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Should Artificial Intelligence be used to support clinical ethical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons

Background Healthcare providers have to make ethically complex clinical decisions which may be a source of stress. Researchers have recently introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications to assist in clinical ethical decision-making. …

Alternative splicing analysis benchmark with DICAST

Alternative splicing is a major contributor to transcriptome and proteome diversity in health and disease. A plethora of tools have been developed for studying alternative splicing in RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks focused on isoform …

Lacking mechanistic disease definitions and corresponding association data hamper progress in network medicine and beyond

A long-term objective of network medicine is to replace our current, mainly phenotype-based disease definitions by subtypes of health conditions corresponding to distinct pathomechanisms. For this, molecular and health data are modeled as networks …

Network-based approaches for modeling disease regulation and progression

Molecular interaction networks lay the foundation for studying how biological functions are controlled by the complex interplay of genes and proteins. Investigating perturbed processes using biological networks has been instrumental in uncovering …

Systematic analysis of alternative splicing in time course data using Spycone

*Motivation* During disease progression or organism development, alternative splicing may lead to isoform switches that demonstrate similar temporal patterns and reflect the alternative splicing co-regulation of such genes. Tools for dynamic process …

The limits of molecular signatures for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma subtyping

Molecular signatures have been suggested as biomarkers to classify pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) into two, three, four or five subtypes. Since the robustness of existing signatures is controversial, we performed a systematic evaluation of …

Hypothesis of a potential BrainBiota and its relation to CNS autoimmune inflammation

Infectious agents have been long considered to play a role in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases as part of the interaction between genetic susceptibility and the environment. The role of bacteria in CNS autoimmunity has also been highlighted …

A zlog-based algorithm and tool for plausibility checks of reference intervals

*Objectives* Laboratory information systems typically contain hundreds or even thousands of reference limits stratified by sex and age. Since under these conditions a manual plausibility check is hardly feasible, we have developed a simple algorithm …

Forecasting admissions in psychiatric hospitals before and during Covid-19: a retrospective study with routine data

The COVID-19 pandemic has strong effects on most health care systems. Forecasting of admissions can help for the efficient organisation of hospital care. We aimed to forecast the number of admissions to psychiatric hospitals before and during the …

Tumour cell budding and spread through air spaces in squamous cell carcinoma of the lung - Determination and validation of optimal prognostic cut-offs

Prognostic stratification of patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the lung (SCC-L) is challenging. Therefore, we investigated several histomorphological parameters (tumour cell budding (TCB), spread through air spaces (STAS), …