We propose a new type of generative model for high-dimensional data that learns a manifold geometry of the data, rather than density, and can generate points evenly along this manifold. This is in contrast to existing...
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miRNAs are non-coding RNAs that play a regulatory role in expression of genes and are associated with diseases. Quantitatively measuring expression levels of miRNAs can help understanding the mechanisms of human disea...
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miRNAs are non-coding RNAs that play a regulatory role in expression of genes and are associated with diseases. Quantitatively measuring expression levels of miRNAs can help understanding the mechanisms of human diseases and discovering new drug targets. There are three major methods that have been used to measure the expression levels of miRNAs: real-time reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR), microarray, and the newly introduced next-generation sequencing (NGS). NGS is not only suitable for profiling of known miRNAs that qRT-PCR and microarray can do too but also able to detect unknown miRNAs that the other two methods are incapable. Profiling of miRNAs by NGS has been progressed rapidly and is a promising field for applications in drug development. This paper will review the technical advancement of NGS for profiling miRNAs, including comparative analyses between different platforms and software packages for analyzing NGS data. Examples and future perspectives of applications of NGS profiling miRNAs in drug development will be discussed.
Recently, a number of different approaches have been used to examine variation in gene expression and to identify genes whose level of transcript differed greatly among unrelated individuals. Previous studies have com...
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Recently, a number of different approaches have been used to examine variation in gene expression and to identify genes whose level of transcript differed greatly among unrelated individuals. Previous studies have commonly focused on identifying determinants that regulate gene expressions by targeting individual genes. However, it is difficult to detect true differences in the level of gene expression among genotypes from noise due to issues such as multiple testing and limited sample size. To increase the statistical power for detecting this difference, we consider a 'gene set' approach by focusing on subtle but coordinated changes in gene expression across multiple genes rather than individual genes. We defined a 'gene set' as a set of genes in the same biological pathway and focused on identifying common regulators based on an assumption that the genes within the same pathway are controlled by common regulators. We applied the gene set approach to the expression data of mRNA in Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain lymphoblast cells to identify regulators controlling the genes in a biological pathway. Our gene set approach successfully identified potent regulators controlling gene expression in an inflammatory response pathway.
Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing technologies enable deep insights into cellular development, gene regulation, and phenotypic diversity by measuring gene expression for thousands of cells in a single expe...
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest class of cell-surface receptor proteins with important functions in signal transduction and often serve as therapeutic drug targets. With the rapidly growing public ...
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest class of cell-surface receptor proteins with important functions in signal transduction and often serve as therapeutic drug targets. With the rapidly growing public data on three dimensional (3D) structures of GPCRs and GPCR-ligand interactions, computational prediction of GPCR ligand binding becomes a convincing option to high throughput screening and other experimental approaches during the beginning phases of ligand discovery. Such predictions are cost-efficient and can be important aides for planning wet lab experiments to help elucidate signaling pathways and expedite drug discovery. There are existing computational tools for GPCR ligand binding prediction using various sequence and structural derived features. However, these methods have been typically tested on specific families of GPCRs and none has focused on features that characterize binding of a single ligand to multiple GPCR families. In this work, we set out to uncover and understand the binding of the same ligand to multiple GPCRs of different families. As expected only a few GPCRs share a conserved sequence motif. We observed local 3D structural similarities and local sequence similarities. We also observed that the GPCRs within the same family share similar binding pockets for the ligand. Molecular docking revealed that a ligand can bind to GPCRs of different families with different poses but similar conformations. Finally, the ligands bind to similar pockets with similar electrostatic and solvation properties and share similar residues. These findings can be exploited to improve protein function inference, drug repurposing and drug toxicity prediction, and accelerate the development of new drugs.
<正>Most of the molecular, cellular, and developmental biology researches focus on studying the mechanism behind a biological phenomenon. The center of the above researches is thus a pathway-discovery and a pathway ...
<正>Most of the molecular, cellular, and developmental biology researches focus on studying the mechanism behind a biological phenomenon. The center of the above researches is thus a pathway-discovery and a pathway interaction problem. Most of the publicly available pathway databases use hand-drawing picture to
With the high demand for oil palm production, implementations of Machine Learning (ML) technologies to provide accurate predictions and recommendations to assist oil palm plantation management tasks have become benefi...
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Bacteria are microscopic organisms that can be found in many environments. They are abundant and have many roles in our life. Studying bacteria is essential so that we can identify the bacteria that are needed for man...
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This paper proposes a spatial index structure based on a new space-partitioning method. Previous research proposed various high dimensional index structures. However, when dimensionality becomes high, the effectivenes...
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