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- BioinformaticsPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
The Transcriptional Gradient in Negative-Strand RNA Viruses Suggests a Common RNA Transcription Mechanism
Connor R. King, Casey-Tyler Berezin, Brian E. Munsky, Jean Peccoud
The paper introduces a model explaining the transcriptional gradient in NNSVs through polymerase parameters, enabling genotype-based prediction of transcriptional behavior.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014441 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
fastQpick: scalable bootstrap and subsampling of FASTQ reads
Joseph Matthew Rich, Lior S. Pachter
fastQpick generates bootstrap replicates of FASTQ reads for uncertainty quantification in sequencing data.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.23.734068 - BioinformaticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
MIND: Multimodal Integration with Neighbourhood-aware Distributions
The paper introduces a multi-omics integration framework that learns patient-specific embeddings from incomplete data using a variational autoencoder with a data-driven prior, achieving better performance on downstream tasks.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-74413-1 - BioinformaticsPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
A new cancer progression model: from synthetic tumors to real data and back
Daniela Volpatto, Sandro Gepiro Contaldo, Simone Pernice…·Roberta Sirovich
This paper introduces a stochastic model of tumor evolution that integrates genetic and environmental factors to simulate clonal dynamics and demonstrates how ecological feedbacks shape cancer progression.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013991 - BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
ASMS: finding allele specific methylation in human genomes without phasing
Emanuele Raineri, Miguel Ángel Esteve Marco, Eloi Casals, Anna Esteve‐Codina
ASMS detects allele-specific methylation without phasing by analyzing methylation data directly, offering a faster approach for studying gene regulation and imprinting.
DOI 10.1093/nargab/lqag072 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Learning interpretable structural similarity from tandem mass spectra for small molecule analog discovery
Juan Sebastian Piedrahita Giraldo, Katyeny Manuela da Silva, Mohammad Reza Zare Shahneh…·Wout Bittremieux
This paper introduces SIMBA, a transformer-based model that learns interpretable structural similarity from tandem mass spectra to improve small molecule analog discovery.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.17.733050 - BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Relation Extraction for Diet, Non-Communicable Disease and Biomarker Associations (RECoDe): A CoDiet study
Donghee Choi, Yajie Gu, Kai Qi Zong…·Joram Matthias Posma
The paper introduces RECoDe, a relation extraction dataset for diet, disease, and biomarker associations, and benchmarks NLP models on it, achieving high classification performance.
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag439 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Structural Pockets and Interacting RNA-Associated Ligands (SPIRAL): A DSSR-enabled Meta-Analysis of RNA-Small Molecule Recognition
SPIRAL curates RNA-small molecule structures and identifies binding modes and predictors of affinity, aiding RNA-targeted therapeutic design.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.19.726393 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Measuring peptide-MHC generalization to unseen alleles across both HLA classes
The paper evaluates peptide-MHC generalization to unseen alleles and introduces a benchmark and model that improves prediction accuracy for rare HLA alleles.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.18.733075 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
HoloCell: A Generative Foundation Model for Holistic Cellular Modeling
Qun Jiang, Zhen Li, Bowen Hu…·Qijin Yin
HoloCell is a generative foundation model that integrates epigenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics data across single-cell multi-omics modalities, demonstrating superior performance in representation learning and cross-modal generation.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Comorbidity structure as an inductive bias: Comparing output-head designs for multi-label prediction of diabetes and myocardial infarction complications
Wilfred Ayine, Perfect Kwasi Agbenorhevi, Cletus Fiifi Adams…·Samuel K. Kwofie
This paper compares output-head designs for predicting diabetes and myocardial infarction complications, finding that symmetric CRF outperformed others in diabetes but no single method dominated in myocardial infarction.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.18.733068 - BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
FFixR: A Machine Learning Framework for Accurate Somatic Mutation Calling from FFPE RNA-Seq Data in Cancer
FFixR filters artefactual mutations in FFPE RNA-seq data, improving accuracy for somatic variant calling in cancer.
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag405 - BioinformaticsCurrent Drug TargetsPeer-reviewed
Mechanistic Insights into the inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum DNA gyrase A by withanolides derivatives through integrated computational analysis
Bini Chhetri Soren, Soujanya J. Vastrad, Syed Junied…·Jagadish Babu Dasari
This study uses computational methods to analyze the binding of three withanolide derivatives to Plasmodium falciparum DNA gyrase, showing their potential as antimalarial drug candidates.
DOI 10.2174/0113894501453689260424110443 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
OmniCell: Unified Foundation Modeling of Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics for Cellular and Molecular Insights
Jiangshuan Pang, Ping Sun Qiu, Youzhe He…·Xun Xu
OmniCell integrates single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to model tissue context, revealing how gene programs operate in different anatomical environments.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
biomeStat: Using Agentic AI for Scalable Genomic Epidemiology Demonstrated Through End-to-End Analysis of 1,000 Asian Dengue Virus Genomes
Dinuka Ariyaratne, Nayana Somaratna, Gathsaurie Neelika Malavige
biomeStat automates genomic epidemiology analysis of 1,000 Dengue virus genomes, revealing immune escape sites and conserved drug targets in under 24 hours.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.10.731380 - BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Inferring Dynamic Information from Protein Structures by Gaussian Integrals and Deep Learning
Felipe Vilicich, Nicolás Bottino, Zhaoqian Su…·Yinghao Wu
This paper develops a deep learning framework to predict protein flexibility from static structural data, achieving moderate accuracy and identifying key structural features associated with flexibility.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
VCBench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Single-Cell Foundation Models
Lukas Weidener, Marko Brkić, Mihailo Jovanović…·Aakaash Meduri
VCBench evaluates single-cell foundation models across seven dimensions, finding baselines often outperform models, with TranscriptFormer showing unique strengths but tradeoffs.
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