Therapeutic developments in pancreatic cancer

ZI Hu, EM O'Reilly - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a rising incidence and is one of the most
lethal human malignancies. Much is known regarding the biology and pathophysiology of …

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

I Rauluseviciute, R Riudavets-Puig… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract JASPAR (https://jaspar. elixir. no/) is a widely-used open-access database
presenting manually curated high-quality and non-redundant DNA-binding profiles for …

MAFFT-DASH: integrated protein sequence and structural alignment

J Rozewicki, S Li, KM Amada, DM Standley… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Here, we describe a web server that integrates structural alignments with the MAFFT
multiple sequence alignment (MSA) tool. For this purpose, we have prepared a web-based …

A perspective on oligonucleotide therapy: Approaches to patient customization

S Thakur, A Sinhari, P Jain, HR Jadhav - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It is estimated that the human genome encodes 15% of proteins that are considered to be
disease-modifying. Only 2% of these proteins possess a druggable site that the approved …

Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine

T Ching, DS Himmelstein… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of
combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently …

Recent advances in SELEX technology and aptamer applications in biomedicine

Z Zhuo, Y Yu, M Wang, J Li, Z Zhang, J Liu… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are short DNA/RNA oligonucleotides capable of binding to target molecules with
high affinity and specificity. The process of selecting an aptamer is called Systematic …

Interpretations of environmental microbial community studies are biased by the selected 16S rRNA (gene) amplicon sequencing pipeline

D Straub, N Blackwell, A Langarica-Fuentes… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the major methods to identify microbial community composition, to unravel microbial
population dynamics, and to explore microbial diversity in environmental samples is high …

The potential of genomics for infectious disease forecasting

JE Stockdale, P Liu, C Colijn - Nature Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic technologies have led to tremendous gains in understanding how pathogens
function, evolve and interact. Pathogen diversity is now measurable at high precision and …

Targeted sequencing approach and its clinical applications for the molecular diagnosis of human diseases

XM Pei, MHY Yeung, ANN Wong, HF Tsang, ACS Yu… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has positively impacted the NGS market recently. Targeted
sequencing (TS) has become an important routine technique in both clinical and research …