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miRNAfe

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

miRNAfe is a comprehensive tool to extract features from RNA sequences. It is freely available as a web service, allowing a single access point to almost all state-of-the-art feature extraction methods used today in a variety of works from different authors. It has a very simple user interface, where the user only needs to load a file containing the input sequences and select the features to extract. As a result, the user obtains a text file with the features extracted, which can be used to analyze the sequences or as input to a miRNA prediction software.

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BiCliques Merging

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators that repress the expression of their targets. They are known to work cooperatively with genes and play important roles in numerous cellular processes. Identification of miRNA regulatory modules (MRMs) would aid deciphering the combinatorial effects derived from the many-to-many regulatory relationships in complex cellular systems. Here, we develop an effective method called BiCliques Merging (BCM) to predict MRMs based on bicliques merging.

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Pseudo-3D Clustering

Submitted by ChenLiang on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 10:03

Module identification is a frequently used approach for mining local structures with more significance in global networks. Recently, a wide variety of bilayer networks are emerging to characterize the more complex biological processes. In the light of special topological properties of bilayer networks and the accompanying challenges, there is yet no effective method aiming at bilayer module identification to probe the modular organizations from the more inspiring bilayer networks.

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mirnanalyze

Submitted by ChenLiang on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 19:32

The current state-of-the-art in cancer diagnosis and treatment is not ideal; diagnostic tests are accurate but invasive, and treatments are "one-size fits-all" instead of being personalized. Recently, miRNA's have garnered significant attention as cancer biomarkers, owing to their ease of access (circulating miRNA in the blood) and stability. There have been many studies showing the effectiveness of miRNA data in diagnosing specific cancer types, but few studies explore the role of miRNA in predicting treatment outcome.

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InCroMAP

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Traditionally, microarrays were almost exclusively used for the genome-wide analysis of differential gene expression. But nowadays, their scope of application has been extended to various genomic features, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), proteins and DNA methylation (DNAm). Most available methods for the visualization of these datasets are focused on individual platforms and are not capable of integratively visualizing multiple microarray datasets from cross-platform studies.

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miRNAss

Submitted by ChenLiang on Tue, 01/09/2018 - 19:24

Although many machine learning techniques have been proposed for distinguishing miRNA hairpins from other stem-loop sequences, most of the current methods use supervised learning, which requires a very good set of positive and negative examples. Those methods have important practical limitations when they have to be applied to a real prediction task. First, there is the challenge of dealing with a scarce number of positive (well-known) pre-miRNA examples.

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miMsg

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Algorithms predicting microRNA (miR)-mRNA interactions generate high numbers of possible interactions, many of which might be non-existent or irrelevant in a certain biological context. It is desirable to develop a transparent, user-friendly, unbiased tool to enrich miR-mRNA predictions.

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miRNAmeConverter

Submitted by ChenLiang on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 10:23

The miRBase database is the central and official repository for miRNAs and the current release is miRBase version 21.0. Name changes in different miRBase releases cause inconsistencies in miRNA names from version to version. When working with only a small number of miRNAs the translation can be done manually. However, with large sets of miRNAs, the necessary correction of such inconsistencies becomes burdensome and error-prone.

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BioSeq-Analysis

Submitted by ChenLiang on Tue, 01/09/2018 - 17:37

With the avalanche of biological sequences generated in the post-genomic age, one of the most challenging problems is how to computationally analyze their structures and functions. Machine learning techniques are playing key roles in this field. Typically, predictors based on machine learning techniques contain three main steps: feature extraction, predictor construction and performance evaluation. Although several Web servers and stand-alone tools have been developed to facilitate the biological sequence analysis, they only focus on individual step.

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Functional interpretation of microRNA-mRNA association

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

The prediction of microRNA targets is a challenging task that has given rise to several prediction algorithms. Databases of predicted targets can be used in a microRNA target enrichment analysis, enhancing our capacity to extract functional information from gene lists. However, the available tools in this field analyze gene sets one by one limiting their use in a meta-analysis. Here, we present an R system for miRNA enrichment analysis that is suitable for systems biology.

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