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Background: Systems biology projects and omics technologies have led to a growing number of biochemical pathway reconstructions. However, mathematical models are still most often created de novo, based on reading the literature and…
Identifying prognostic factors for disease progression is a cornerstone of medical research. Repeated assessments of a marker outcome are often used to evaluate disease progression, and the primary research question is to identify factors…
Pathway Tools is a bioinformatics software environment with a broad set of capabilities. The software provides genome-informatics tools such as a genome browser, sequence alignments, a genome-variant analyzer, and comparative-genomics…
Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping aims to determine genomic regions that regulate gene transcription. Expression QTL is used to study the regulatory structure of normal tissues and to search for genetic factors in complex…
This document describes an infra-structure provided by the R package performanceEstimation that allows to estimate the predictive performance of different approaches (workflows) to predictive tasks. The infra-structure is generic in the…
Metabolic fluxes are the rates of life-sustaining chemical reactions within a cell and metabolites are the components. Determining the changes in these fluxes is crucial to understanding diseases with metabolic causes and consequences.…
Gene expression profiling provides critical insights into cellular heterogeneity, biological processes and disease mechanisms. There has been an increasing interest in computational approaches that can predict gene expression directly from…
R package sklarsomega provides tools for measuring agreement using Sklar's omega coefficient, which subsumes Krippendorff's alpha coefficient, which in turn subsumes a number of other well-known agreement coefficients. The package permits…
Motivation: With the rapid expansion of large-scale biological datasets, DNA and protein sequence alignments have become essential for comparative genomics and proteomics. These alignments facilitate the exploration of sequence similarity…
Unraveling the co-expression of genes across studies enhances the understanding of cellular processes. Inferring gene co-expression networks from transcriptome data presents many challenges, including spurious gene correlations, sample…
Ultra high-throughput sequencing of transcriptomes (RNA-Seq) is a widely used method for quantifying gene expression levels due to its low cost, high accuracy and wide dynamic range for detection. However, the nature of RNA-Seq makes it…
MeTime is an opensource R package for reproducible analysis of longitudinal metabolomics data. It builds upon a central S4 container, metime_analyser, that stores multiple datasets, associated metadata and analysis outputs, enabling unified…
Disease occurs due to aberrant expression of genes and modulation of the biological pathways along which they lie. Inference of activated gene pathways, using gene expression data during disease progression, is an important problem. In this…
This paper introduces kDGLM, an R package designed for Bayesian analysis of Generalized Dynamic Linear Models (GDLM), with a primary focus on both uni- and multivariate exponential families. Emphasizing sequential inference for time series…
To develop and investigate detailed mathematical models of cellular metabolic processes is one of the primary challenges in systems biology. However, despite considerable advance in the topological analysis of metabolic networks, explicit…
A gene expression compendium is a heterogeneous collection of gene expression experiments assembled from data collected for diverse purposes. The widely varied experimental conditions and genetic backgrounds across samples creates a…
The MEK/ERK signalling pathway is involved in cell division, cell specialisation, survival and cell death. Here we study a polynomial dynamical system describing the dynamics of MEK/ERK proposed by Yeung et al. with their experimental…
Computational analysis methods including machine learning have a significant impact in the fields of genomics and medicine. High-throughput gene expression analysis methods such as microarray technology and RNA sequencing produce enormous…
The R package trajmsm provides functions designed to simplify the estimation of the parameters of a model combining latent class growth analysis (LCGA), a trajectory analysis technique, and marginal structural models (MSMs) called LCGA-MSM.…
One of the outstanding challenges in comparative genomics is to interpret the evolutionary importance of regulatory variation between species. Rigorous molecular evolution-based methods to infer evidence for natural selection from…