Mark D. Robinson, Peiying Cai, Martin Emons, Reto Gerber, Pierre-Luc Germain, Samuel Gunz, Siyuan Luo, Giulia Moro, Emanuel Sonder, Anthony Sonrel, Jiayi Wang, David Wissel, Izaskun Mallona
{"title":"Ten simple rules for collaborating with wet lab researchers for computational researchers","authors":"Mark D. Robinson, Peiying Cai, Martin Emons, Reto Gerber, Pierre-Luc Germain, Samuel Gunz, Siyuan Luo, Giulia Moro, Emanuel Sonder, Anthony Sonrel, Jiayi Wang, David Wissel, Izaskun Mallona","doi":"arxiv-2402.18348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.18348","url":null,"abstract":"Computational biologists are frequently engaged in collaborative data\u0000analysis with wet lab researchers. These interdisciplinary projects, as\u0000necessary as they are to the scientific endeavour, can be surprisingly\u0000challenging due to cultural differences in operations and values. In these Ten\u0000Simple Rules guide we aim to help dry lab researchers identify sources of\u0000friction; and provide actionable tools to facilitate respectful, open,\u0000transparent and rewarding collaborations.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yue Yu, Yuchen Zhuang, Bowen Jin, May D. Wang, Joyce C. Ho, Carl Yang
{"title":"RAM-EHR: Retrieval Augmentation Meets Clinical Predictions on Electronic Health Records","authors":"Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yue Yu, Yuchen Zhuang, Bowen Jin, May D. Wang, Joyce C. Ho, Carl Yang","doi":"arxiv-2403.00815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.00815","url":null,"abstract":"We present RAM-EHR, a Retrieval AugMentation pipeline to improve clinical\u0000predictions on Electronic Health Records (EHRs). RAM-EHR first collects\u0000multiple knowledge sources, converts them into text format, and uses dense\u0000retrieval to obtain information related to medical concepts. This strategy\u0000addresses the difficulties associated with complex names for the concepts.\u0000RAM-EHR then augments the local EHR predictive model co-trained with\u0000consistency regularization to capture complementary information from patient\u0000visits and summarized knowledge. Experiments on two EHR datasets show the\u0000efficacy of RAM-EHR over previous knowledge-enhanced baselines (3.4% gain in\u0000AUROC and 7.2% gain in AUPR), emphasizing the effectiveness of the summarized\u0000knowledge from RAM-EHR for clinical prediction tasks. The code will be\u0000published at url{https://github.com/ritaranx/RAM-EHR}.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140046930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications of self-identified race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry on genetic association studies in biobanks within health systems","authors":"Ruth Johnson, Bogdan Pasaniuc","doi":"arxiv-2402.15696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.15696","url":null,"abstract":"Precision medicine aims to create biomedical solutions tailored to specific\u0000factors that affect disease risk and treatment responses within the population.\u0000The success of the genomics era and recent widespread availability of\u0000electronic health records (EHR) has ushered in a new wave of genomic biobanks\u0000connected to EHR databases (EHR-linked biobanks). This perspective aims to\u0000discuss how race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry are currently utilized to\u0000study common disease variation through genetic association studies. Although\u0000genetic ancestry plays a significant role in shaping the genetic landscape\u0000underlying disease risk in humans, the overall risk of a disease is caused by a\u0000complex combination of environmental, sociocultural, and genetic factors. When\u0000using EHR-linked biobanks to interrogate underlying disease etiology, it is\u0000also important to be aware of how the biases associated with commonly used\u0000descent-associated concepts such as race and ethnicity can propagate to\u0000downstream analyses. We intend for this resource to support researchers who\u0000perform or analyze genetic association studies in the EHR-linked biobank\u0000setting such as those involved in consortium-wide biobanking efforts. We\u0000provide background on how race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry play a role in\u0000current association studies, highlight considerations where there is no\u0000consensus about best practices, and provide transparency about the current\u0000shortcomings.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John R. Helliwell, James R. Hester, Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Brian McMahon, Selina L. S. Storm
{"title":"The Evolution of Raw Data Archiving and the Growth of Its Importance in Crystallography","authors":"John R. Helliwell, James R. Hester, Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Brian McMahon, Selina L. S. Storm","doi":"arxiv-2402.16652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.16652","url":null,"abstract":"The hardware for data archiving has expanded capacities for digital storage\u0000enormously in the past decade or more. This article charts the efforts of IUCr\u0000to facilitate discussions and plans relating to raw data archiving and reuse\u0000within the various communities of crystallography, diffraction, and scattering.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aram Akram Mohammed, Fakhraddin Mustafa Hama Salih
