Deciphering cell–cell interactions and communication from gene expression

E Armingol, A Officer, O Harismendy… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell–cell interactions orchestrate organismal development, homeostasis and single-cell
functions. When cells do not properly interact or improperly decode molecular messages …

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 …

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 …

The harmonizome: a collection of processed datasets gathered to serve and mine knowledge about genes and proteins

AD Rouillard, GW Gundersen, NF Fernandez… - Database, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics efforts rapidly
generate a plethora of data on the activity and levels of biomolecules within mammalian …

Expanding the coverage of regulons from high-confidence prior knowledge for accurate estimation of transcription factor activities

S Müller-Dott, E Tsirvouli, M Vazquez… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene regulation plays a critical role in the cellular processes that underlie human health and
disease. The regulatory relationship between transcription factors (TFs), key regulators of …

Mitochondrial control of microglial phagocytosis by the translocator protein and hexokinase 2 in Alzheimer's disease

LH Fairley, KO Lai, JH Wong… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Microglial phagocytosis is an energetically demanding process that plays a critical role in
the removal of toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent evidence …

Gene essentiality and synthetic lethality in haploid human cells

VA Blomen, P Májek, LT Jae, JW Bigenzahn… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Although the genes essential for life have been identified in less complex model organisms,
their elucidation in human cells has been hindered by technical barriers. We used extensive …

Identification of cancer driver genes based on nucleotide context

F Dietlein, D Weghorn, A Taylor-Weiner, A Richters… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genomes contain large numbers of somatic mutations but few of these mutations
drive tumor development. Current approaches either identify driver genes on the basis of …

Systems analysis of RhoGEF and RhoGAP regulatory proteins reveals spatially organized RAC1 signalling from integrin adhesions

PM Müller, J Rademacher, RD Bagshaw… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Rho GTPases are central regulators of the cytoskeleton and, in humans, are controlled by
145 multidomain guanine nucleotide exchange factors (RhoGEFs) and GTPase-activating …

NetworkAnalyst for statistical, visual and network-based meta-analysis of gene expression data

J **a, EE Gill, REW Hancock - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
Meta-analysis of gene expression data sets is increasingly performed to help identify robust
molecular signatures and to gain insights into underlying biological processes. The …