Systems & Computational Biology
Hepatitis B virus compartmentalization and single-cell differentiation in hepatocellular carcinomaSingle-cell RNA-Seq unravels heterogeneity and compartmentalization of both hepatitis B virus and cancer identifying new candidate pathways for viral hepatocarcinogenesis.
Functional annotation of noncoding mutations in cancerRecurrent regulatory mutations affecting transcription factor binding sites in 2,500 cancer samples.
Hierarchical dinucleotide distribution in genome along evolution and its effect on chromatin packingIt describes how hierarchical CpG distribution on the genomes of species change in the evolution and the correlation with the chromatin structure.
On the relation of gene essentiality to intron structure: a computational and deep learning approachA deep learning classifier predicts gene essentiality by intron sequence. A unique set of intron features of essential genes was found and its importance demonstrated by a high-performing classifier.
Proteomics characterisation of the L929 cell supernatant and its role in BMDM differentiationL929 cell supernatant is commonly used to differentiate murine macrophages from bone marrow. The supernatant and its effect on macrophage phenotype was characterised by proteomics and the authors identified novel immunoregulatory proteins.
CellMixS: quantifying and visualizing batch effects in single-cell RNA-seq dataA systematic comparison of batch effect metrics for single cell data is performed. The new cell-specific mixing score from the R/Bioconductor CellMixS package performs well across various tasks.
PieParty: visualizing cells from scRNA-seq data as pie chartsPieParty visualizes every cell in scRNA-seq experiments as pie charts, where every slice of a pie chart corresponds to the expression of a single gene.
A systems-based method to repurpose marketed therapeutics for antiviral use: a SARS-CoV-2 case studyThis study describes complementary network-based and sequence similarity methods to identify drug repurposing opportunities predicted to directly target viral proteins, highlighting results for five human pathogens.
A novel canis lupus familiaris reference genome improves variant resolution for use in breed-specific GWASThis paper describes the economical optimization of DNA extraction, short and long read sequencing, and bioinformatic assembly, which in turn improves mapping and variant resolution of short-read sequenced, same-breed dogs for association studies. This methodology is applicable for any investigators planning a genome-wide association study.
The Paf1 complex positively regulates enhancer activity in mouse embryonic stem cellsUsing ChIP-seq and functional genomic analyses, the study shows that the Paf1 complex occupies transcriptional enhancers and positively regulates their activity.