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 …

The functional determinants in the organization of bacterial genomes

Z Liu, J Feng, B Yu, Q Ma, B Liu - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial genomes are now recognized as interacting intimately with cellular processes.
Uncovering organizational mechanisms of bacterial genomes has been a primary focus of …

Bacterial regulon modeling and prediction based on systematic cis regulatory motif analyses

B Liu, C Zhou, G Li, H Zhang, E Zeng, Q Liu, Q Ma - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Regulons are the basic units of the response system in a bacterial cell and each consists of
a set of transcriptionally co-regulated operons. Regulon elucidation is the basis for studying …

Systems biology and metagenomics: a showcase of Chinese bioinformatics researchers and their work

DX Zhu, ZS Qin - Science China Life Sciences, 2014 - Springer
System biology and metagenomics are recently revitalized by the inception of next-
generation sequencing technologies. The former seeks to understand the function and …