A comprehensive review and performance evaluation of bioinformatics tools for HLA class I peptide-binding prediction

S Mei, F Li, A Leier, TT Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) molecules are encoded by major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) class I loci in humans. The binding and interaction between HLA-I …

Computational analysis and prediction of lysine malonylation sites by exploiting informative features in an integrative machine-learning framework

Y Zhang, R Xie, J Wang, A Leier… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
As a newly discovered post-translational modification (PTM), lysine malonylation (Kmal)
regulates a myriad of cellular processes from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and has important …

Twenty years of bioinformatics research for protease-specific substrate and cleavage site prediction: a comprehensive revisit and benchmarking of existing methods

F Li, Y Wang, C Li, TT Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The roles of proteolytic cleavage have been intensively investigated and discussed during
the past two decades. This irreversible chemical process has been frequently reported to …

A tunable synthetic mammalian oscillator

M Tigges, TT Marquez-Lago, J Stelling, M Fussenegger - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Autonomous and self-sustained oscillator circuits mediating the periodic induction of specific
target genes are minimal genetic time-keeping devices found in the central and peripheral …

iFeature: a Python package and web server for features extraction and selection from protein and peptide sequences

Z Chen, P Zhao, F Li, A Leier, TT Marquez-Lago… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Structural and physiochemical descriptors extracted from sequence data have been widely
used to represent sequences and predict structural, functional, expression and interaction …

iLearn: an integrated platform and meta-learner for feature engineering, machine-learning analysis and modeling of DNA, RNA and protein sequence data

Z Chen, P Zhao, F Li, TT Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
With the explosive growth of biological sequences generated in the post-genomic era, one
of the most challenging problems in bioinformatics and computational biology is to …

Dynamic regulation of T follicular regulatory cell responses by interleukin 2 during influenza infection

D Botta, MJ Fuller, TT Marquez-Lago, H Bachus… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Interleukin 2 (IL-2) promotes Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cell responses, but inhibits
T follicular helper (TFH) cell development. However, it is not clear how IL-2 affects T follicular …

POSSUM: a bioinformatics toolkit for generating numerical sequence feature descriptors based on PSSM profiles

J Wang, B Yang, J Revote, A Leier… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary information in the form of a Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) is a widely
used and highly informative representation of protein sequences. Accordingly, PSSM-based …

Quokka: a comprehensive tool for rapid and accurate prediction of kinase family-specific phosphorylation sites in the human proteome

F Li, C Li, TT Marquez-Lago, A Leier, T Akutsu… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Kinase-regulated phosphorylation is a ubiquitous type of post-translational
modification (PTM) in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. Phosphorylation plays …

PROSPERous: high-throughput prediction of substrate cleavage sites for 90 proteases with improved accuracy

J Song, F Li, A Leier, TT Marquez-Lago, T Akutsu… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Proteases are enzymes that specifically cleave the peptide backbone of their target proteins.
As an important type of irreversible post-translational modification, protein cleavage …