Mathematics and Statistics
Application of Deep Learning Neural Networks in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery: A Review
Nov 2024
Article
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 851
- 858
(2024)
Computer-aided drug design has an important role in drug development and design. It has become a thriving area of research in the pharmaceutical industry to accelerate the drug discovery process. Deep learning a subdivision of artificial intelligence is widely applied to advance new drug development and design opportunities. This article reviews the recent technology that uses deep learning techniques to ameliorate the understanding of drug-target intera Read More
Integration of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques in Genomics: Review on Computational Perspectives for NGS Analysis of DNA and RNA Seq Data
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 825
- 844
(2024)
In the current state of genomics and biomedical research the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) have emerged as paradigm shifters. While traditional NGS DNA and RNA sequencing analysis pipelines have been sound in decoding genetic information the sequencing data's volume and complexity have surged. There is a demand for more efficient and accurate methods of analysis. This has led to de Read More
Prospects of Identifying Alternative Splicing Events from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 845
- 850
(2024)
Background: The advent of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology has offered unprecedented opportunities to unravel cellular heterogeneity and functions. Yet despite its success in unraveling gene expression heterogeneity accurately identifying and interpreting alternative splicing events from scRNA-seq data remains a formidable challenge. With advancing technology and algorithmic innovations the prospect of accurately identifying alt Read More
MSSD: An Efficient Method for Constructing Accurate and Stable Phylogenetic Networks by Merging Subtrees of Equal Depth
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 879
- 889
(2024)
Background: Systematic phylogenetic networks are essential for studying the evolutionary relationships and diversity among species. These networks are particularly important for capturing non-tree-like processes resulting from reticulate evolutionary events. However existing methods for constructing phylogenetic networks are influenced by the order of inputs. The different orders can lead to inconsistent experimental results. Moreover construc Read More
P4PC: A Portal for Bioinformatics Resources of piRNAs and circRNAs
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 873
- 878
(2024)
Background: PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and circular RNAs (circRNAs) are two kinds of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that play important roles in epigenetic regulation transcriptional regulation post-transcriptional regulation of many biological processes. Although there exist various resources it is still challenging to select such resources for specific research projects on ncRNAs. Methods: In order to facilitate researchers in finding the appropriate bioinforma Read More
Prediction of Drug Pathway-based Disease Classes using Multiple Properties of Drugs
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 859
- 872
(2024)
Background: Drug repositioning now is an important research area in drug discovery as it can accelerate the procedures of discovering novel effects of existing drugs. However it is challenging to screen out possible effects for given drugs. Designing computational methods are a quick and cheap way to complete this task. Most existing computational methods infer the relationships between drugs and diseases. The pathway-based disease classific Read More
DeepPTM: Protein Post-translational Modification Prediction from Protein Sequences by Combining Deep Protein Language Model with Vision Transformers
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 810
- 824
(2024)
Introduction: More recent self-supervised deep language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) have performed the best on some language tasks by contextualizing word embeddings for a better dynamic representation. Their proteinspecific versions such as ProtBERT generated dynamic protein sequence embeddings which resulted in better performance for several bioinformatics tasks. Besides a number of diff Read More
FMDVSerPred: A Novel Computational Solution for Foot-and-mouth Disease Virus Classification and Serotype Prediction Prevalent in Asia Using VP1 Nucleotide Sequence Data
Nov 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 794
- 809
(2024)
Background: Three serotypes of Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus have been circulating in Asia which are commonly identified by serological assays. Such tests are timeconsuming and also need a bio-containment facility for execution. To the best of our knowledge no computational solution is available in the literature to predict the FMD virus serotypes. Thus this necessitates the urgent need for user-friendly tools for FMD virus serotyping. Methods: We Read More
Optimized Hybrid Deep Learning for Real-Time Pandemic Data Forecasting: Long and Short-Term Perspectives
Oct 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 714
- 737
(2024)
Background: With new variants of COVID-19 causing challenges we need to focus on integrating multiple deep-learning frameworks to develop intelligent healthcare systems for early detection and diagnosis. Objective: This article suggests three hybrid deep learning models namely CNN-LSTM CNN-Bi- LSTM and CNN-GRU to address the pressing need for an intelligent healthcare system. These models are designed to capture spatial and temporal patterns i Read More
Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-Cell Time-Course Data Based on Temporal Convolutional Networks
Oct 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 752
- 764
(2024)
