Club: A contrastive log-ratio upper bound of mutual information

P Cheng, W Hao, S Dai, J Liu… - … on machine learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Mutual information (MI) minimization has gained considerable interests in various machine
learning tasks. However, estimating and minimizing MI in high-dimensional spaces remains …

Julia for biologists

E Roesch, JG Greener, AL MacLean, H Nassar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Major computational challenges exist in relation to the collection, curation, processing and
analysis of large genomic and imaging datasets, as well as the simulation of larger and …

ChimeraTE: a pipeline to detect chimeric transcripts derived from genes and transposable elements

DS Oliveira, M Fablet, A Larue, A Vallier… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) produce structural variants and are considered an important
source of genetic diversity. Notably, TE-gene fusion transcripts, ie chimeric transcripts, have …

Two O-Methyltransferases from Phylogenetically Unrelated Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) and Hinoki-Asunaro (Thujopsis dolabrata var. hondae) as a …

M Yamamura, M Kumatani, A Shiraishi… - Plant and Cell …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
O-Methyltransferases (OMTs) play important roles in antitumor lignan biosynthesis. To date,
six OMTs catalyzing the methylation of dibenzylbutyrolactone lignans as biosynthetic …

MISTIC2: comprehensive server to study coevolution in protein families

EA Colell, JA Iserte, FL Simonetti… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Correlated mutations between residue pairs in evolutionarily related proteins arise from
constraints needed to maintain a functional and stable protein. Identifying these inter-related …

BioProfiling. jl: profiling biological perturbations with high-content imaging in single cells and heterogeneous populations

L Vulliard, J Hancock, A Kamnev, CW Fell… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation High-content imaging screens provide a cost-effective and scalable way to
assess cell states across diverse experimental conditions. The analysis of the acquired …

Key amino acids for transferase activity of GDSL lipases

T Yamashiro, A Shiraishi, K Nakayama… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Gly-Asp-Ser-Leu (GDSL) motif of esterase/lipase family proteins (GELPs) generally
exhibit esterase activity, whereas transferase activity is markedly preferred in several …

BioStructures. jl: read, write and manipulate macromolecular structures in Julia

JG Greener, J Selvaraj, BJ Ward - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Robust, flexible and fast software to read, write and manipulate macromolecular structures is
a prerequisite for productively doing structural bioinformatics. We present BioStructures. jl …

How is structural divergence related to evolutionary information?

DJ Zea, AM Monzon, G Parisi… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The analysis of evolutionary information in a protein family, such as conservation and
covariation, is often linked to its structural information. Multiple sequence alignments of …

Chasing coevolutionary signals in intrinsically disordered proteins complexes

JA Iserte, T Lazar, SCE Tosatto, P Tompa… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins/regions (IDPs/IDRs) are crucial components of the cell, they
are highly abundant and participate ubiquitously in a wide range of biological functions …