Accelerating antibiotic discovery through artificial intelligence

MCR Melo, JRMA Maasch… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
By targeting invasive organisms, antibiotics insert themselves into the ancient struggle of the
host-pathogen evolutionary arms race. As pathogens evolve tactics for evading antibiotics …

iProt-Sub: a comprehensive package for accurately mapping and predicting protease-specific substrates and cleavage sites

J Song, Y Wang, F Li, T Akutsu… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Regulation of proteolysis plays a critical role in a myriad of important cellular processes. The
key to better understanding the mechanisms that control this process is to identify the …

Integrated analyses of single-cell atlases reveal age, gender, and smoking status associations with cell type-specific expression of mediators of SARS-CoV-2 viral …

C Muus, MD Luecken, G Eraslan, A Waghray… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, creates an urgent
need for identifying molecular mechanisms that mediate viral entry, propagation, and tissue …

ADCdb: the database of antibody–drug conjugates

L Shen, X Sun, Z Chen, Y Guo, Z Shen… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are a class of innovative biopharmaceutical drugs, which,
via their antibody (mAb) component, deliver and release their potent warhead (aka. payload) …

Molecular de-extinction of ancient antimicrobial peptides enabled by machine learning

JRMA Maasch, MDT Torres, MCR Melo… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Molecular de-extinction could offer avenues for drug discovery by reintroducing bioactive
molecules that are no longer encoded by extant organisms. To prospect for antimicrobial …

iLearn: an integrated platform and meta-learner for feature engineering, machine-learning analysis and modeling of DNA, RNA and protein sequence data

Z Chen, P Zhao, F Li, TT Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
With the explosive growth of biological sequences generated in the post-genomic era, one
of the most challenging problems in bioinformatics and computational biology is to …

i6mA-Pred: identifying DNA N6-methyladenine sites in the rice genome

W Chen, H Lv, F Nie, H Lin - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation DNA N6-methyladenine (6mA) is associated with a wide range of
biological processes. Since the distribution of 6mA site in the genome is non-random …

Identify origin of replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using two-step feature selection technique

FY Dao, H Lv, F Wang, CQ Feng, H Ding… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation DNA replication is a key step to maintain the continuity of genetic information
between parental generation and offspring. The initiation site of DNA replication, also called …

iTerm-PseKNC: a sequence-based tool for predicting bacterial transcriptional terminators

CQ Feng, ZY Zhang, XJ Zhu, Y Lin, W Chen… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Transcription termination is an important regulatory step of gene expression. If
there is no terminator in gene, transcription could not stop, which will result in abnormal …

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 …