Gene regulatory network inference in the era of single-cell multi-omics

P Badia-i-Mompel, L Wessels, S Müller-Dott… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between chromatin, transcription factors and genes generates complex
regulatory circuits that can be represented as gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The study …

Discerning molecular interactions: a comprehensive review on biomolecular interaction databases and network analysis tools

SK Miryala, A Anbarasu, S Ramaiah - Gene, 2018 - Elsevier
Computational analysis of biomolecular interaction networks is now gaining a lot of
importance to understand the functions of novel genes/proteins. Gene interaction (GI) …

Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer

K Pelka, M Hofree, JH Chen, S Sarkizova, JD Pirl… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune responses to cancer are highly variable, with mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd)
tumors exhibiting more anti-tumor immunity than mismatch repair-proficient (MMRp) tumors …

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

R Browaeys, W Saelens, Y Saeys - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by
interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github. com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a …

Therapeutic target database 2020: enriched resource for facilitating research and early development of targeted therapeutics

Y Wang, S Zhang, F Li, Y Zhou, Y Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of therapeutic targets and early drug candidates is useful for improved
drug discovery. In particular, information about target regulators and the patented …

NetworkAnalyst 3.0: a visual analytics platform for comprehensive gene expression profiling and meta-analysis

G Zhou, O Soufan, J Ewald, REW Hancock… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The growing application of gene expression profiling demands powerful yet user-friendly
bioinformatics tools to support systems-level data understanding. NetworkAnalyst was first …

Benchmarking algorithms for gene regulatory network inference from single-cell transcriptomic data

A Pratapa, AP Jalihal, JN Law, A Bharadwaj… - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
We present a systematic evaluation of state-of-the-art algorithms for inferring gene
regulatory networks from single-cell transcriptional data. As the ground truth for assessing …

Benchmark and integration of resources for the estimation of human transcription factor activities

L Garcia-Alonso, CH Holland, MM Ibrahim… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
The prediction of transcription factor (TF) activities from the gene expression of their targets
(ie, TF regulon) is becoming a widely used approach to characterize the functional status of …

CellCall: integrating paired ligand–receptor and transcription factor activities for cell–cell communication

Y Zhang, T Liu, X Hu, M Wang, J Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
With the dramatic development of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies,
the systematic decoding of cell-cell communication has received great research interest. To …

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 …