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

RNA Folding Nearest Neighbor Parameters Including the Modification 1-Methyl-Pseudouridine

This study introduces new nearest neighbor parameters derived from 208 optical melting experiments to accurately model the stabilizing effects of 1-methyl-pseudouridine on RNA folding, which are now integrated into the RNAstructure software to improve the prediction of secondary structures for both natural and therapeutic mRNA sequences.

Kierzek, E., Shabangu, T. S., Hiltke, O. M. + 13 more2026-04-11💻 bioinformatics

Impact of Regularization Methods and Outlier Removal on Unsupervised Sample Classification

This study demonstrates that while irreducible batch effects and outlier removal can introduce errors, preprocessing steps like regularization to comprehensive databases do not significantly alter unsupervised classification patterns, suggesting that non-repeatability in high-content assays is an uncorrectable feature that does not necessarily compromise classification outcomes.

Heckman, C. A.2026-04-10💻 bioinformatics

Structure-Based and Stability-Validated Prioritization of BACE1 Inhibitors Integrating Meta-Ensemble QSAR and Molecular Dynamics

This study presents a robust, multi-criteria computational framework integrating meta-ensemble QSAR, structure-based docking, and molecular dynamics to identify and validate novel BACE1 inhibitors, ultimately prioritizing Mol-2 as a promising lead for Alzheimer's disease therapy with confirmed stability and favorable CNS drug-like properties.

Chowdhury, T. D., Shafoyat, M. U., Hemel, N. H. + 9 more2026-04-10💻 bioinformatics

Generating, curating, and evaluating trnL reference sequence databases: Benchmarking OBITools3/ecoPCR, RESCRIPt, and MetaCurator

This study addresses the lack of curated trnL reference databases by systematically comparing OBITools3/ecoPCR, RESCRIPt, and MetaCurator to generate and evaluate high-quality plant DNA metabarcoding resources, demonstrating that the optimal curation tool varies depending on the specific trnL region analyzed.

KUDDAR, O. S., Meiklejohn, K. A., Callahan, B. J.2026-04-10💻 bioinformatics