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    • A catalogue of 863 Rett-syndrome-causing MECP2 mutations and lessons learned from data integration 

      Ehrhart, Friederike; Jacobsen, Annika; Rigau, Maria; Bosio, Mattia; Kaliyaperumal, Rajaram; Laros, Jeroen F. J.; Willighagen, Egon L.; Valencia, Alfonso; Roos, Marco; Capella Gutiérrez, Salvador; Curfs, Leopold M. G.; Evelo, Chris T. (Springer Nature, 2021)
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      Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare neurological disorder mostly caused by a genetic variation in MECP2. Making new MECP2 variants and the related phenotypes available provides data for better understanding of disease mechanisms ...

    • A molecular hypothesis to explain direct and inverse co-morbidities between Alzheimer’s Disease, Glioblastoma and Lung cancer 

      Sánchez-Valle, Jon; Tejero, Héctor; Ibáñez, Kristina; Portero, Jose L.; Krallinger, Martin; Al-Shahrour, Fátima; Tabarés-Seisdedos, Rafael; Baudot, Anaïs; Valencia, Alfonso (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06-30)
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      Epidemiological studies indicate that patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease have a lower risk of developing lung cancer, and suggest a higher risk of developing glioblastoma. Here we explore the molecular scenarios ...

    • A multilayer network approach to elucidate severity in Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes 

      Núñez-Carpintero, Iker; Cirillo, Davide; Valencia, Alfonso (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2019-05-07)
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    • A user guide for the online exploration and visualization of PCAWG data 

      Goldman, Mary J.; Zhang, Junjun; Fonseca, Nuno A.; Cortés-Ciriano, Isidro; Xiang, Qian; Craft, Brian; Piñeiro-Yáñez, Elena; O'connor, Brian D.; Bazant, Wojciech; Barrera, Elisabet; Muñoz-Pomer, Alfonso; Petryszak, Robert; Füllgrabe, Anja; Al-Shahrour, Fatima; Keays, Maria; Haussler, David; Weinstein, John N; Huber, Wolfgang; Park, Peter J.; Papatheodorou, Elena; Valencia, Alfonso; Zhu, Jingchun; Ferretti, Vincent; Vazquez, Miguel (Springer Nature, 2020)
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      The Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project generated a vast amount of whole-genome cancer sequencing resource data. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which ...

    • APPRIS 2017: principal isoforms for multiple gene sets 

      Rodriguez, Jose M.; Rodriguez-Rivas, Juan; di Domenico, Tomás; Vázquez, Jesús; Valencia, Alfonso; Tress, Michael L. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-10-23)
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      The APPRIS database (http://appris-tools.org) uses protein structural and functional features and information from cross-species conservation to annotate splice isoforms in protein-coding genes. APPRIS selects a single ...

    • Automatic identification of informative regions with epigenomic changes associated to hematopoiesis 

      Carrillo-de-Santa-Pau, Enrique; Juan, David; Pancaldi, Vera; Were, Felipe; Martin-Subero, Ignacio; Rico, Daniel; Valencia, Alfonso (Oxford University Press, 2017-09-19)
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      Hematopoiesis is one of the best characterized biological systems but the connection between chromatin changes and lineage differentiation is not yet well understood. We have developed a bioinformatic workflow to generate ...

    • ChiPPI: a novel method for mapping chimeric protein–protein interactions uncovers selection principles of protein fusion events in cancer 

      Frenkel-Morgenstern, Milana; Gorohovski, Alessandro; Tagore, Somnath; Sekar, Vaishnovi; Vazquez, Miguel; Valencia, Alfonso (Oxford University Press, 2017-05-26)
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      Fusion proteins, comprising peptides deriving from the translation of two parental genes, are produced in cancer by chromosomal aberrations. The expressed fusion protein incorporates domains of both parental proteins. Using ...

    • Chromatin network markers of leukemia 

      Malod-Dognin, Noel; Pancaldi, Vera; Valencia, Alfonso; Pržulj, Natasa (Oxford University Press, 2020-07)
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      Motivation The structure of chromatin impacts gene expression. Its alteration has been shown to coincide with the occurrence of cancer. A key challenge is in understanding the role of chromatin structure (CS) in cellular ...

    • Comparison of algorithms for the detection of cancer drivers at subgene resolution 

      Porta-Pardo, Eduard; Kamburov, Atanas; Tamborero, David; Pons, Tirso; Grases, Daniela; Valencia, Alfonso; Lopez-Bigas, Nuria; Getz, Gad; Godzik, Adam (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-08)
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      Understanding genetic events that lead to cancer initiation and progression remains one of the biggest challenges in cancer biology. Traditionally, most algorithms for cancer-driver identification look for genes that have ...

    • Deep and cognitive learning applied to Precision Medicine: the initial experiments linking (epi)genome to phenotypes-disease characteristics 

      Cirillo, Davide; Valencia, Alfonso (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2017-05-04)
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      Present-day era of Big Data provides the unique opportunity to develop innovative approaches for data analysis to find new insights into specialized fields of biomedical research such as Precision Medicine [1]. Precision ...

    • Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a cat owned by a COVID-19−affected patient in Spain 

      Segalés, Joaquim; Puig, Mariona; Rodon, Jordi; Avila-Nieto, Carlos; Carrillo, Jorge; Cantero, Guillermo; Terrón, Maria Teresa; Cruz, Sílvia; Parera, Mariona; Noguera-Julián, Marc; Izquierdo-Useros, Nuria; Guallar, Victor; Vidal, Enric; Valencia, Alfonso; Blanco, Ignacio; Blanco, Julià; Clotet, Bonaventura; Vergara-Alert, Júlia (National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10)
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      Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of COVID-19, is considered a zoonotic pathogen mainly transmitted human to human. Few reports indicate that pets may be exposed to the ...

    • Epigenetic and Transcriptional Variability Shape Phenotypic Plasticity 

      Ecker, Simone; Pancaldi, Vera; Valencia, Alfonso; Beck, Stephan; Paul, Dirk S. (Wiley, 2017-12-18)
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      Epigenetic and transcriptional variability contribute to the vast diversity of cellular and organismal phenotypes and are key in human health and disease. In this review, we describe different types, sources, and determinants ...

    • GOPHER, an HPC framework for large scale graph exploration and inference 

      Josep Fabregó, Marc; Teruel García, Xavier; Giménez Ábalos, Víctor; Cirilo, Davide; Garcia Gasulla, Dario; Álvarez Napagao, Sergio; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Valencia, Alfonso (Springer, 2020)
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      Biological ontologies, such as the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and the Gene Ontology (GO), are extensively used in biomedical research to investigate the complex relationship that exists between the phenome and the ...

    • Information Retrieval and Text Mining Technologies for Chemistry 

      Krallinger, Martin; Rabal, Obdulia; Lourenço, Anália; Oyarzabal, Julen; Valencia, Alfonso (American Chemical Society, 2017-05-05)
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      Efficient access to chemical information contained in scientific literature, patents, technical reports, or the web is a pressing need shared by researchers and patent attorneys from different chemical disciplines. Retrieval ...

    • Interpreting molecular similarity between patients as a determinant of disease comorbidity relationships 

      Sánchez, Jon; Tejero, Héctor; Fernández, José María; Juan, David; Urda García, Beatriz; Capella Gutiérrez, Salvador; Al-Shahrour, Fátima; Tabarés Seisdedos, Rafael; Baudot, Anais; Pancaldi, Vera; Valencia, Alfonso (Springer Nature, 2020)
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      Comorbidity is a medical condition attracting increasing attention in healthcare and biomedical research. Little is known about the involvement of potential molecular factors leading to the emergence of a specific disease ...

    • Lessons Learned: Recommendations for Establishing Critical Periodic Scientific Benchmarking 

      Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador; de la Iglesia, Diana; Haas, Juergen; Lourenco, Analia; Fernandez, José M.; Repchevsky, Dmitry; Dessimoz, Christophe; Schwede, Torsten; Notredame, Cedric; Gelpí, Josep Lluís; Valencia, Alfonso (2017)
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      The dependence of life scientists on software has steadily grown in recent years. For many tasks, researchers have to decide which of the available bioinformatics software are more suitable for their specific needs. ...

    • LimTox: a web tool for applied text mining of adverse event and toxicity associations of compounds, drugs and genes 

      Cañada, Andres; Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador; Rabal, Obdulia; Oyarzabal, Julen; Valencia, Alfonso; Krallinger, Martin (Oxford University Press, 2017-05-22)
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      A considerable effort has been devoted to retrieve systematically information for genes and proteins as well as relationships between them. Despite the importance of chemical compounds and drugs as a central bio-entity in ...

    • Next generation community assessment of biomedical entity recognition web servers: metrics, performance, interoperability aspects of BeCalm 

      Pérez Pérez, Martín; Pérez Rodríguez, Gael; Blanco Míguez, Aitor; Fernández Riverola, Florentino; Valencia, Alfonso; Krallinger, Martin; Lourenço, Anália (BMC, 2019)
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      Background Shared tasks and community challenges represent key instruments to promote research, collaboration and determine the state of the art of biomedical and chemical text mining technologies. Traditionally, such ...

    • Patient dossier: healthcare queries over distributed resources 

      Vazquez, Miguel; Valencia, Alfonso (PLOS, 2019-10-17)
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      As with many other aspects of the modern world, in healthcare, the explosion of data and resources opens new opportunities for the development of added-value services. Still, a number of specific conditions on this domain ...

    • Pigs are not susceptible to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection but are a model for viral immunogenicity studies 

      Vergara-Alert, Júlia; Rodon, Jordi; Carrillo, Jorge; Te, Nigeer; Izquierdo‐Useros, Nuria; Rodríguez de la Concepción, María Luisa; Ávila‐Nieto, Carlos; Guallar, Victor; Valencia, Alfonso; Cantero, Guillermo; Blanco, Julià; Clotet, Bonaventura; Bensaid, Albert; Segalés, Joaquim (Wiley, 2020-10)
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      Conventional piglets were inoculated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) through different routes, including intranasal, intratracheal, intramuscular and intravenous ones. Although piglets ...