A guide to conquer the biological network era using graph theory

M Koutrouli, E Karatzas, D Paez-Espino… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Networks are one of the most common ways to represent biological systems as complex sets
of binary interactions or relations between different bioentities. In this article, we discuss the …

HERB: a high-throughput experiment-and reference-guided database of traditional Chinese medicine

SS Fang, L Dong, L Liu, JC Guo, LH Zhao… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Pharmacotranscriptomics has become a powerful approach for evaluating the therapeutic
efficacy of drugs and discovering new drug targets. Recently, studies of traditional Chinese …

Systematic comparison and assessment of RNA-seq procedures for gene expression quantitative analysis

LA Corchete, EA Rojas, D Alonso-López… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
RNA-seq is currently considered the most powerful, robust and adaptable technique for
measuring gene expression and transcription activation at genome-wide level. As the …

Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution

TBK Watkins, EL Lim, M Petkovic, S Elizalde… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability in cancer consists of dynamic changes to the number and structure
of chromosomes,. The resulting diversity in somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) may …

How many biological replicates are needed in an RNA-seq experiment and which differential expression tool should you use?

NJ Schurch, P Schofield, M Gierliński, C Cole… - Rna, 2016 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA-seq is now the technology of choice for genome-wide differential gene expression
experiments, but it is not clear how many biological replicates are needed to ensure valid …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics in transcriptomics: advancements in RNA-seq time course and downstream analysis

D Spies, C Ciaudo - Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of gene expression has contributed to a plethora of biological and medical
research studies. Microarrays have been intensively used for the profiling of gene …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional alterations in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens implicate neuroinflammation and synaptic remodeling in opioid use …

ML Seney, SM Kim, JR Glausier, MA Hildebrand… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Prevalence rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) have increased dramatically,
accompanied by a surge of overdose deaths. While opioid dependence has been …

Combining multiple tools outperforms individual methods in gene set enrichment analyses

M Alhamdoosh, M Ng, NJ Wilson, JM Sheridan… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Gene set enrichment (GSE) analysis allows researchers to efficiently extract
biological insight from long lists of differentially expressed genes by interrogating them at a …

Application of human liver organoids as a patient-derived primary model for HBV infection and related hepatocellular carcinoma

E De Crignis, T Hossain, S Romal, F Carofiglio… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The molecular events that drive hepatitis B virus (HBV)-mediated transformation and
tumorigenesis have remained largely unclear, due to the absence of a relevant primary …

Smyd3 is a transcriptional potentiator of multiple cancer-promoting genes and required for liver and colon cancer development

ME Sarris, P Moulos, A Haroniti, A Giakountis… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Smyd3 is a protein methyltransferase implicated in cancer development. Here we show that
Smyd3 expression in mice is required for chemically induced liver and colon cancer …