates in the field of gene therapy, prima...
Fungi play a key role in several important ecological functions, ranging from organic matter decomposition to symbiotic associations with plants. Moreover, fungi naturally inhabit the human body and can be ben...
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