Polypharmacology

Polypharmacology
Author: Zhiguo Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 870
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3031049985

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There is a growing interest in unmet needs for the development of a new discipline in drug discovery and in university education on polypharmacology. However, there has not been a book with the comprehensive compilation of basic knowledge and advanced methodology that is needed. This book aims to meet the needs making Polypharmacology a new sub-discipline of Pharmacology, not only being a hot area of pharmacological research and education but also a new paradigm for drug discovery. It contains the contents covering the entire scope of Polypharmacology including systemic in-depth exposition of basic knowledge, novel concepts, innovative technologies, and translational and clinical applications by showcasing state-of-the-art strategies and step-by-step instructions of cutting-edge methods. The contents of this book targets broad readerships including scientists in pharmacology research and drug development, and university teachers and graduates in medical school or school of pharmacy.

Network-based Information Integration for Protein Function Prediction

Network-based Information Integration for Protein Function Prediction
Author: Xiaoyu Jiang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

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Abstract: Protein function prediction is a fundamental problem in computational biology. For protein activities described by terms in databases such as the Gene Ontology (GO), this task is typically pursued as a binary classification problem. As a result of an astonishing increase in the available genome-wide protein information, integrating different protein datasets has become a significant opportunity and a major focus to infer functionality. This dissertation contains three novel approaches to integrate popular protein information to classify proteins into functional categories. A probabilistic method, Hierarchical Binomial-Neighborhood (HBN), combining proteins' relational information from the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, together with the GO hierarchical structure, is proposed first. Results from comparing analogous models on terms from the biological process ontology and genes from the yeast genome show substantial improvement and further analysis illustrates that such an improvement is uniformly consistent with the GO depth. Being aware of the fact that the gene interaction knowledge is still incomplete in most organisms, the second approach we develop is an aggressively integrative probabilistic framework, Probabilistic Hierarchical Inferences for Protein Activity (PHIPA), with improved data usage efficiency, for combining protein relational network, categorical motif and cellular localization information and the GO hierarchy. We implement it on a network extracted from an integrative protein-protein association databases STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins). Being based on Nearest-Neighbor, or the "guilt-by-association" counting principle, both HBN and PHIPA use only the local neighborhood information, and are therefore built on local probabilistic models. In contrast, we develop a third approach, a fully Bayesian network-based auto-probit framework encoding the functional similarity influenced by the network topology. We not only show that the auto-probit model works equally well in prediction as the "local" methods, but also demonstrate its capability of producing more potentially interesting protein predictions by taking advantage of GO annotation uncertainty, which is critical in using and improving the GO database but yet has been ignored by most existing methodologies in this context.

Research in Computational Molecular Biology

Research in Computational Molecular Biology
Author: Vineet Bafna
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642200362

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2011, held in Vancouver, Canada, in March 2011. The 43 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including molecular sequence analysis; recognition of genes and regulatory elements; molecular evolution; gene expression; biological networks; sequencing and genotyping technologies; genomics; population, statistical genetics; systems biology; imaging; computational proteomics; molecular structural biology.

Synthetic Biology, 2 Volumes

Synthetic Biology, 2 Volumes
Author: Robert A. Meyers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527334823

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Dieses zweibändige Nachschlagewerk ist das erste maßgebliche Referenzwerk zu diesem aufstrebenden Fachgebiet, konzentriert sich auf die Forschung in der synthetischen Biologie und enthält Beiträge einer Reihe von "Gründungsvätern" der Fachrichtung.

Intelligent Computing in Bioinformatics

Intelligent Computing in Bioinformatics
Author: De-Shuang Huang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319093304

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This book – in conjunction with the volumes LNCS 8588 and LNAI 8589 – constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2014, held in Taiyuan, China, in August 2014. The 58 papers of this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as machine learning; neural networks; image processing; computational systems biology and medical informatics; biomedical informatics theory and methods; advances on bio-inspired computing; protein and gene bioinformatics: analysis, algorithms, applications.

Information-Theoretic Evaluation for Computational Biomedical Ontologies

Information-Theoretic Evaluation for Computational Biomedical Ontologies
Author: Wyatt Travis Clark
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331904138X

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The development of effective methods for the prediction of ontological annotations is an important goal in computational biology, yet evaluating their performance is difficult due to problems caused by the structure of biomedical ontologies and incomplete annotations of genes. This work proposes an information-theoretic framework to evaluate the performance of computational protein function prediction. A Bayesian network is used, structured according to the underlying ontology, to model the prior probability of a protein's function. The concepts of misinformation and remaining uncertainty are then defined, that can be seen as analogs of precision and recall. Finally, semantic distance is proposed as a single statistic for ranking classification models. The approach is evaluated by analyzing three protein function predictors of gene ontology terms. The work addresses several weaknesses of current metrics, and provides valuable insights into the performance of protein function prediction tools.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
Author: Marzena Kryszkiewicz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319199412

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in June/July 2015. The total of 53 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: foundations of machine learning; image processing; image retrieval; image tracking; pattern recognition; data mining techniques for large scale data; fuzzy computing; rough sets; bioinformatics; and applications of artificial intelligence.

Systems Biology

Systems Biology
Author: Robert A. Meyers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2012-07-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527326073

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Systems biology is a relatively new biological study field that focuses on the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems, thus using a new perspective (integration instead of reduction) to study them. Particularly from year 2000 onwards, the term is used widely in the biosciences, and in a variety of contexts. Systems biology is the study of the interconnected aspect of molecular, cellular, tissue, whole animal and ecological processes, and comprises mathematical and mechanistic studies of dynamical, mesoscopic, open, spatiotemporally defined, nonlinear, complex systems that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium.