27 May 2022

Automatic detection of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi in blood smears using a machine learning approach applied to mobile phone images

"This is an interesting contribution presenting a machine learning approach based on cell phones images for the automatic detection of Trypanozoma cruzi in blood smears."

Tomas Perez-Acle, Handling Editor

12 May 2022

Genome-wide identification of CBF genes and their responses to cold acclimation in Taraxacum kok-saghyz

"The study using non-model plants provides novel findings about cold stress tolerance that is different from the model plant Arabidopsis."

Koji Mikami, Handling Editor

11 May 2022

DeepNC: a framework for drug-target interaction prediction with graph neural networks

"Deep learning-based drug-target interaction prediction is a significant topic."

Yuriy Orlov, Handling Editor

6 May 2022

COVID-19 mortality is associated with pre-existing impaired innate immunity in health conditions

"Agree with Satwant"

D. Gareth Evans, Handling Editor

27 April 2022

Alterations in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta peptides presentation by HLA molecules

"Important observations were made related to the perturbed SARS-CoV-2 variants peptide presentation by HLA molecules"

Vladimir Uversky, Handling Editor

25 April 2022

A systematic review on cough sound analysis for Covid-19 diagnosis and screening: is my cough sound COVID-19?

"I believe this is the first systematic review on analyzing the cough sounds toward COVID-19 diagnosis. The study includes all possible literature adopting PRISMA guidelines."

Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, Handling Editor

13 April 2022

PipeCoV: a pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 genome assembly, annotation and variant identification

"The paper "PipeCoV: A Pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 Genome Assembly, Annotation and Variant Identification" presents a well-established SARS-CoV-2 pipeline with a lower content of Ns and higher genome coverage when compared to the Wuhan reference. The pipeline also provides a variant report available at https://github.com/alvesrco/pipecov"

Marisa Nicolás, Handling Editor

22 March 2022

A hybrid feature selection algorithm and its application in bioinformatics

"A hybrid feature selection algorithm has been proposed using the bio-information. The methodology refines the feature of the data with a great potential in helping scientists cross-discipline to identify novel targets and biomarkers for cancer research."

Qichun Zhang, Handling Editor

21 March 2022

An issue of concern: unique truncated ORF8 protein variants of SARS-CoV-2

"The findings may shed additional light on the pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2. It should be an important resource for the research community."

Jun Chen, Handling Editor

18 March 2022

High-performance pipeline for MutMap and QTL-seq

"it is a nice contribution to the field."

Jun Chen, Handling Editor