Sequence clustering in bioinformatics: an empirical study

Q Zou, G Lin, X Jiang, X Liu, X Zeng - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sequence clustering is a basic bioinformatics task that is attracting renewed attention with
the development of metagenomics and microbiomics. The latest sequencing techniques …

Co-expression networks for plant biology: why and how

X Rao, RA Dixon - Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Co-expression network analysis is one of the most powerful approaches for interpretation of
large transcriptomic datasets. It enables characterization of modules of co-expressed genes …

iDEP: an integrated web application for differential expression and pathway analysis of RNA-Seq data

SX Ge, EW Son, R Yao - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background RNA-seq is widely used for transcriptomic profiling, but the bioinformatics
analysis of resultant data can be time-consuming and challenging, especially for biologists …

Exploring sequence-based features for the improved prediction of DNA N4-methylcytosine sites in multiple species

L Wei, S Luan, LAE Nagai, R Su, Q Zou - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation As one of important epigenetic modifications, DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is
recently shown to play crucial roles in restriction–modification systems. For better …

It is time to apply biclustering: a comprehensive review of biclustering applications in biological and biomedical data

J Xie, A Ma, A Fennell, Q Ma, J Zhao - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Biclustering is a powerful data mining technique that allows clustering of rows and columns,
simultaneously, in a matrix-format data set. It was first applied to gene expression data in …

QUBIC2: a novel and robust biclustering algorithm for analyses and interpretation of large-scale RNA-Seq data

J Xie, A Ma, Y Zhang, B Liu, S Cao, C Wang, J Xu… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The biclustering of large-scale gene expression data holds promising potential
for detecting condition-specific functional gene modules (ie biclusters). However, existing …

Gene regulatory networks for lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

X Rao, X Chen, H Shen, Q Ma, G Li… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cell wall recalcitrance is the major challenge to improving saccharification efficiency in
converting lignocellulose into biofuels. However, information regarding the transcriptional …

Bioinformatics tools for quantitative and functional metagenome and metatranscriptome data analysis in microbes

SY Niu, J Yang, A McDermaid, J Zhao… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing approaches are more frequently being
used to link microbiota to important diseases and ecological changes. Many analyses have …

LTMG: a novel statistical modeling of transcriptional expression states in single-cell RNA-Seq data

C Wan, W Chang, Y Zhang, F Shah, X Lu… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
A key challenge in modeling single-cell RNA-seq data is to capture the diversity of gene
expression states regulated by different transcriptional regulatory inputs across individual …

circlncRNAnet: an integrated web-based resource for mapping functional networks of long or circular forms of noncoding RNAs

SM Wu, H Liu, PJ Huang, IYF Chang, CC Lee… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite their lack of protein-coding potential, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)
and circular RNAs (circRNAs) have emerged as key determinants in gene regulation, acting …