Zecheng Tang, Daohua Zhuang, Xinmin Duan, Qingqing Gong, Chen Tian, Peicheng Jiang, Jiangkun Yu, Fei Li, Fangfang Zhao, Guolin Shi, Hang Yang, Qinghang Du, Tong Li, Zhiqiang Ye, Zhigang Zhang
{"title":"MicroSSNet: an R package for microbial network construction and analysis at the single-sample and aggregated levels.","authors":"Zecheng Tang, Daohua Zhuang, Xinmin Duan, Qingqing Gong, Chen Tian, Peicheng Jiang, Jiangkun Yu, Fei Li, Fangfang Zhao, Guolin Shi, Hang Yang, Qinghang Du, Tong Li, Zhiqiang Ye, Zhigang Zhang","doi":"10.1186/s12859-026-06444-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-026-06444-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8958,"journal":{"name":"BMC Bioinformatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147670183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joaquim Rosa, João Andrade, Jorge Miguel Silva, José Luis Oliveira
{"title":"Biochef: a client-side WebAssembly-based workflow builder for genomic data analysis.","authors":"Joaquim Rosa, João Andrade, Jorge Miguel Silva, José Luis Oliveira","doi":"10.1186/s12859-026-06431-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-026-06431-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Genomics analyses often rely on command-line tools executed via remote servers, imposing usability barriers for non-technical users and raising privacy concerns. WebAssembly (WASM) enables native-code execution directly in web browsers, eliminating installations and data transfers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We introduce BioChef, a client-side genomic workflow platform that uses WASM. BioChef compiles a genomics toolkit into browser-executable modules and exposes them through a drag-and-drop GUI designed to be intuitive. The system provides real-time validation, flexible input methods (form-based and JSON), intermediate step inspections, and reproducible workflows exportable as bash scripts or configuration files. Performance benchmarks across major browsers (Chromium, Gecko, WebKit) demonstrate rapid initialization (LCP 0.583 s), responsive interactivity (INP 30.5 ms), minimal layout shifts (CLS 0.01), and acceptable overhead (average 181.5 ms initial WASM module load). Although browser execution introduced performance penalties (<math><mo>∼</mo></math>130<math><mo>×</mo></math> slower than native), BioChef workflows still significantly outperformed traditional web services such as Galaxy by avoiding network delays and server-side queueing (11.3<math><mo>×</mo></math> faster in a standard pipeline benchmark).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>BioChef shows how WebAssembly on the client side can democratize genomic data processing, ensuring privacy, reproducibility and ease of use without external dependencies. To our knowledge, this is the first fully client-side, graphical genomic workflow environment powered by WASM.</p>","PeriodicalId":8958,"journal":{"name":"BMC Bioinformatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new SNP comparison (SnpC) method for detecting unique/enriched gene-SNP variants and comparing population gene mutation diversity.","authors":"Zhanshan Sam Ma, Lianwei Li, Ya-Ping Zhang","doi":"10.1186/s12859-026-06381-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-026-06381-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8958,"journal":{"name":"BMC Bioinformatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147627120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhihai Zhang, Weijia Jia, Joao Paulo Gomes Viana, Ping-Hung Hsieh, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Matthew Hudson
{"title":"pyFLANK, a graph neural network based null distribution inference model for F<sub>ST</sub> outlier detection.","authors":"Zhihai Zhang, Weijia Jia, Joao Paulo Gomes Viana, Ping-Hung Hsieh, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Matthew Hudson","doi":"10.1186/s12859-026-06430-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-026-06430-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8958,"journal":{"name":"BMC Bioinformatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147627130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive enhancement of chest X-ray images using tissue attenuation and local and global fusion.","authors":"Zhen Zhao, Rui Tang, Qifeng Liu","doi":"10.1186/s12859-026-06429-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-026-06429-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8958,"journal":{"name":"BMC Bioinformatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147607817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}