1200 papers
Bioinformatics sits at the exciting intersection where biology meets data science, using powerful computer tools to decode the vast complexity of living systems. From mapping the human genome to tracking how viruses evolve, this field transforms raw biological information into actionable insights that drive modern medicine and research forward without requiring a supercomputer to understand the basics.
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The paper introduces ALARMIST, a probabilistic framework that decodes interpretable multicellular communication motifs from spatial transcriptomics data to identify higher-order signaling patterns and their downstream phenotypic impacts, demonstrating its utility in uncovering microenvironmental drivers of tumor progression in lung adenocarcinoma and glioblastoma.
This paper presents a systematic optimization of the CycloneSEQ platform, integrating experimental sample processing with computational assembly workflows to overcome the limitations of short-read sequencing and significantly improve the recovery of complete microbial genomes from long-read gut metagenomics.
This paper reveals that homology-induced data leakage systematically inflates the performance of genome-trained sequence models by causing them to rely on memorized associations rather than generalizable principles, and proposes the hashFrag tool to enable homology-aware data partitioning for more reliable evaluation and improved model generalizability.
This study introduces a systematic computational framework that integrates time-resolved phosphoproteomics with a BFS-guided Beam Search algorithm to reconstruct cell-type-specific EGFR signaling networks, successfully revealing how SHP2 inhibition rewires pathway architectures and drives adaptive resistance mechanisms.
This paper introduces a provenance-aware Text-to-Target framework that integrates schema-constrained large language model retrieval with numeric omics data analysis to generate interpretable, audit-ready disease targets and drug discovery strategies, demonstrating significant validation in Alzheimer's disease and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
This study integrates multi-omics data to develop and validate a streamlined 15-gene prognostic signature and a clinical-genomic nomogram that accurately predict survival outcomes in triple-negative breast cancer patients.
This paper introduces asymmetric contrastive objectives, including a geometrically inspired SPC variant that incorporates experimental metadata as learned class vectors, to efficiently extract image representations for phenotypic screening that outperform prior methods across multiple datasets and metrics while remaining effective with limited data and compute resources.
This paper introduces TEA, a novel 20-letter protein alphabet derived from language model embeddings via contrastive learning, which enables fast and sensitive remote homology detection that rivals structure-based methods while leveraging existing sequence search algorithms.
This paper reveals that the widespread use of invalid statistical tests ignoring cross-validation fold dependence in biomedical machine learning leads to inflated false positive rates, prompting the authors to propose the SHARP test as a robust solution and provide new reporting guidelines for valid model comparison.
This paper proposes a collision-aware method-of-moments estimator that enables accurate RNA-seq quantification using shorter, non-unique UMIs, thereby reducing sequencing and synthesis costs without compromising biological insights.