Briefings in Bioinformatics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
26(1)
Published: Nov. 22, 2024
Abstract
Recent
advances
in
single-cell
RNA-Sequencing
(scRNA-Seq)
technologies
have
revolutionized
our
ability
to
gather
molecular
insights
into
different
phenotypes
at
the
level
of
individual
cells.
The
analysis
resulting
data
poses
significant
challenges,
and
proper
statistical
methods
are
required
analyze
extract
information
from
scRNA-Seq
datasets.
Sample
classification
based
on
gene
expression
has
proven
effective
valuable
for
precision
medicine
applications.
However,
standard
schemas
often
not
suitable
due
their
unique
characteristics,
new
algorithms
effectively
classify
samples
level.
Furthermore,
existing
this
purpose
limitations
usability.
Those
reasons
motivated
us
develop
singleDeep,
an
end-to-end
pipeline
that
streamlines
training
deep
neural
networks,
enabling
robust
prediction
characterization
sample
phenotypes.
We
used
singleDeep
make
predictions
datasets
conditions,
including
systemic
lupus
erythematosus,
Alzheimer’s
disease
coronavirus
2019.
Our
results
demonstrate
strong
diagnostic
performance,
validated
both
internally
externally.
Moreover,
outperformed
traditional
machine
learning
alternative
approaches.
In
addition
accuracy,
provides
cell
types
importance
estimation
phenotypic
characterization.
This
functionality
provided
additional
use
cases.
For
instance,
we
corroborated
some
interferon
signature
genes
consistently
relevant
autoimmunity
across
all
immune
lupus.
On
other
hand,
discovered
linked
dementia
roles
specific
brain
populations,
such
as
APOE
astrocytes.
BMC Bioinformatics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
26(1)
Published: Jan. 13, 2025
Drug-target
interactions
(DTIs)
are
pivotal
in
drug
discovery
and
development,
their
accurate
identification
can
significantly
expedite
the
process.
Numerous
DTI
prediction
methods
have
emerged,
yet
many
fail
to
fully
harness
feature
information
of
drugs
targets
or
address
issue
redundancy.
We
aim
refine
accuracy
by
eliminating
redundant
features
capitalizing
on
node
topological
structure
enhance
extraction.
To
achieve
this,
we
introduce
a
PCA-augmented
multi-layer
heterogeneous
graph-based
network
that
concentrates
key
throughout
encoding-decoding
phase.
Our
approach
initiates
with
construction
graph
from
various
similarity
metrics,
which
is
then
encoded
via
neural
network.
concatenate
integrate
resultant
representation
vectors
merge
multi-level
information.
Subsequently,
principal
component
analysis
applied
distill
most
informative
features,
random
forest
algorithm
employed
for
final
decoding
integrated
data.
method
outperforms
six
baseline
models
terms
accuracy,
as
demonstrated
extensive
experimentation.
Comprehensive
ablation
studies,
visualization
results,
in-depth
case
analyses
further
validate
our
framework's
efficacy
interpretability,
providing
novel
tool
integrates
multimodal
features.
Computers in Biology and Medicine,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
188, P. 109845 - 109845
Published: Feb. 20, 2025
In
computational
biology,
accurate
RNA
structure
prediction
offers
several
benefits,
including
facilitating
a
better
understanding
of
functions
and
RNA-based
drug
design.
Implementing
deep
learning
techniques
for
has
led
tremendous
progress
in
this
field,
resulting
significant
improvements
accuracy.
This
comprehensive
review
aims
to
provide
an
overview
the
diverse
strategies
employed
predicting
secondary
structures,
emphasizing
methods.
The
article
categorizes
discussion
into
three
main
dimensions:
feature
extraction
methods,
existing
state-of-the-art
model
architectures,
approaches.
We
present
comparative
analysis
various
models
highlighting
their
strengths
weaknesses.
Finally,
we
identify
gaps
literature,
discuss
current
challenges,
suggest
future
approaches
enhance
performance
applicability
tasks.
provides
deeper
insight
subject
paves
way
further
dynamic
intersection
life
sciences
artificial
intelligence.
Clinical and Translational Discovery,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
4(3)
Published: June 1, 2024
Abstract
Combination
therapy
has
emerged
as
an
efficacy
strategy
for
treating
complex
diseases.
Its
potential
to
overcome
drug
resistance
and
minimize
toxicity
makes
it
highly
desirable.
However,
the
vast
number
of
pairs
presents
a
significant
challenge,
rendering
exhaustive
clinical
testing
impractical.
