
Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences
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The 6 regular and 5 invited papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The use of high throughput technologies is fundamentally changing the life sciences and leading to the collection of large amounts of biological and medical data. The papers show how the use of this data can help expand our knowledge of fundamental biological processes and improve human health - using novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms.
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- Intro
- Preface
- Organization
- Contents
- Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences
- DNA Read Feature Importance Using Machine Learning for Read Alignment Categories
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work and Motivation
- 3 Methods
- 3.1 Data Acquisition and Read Mapping
- 3.2 Feature and Class Extraction
- 3.3 Machine Learning Methods
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Model Accuracy
- 4.2 Feature Importance
- 4.3 Feature Ranking Similarity Across Different Data
- 4.4 Machine Learning Filter Proof-of-Concept
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- MetaProb 2: Improving Unsupervised Metagenomic Binning with Efficient Reads Assembly Using Minimizers
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Method
- 2.1 Phase 1: Unitig Construction
- 2.2 Phase 2: Community Detection
- 2.3 Phase 3: Species Identification
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 3.1 Datasets Description and Performance Evaluation Metrics
- 3.2 Results
- 4 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Computational Study of Action Potential Generation in Urethral Smooth Muscle Cell
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- References
- Metabolic Pathway Prediction using Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Improved Precision
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Method
- 2.1 Decomposing the Pathway EC Association Matrix
- 2.2 Community Reconstruction and Multi-label Learning
- 3 Experiments
- 3.1 T1 Golden Data
- 3.2 Three E. coli Data
- 3.3 Mealybug Symbionts Data
- 3.4 CAMI and HOTS Data
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- A Novel Pathway Network Analytics Method Based on Graph Theory
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Identification of Significantly Enriched Pathways
- 2.2 Construction of a Weighted Network
- 2.3 Identification of Sub-networks
- 2.4 Identification of Important Pathways
- 3 Results and Discussions
- 3.1 Dataset Employed
- 3.2 Outcomes and Relevant Discussions
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Latent Variable Modelling and Variational Inference for scRNA-seq Differential Expression Analysis
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 ext-ZINBayes
- 2.2 SIENA
- 3 Results
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Computational Advances for Single-Cell Omics Data Analysis
- Computational Cell Cycle Analysis of Single Cell RNA-Seq Data
- 1 Background and Motivation
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Datasets
- 2.2 The SC1 Cell Cycle (SC1CC) Analysis Tool
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 3.1 Results on the hESC Dataset
- 3.2 Results on the PBMC Dataset
- 3.3 Results on the -CTLA-4 Dataset
- 3.4 Results on the mHSC Dataset
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Network Analysis Reveals Potential Mechanisms of Action of Antimalarials Against SARS-CoV-2
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Data Set
- 2.2 Machine Learning Workflow
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Computational Advances for Next Generation Sequencing
- RACCROCHE: Ancestral Flowering Plant Chromosomes and Gene Orders Based on Generalized Adjacencies and Chromosomal Gene Co-occurrences
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Input
- 2.2 The Pipeline
- 2.3 Visualizing and Evaluating the Reconstruction
- 2.4 Ancestral Gene Function
- 3 Reconstruction of Monocot Ancestors
- 3.1 Properties of the Contig Reconstruction
- 3.2 Clustering
- 3.3 Painting the Chromosomes of the Present-Day Genomes
- 3.4 Evaluation
- 3.5 MCScanX Visualization
- 4 Discussions and Conclusions
- A Redistributing Genes from Families Exceeding Upper Size Limits
- B Modes of Contig Construction
- C Matching Contigs to Chromosomes of Extant Genomes
- D Construction of Ancestral Chromosomes
- E Functional Annotation of Ancestral Genes
- References
- A Fast Word Embedding Based Classifier to Profile Target Gene Databases in Metagenomic Samples
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Indexing Protein Reference Databases
- 2.2 Prediction of Short Reads
- 2.3 Databases
- 2.4 True Positive Dataset
- 2.5 False Positives Dataset
- 2.6 Time and Memory Profiling
- 2.7 Functional Annotation of Metagenomic Datasets
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 3.1 Detection of True Positive Hits
- 3.2 Detection of False Positives Hits
- 3.3 Time and Memory Usage of MetaMLP
- 3.4 Functional Annotation of Different Environments
- 3.5 Observation of MetaMLP Annotations Against an Extensive Metagenomics Study
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Clustering Based Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Subtypes
- 1 Background
- 2 Clustering Methods
- 2.1 CliqueSNV Based Clustering
- 2.2 k-modes Clustering
- 2.3 MeShClust
- 2.4 Gap Filling
- 3 Assessment of Clustering Viral Subtypes
- 3.1 Cluster Entropy
- 3.2 Fitness
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Analysis of GISAID Data
- 4.2 Analysis of EMBL-EBI Data
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Author Index
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