To overcome the limitations of independent component analysis (ICA), today’s most popular analysis tool for investigating whole-brain spatial activation in resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), ...
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We present an implementation of the experimental and theoretical results obtained in the analysis of text and image content of biomedical publications. Particularly, we propose a novel optical recognition system using...
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We present an implementation of the experimental and theoretical results obtained in the analysis of text and image content of biomedical publications. Particularly, we propose a novel optical recognition system using an adaptive algorithm for the classification and analysis of highly heterogeneous images in research papers. When compared with conventional algorithms, our technology substantially increases the probability of detection and classification of images buried in text or obscured by other images. We report successful testing of the new architecture using PubMed publications.
The genome of influenza A virus consists of eight separate RNA segments, which are selectively packaged into virions prior to virus budding. The microscopic mechanism of highly selective packaging involves molecular i...
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The genome of influenza A virus consists of eight separate RNA segments, which are selectively packaged into virions prior to virus budding. The microscopic mechanism of highly selective packaging involves molecular interactions between packaging signals in the genome segments and remains poorly understood. We propose that the condition of proper packaging can be formulated as a large gap between RNA-RNA interaction energies in the viable virion with eight unique segments and in improperly packed assemblages lacking the complete genome. We then demonstrate that selective packaging of eight unique segments into an infective influenza virion can be achieved by self-repulsion of identical segments at the virion assembly stage, rather than by previously hypothesized intricate molecular recognition of particular segments. Using Monte Carlo simulations to maximize the energy gap, without any other assumptions, we generated model eight-segment virions, which all display specific packaging, strong self-repulsion of the segments, and reassortment patterns similar to natural influenza. The model provides a biophysical foundation of influenza genome packaging and reassortment and serves as an important step towards robust sequence-driven prediction of reassortment patterns of the influenza virus.
Multi-locus interactions in genetic association studies are believed to influence the heritability of a number of common diseases. In this study, we propose a discrete optimization strategy to improve the power and co...
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Multi-locus interactions in genetic association studies are believed to influence the heritability of a number of common diseases. In this study, we propose a discrete optimization strategy to improve the power and computational efficiency of multi-locus association analysis. We implemented an adaptive evolutionary algorithm in combination with a linkage disequilibrium-based discretization approach to reduce the need for exhaustive search for combinations by taking advantage of inherent genomic structure. The method was applied to several simulated disease models as well as to a real genome-wide association study. The results indicate that our method performs as well as or better than the most powerful competing methods for detecting true interactions, and it achieves this performance with improved computational efficiency.
Respiratory syncytial virus(RSV)poses a significant global health threat,especially affecting infants and the *** this,the present study proposes an innovative approach to vaccine design,utilizing immunoinformatics an...
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Respiratory syncytial virus(RSV)poses a significant global health threat,especially affecting infants and the *** this,the present study proposes an innovative approach to vaccine design,utilizing immunoinformatics and computational *** analyzed RSV's structural proteins across both subtypes A and B,identifying potential helper T lymphocyte,cytotoxic T lymphocyte,and linear B lymphocyte *** such as antigenicity,allergenicity,toxicity,and cytokine-inducing potential were rigorously ***,we evaluated the conservancy of these epitopes and their population coverage across various RSV *** comprehensive analysis identified six major histocompatibility complex class I(MHC-I)binding,five MHC-II binding,and three B-cell *** were integrated with suitable linkers and adjuvants to form the ***,molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations demonstrated stable interactions between the vaccine candidate and human Toll-like receptors(TLR4 and TLR5),with a notable preference for *** simulation analysis underscored the vaccine's potential to elicit a strong immune *** study presents a promising RSV vaccine candidate and offers theoretical support,marking a significant advancement in vaccine development ***,the promising in silico findings need to be further validated through additional in vivo studies.
DNA helicases are motor proteins that play essential roles in DNA replication, repair and recombination. In the replicative hexameric helicase, the fundamental reaction is the unwinding of duplex DNA;however, our unde...
Although entropy and relative entropy (K-L distance) are widely applied in many bioinformatics areas, there is no method given to compute the multispecies gene entropy yet. This paper presents the first multispecies g...
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Although entropy and relative entropy (K-L distance) are widely applied in many bioinformatics areas, there is no method given to compute the multispecies gene entropy yet. This paper presents the first multispecies gene entropy estimation method from the data mining point of view. In this study, a self-organizing map (SOM) is employed to mine a multispecies gene set to obtain the probability distribution of each gene in the feature space, which is the approximation of its corresponding probability distribution in the original sequence space. The multispecies gene entropy is computed by the probability distribution of a gene in the feature space. The phylogenetic applications of the multispecies gene entropy are investigated in an example of resolving incongruence between gene trees and species trees. It is found that genes with nearest K-L distances to the minimum entropy gene are more likely to be phylogenetically informative. A K-L distance based gene concatenation approach under gene clustering is proposed to resolve the gene tree and species tree problem. Under the same testing dataset, the K-L distance based approach not only avoids the ad-hoc mechanism of the original gene concatenation method but also is easy to extend to other dataset and free from prohibitive phylogenetic computing from large number of taxa.
Gene sets have been widely used on genome-scale data for various purposes. Ideally, gene sets should have multiple scales that can explain biological processes in different scales and depth, which is often missing fro...
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In feature selection we aim at reducing the dimensionality of a dataset by excluding characteristics that do not compromise, and potentially enhance, the classification of a set of samples. We present a new type of su...
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RNA-RNA interactions (RRIs) are essential to understanding the regulatory mechanisms of RNAs. Mapping RRIs in vivo in a transcriptome-wide manner remained challenging until the recent development of several sequencing...
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