Methodological challenges and analytic opportunities for modeling and interpreting Big Healthcare Data

ID Dinov - Gigascience, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Managing, processing and understanding big healthcare data is challenging, costly and
demanding. Without a robust fundamental theory for representation, analysis and inference …

Machine learning and genome annotation: a match meant to be?

KY Yip, C Cheng, M Gerstein - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
By its very nature, genomics produces large, high-dimensional datasets that are well suited
to analysis by machine learning approaches. Here, we explain some key aspects of …

iEnhancer-2L: a two-layer predictor for identifying enhancers and their strength by pseudo k-tuple nucleotide composition

B Liu, L Fang, R Long, X Lan, KC Chou - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Enhancers are of short regulatory DNA elements. They can be bound with
proteins (activators) to activate transcription of a gene, and hence play a critical role in …

iEnhancer-EL: identifying enhancers and their strength with ensemble learning approach

B Liu, K Li, DS Huang, KC Chou - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Identification of enhancers and their strength is important because they play a
critical role in controlling gene expression. Although some bioinformatics tools were …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Enhancers and super-enhancers have an equivalent regulatory role in embryonic stem cells through regulation of single or multiple genes

SD Moorthy, S Davidson, VM Shchuka… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Transcriptional enhancers are critical for maintaining cell-type–specific gene expression and
driving cell fate changes during development. Highly transcribed genes are often associated …

iEnhancer-XG: interpretable sequence-based enhancers and their strength predictor

L Cai, X Ren, X Fu, L Peng, M Gao, X Zeng - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Enhancers are non-coding DNA fragments with high position variability and free
scattering. They play an important role in controlling gene expression. As machine learning …

RFECS: a random-forest based algorithm for enhancer identification from chromatin state

N Rajagopal, W Xie, Y Li, U Wagner… - PLoS computational …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptional enhancers play critical roles in regulation of gene expression, but their
identification in the eukaryotic genome has been challenging. Recently, it was shown that …

BiRen: predicting enhancers with a deep-learning-based model using the DNA sequence alone

B Yang, F Liu, C Ren, Z Ouyang, Z Xie, X Bo… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Enhancer elements are noncoding stretches of DNA that play key roles in
controlling gene expression programmes. Despite major efforts to develop accurate …

Integrative machine learning framework for the identification of cell-specific enhancers from the human genome

S Basith, MM Hasan, G Lee, L Wei… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Enhancers are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fragments which when bound by transcription
factors enhance the transcription of related genes. Due to its sporadic distribution and …