Circular RNAs, a family of covalently circularized RNAs with tissue-specific expression, were recently demonstrated to play important roles in mammalian biology. Regardless of extensive research to predict...
Read More »scTenifoldNet – a machine learning workflow for constructing and comparing transcriptome-wide gene regulatory networks from single-cell data
Understanding the functions of genes requires the investigation of the structure of their regulatory networks of interactions. Single-cell RNA sequencing...
Read More »Tempora – Cell trajectory inference using time-series single-cell RNA sequencing data
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can map cell types, states and transitions during dynamic biological processes such as tissue development and regeneration. Many trajectory inference methods have been developed to order cells by their progression...
Read More »Delineating biological meaningful modules that govern a scRNA-seq dataset
Unsupervised machine learning methods (deep learning) have shown their usefulness with noisy single cell mRNA-sequencing data (scRNA-seq), where the models generalize well, despite the zero-inflation of the data. A class of neural networks...
Read More »GSEPD – a Bioconductor package for RNA-seq gene set enrichment and projection display
RNA-seq, wherein RNA transcripts expressed in a sample are sequenced and quantified, has become a widely used technique to study disease and development. With RNA-seq, transcription abundance can be measured, differential expression genes...
Read More »LIONESS – estimating sample-specific regulatory networks
Biological systems are driven by intricate interactions among molecules. Many methods have been developed that draw on large numbers of expression samples to infer connections between genes...
Read More »scFBA – integration of single-cell RNA-seq data into population models to characterize cancer metabolism
Metabolic reprogramming is a general feature of cancer cells. Regrettably, the comprehensive quantification of metabolites in biological specimens does not promptly translate into knowledge on the utilization of metabolic pathways. By estimating fluxes across metabolic pathways, computational models hold the ...
Read More »A component overlapping attribute clustering (COAC) algorithm for single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis and potential pathobiological implications
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing and computational technologies have enabled routine analysis of large-scale single-cell ribonucleic acid sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. However, scRNA-seq technologies have suffered from several technical challenges, including low mean expression levels...
Read More »iDEP – an integrated web application for differential expression and pathway analysis of RNA-Seq data
RNA-seq is widely used for transcriptomic profiling, but the bioinformatics analysis of resultant data can be time-consuming and challenging, especially for biologists. Researchers at South Dakota State University...
Read More »TissueEnrich – Tissue-specific gene enrichment analysis
RNA-Seq data analysis results in lists of genes that may have a similar function, based on differential gene expression analysis or co-expression network analysis. While tools have been developed to identify biological processes that are enriched in the genes sets, ...
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