Machine learning for integrating data in biology and medicine: Principles, practice, and opportunities

M Zitnik, F Nguyen, B Wang, J Leskovec… - Information …, 2019 - Elsevier
New technologies have enabled the investigation of biology and human health at an
unprecedented scale and in multiple dimensions. These dimensions include a myriad of …

Network propagation: a universal amplifier of genetic associations

L Cowen, T Ideker, BJ Raphael, R Sharan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Biological networks are powerful resources for the discovery of genes and genetic modules
that drive disease. Fundamental to network analysis is the concept that genes underlying the …

Structure-based protein function prediction using graph convolutional networks

V Gligorijević, PD Renfrew, T Kosciolek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid increase in the number of proteins in sequence databases and the diversity of
their functions challenge computational approaches for automated function prediction. Here …

GeneMANIA update 2018

M Franz, H Rodriguez, C Lopes, K Zuberi… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract GeneMANIA (http://genemania. org) is a flexible user-friendly web site for
generating hypotheses about gene function, analyzing gene lists and prioritizing genes for …

Predicting multicellular function through multi-layer tissue networks

M Zitnik, J Leskovec - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Understanding functions of proteins in specific human tissues is essential for
insights into disease diagnostics and therapeutics, yet prediction of tissue-specific cellular …

The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens

N Zhou, Y Jiang, TR Bergquist, AJ Lee, BZ Kacsoh… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an
ongoing, global, community-driven effort to evaluate and improve the computational …

Understanding multicellular function and disease with human tissue-specific networks

CS Greene, A Krishnan, AK Wong, E Ricciotti… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Tissue and cell-type identity lie at the core of human physiology and disease. Understanding
the genetic underpinnings of complex tissues and individual cell lineages is crucial for …

Integrated multi-omics analyses in oncology: a review of machine learning methods and tools

G Nicora, F Vitali, A Dagliati, N Geifman… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, high-throughput sequencing technologies provide unprecedented
opportunity to depict cancer samples at multiple molecular levels. The integration and …

Sporadic autism exomes reveal a highly interconnected protein network of de novo mutations

BJ O'Roak, L Vives, S Girirajan, E Karakoc, N Krumm… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
It is well established that autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have a strong genetic
component; however, for at least 70% of cases, the underlying genetic cause is unknown …

The GeneMANIA prediction server: biological network integration for gene prioritization and predicting gene function

D Warde-Farley, SL Donaldson, O Comes… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract GeneMANIA (http://www. genemania. org) is a flexible, user-friendly web interface
for generating hypotheses about gene function, analyzing gene lists and prioritizing genes …