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  • EpiGe: A machine-learning strategy for rapid classification of medulloblastoma using PCR-based methyl-genotyping 

    Gómez González, Soledad; Llano Viles, Joshua; García López, Marta; Garrido Garcia, Alicia; Suñol Capella, Mariona; Lemos, Isadora; Perez Jaume, Sara; Salvador Marcos, Noelia; Gene Olaciregui, Nagore; Arnau Galán, Raquel; Santa María López, Vicente; Perez Somarriba, Marta; Perera Lluna, Alexandre; Mora Graupera, Jaume; Lavarino, Cinzia; Morales, Andrés (Elsevier, 2023-09-15)
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    Molecular classification of medulloblastoma is critical for the treatment of this brain tumor. Array-based DNA methylation profiling has emerged as a powerful approach for brain tumor classification. However, this technology ...
  • Home monitoring for older singles: A gas sensor array system 

    Marín López, Daniel; Llano Viles, Joshua; Haddi, Zouhair; Perera Lluna, Alexandre; Fonollosa Magrinyà, Jordi (Elsevier, 2023-10-15)
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    Many residential environments have been equipped with sensing technologies both to provide assistance to older people who have opted for aging-in-place and to provide information to caregivers and family. However, such ...
  • New insights into the molecular mechanism of rhodopsin retinitis pigmentosa from the biochemical and functional characterization of G90V, Y102H and I307N mutations 

    Herrera Hernández, María Guadalupe; Razzaghi, Neda; Fernández González, Pol; Bosch Presegue, Laia; Vila i Julià, Guillem; Pérez González, Juan Jesús; Garriga Solé, Pere (Springer Nature, 2022-01-01)
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    Mutations in the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin are known as one of the leading causes of retinal degeneration in humans. Two rhodopsin mutations, Y102H and I307N, obtained in chemically mutagenized mice, are currently ...
  • Mapping layperson medical terminology into the Human Phenotype Ontology using neural machine translation models 

    Manzini, Enrico; Garrido de Aguirre, Jon; Fonollosa Magrinyà, Jordi; Perera Lluna, Alexandre (2022-10-15)
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    In the medical domain there exists a terminological gap between patients and caregivers and the healthcare professionals. This gap may hinder the success of the communication between healthcare consumers and professionals ...
  • Effect of sodium valproate on the conformational stability of the visual G Protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin 

    Razzaghi, Neda; Fernández González, Pol; Mas Sánchez, Aina; Vila i Julià, Guillem; Pérez González, Juan Jesús; Garriga Solé, Pere (2021-05-19)
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    Rhodopsin is the G protein-coupled receptor of rod photoreceptor cells that mediates vertebrate vision at low light intensities. Mutations in rhodopsin cause inherited retinal degenerative diseases such as retinitis ...
  • Lower Locus Coeruleus MRI intensity in patients with late-life major depression 

    Guinea Izquierdo, Andrés; Giménez Navarro, Mónica; Martínez Zalacaín, Ignacio; Cerro San Ildefonso, Inés del; Canal Noguer, Pol; Blasco, Gerard; Soriano Mas, Carles; Gascón Gutiérrez, Jordi; Reñé Ramírez, Ramon; Rico Pons, Immaculada; Camins Simó, Àngel; Aguilera Grijalvo, Carlos (2021-02-16)
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    Background: The locus coeruleus (LC) is the major noradrenergic source in the central nervous system. Structural alterations in the LC contribute to the pathophysiology of different neuropsychiatric disorders, which may ...
  • A parallel dynamic asynchronous framework for uncertainty quantification by hierarchical Monte Carlo algorithms 

    Tosi, Riccardo; Amela Milian, Ramon; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Rossi, Riccardo (Springer Nature, 2021-09-13)
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    The necessity of dealing with uncertainties is growing in many different fields of science and engineering. Due to the constant development of computational capabilities, current solvers must satisfy both statistical ...
  • Probabilistic graphlets capture biological function in probabilistic molecular networks 

    Doria Belenguer, Sergio; Youssef, Markus Kirolos; Böttcher, René; Malod-Dognin, Noël; Pržulj, Nataša (Oxford University Press, 2020-12-29)
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    Motivation: Molecular interactions have been successfully modeled and analyzed as networks, where nodes represent molecules and edges represent the interactions between them. These networks revealed that molecules with ...
  • The impact of non-additive genetic associations on age-related complex diseases 

    Guindo Martínez, Marta; Amela Milian, Ramon; Bonàs Guarch, Silvia; Puiggros Maldonado, Montserrat; Salvoro, Cecilia; Miguel Escalada, Irene; Sánchez Castaño, Friman; Ramón Cortés, Cristian; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Ejarque Artigas, Jorge; Mercader Bigas, Josep Maria; Torrents Rodas, David (2021-04-23)
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    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are not fully comprehensive, as current strategies typically test only the additive model, exclude the X chromosome, and use only one reference panel for genotype imputation. We ...
  • AutoParallel: Automatic parallelisation and distributed execution of affine loop nests in Python 

    Ramón Cortés, Cristian; Amela Milian, Ramon; Ejarque Artigas, Jorge; Clauss, Philippe; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria (Sage, 2020)
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    The last improvements in programming languages and models have focused on simplicity and abstraction; leading Python to the top of the list of the programming languages. However, there is still room for improvement when ...
  • Efficient development of high performance data analytics in Python 

    Álvarez Cid-Fuentes, Javier; Alvarez, Pol; Amela Milian, Ramon; Ishii, Kuninori; Morizawa, Rafael K.; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria (Elsevier, 2020-10)
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    Our society is generating an increasing amount of data at an unprecedented scale, variety, and speed. This also applies to numerous research areas, such as genomics, high energy physics, and astronomy, for which large-scale ...
  • Executing linear algebra kernels in heterogeneous distributed infrastructures with PyCOMPSs 

    Amela Milian, Ramon; Ramon-cortés Vilarrodona, Cristian; Ejarque, Jorge; Conejero, Javier; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria (EDP Open, 2018-10-24)
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    Python is a popular programming language due to the simplicity of its syntax, while still achieving a good performance even being an interpreted language. The adoption from multiple scientific communities has evolved in ...