Bioinformatics

Leveraging Disease Association Degree for High-Accuracy MicroRNA Target Prediction

1. Baiming Chen

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  eLife Assessment

  This valuable study introduces miRTarDS, a novel computational framework that predicts microRNA-target interactions based on a publicly available pretrained Sentence-BERT language model and downstream classification analysis. The strength of the evidence is incomplete, as the evaluation framework relies on unreliable ground-truth and false sets. Furthermore, the analysis fails to compare miRTarDS against existing state-of-the-art biomedical language models.

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Federated Knowledge Retrieval Elevates Large Language Model Performance on Biomedical Benchmarks

1. Janet Joy
2. Andrew I. Su

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SpaceBF: Spatial coexpression analysis using Bayesian Fused approaches in spatial omics datasets

1. Souvik Seal
2. Brian Neelon

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nf-core/proteinfamilies: A scalable pipeline for the generation of protein families

1. Evangelos Karatzas
2. Martin Beracochea
3. Fotis A. Baltoumas
4. Eleni Aplakidou
5. Lorna Richardson
6. James A. Fellows Yates
7. Daniel Lundin
8. nf-core community
9. Aydin Buluç
10. Nikos C. Kyrpides
11. Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares
12. Georgios A. Pavlopoulos
13. Robert D. Finn

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The Hok bacterial toxin: diversity, toxicity, distribution and genomic localization

1. Andrés Escalera-Maurer
2. Adriana Messineo
3. Thibaud T. Renault
4. Elena Nicollin
5. Erika Castaneda-Sastre
6. Matthieu Brunot
7. Cléo Berrehail
8. Anaïs Le Rhun

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Interpreting the Effects of DNA Polymerase Variants at the Structural Level Using MAVISp and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

1. Matteo Arnaudi
2. Karolina Krzesińska
3. Ludovica Beltrame
4. Pablo Sánchez-Izquierdo Besora
5. Matteo Tiberti
6. Mef Nilbert
7. Anna Rohlin
8. Elena Papaleo

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A genotype-phenotype transformer to assess and explain polygenic risk

1. Ingoo Lee
2. Zachary S. Wallace
3. Yuqi Wang
4. Sungjoon Park
5. Hojung Nam
6. Amit R. Majithia
7. Trey Ideker

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Comparative evaluation of computational methods for reconstruction of human viral genomes

1. Maria J. P. Sousa
2. Mari Toppinen
3. Lari Pyöriä
4. Klaus Hedman
5. Antti Sajantila
6. Maria F. Perdomo
7. Diogo Pratas

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An Integrative Multi-Omics Random Forest Framework for Robust Biomarker Discovery

1. Wei Zhang
2. Hanchen Huang
3. Lily Wang
4. Brian D. Lehmann
5. Steven X. Chen

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Squidly: Enzyme Catalytic Residue Prediction Harnessing a Biology-Informed Contrastive Learning Framework

1. William JF Rieger
2. Mikael Boden
3. Frances Arnold
4. Ariane Mora

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  eLife Assessment

  This important contribution to enzyme annotation offers a deep learning framework for catalytic site prediction. Integrating biochemical knowledge with large language models, the authors demonstrate how to extract meaningful information from sequence alone. They introduce Squidly, a freely available new ML modeling framework, that outperforms existing tools on standard benchmarks, including the CataloDB dataset. The evidence is convincing, with an extensively and carefully addressed narrative upon revision.

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