Circular RNAs and complex diseases: from experimental results to computational models

CC Wang, CD Han, Q Zhao, X Chen - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of single-stranded, covalently closed RNA molecules
with a variety of biological functions. Studies have shown that circRNAs are involved in a …

Updated review of advances in microRNAs and complex diseases: taxonomy, trends and challenges of computational models

L Huang, L Zhang, X Chen - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Since the problem proposed in late 2000s, microRNA–disease association (MDA)
predictions have been implemented based on the data fusion paradigm. Integrating diverse …

[HTML][HTML] VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

J Guo, B Bolduc, AA Zayed, A Varsani… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but
most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to …

Genome-wide association analyses define pathogenic signaling pathways and prioritize drug targets for IgA nephropathy

K Kiryluk, E Sanchez-Rodriguez, XJ Zhou, F Zanoni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a progressive form of kidney disease defined by glomerular
deposition of IgA. Here we performed a genome-wide association study of 10,146 kidney …

Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks

H Bin Jang, B Bolduc, O Zablocki, JH Kuhn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microbiomes from every environment contain a myriad of uncultivated archaeal and
bacterial viruses, but studying these viruses is hampered by the lack of a universal, scalable …

Phenotypic landscape of intestinal organoid regeneration

I Lukonin, D Serra, L Challet Meylan, K Volkmann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The development of intestinal organoids from single adult intestinal stem cells in vitro
recapitulates the regenerative capacity of the intestinal epithelium,. Here we unravel the …

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

C Fuchsberger, J Flannick, TM Teslovich, A Mahajan… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of common traits, including the number, frequency, and effect sizes
of inherited variants that contribute to individual risk, has been long debated. Genome-wide …

A review on drug repurposing applicable to COVID-19

S Dotolo, A Marabotti, A Facchiano… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Drug repurposing involves the identification of new applications for existing drugs at a lower
cost and in a shorter time. There are different computational drug-repurposing strategies and …

CRISPR screens in cancer spheroids identify 3D growth-specific vulnerabilities

K Han, SE Pierce, A Li, K Spees, GR Anderson… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genomics studies have identified thousands of putative cancer driver genes.
Development of high-throughput and accurate models to define the functions of these genes …

Spectral clustering on protein-protein interaction networks via constructing affinity matrix using attributed graph embedding

K Berahmand, E Nasiri, Y Li - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The identification of protein complexes in protein-protein interaction networks is the most
fundamental and essential problem for revealing the underlying mechanism of biological …