Shear-induced Notch-Cx37-p27 axis arrests endothelial cell cycle to enable arterial specification

JS Fang, BG Coon, N Gillis, Z Chen, J Qiu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Establishment of a functional vascular network is rate-limiting in embryonic development,
tissue repair and engineering. During blood vessel formation, newly generated endothelial …

iProEP: a computational predictor for predicting promoter

HY Lai, ZY Zhang, ZD Su, W Su, H Ding… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2019 - cell.com
Promoter is a fundamental DNA element located around the transcription start site (TSS) and
could regulate gene transcription. Promoter recognition is of great significance in …

A comprehensive survey on genetic algorithms for DNA motif prediction

NK Lee, X Li, D Wang - Information Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Computational DNA motif discovery is important because it allows for speedy and cost
effective analysis of sequences enriched with DNA motifs, performs large scale comparative …

DOOR: a prokaryotic operon database for genome analyses and functional inference

H Cao, Q Ma, X Chen, Y Xu - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The rapid accumulation of fully sequenced prokaryotic genomes provides unprecedented
information for biological studies of bacterial and archaeal organisms in a systematic …

RSAT matrix-clustering: dynamic exploration and redundancy reduction of transcription factor binding motif collections

JA Castro-Mondragon, S Jaeger, D Thieffry… - Nucleic Acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Transcription factor (TF) databases contain multitudes of binding motifs (TFBMs) from
various sources, from which non-redundant collections are derived by manual curation. The …

Detecting N6-methyladenosine sites from RNA transcriptomes using ensemble Support Vector Machines

W Chen, P Xing, Q Zou - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
As one of the most abundant RNA post-transcriptional modifications, N6-methyladenosine
(m6A) involves in a broad spectrum of biological and physiological processes ranging from …

iRNAD: a computational tool for identifying D modification sites in RNA sequence

ZC Xu, PM Feng, H Yang, WR Qiu, W Chen… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Dihydrouridine (D) is a common RNA post-transcriptional modification found in
eukaryotes, bacteria and a few archaea. The modification can promote the conformational …

IRIS3: integrated cell-type-specific regulon inference server from single-cell RNA-Seq

A Ma, C Wang, Y Chang, FH Brennan… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A group of genes controlled as a unit, usually by the same repressor or activator gene, is
known as a regulon. The ability to identify active regulons within a specific cell type, ie, cell …

The nucleoid protein Dps binds genomic DNA of Escherichia coli in a non-random manner

SS Antipov, MN Tutukina, EV Preobrazhenskaya… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Dps is a multifunctional homododecameric protein that oxidizes Fe2+ ions accumulating
them in the form of Fe2O3 within its protein cavity, interacts with DNA tightly condensing …

Irna-m2g: identifying n2-methylguanosine sites based on sequence-derived information

W Chen, X Song, H Lv, H Lin - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2019 - cell.com
RNA N 2-methylguanosine (m2G) is one kind of posttranscriptional modification and plays
crucial roles in the control and stabilization of tRNA. However, our knowledge about the …