{"title":"Effect of Rootstock on Some Aspects of Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.): A Review","authors":"Aram Akram Mohammed, Fakhraddin Mustafa Hama Salih","doi":"arxiv-2402.14896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.14896","url":null,"abstract":"Budding and grafting are the strategies employed to combat unfavorable\u0000environmental conditions and improve some physiological defects in the Pistacia\u0000vera tree. Drought and salinity stresses are the most prominent adverse\u0000conditions encountered in pistachio production. It has been observed in\u0000different studies that various pistachio rootstocks can be used to ameliorate\u0000the effect of those two stresses. Besides, rootstock has a role in some\u0000physiological performances of pistachios such as nutrient uptake and\u0000photosynthesis. Furthermore, nut blank, unsplit nut, and alternate bearing are\u0000three physiological disorders found in pistachio. Relationships have been found\u0000between the degree of these physiological disorders and the rootstock effect.\u0000The impact of rootstock on drought and salinity stresses, physiological\u0000performances, and physiological disorders in P. vera will be discussed in this\u0000review.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139968908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The affinity-efficacy problem: an essential part of pharmacology education","authors":"James P Higham, David Colquhoun","doi":"arxiv-2402.14617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.14617","url":null,"abstract":"A fundamental mistake in receptor theory has led to an enduring\u0000misunderstanding of how to estimate the affinity and efficacy of an agonist.\u0000These properties are inextricably linked and cannot be easily separated in any\u0000case where the binding of a ligand induces a conformation change in its\u0000receptor. Consequently, binding curves and concentration-response relationships\u0000for receptor agonists have no straightforward interpretation. This problem, the\u0000affinity-efficacy problem, remains overlooked and misunderstood despite it\u0000being recognised in 1987. To avoid the further propagation of this\u0000misunderstanding, we propose that the affinity-efficacy problem should be\u0000included in the core curricula for pharmacology undergraduates proposed by the\u0000British Pharmacological Society and IUPHAR.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139952152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Royer, Casey Paquola, Sofie L. Valk, Matthias Kirschner, Seok-Jun Hong, Bo-yong Park, Richard A. I. Bethlehem, Robert Leech, B. T. Thomas Yeo, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jonathan Smallwood, Daniel Margulies, Boris C. Bernhardt
{"title":"Gradients of brain organization: Smooth sailing from methods development to user community","authors":"Jessica Royer, Casey Paquola, Sofie L. Valk, Matthias Kirschner, Seok-Jun Hong, Bo-yong Park, Richard A. I. Bethlehem, Robert Leech, B. T. Thomas Yeo, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jonathan Smallwood, Daniel Margulies, Boris C. Bernhardt","doi":"arxiv-2402.11055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.11055","url":null,"abstract":"Multimodal neuroimaging grants a powerful in vivo window into the structure\u0000and function of the human brain. Recent methodological and conceptual advances\u0000have enabled investigations of the interplay between large-scale spatial\u0000trends, or gradients, in brain structure and function, offering a framework to\u0000unify principles of brain organization across multiple scales. Strong community\u0000enthusiasm for these techniques has been instrumental in their widespread\u0000adoption and implementation to answer key questions in neuroscience. Following\u0000a brief review of current literature on this framework, this perspective paper\u0000will highlight how pragmatic steps aiming to make gradient methods more\u0000accessible to the community propelled these techniques to the forefront of\u0000neuroscientific inquiry. More specifically, we will emphasize how interest for\u0000gradient methods was catalyzed by data sharing, open-source software\u0000development, as well as the organization of dedicated workshops led by a\u0000diverse team of early career researchers. To this end, we argue that the\u0000growing excitement for brain gradients is the result of coordinated and\u0000consistent efforts to build an inclusive community and can serve as a case in\u0000point for future innovations and conceptual advances in neuroinformatics. We\u0000close this perspective paper by discussing challenges for the continuous\u0000refinement of neuroscientific theory, methodological innovation, and real-world\u0000translation to maintain our collective progress towards integrated models of\u0000brain organization.