{"title":"Understanding traditional Chinese medicine via statistical learning of expert-specific Electronic Medical Records","authors":"Yang Yang, Qi Li, Zhaoyang Liu, Fang Ye, Ke Deng","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0173-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0173-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"210 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0173-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45973738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of candidate disease genes in patients with common variable immunodeficiency","authors":"Guojun Liu, M. Bolkov, I. Tuzankina, I. Danilova","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0174-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0174-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"190 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0174-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46230614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tao Ding, Jie Gao, Shanshan Zhu, Junhua Xu, Min Wu
{"title":"Predicting microRNA-disease association based on microRNA structural and functional similarity network","authors":"Tao Ding, Jie Gao, Shanshan Zhu, Junhua Xu, Min Wu","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0170-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0170-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"138-146"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0170-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44596978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xingyu Liao, Min Li, You Zou, Fang-Xiang Wu, Yi Pan, Jianxin Wang
{"title":"Current challenges and solutions of de novo assembly","authors":"Xingyu Liao, Min Li, You Zou, Fang-Xiang Wu, Yi Pan, Jianxin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0166-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0166-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"90-109"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0166-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43928303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computational methods and applications for quantitative systems pharmacology","authors":"F. Xie, Jiangyong Gu","doi":"10.1007/s40484-018-0161-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-018-0161-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"3-16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-018-0161-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42029626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wen Yang, Xia Wang, Kenan Li, Yuanru Liu, Y. Liu, Rui Wang, Honglin Li
{"title":"Pharmacodynamics simulation of HOEC by a computational model of arachidonic acid metabolic network","authors":"Wen Yang, Xia Wang, Kenan Li, Yuanru Liu, Y. Liu, Rui Wang, Honglin Li","doi":"10.1007/s40484-018-0163-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-018-0163-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"30-41"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-018-0163-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44228337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quantitative BiologyPub Date : 2019-03-01Epub Date: 2019-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s40484-018-0160-7
Samuel F M Hart, David Skelding, Adam J Waite, Justin C Burton, Wenying Shou
{"title":"High-throughput quantification of microbial birth and death dynamics using fluorescence microscopy.","authors":"Samuel F M Hart, David Skelding, Adam J Waite, Justin C Burton, Wenying Shou","doi":"10.1007/s40484-018-0160-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-018-0160-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Microbes live in dynamic environments where nutrient concentrations fluctuate. Quantifying fitness in terms of birth rate and death rate in a wide range of environments is critical for understanding microbial evolution and ecology.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Here, using high-throughput time-lapse microscopy, we have quantified how <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> mutants incapable of synthesizing an essential metabolite (auxotrophs) grow or die in various concentrations of the required metabolite. We establish that cells normally expressing fluorescent proteins lose fluorescence upon death and that the total fluorescence in an imaging frame is proportional to the number of live cells even when cells form multiple layers. We validate our microscopy approach of measuring birth and death rates using flow cytometry, cell counting, and chemostat culturing.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For lysine-requiring cells, very low concentrations of lysine are not detectably consumed and do not support cell birth, but delay the onset of death phase and reduce the death rate compared to no lysine. In contrast, in low hypoxanthine, hypoxanthine-requiring cells can produce new cells, yet also die faster than in the absence of hypoxanthine. For both strains, birth rates under various metabolite concentrations are better described by the sigmoidal-shaped Moser model than the well-known Monod model, while death rates can vary with metabolite concentration and time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our work reveals how time-lapse microscopy can be used to discover non-intuitive microbial birth and death dynamics and to quantify growth rates in many environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"69-81"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-018-0160-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41215610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey of web resources and tools for the study of TCM network pharmacology","authors":"Jing Zhao, Jian Yang, Saisai Tian, Weidong Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0167-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0167-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"17-29"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0167-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43333568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}