CRIS: A Centralized Resource for High-Quality RNA Structure and Interaction Data in the AI Era

The paper introduces CRIS, a centralized database that addresses challenges in RNA structure and interaction data by providing rigorously curated, standardized, and high-quality datasets from crosslinking-based technologies to enhance reproducibility, facilitate comparative analysis, and support deep learning applications in the AI era.

Lee, W. H., Dharmawan, C., Li, K. + 5 more2026-04-12💻 bioinformatics

HEIMDALL: Disentangling tokenizer design for robust transfer in single-cell foundation models

The paper introduces HEIMDALL, a unified framework that disentangles single-cell foundation model tokenization strategies to demonstrate that robust generalization across diverse biological distribution shifts depends on specific design choices regarding gene identity, expression encoding, and ordering rather than a single universal tokenizer.

Haber, E., Alam, S., Ho, N. + 6 more2026-04-12💻 bioinformatics

Cyclome: Large-scale replica-exchange dynamics of 930 cyclic peptide reveal thermal stability and critical metal-binding behavior

This study introduces Cyclome, a comprehensive computational framework that unifies a curated dataset of 930 cyclic peptides with novel topology-aware algorithms and machine learning models to predict thermal stability and identify critical metal-binding capabilities, thereby advancing the design of stable cyclic peptide therapeutics and tools for mineral recovery.

Sajeevan, K. A., Gates, H., Raghunath, V. S. + 4 more2026-04-12💻 bioinformatics

Interpretable Antibody-Antigen Structural Interface Prediction via Adaptive Graph Learning and Cyclic Transfer

The paper introduces VASCIF, a structure-aware framework utilizing Masked Graph Attention and adaptive transfer learning to achieve state-of-the-art, interpretable, and efficient prediction of antibody-antigen structural interfaces, thereby overcoming challenges related to data scarcity and computational cost in antibody discovery.

Liu, X., Kantorow, J., Chattopadhyay, A. K. + 1 more2026-04-12💻 bioinformatics

rnaends: an R package to study exact RNA ends at nucleotide resolution

The paper introduces **rnaends**, an R package designed to facilitate the analysis of exact RNA ends at nucleotide resolution by providing a comprehensive workflow for processing, quantifying, and interpreting RNA-end sequencing data to study diverse aspects of RNA metabolism such as transcription start sites, degradation dynamics, and post-transcriptional modifications.

Caetano, T., Redder, P., Fichant, G. + 1 more2026-04-11💻 bioinformatics

Coherent Cross-modal Generation of Synthetic Biomedical Data to Advance Multimodal Precision Medicine

This paper introduces Coherent Denoising, a novel ensemble-based diffusion framework that synthesizes missing biomedical modalities from available data to overcome dataset sparsity, thereby enabling high-fidelity multimodal integration, robust predictive modeling, and counterfactual analysis for precision oncology using a large-scale TCGA cohort.

Marchesi, R., Lazzaro, N., Endrizzi, W. + 7 more2026-04-11💻 bioinformatics

COMPASS: A Web-Based COMPosite Activity Scoring System to Navigate Health and Disease Through Deterministic Digital Biomarkers

COMPASS is a deterministic, ontology-free web-based framework that converts gene expression into stable, interpretable pathway activity scores without requiring permutation or reference cohorts, offering improved robustness and discrimination compared to existing single-sample enrichment methods for precision medicine applications.

Sinha, S., Ghosh, P.2026-04-11💻 bioinformatics

DyGraphTrans: A temporal graph representation learning framework for modeling disease progression from Electronic Health Records

The paper proposes DyGraphTrans, a memory-efficient and interpretable dynamic graph representation learning framework that models patient Electronic Health Records as temporal graphs to effectively predict disease progression and mortality while capturing both local temporal dependencies and global trends.

Rahman, M. T., Al Olaimat, M., Bozdag, S. + 1 more2026-04-11💻 bioinformatics