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Unveiling immune targets via TriStageHLA: high-throughput screening of peptide presentation, peptide-HLA binding, and immunogenicity
Tianchi LU, Zikun Wang, Yuchen Wang…·Ka-Chun Wong
TriStageHLA improves epitope prioritization by integrating peptide screening, binding prediction, and immunogenicity assessment with high accuracy and efficiency.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.29.762831 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
LinearKnot: linear-time ensemble analysis of RNA density-2 pseudoknots under hierarchical folding
LinearKnot approximates CParty's hierarchical pseudoknot analysis with linear time complexity, achieving comparable accuracy for RNA structure prediction and ensemble calculations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764809 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Leave-One-Out-Cross-Validation Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Efficient, Scalable, and Robust Prediction of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Kelch13 mutants.
Rajdeep Das, Smritikana Dutta, Souvik Bhattacharjee
The paper develops machine learning models to predict artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum K13 mutants using physicochemical and structural features of mutations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764763 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Homology-aware average nucleotide identity estimation at scale with TurboANI
Jianshu Zhao, Daniel McDonald, Lucas Patel…·Rob Knight
TurboANI is a fast, homology-aware ANI estimator with up to ~40,000x speedup over alignment-based methods and better accuracy than FastANI and skani.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764740 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
π-SPECFormer: A Mass Spectrometry-based Foundation Model for Decoding the Dark Proteome
Tianze Ling, Tao Liu, Fan Xu…·Cheng Chang
This paper introduces π-SPECFormer, a foundation model for mass spectrometry-based proteomics that decodes the dark proteome by pre-training on unannotated spectra and outperforms baselines in peptide sequencing and modification detection.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764812 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Uniformly re-analysed public omics data and graded meta-analyses of exercise responses in humans and rodents
This paper uniformly re-analyzes public omics data from exercise studies in humans and rodents, providing standardized effect sizes and meta-analyses across multiple tissues and molecular layers.
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GeneEmbedLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Gene Functional Embedding and Association Prediction
ziyan zhang, liu yang, zhien he…·Rongbo Shen
This paper introduces GeneEmbedLLM, a framework using large language models to generate gene embeddings from multi-source textual annotations, achieving competitive performance in various downstream tasks.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764758 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
TideCluster: clustering and classification of tandem repeats for comparative and pangenomic analysis
TideCluster is a pipeline for clustering and classifying tandem repeats across genomes, demonstrated on Arabidopsis and Solanum species.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764801 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
scPolyA enables efficient, interactive and agent-guided alternative polyadenylation analysis in single-cell and spatial transcriptomes
Jingsen Yang, Haoyu Yang, Lixinyu Liu, Jiayu Wen
scPolyA provides a framework for analyzing alternative polyadenylation in single-cell and spatial transcriptomes, revealing APA patterns in cancer tissues.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Evaluation effects can rival reported concordance gains in cross-cancer survival prediction
This paper evaluates how much improvement in cross-cancer survival prediction is due to model selection methods versus actual concordance gains, finding evaluation effects can be as significant as reported gains.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764739 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
AOPTK: Open-Source Software for AI-Assisted Toxicological Literature Analysis
Robin Durnik, Lola Murielle Bajard, Ludek Blaha…·Helge Hecht
AOPTK automates toxicological literature analysis using AI, achieving high accuracy in identifying chemical-biological effect relationships.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.29.761316 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
mFrag: Integrating External DNA Methylation References Improves Lung Cancer Early Detection by Fragmentomics
Saishi Cui, Neeti Swarup, Qianchuan He…·Wei Sun
mFrag improves lung cancer early detection using fragmentomics by integrating DNA methylation data and combining two models to enhance prediction accuracy.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.28.762499 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
BEHAV3D-Explorer enables natural language-assisted profiling of 3D cellular dynamics
Sam de Blank, Emilio Rios-Jimenez, Alejandra Rubio-Munoz…·Maria Alieva
BEHAV3D-Explorer provides a user-friendly platform for analyzing 3D live-cell imaging data using natural language guidance to select analysis strategies and configure workflows.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764820 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
BioMeme: biological response memory for virtual cells
Jia Bi, Chenyang Zhu, Haochen Liu…·Steve R. Gunn
BioMeme predicts cell responses to new perturbations by recalling measured experiments, outperforming neural models in accuracy and speed.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.07.765043 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Ok-k-mer: Selecting k-mer length ensembles for calculating genomic distance
Ok-k-mer selects optimal k-mer length ensembles to improve genomic distance estimation by maximizing correlation with phylogenetic branch distances.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764926 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Integrated genotyping, annotation and epigenetic characterization of transposable elements with GraffiTE
Clément Goubert, Rose Laflamme, Robert Eveleigh…·Cristian Groza
GraffiTE v1.1 is a Nextflow pipeline that genotypes structural variants, annotates polymorphic mobile elements, and maps epigenetic data to transposable elements using pangenome graphs, revealing hypomethylated elements and age-related demethylation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764993 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
PyTorch Frustratometer: An Ultra-fast, Parallelized Tool for Proteome-Scale Local Energetic Frustration Analysis
Eli J. Draizen, Hana Jaafari, Carlos Bueno…·R. Gonzalo Parra
The paper introduces a PyTorch-based tool for fast proteome-scale local frustration analysis, achieving 70-13,000x speedup over the original FrustratometeR.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764892 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Extracting and Updating Compact Colored k-mer Indexes
Lore Depuydt, Jarno N. Alanko, Camille Marchet, Simon J. Puglisi
This paper introduces efficient methods to update colored k-mer indexes without rebuilding them from scratch, enabling dynamic maintenance of large genomic collections.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.06.764792 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Glycine-Proline driven flexibility and interface-dependent conservation of six-residue {Omega}-loops in protein complexes
Surbhi Vilas Tajane, Sanjeevani Pohane, Sucharita Dey
The paper analyzes six-residue Omega-loops in protein complexes, showing their structural constraints, sequence conservation patterns, and functional significance through sequence design and mutation mapping.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764545