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brief overview on Bacteriophage therapy; Alternative to Antibiotics","authors":"Rameen Atique, Hafiza Arshi Saeed, Bushra Anwar, Tehreem Rana, Ayesha Haidar, Ayesha Muazzam, Areesha Naveed, Javeria Sharif, Aqsa Perveen, Hafiza Rida Fatima, Abdul Samad","doi":"arxiv-2402.10245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.10245","url":null,"abstract":"The term bacteriophage means killer or eater of bacteria. They were initially\u0000discovered by F.W. Twort and later on, Felix d'Herelle unveiled them to the\u0000world in 1910. Phage therapy has arisen as a favorable option to conventional\u0000antibiotics by reducing the multinational problem of increasing antibacterial\u0000resistance. These virulent viruses particularly prey on and contaminate\u0000bacterial strains and aid in fighting bacterial diseases. Researchers are\u0000performing various clinical trials on the bacteriophage to tackle pathogenic\u0000bacterial infections, varying from typical illnesses to highly invulnerable\u0000biofilms that cannot be treated with antibiotics. The primary experiments\u0000demonstrated that phage therapy has fewer consequences than traditional\u0000antimicrobial drugs. It is safer to use and show results within a few days.\u0000Although phage therapy has a wide range of promising results, but it also\u0000encounters diverse obstacles. One is that they are host-specific and can merely\u0000be used for personalized therapy. As thousands of bacteria can cause disease,\u0000clinicians have to construct a library of phage viruses. For successful\u0000treatment, an analysis of versatility, stability, and immune interference\u0000related to bacteriophage is necessary. Phage therapy is an excellent substitute\u0000for antibiotics as it illustrates a living base for the treatment of infections\u0000and it is climate-friendly. It only targets the pathogenic cells and has less\u0000influence on the normal microbiota. Regardless of the challenges and problems,\u0000phage therapy is approved as a beneficial approach to combating contagious\u0000infections.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139902707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eleanor Dunlop, Judy Cunningham, Paul Adorno, Shari Fatupaito, Stuart K Johnson, Lucinda J Black
{"title":"Development of an updated, comprehensive food composition database for Australian-grown horticultural commodities","authors":"Eleanor Dunlop, Judy Cunningham, Paul Adorno, Shari Fatupaito, Stuart K Johnson, Lucinda J Black","doi":"arxiv-2402.06169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.06169","url":null,"abstract":"Australian agriculture supplies many horticultural commodities to domestic\u0000and international markets; however, food composition data for many commodities\u0000are outdated or unavailable. We produced an up-to-date, nationally\u0000representative dataset of up to 148 nutrients and related components in 92\u0000Australian-grown fruit (fresh n=39, dried n=6), vegetables (n=43) and nuts\u0000(n=4) by replacing outdated data (pre-2000), confirming concentrations of\u0000important nutrients and retaining relevant existing data. Primary samples (n =\u0000902) were purchased during peak growing season in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth\u0000between June 2021 and May 2022. While new data reflect current growing\u0000practices, varieties, climate and analytical methods, few notable differences\u0000were found between old and new data where methods of analysis are comparable.\u0000The new data will be incorporated into the Australian Food Composition\u0000Database, allowing free online access to stakeholders. The approach used could\u0000serve as a model for cost-effective updates of national food composition\u0000databases worldwide.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of a Golden Gate plasmid set enabling scarless MoClo-compatible transcription unit assembly","authors":"Stijn T. de Vries, Laura Kley, Daniel Schindler","doi":"arxiv-2402.03410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.03410","url":null,"abstract":"Golden Gate cloning has become a powerful and widely used DNA assembly\u0000method. Its modular nature and the reusability of standardized parts allow\u0000rapid construction of transcription units and multi-gene constructs.\u0000Importantly, its modular structure makes it compatible with laboratory\u0000automation, allowing for systematic and highly complex DNA assembly. Golden\u0000Gate cloning relies on Type IIS enzymes that cleave an adjacent undefined\u0000sequence motif at a defined distance from the directed enzyme recognition\u0000motif. This feature has been used to define hierarchical Golden Gate assembly\u0000standards with defined overhangs (\"fusion sites\") for defined part libraries.\u0000The simplest Golden Gate standard would consist of three part libraries, namely\u0000promoter, coding and terminator sequences, respectively. Each library would\u0000have defined fusion sites, allowing a hierarchical Golden Gate assembly to\u0000generate transcription units. Typically, Type IIS enzymes are used, which\u0000generate four nucleotide overhangs. This results in small scar sequences in\u0000hierarchical DNA assemblies, which can affect the functionality of\u0000transcription units. However, there are enzymes that generate three nucleotide\u0000overhangs, such as SapI. Here we provide a step-by-step protocol on how to use\u0000SapI to assemble transcription units using the start and stop codon for\u0000scarless transcription unit assembly. The protocol also provides guidance on\u0000how to perform multi-gene Golden Gate assemblies with the resulting\u0000transcription units using the Modular Cloning standard. The transcription units\u0000expressing fluorophores are used as an example.","PeriodicalId":501219,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuanBio - Other Quantitative Biology","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}