REDfly: an integrated knowledgebase for insect regulatory genomics

SVE Keränen, A Villahoz-Baleta, AE Bruno, MS Halfon - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Understanding how genes are regulated is a vital area of current
biological research and a crucial adjunct to ongoing efforts to sequence entire genomes …

Ensemble of deep recurrent neural networks for identifying enhancers via dinucleotide physicochemical properties

KK Tan, NQK Le, HY Yeh, MCH Chua - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Enhancers are short deoxyribonucleic acid fragments that assume an important part in the
genetic process of gene expression. Due to their possibly distant location relative to the …

Annotating the insect regulatory genome

H Asma, MS Halfon - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Insects comprise the largest and most diverse class of animals on earth,
and have major impacts on human health and agriculture. The effort to better understand …

Oleic acid attenuates Ang II (angiotensin II)-induced cardiac remodeling by inhibiting FGF23 (fibroblast growth factor 23) expression in mice

T Liu, H Wen, H Li, H Xu, N Xiao, R Liu, L Chen… - …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Plasma metabolic profiles were compared between patients with hypertension with and
without left ventricular hypertrophy and significantly decreased oleic acid (OA) levels were …

Accurate prediction of functional states of cis-regulatory modules reveals common epigenetic rules in humans and mice

P Ni, J Moe, Z Su - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Predicting cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) in a genome and their functional
states in various cell/tissue types of the organism are two related challenging computational …

Accurate prediction of cis-regulatory modules reveals a prevalent regulatory genome of humans

P Ni, Z Su - NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) formed by clusters of transcription factor (TF)
binding sites (TFBSs) are as important as coding sequences in specifying phenotypes of …

A map of cis-regulatory modules and constituent transcription factor binding sites in 80% of the mouse genome

P Ni, D Wilson, Z Su - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Mouse is probably the most important model organism to study mammal
biology and human diseases. A better understanding of the mouse genome will help …

A modERN resource: identification of Drosophila transcription factor candidate target genes using RNAi

WW Fisher, AS Hammonds, R Weiszmann, BW Booth… - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcription factors (TFs) play a key role in development and in cellular responses to the
environment by activating or repressing the transcription of target genes in precise spatial …

Computational enhancer prediction: evaluation and improvements

H Asma, MS Halfon - BMC bioinformatics, 2019 - Springer
Background Identifying transcriptional enhancers and other cis-regulatory modules (CRMs)
is an important goal of post-sequencing genome annotation. Computational approaches …

Regulatory Genome Annotation in 33 Insect Species

H Asma - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The completion of insect genome sequencing projects has generated vast amounts of
genetic data, but the process of comprehensive annotation, particularly of non-coding …