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DNA data storage is rapidly emerging as a promising solution for long-term data archiving, largely due to its exceptional durability. However, the synthesis of DNA strands remains a significant bottleneck in terms of cost and speed. To…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Parv Agarwal , Nimesh Pinnamaneni , Thomas Heinis

Motif discovery is one of the most challenging problems in bioinformatics today. DNA sequence motifs are becoming increasingly important in analysis of gene regulation. Motifs are short, recurring patterns in DNA that have a biological…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Umang Vipul

Protein Fragment Motif Finder (PFMFind) is a system that enables efficient discovery of relationships between short fragments of protein sequences using similarity search. It supports queries based on score matrices and PSSMs obtained…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-17 Aleksandar Stojmirović , Peter Andreae , Mike Boland , Thomas William Jordan , Vladimir G. Pestov

Network motif provides a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most complex networks. This task usually demands high computer processing, specially for motif with 5 or more vertices. This paper presents an extended methodology with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Luis A. A. Meira , Vinícius R. Máximo , Alvaro L. Fazenda , Arlindo F. da Conceição

Mutational signatures are patterns of somatic mutations in tumor genomes that provide insights into underlying mutagenic processes and cancer origin. Developing reliable methods for their estimation is of growing importance in cancer…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-04 Blake Hansen , Isabella N. Grabski , Giovanni Parmigiani , Roberta De Vito

Motif discovery is a core problem in computational biology, traditionally formulated as a likelihood optimization task that returns a single dominant motif from a DNA sequence dataset. However, regulatory sequence data admit multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alejandro Medina , Mary Lauren Benton

The search for patterns or motifs in data represents an area of key interest to many researchers. In this paper we present the Motif Tracking Algorithm, a novel immune inspired pattern identification tool that is able to identify variable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-03 William Wilson , Phil Birkin , Uwe Aickelin

Protein motifs are conserved fragments occurred frequently in protein sequences. They have significant functions, such as active site of an enzyme. Search and clustering protein sequence motifs are computational intensive. Most existing…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-03 Haifeng Chen , Ting Chen

MotifbreakR is a software tool that scans genetic variants against position weight matrices of transcription factors (TF) to determine the potential for the disruption of TF binding at the site of the variant. It leverages the Bioconductor…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-08 Simon G. Coetzee , Dennis J. Hazelett

We propose the molecular omics network (MOOMIN) a multimodal graph neural network used by AstraZeneca oncologists to predict the synergy of drug combinations for cancer treatment. Our model learns drug representations at multiple scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Benedek Rozemberczki , Anna Gogleva , Sebastian Nilsson , Gavin Edwards , Andriy Nikolov , Eliseo Papa

Detecting repeating patterns of different lengths in time series, also called variable-length motifs, has received a great amount of attention by researchers and practitioners. Despite the significant progress that has been made in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Yifeng Gao , Jessica Lin

Background: Mining gene modules from genomic data is an important step to detect gene members of pathways or other relations such as protein-protein interactions. In this work, we explore the plausibility of detecting gene modules by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-12 YaoGong Zhang , YingJie Xu , Xin Fan , YuXiang Hong , Jiahui Liu , ZhiCheng He , YaLou Huang , MaoQiang Xie

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict users' subsequent interactions by modeling their sequential behaviors. Recent studies have explored frequency domain analysis, which effectively models periodic patterns in user sequences.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ilwoong Baek , Mincheol Yoon , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

Motif scaffolding seeks to design scaffold structures for constructing proteins with functions derived from the desired motif, which is crucial for the design of vaccines and enzymes. Previous works approach the problem by inpainting or…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-06 Ke Liu , Weian Mao , Shuaike Shen , Xiaoran Jiao , Zheng Sun , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Effective generation of molecular structures, or new chemical entities, that bind to target proteins is crucial for lead identification and optimization in drug discovery. Despite advancements in atom- and motif-wise deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Guanlue Li , Chenran Jiang , Ziqi Gao , Yu Liu , Chenyang Liu , Jiean Chen , Yong Huang , Jia Li

Accurate computational identification of DNA methylation is essential for understanding epigenetic regulation. Although deep learning excels in this binary classification task, its "black-box" nature impedes biological insight. We address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yi He , Yina Cao , Jixiu Zhai , Di Wang , Junxiao Kong , Tianchi Lu

Accurately identifying metabolites i.e. small molecules from mass spectrometry data remains a core challenge in metabolomics, with broad applications in drug discovery, environmental analysis, and clinical research. We address the Molecule…

In complex systems, groups of interacting objects may form prevalent and persistent spatiotemporal patterns, which we refer to as motifs. These motifs can exhibit features that reveal how individual objects interact with one another.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ying Chen Lim , Rakesh Das , Tetsuya Hiraiwa , N. Duane Loh

Conventional cell tracking methods detect multiple cells in each frame (detection) and then associate the detection results in successive time-frames (association). Most cell tracking methods perform the association task independently from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Junya Hayashida , Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise

Is there a unified framework for graph-based retrosynthesis prediction? Through analysis of full-, semi-, and non-template retrosynthesis methods, we discovered that they strive to strike an optimal balance between combinability and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-25 Zhangyang Gao , Xingran Chen , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li