Bioinformatics

Drug combination prediction for cancer treatment using disease-specific drug response profiles and single-cell transcriptional signatures

1. Daniel Osorio
2. Parastoo Shahrouzi
3. Xavier Tekpli
4. Vessela N Kristensen
5. Marieke L Kuijjer

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  eLife Assessment

  The study conducted by Hurtado et al. offers important insights and solid evidence regarding the prediction of drug combinations for cancer treatment. By leveraging disease-specific drug response profiles and single-cell transcriptional signatures, this research not only demonstrates a novel and effective approach to identifying potential drug synergies but it also enhances our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of drug response prediction.

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A comprehensive antigen-antibody complex database unlocking insights into interaction interface

1. Yuwei Zhou
2. Wenwen Liu
3. Ziru Huang
4. Yushu Gou
5. Siqi Liu
6. Lixu Jiang
7. Yue Yang
8. Jian Huang

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  eLife Assessment

  This useful manuscript provides a newly curated database (termed AACDB) of antibody-antigens structural information, alongside annotations that are either taken and from the PDB, or added de-novo. Sequences, structures, and annotations can be easily downloaded from the AACDB website, speeding up the development of structure-based algorithms and analysis pipelines to characterize antibody-antigen interactions. The methodology presented for this data curation is solid. The curated dataset will be of broad interest and value to researchers interested in antibody-antigen interactions.

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Identification and classification of ion-channels across the tree of life: Insights into understudied CALHM channels

1. Rahil Taujale
2. Sung Jin Park
3. Nathan Gravel
4. Saber Soleymani
5. Rayna Carter
6. Kennady Boyd
7. Sarah Keuning
8. Zheng Ruan
9. Wei Lü
10. Natarajan Kannan

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  eLife Assessment

  The first part of this manuscript describes an interdisciplinary approach to mine the human channelome and discover further ion channel orthologues across diverse organisms. Although the findings and data curation enabled by the new approach are valuable to the ion channel community, as well as to those interested in improved methods for mining sequence space for their protein of interest, this part of the work is incomplete because critical methodological information is missing. Further validation of the improvements this approach shows over others is needed. The second part of the manuscript utilizes the approach described in the first part to delineate co-conserved amino acid patterns in CALHM channels, but the evidence provided to support the role of the identified residues in channel gating is currently inadequate.

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RWRtoolkit: multi-omic network analysis using random walks on multiplex networks in any species

1. David Kainer
2. Matthew Lane
3. Kyle A Sullivan
4. J Izaak Miller
5. Mikaela Cashman
6. Mallory Morgan
7. Ashley Cliff
8. Jonathon Romero
9. Angelica Walker
10. D Dakota Blair
11. Hari Chhetri
12. Yongqin Wang
13. Mirko Pavicic
14. Anna Furches
15. Jaclyn Noshay
16. Meghan Drake
17. A J Ireland
18. Ali Missaoui
19. Yun Kang
20. John C Sedbrook
21. Paramvir Dehal
22. Shane Canon
23. Daniel Jacobson

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Defining the limits of plant chemical space: challenges and estimations

1. Chloe Engler Hart
2. Yojana Gadiya
3. Tobias Kind
4. Christoph A. Krettler
5. Matthew Gaetz
6. Biswapriya B. Misra
7. David Healey
8. August Allen
9. Viswa Colluru
10. Daniel Domingo-Fernández

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V-pipe 3.0: a sustainable pipeline for within-sample viral genetic diversity estimation

1. Lara Fuhrmann
2. Kim Philipp Jablonski
3. Ivan Topolsky
4. Aashil A Batavia
5. Nico Borgsmüller
6. Pelin Icer Baykal
7. Matteo Carrara
8. Chaoran Chen
9. Arthur Dondi
10. Monica Dragan
11. David Dreifuss
12. Anika John
13. Benjamin Langer
14. Michal Okoniewski
15. Louis du Plessis
16. Uwe Schmitt
17. Franziska Singer
18. Tanja Stadler
19. Niko Beerenwinkel

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Network-based anomaly detection algorithm reveals proteins with major roles in human tissues

1. Dima Kagan
2. Juman Jubran
3. Esti Yeger-Lotem
4. Michael Fire

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Steamboat: Attention-based multiscale delineation of cellular interactions in tissues

1. Shaoheng Liang
2. Junjie Tang
3. Guanghan Wang
4. Jian Ma

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Unsupervised Representation Learning of C. elegans Poses and Behavior Sequences From Microscope Video Recordings

1. Maurice Deserno
2. Katarzyna Bozek

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  eLife Assessment

  This valuable study introduces a self-supervised machine learning method to classify C. elegans postures and behaviors directly from video data, offering an alternative to the skeleton-based approaches that rely on often error-prone tracking. This novel approach holds promise for advancing ethology research. That said, the strength of evidence is currently incomplete, as key aspects - including measuring head-tail orientation, increased behavioral interpretability, and quantitative comparisons to established methods - are underdeveloped and would benefit from further validation.

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Artificial intelligence driven tumor risk stratification from single-cell transcriptomics using phenotype algebra

1. Namrata Bhattacharya
2. Anja Rockstroh
3. Sanket Suhas Deshpande
4. Sam Koshy Thomas
5. Anunay Yadav
6. Chitrita Goswami
7. Smriti Chawla
8. Pierre Solomon
9. Cynthia Fourgeux
10. Gaurav Ahuja
11. Brett Hollier
12. Himanshu Kumar
13. Antoine Roquilly
14. Jeremie Poschmann
15. Melanie Lehman
16. Colleen C Nelson
17. Debarka Sengupta

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  eLife Assessment

  This manuscript presents an important contribution to the field of single-cell transcriptomic analysis in cancer by introducing a novel computational framework-SCellBOW-which applies embedding techniques from natural language processing to model phenotypic heterogeneity in tumors. The revised version includes new validation experiments and significant clarifications that provide convincing evidence for the method's utility. The authors have benchmarked SCellBOW across diverse datasets, including glioblastoma, breast, and metastatic prostate cancer, and have demonstrated its superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art methods.

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