Publications by authors named "Birgit Meldal"

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to dementia. Many cases are diagnosed annually and there is no currently available cure. Understanding the underlying disease biology of AD through the study of molecular networks, particularly by mapping clinical variants to tissue-specific interactomes and regulatory macromolecular assemblies, offers a promising avenue to elucidate altered disease pathways.

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The domain of transcription regulation has been notoriously difficult to annotate in the Gene Ontology, partly because of the intricacies of gene regulation which involve molecular interactions with DNA as well as amongst protein complexes. The molecular function 'transcription coregulator activity' is a part of the biological process 'regulation of transcription, DNA-templated' that occurs in the cellular component 'chromatin'. It can mechanistically link sequence-specific DNA-binding transcription factor (dbTF) regulatory DNA target sites to coactivator and corepressor target sites through the molecular function 'cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding'.

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The EMBL-EBI Complex Portal is a knowledgebase of macromolecular complexes providing persistent stable identifiers. Entries are linked to literature evidence and provide details of complex membership, function, structure and complex-specific Gene Ontology annotations. Data are freely available and downloadable in HUPO-PSI community standards and missing entries can be requested for curation.

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  • The International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) Consortium curates a comprehensive database of verified protein interactions, adhering to international standards.
  • This update highlights the consortium's practical efforts in maintaining database sustainability and adapting to new scientific challenges.
  • Examples are provided on the utilization of IMEx data by biomedical researchers and its integration into various bioinformatics tools.
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Proteins seldom function individually. Instead, they interact with other proteins or nucleic acids to form stable macromolecular complexes that play key roles in important cellular processes and pathways. One of the goals of Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD; www.

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The analysis and interpretation of high-throughput datasets relies on access to high-quality bioinformatics resources, as well as processing pipelines and analysis tools. Gene Ontology (GO, geneontology.org) is a major resource for gene enrichment analysis.

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Summary: Proteins frequently function as parts of complexes, assemblages of multiple proteins and other biomolecules, yet network visualizations usually only show proteins as parts of binary interactions. ComplexViewer visualizes interactions with more than two participants and thereby avoids the need to first expand these into multiple binary interactions. Furthermore, if binding regions between molecules are known then these can be displayed in the context of the larger complex.

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The IntAct molecular interaction database has created a new, free, open-source, manually curated resource, the Complex Portal (www.ebi.ac.

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  • IntAct is a free online database that collects information about how molecules interact with each other, using data from research papers and direct submissions.
  • The database has a special tool that helps teams organize and check the data, ensuring it's accurate and well-maintained.
  • Recently, IntAct and another database called MINT merged their efforts to work better together and share their information to make everything more efficient.
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Tunisia is a medium-level epidemic country for hepatitis B virus (HBV). This study characterizes, for the first time, full genome HBV strains from Tunisia. Viral load quantification and phylogenetic analyses of full genome or pre-S/S sequences were performed on 196 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive plasma samples from Tunisian blood donors.

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Phylogenetic reconstructions of relations within the phylum Nematoda are inherently difficult but have been advanced with the introduction of large-scale molecular-based techniques. However, the most recent revisions were heavily biased towards terrestrial and parasitic species and greater representation of clades containing marine species (e.g.

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