Search Results - "de Almeida, Bernardo P"
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Roadmap of DNA methylation in breast cancer identifies novel prognostic biomarkers
Published in BMC cancer (12-03-2019)“…© The Author(s). 2019. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License…”
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Developmental and housekeeping transcriptional programs display distinct modes of enhancer-enhancer cooperativity in Drosophila
Published in Nature communications (03-10-2024)“…Genomic enhancers are key transcriptional regulators which, upon the binding of sequence-specific transcription factors, activate their cognate target…”
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Over-elongation of centrioles in cancer promotes centriole amplification and chromosome missegregation
Published in Nature communications (28-03-2018)“…Centrosomes are the major microtubule organising centres of animal cells. Deregulation in their number occurs in cancer and was shown to trigger tumorigenesis…”
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Pan-cancer association of a centrosome amplification gene expression signature with genomic alterations and clinical outcome
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-03-2019)“…Copyright: © 2019 de Almeida et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits…”
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Decoding a cancer-relevant splicing decision in the RON proto-oncogene using high-throughput mutagenesis
Published in Nature communications (17-08-2018)“…Mutations causing aberrant splicing are frequently implicated in human diseases including cancer. Here, we establish a high-throughput screen of randomly…”
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Identification of candidate causal variants and target genes at 41 breast cancer risk loci through differential allelic expression analysis
Published in Scientific reports (28-09-2024)“…Understanding breast cancer genetic risk relies on identifying causal variants and candidate target genes in risk loci identified by genome-wide association…”
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DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of synthetic enhancers
Published in Nature genetics (01-05-2022)“…Enhancer sequences control gene expression and comprise binding sites (motifs) for different transcription factors (TFs). Despite extensive genetic and…”
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Allosteric Antagonist Modulation of TRPV2 by Piperlongumine Impairs Glioblastoma Progression
Published in ACS central science (26-05-2021)“…The use of computational tools to identify biological targets of natural products with anticancer properties and unknown modes of action is gaining momentum…”
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A foundational large language model for edible plant genomes
Published in Communications biology (09-07-2024)“…Significant progress has been made in the field of plant genomics, as demonstrated by the increased use of high-throughput methodologies that enable the…”
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Allelic expression imbalance of PIK3CA mutations is frequent in breast cancer and prognostically significant
Published in NPJ breast cancer (08-06-2022)“…PIK3CA mutations are the most common in breast cancer, particularly in the estrogen receptor-positive cohort, but the benefit of PI3K inhibitors has had…”
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Are genomic language models all you need? Exploring genomic language models on protein downstream tasks
Published in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) (02-09-2024)“…Large language models, trained on enormous corpora of biological sequences, are state-of-the-art for downstream genomic and proteomic tasks. Since the genome…”
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Enhancers display constrained sequence flexibility and context-specific modulation of motif function
Published in Genome research (01-03-2023)“…The information about when and where each gene is to be expressed is mainly encoded in the DNA sequence of enhancers, sequence elements that comprise binding…”
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Targeted design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo
Published in Nature (London) (01-02-2024)“…Enhancers control gene expression and have crucial roles in development and homeostasis 1 – 3 . However, the targeted de novo design of enhancers with…”
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Systematic identification and characterization of repressive domains in Drosophila transcription factors
Published in The EMBO journal (01-02-2023)“…All multicellular life relies on differential gene expression, determined by regulatory DNA elements and DNA‐binding transcription factors that mediate…”
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Dissecting celastrol with machine learning to unveil dark pharmacology
Published in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (30-05-2019)“…By coalescing bespoke machine learning and bioinformatics analyses with cell-based assays, we unveil the pharmacology of celastrol. Celastrol is a direct…”
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Natural product–drug conjugates for modulation of TRPV1-expressing tumors
Published in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry (15-06-2019)“…[Display omitted] We report the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of natural product–drug conjugates for treatment of prostate cancers…”
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Expression of receptor activator of NFkB (RANK) drives stemness and resistance to therapy in ER+HER2- breast cancer
Published in Oncotarget (12-05-2020)“…© Gomes et al. Copyright: Gomes et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0),…”
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Multi-modal Transfer Learning between Biological Foundation Models
Published 20-06-2024“…Biological sequences encode fundamental instructions for the building blocks of life, in the form of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Modeling these sequences is key to…”
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