Background: Time-course single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data represent dynamic gene expression values that change over time which can be used to infer causal relationships between genes and construct dynamic gene regulatory networks (GRNs). However most of the existing methods are designed for bulk RNA sequencing (bulk RNA-seq) data and static scRNA-seq data and only a few methods such as CNNC and DeepDRIM can be directly applied Read More
A Novel Natural Graph for Efficient Clustering of Virus Genome Sequences
Oct 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 687
- 703
(2024)
Background: This study addresses the need for analyzing viral genome sequences and understanding their genetic relationships. The focus is on introducing a novel natural graph approach as a solution. Objective: The objective of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed natural graph approach in clustering viral genome sequences into distinct clades subtypes or districts. Additionally the aim is to explore its interpretability Read More
Identification of Spatial Domains, Spatially Variable Genes, and Genetic Association Studies of Alzheimer Disease with an Autoencoder-based Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm
Oct 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 765
- 776
(2024)
Introduction: Transcriptional gene expressions and their corresponding spatial information are critical for understanding the biological function mutual regulation and identification of various cell types. Materials and Methods: Recently several computational methods have been proposed for clustering using spatial transcriptional expression. Although these algorithms have certain practicability they cannot utilize spatial information effectively and are h Read More
Network Subgraph-based Method: Alignment-free Technique for Molecular Network Analysis
Oct 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 777
- 792
(2024)
Background: Comparing directed networks using the alignment-free technique offers the advantage of detecting topologically similar regions that are independent of the network size or node identity. Objective: We propose a novel method to compare directed networks by decomposing the network into small modules the so-called network subgraph approach which is distinct from the network motif approach because it does not depend on null mo Read More
Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition for Clinical Cancer Drug Toxicity by Positive-unlabeled Learning and KL Regularizers
Oct 2024
Article
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 738
- 751
(2024)
Background: With increasing rates of polypharmacy the vigilant surveillance of clinical drug toxicity has emerged as an important concern. Named Entity Recognition (NER) stands as an indispensable undertaking essential for the extraction of valuable insights regarding drug safety from the biomedical literature. In recent years significant advancements have been achieved in the deep learning models on NER tasks. Nonetheless the effectiveness Read More
Metabolomics: Recent Advances and Future Prospects Unveiled
Aug 2024
Article
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 601
- 611
(2024)
In the era of genomics fueled by advanced technologies and analytical tools metabolomics has become a vital component in biomedical research. Its significance spans various domains encompassing biomarker identification uncovering underlying mechanisms and pathways as well as the exploration of new drug targets and precision medicine. This article presents a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in metabolomics techniques Read More
Stacking-Kcr: A Stacking Model for Predicting the Crotonylation Sites of Lysine by Fusing Serial and Automatic Encoder
Aug 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 674
- 686
(2024)
Background: Protein lysine crotonylation (Kcr) a newly discovered important posttranslational modification (PTM) is typically localized at the transcription start site and regulates gene expression which is associated with a variety of pathological conditions such as developmental defects and malignant transformation. Objective: Identifying Kcr sites is advantageous for the discovery of its biological mechanism and the development of new drugs for related diseas Read More
Discovering Microbe-disease Associations with Weighted Graph Convolution Networks and Taxonomy Common Tree
Aug 2024
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 663
- 673
(2024)
Background: Microbe-disease associations are integral to understanding complex diseases and their screening procedures. Objective: While numerous computational methods have been developed to detect these associations their performance remains limited due to inadequate utilization of weighted inherent similarities and microbial taxonomy hierarchy. To address this limitation we have introduced WTHMDA (weighted taxonomic heterogeneo Read More
Prediction of Super-enhancers Based on Mean-shift Undersampling
Aug 2024
Article
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 651
- 662
(2024)
Background: Super-enhancers are clusters of enhancers defined based on the binding occupancy of master transcription factors chromatin regulators or chromatin marks. It has been reported that super-enhancers are transcriptionally more active and cell-type-specific than regular enhancers. Therefore it is necessary to identify super-enhancers from regular enhancers. A variety of computational methods have been proposed to identify super-enhanc Read More
Toxicity Prediction for Immune Thrombocytopenia Caused by Drugs Based on Logistic Regression with Feature Importance
Aug 2024
Article
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Current Bioinformatics
19,
pp 641
- 650
(2024)
Background: One of the problems in drug discovery that can be solved by artificial intelligence is toxicity prediction. In drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia toxicity can arise in patients after five to ten days by significant bleeding caused by drugdependent antibodies. In clinical trials when this condition occurs all the drugs consumed by patients should be stopped although sometimes this is not possible especially for older patients who ar Read More
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