Bioinformatics and Genomics
Article commentary
14 November 2018
Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Keith Crandall –– Really nice venom study on scorpions using transcriptomic data in a phylogenetic context.
31 October 2018
SLiMEnrich: computational assessment of protein–protein interaction data as a source of domain-motif interactions
Section Editor rating: 8 / 10
Elena Papaleo –– To experimentally identify functional short linear motifs (SLiMs) is challenged by their very low affinities. This paper introduces a new computational pipeline to assess how useful a certain protein-protein interaction dataset can be to capture SLiMs. I believe that it will be a very nice tool for many researchers working with protein-protein interactions with in-vitro and cellular assays, as well as for computational biologists.
29 October 2018
Ensemble learning for detecting gene-gene interactions in colorectal cancer
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Jin-Kao Hao –– The work tackles an important topic with an interesting approach and advances the state of the art in the field.
19 October 2018
Distributed Bayesian networks reconstruction on the whole genome scale
Editor rating: 8 / 10
Jürg Bähler –– A new method for reconstructing large transcriptional networks that removes some of the computational bottlenecks of such genome-scale analyses.
19 October 2018
BdBG: a bucket-based method for compressing genome sequencing data with dynamic de Bruijn graphs
Section Editor rating: 7 / 10
Elena Papaleo –– A new and interesting approach to improve compression of sequencing data to tackle the related issues in NGS data processing.
19 September 2018
Application of EST-SSR markers developed from the transcriptome of Torreya grandis (Taxaceae), a threatened nut-yielding conifer tree
Editor rating: 9 / 10
Pankaj Jaiswal –– This article on Torreya grandis (Taxaceae) an ancient conifer species that is endemic to southeast China provides an important insight into the population structure and distribution of the species. It also generated the genomic resources necessary to move forward the research on Torreya grandis.
17 September 2018
Metabolic marker gene mining provides insight in global mcrA diversity and, coupled with targeted genome reconstruction, sheds further light on metabolic potential of the Methanomassiliicoccales
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Peter Dunfield –– Will specificaly interest those working on methanogenesis, but more broadly the technical novelty may appeal to many microbial ecologists interested in mining metagenomic datases.
17 September 2018
Exome sequencing study of 20 patients with high myopia
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Yong Wang –– This paper performed exom sequencing to study high myopia and identified several potential disease genes. The data and analysis provides a valuable resources for the field.
31 August 2018
Plant data visualisation using network graphs
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Massimiliano Zanin –– An interesting demonstration on how data can be represented using new web-based technologies.
14 August 2018
A minimal set of internal control genes for gene expression studies in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Section Editor rating: 7 / 10
Elena Papaleo –– An interesting solution to identify a subset of reference genes for qualitative qPCR of cancer samples 
Academic Editors
Average h-index of Editorial Board: 35
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Kevin Arbuckle @phylophile
2 days ago
A rare 'proper' (phylogenetic) comparative analysis of venom evolution, in this case of scorpions with a cool use of morphometrics of toxin molecules: https://t.co/jie9MjsN7U
Richard Edwards @cabbagesofdoom
15 days ago
Hooray! Latest lab publication now out in @thePeerJ https://t.co/PZKtIYTmwJ #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #MolecularBiology
Behav Ecol Papers @BehavEcolPapers
18 days ago
Ensemble learning for detecting gene-gene interactions in colorectal cancer https://t.co/8RP8WSXaFo @thePeerJ https://t.co/nJnoU69bq8
aln @systemnaBio
28 days ago
It was a pleasure to publish with @thePeerJ, they are very professional. https://t.co/j6zKi376tJ #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #Bayesian #Networks
Donovan Parks @donovan_parks
56 days ago
Nice approach for using large-scale mining of specific genes to identify novel lineages of important metabolic genes https://t.co/Edf2AMrCCh via @thePeerJ
Behav Ecol Papers @BehavEcolPapers
77 days ago
Plant data visualisation using network graphs https://t.co/jNhxh3QGUR @thePeerJ https://t.co/WtIvd7p08x
binay panda @ganitlabs
90 days ago
our recent paper on a minimal set of internal control genes for gene expression studies in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma busts old myths on housekeeping genes in hnscc gene expression studies https://t.co/vf1rBZuUl9 #openscience