In
recent
years,
deep
learning‐based
methods
have
promising
tools
predicting
synergistic
combinations.
This
review
aims
provide
comprehensive
overview
applying
diverse
deep‐learning
architectures
combination
prediction.
commences
by
elucidating
quantitative
measures
employed
assess
synergy.
Subsequently,
we
delve
into
various
currently
Finally,
concludes
outlining
key
challenges
facing
learning
approaches
proposes
future
research.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 19, 2025
A
bstract
Predicting
synergistic
cancer
drug
combinations
through
computational
methods
offers
a
scalable
approach
to
creating
therapies
that
are
more
effective
and
less
toxic.
However,
most
algorithms
focus
solely
on
synergy
without
considering
toxicity
when
selecting
optimal
combinations.
In
the
absence
of
combinatorial
assays,
few
models
use
penalties
balance
high
with
lower
toxicity.
these
have
not
been
explicitly
validated
against
known
drug-drug
interactions.
this
study,
we
examine
whether
scores
metrics
correlate
adverse
While
some
show
trends
levels,
our
results
reveal
significant
limitations
in
using
them
as
penalties.
These
findings
highlight
challenges
incorporating
into
prediction
frameworks
suggest
advancing
field
requires
comprehensive
combination
data.
BMC Genomics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
26(1)
Published: Feb. 4, 2025
Drug-target
binding
affinity
(DTA)
prediction
is
vital
in
drug
discovery
and
repositioning,
more
researchers
are
beginning
to
focus
on
this.
Many
effective
methods
have
been
proposed.
However,
some
current
certain
shortcomings
focusing
important
nodes
molecular
graphs
dealing
with
complex
structural
molecules.
In
particular,
when
considering
substructures
molecules,
they
may
not
be
able
fully
explore
the
potential
relationships
between
different
parts.
addition,
protein
structures,
ignore
connections
amino
acid
fragments
that
far
apart
sequence
but
work
synergistically
function.
this
paper,
we
propose
a
new
method,
called
GS-DTA,
for
predicting
DTA
based
graph
models.
GS-DTA
takes
simplified
input
line
system
(SMILES)
of
as
input.
First,
each
modeled
graph,
which
vertex
an
atom
edge
represents
interaction
atoms.
Then
GATv2-GCN
three-layer
GCN
networks
used
extract
features
drug.
enhances
model's
ability
by
assigning
dynamic
attention
scores,
improves
learning
structure's
intricate
patterns.
Besides,
The
can
captures
hierarchical
through
deeper
propagation
feature
transformation.
Meanwhile,
protein,
framework
combining
CNN,
Bi-LSTM,
Transformer
contextual
information
sequences,
combination
help
understand
comprehensive
detailed
protein.
Finally,
obtained
vectors
combined
predict
connected
layer.
source
code
downloaded
from
https://github.com/zhuziguang/GS-DTA
.
results
show
achieves
good
performance
terms
MSE,
CI,
r2m
Davis
KIBA
datasets,
improving
accuracy
prediction.
Briefings in Bioinformatics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
25(4)
Published: May 23, 2024
Abstract
Inferring
gene
regulatory
networks
(GRNs)
allows
us
to
obtain
a
deeper
understanding
of
cellular
function
and
disease
pathogenesis.
Recent
advances
in
single-cell
RNA
sequencing
(scRNA-seq)
technology
have
improved
the
accuracy
GRN
inference.
However,
many
methods
for
inferring
individual
GRNs
from
scRNA-seq
data
are
limited
because
they
overlook
intercellular
heterogeneity
similarities
between
different
cell
subpopulations,
which
often
present
data.
Here,
we
propose
deep
learning-based
framework,
DeepGRNCS,
jointly
across
subpopulations.
We
follow
commonly
accepted
hypothesis
that
expression
target
can
be
predicted
based
on
transcription
factors
(TFs)
due
underlying
relationships.
initially
processed
by
discretizing
scattering
using
equal-width
method.
Then,
trained
learning
models
predict
TFs.
By
individually
removing
each
TF
matrix,
used
pre-trained
model
predictions
infer
relationships
TFs
genes,
thereby
constructing
GRN.
Our
method
outperforms
existing
inference
various
simulated
real
datasets.
Finally,
applied
DeepGRNCS
non-small
lung
cancer
identify
key
genes
subpopulation
analyzed
their
biological
relevance.
In
conclusion,
effectively
predicts
subpopulation-specific
GRNs.
The
source
code
is
available
at
https://github.com/Nastume777/DeepGRNCS.