Alignment-free sequence analysis and applications

J Ren, X Bai, YY Lu, K Tang, Y Wang… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Genome and metagenome comparisons based on large amounts of next-generation
sequencing (NGS) data pose significant challenges for alignment-based approaches due to …

Spurious transcription factor binding: non‐functional or genetically redundant?

M Spivakov - Bioessays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) on the DNA are generally accepted as the key
nodes of gene control. However, the multitudes of TFBSs identified in genome‐wide studies …

Alignment-free oligonucleotide frequency dissimilarity measure improves prediction of hosts from metagenomically-derived viral sequences

NA Ahlgren, J Ren, YY Lu, JA Fuhrman… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Viruses and their host genomes often share similar oligonucleotide frequency (ONF)
patterns, which can be used to predict the host of a given virus by finding the host with the …

COMET: adaptive context-based modeling for ultrafast HIV-1 subtype identification

D Struck, G Lawyer, AM Ternes, JC Schmit… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Viral sequence classification has wide applications in clinical, epidemiological, structural
and functional categorization studies. Most existing approaches rely on an initial alignment …

CAFE: a C celerated A lignment-F r E e sequence analysis

YY Lu, K Tang, J Ren, JA Fuhrman… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Alignment-free genome and metagenome comparisons are increasingly important with the
development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. Recently developed state …

m6aViewer: software for the detection, analysis, and visualization of N6-methyladenosine peaks from m6A-seq/ME-RIP sequencing data

A Antanaviciute, B Baquero-Perez, CM Watson… - Rna, 2017 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Recent methods for transcriptome-wide N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) profiling have
facilitated investigations into the RNA methylome and established m6A as a dynamic …

Bayesian structural inference for hidden processes

CC Strelioff, JP Crutchfield - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
We introduce a Bayesian approach to discovering patterns in structurally complex
processes. The proposed method of Bayesian structural inference (BSI) relies on a set of …

Three perspectives on complexity: entropy, compression, subsymmetry

N Nagaraj, K Balasubramanian - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2017 - Springer
There is no single universally accepted definition of 'Complexity'. There are several
perspectives on complexity and what constitutes complex behaviour or complex systems, as …

Dynamical complexity of short and noisy time series: Compression-Complexity vs. Shannon entropy

N Nagaraj, K Balasubramanian - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2017 - Springer
Shannon entropy has been extensively used for characterizing complexity of time series
arising from chaotic dynamical systems and stochastic processes such as Markov chains …

A generative nonparametric Bayesian model for whole genomes

A Amin, EN Weinstein, D Marks - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Generative probabilistic modeling of biological sequences has widespread existing and
potential use across biology and biomedicine, particularly given advances in high …