Publications by authors named "Pengfei Bao"

Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), an ecologically and economically important forest species in East Asia, plays vital roles in carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation. However, intensifying climate change threatens moso bamboo survival. Here we generate high-quality haplotype-based pangenome assemblies for 16 representative moso bamboo accessions and integrated these assemblies with 427 previously resequenced accessions.

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Background: Cell-free long RNAs in human plasma and extracellular vesicles (EVs) have shown promise as biomarkers in liquid biopsy, despite their fragmented nature.

Methods: To investigate these fragmented cell-free RNAs (cfRNAs), we developed a cost-effective cfRNA sequencing method called DETECTOR-seq (depletion-assisted multiplexed cell-free total RNA sequencing). DETECTOR-seq utilised a meticulously tailored set of customised guide RNAs to remove large amounts of unwanted RNAs (i.

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Motivation: Multi-omics data provide a comprehensive view of gene regulation at multiple levels, which is helpful in achieving accurate diagnosis of complex diseases like cancer. However, conventional integration methods rarely utilize prior biological knowledge and lack interpretability.

Results: To integrate various multi-omics data of tissue and liquid biopsies for disease diagnosis and prognosis, we developed a biological pathway informed Transformer, Pathformer.

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Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) is a valuable nontimber forestry product with a biennial cycle, producing abundant bamboo shoots within one year (on-year) and few shoots within the following year (off-year). Moso bamboo plants undergo clonal reproduction, resulting in similar genetic backgrounds. However, the number of moso bamboo shoots produced each year varies.

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During cancer progression, tumorigenic and immune signals are spread through circulating molecules, such as cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cell-free RNA (cfRNA) in the blood. So far, they have not been comprehensively investigated in gastrointestinal cancers. Here, we profile 4 categories of cell-free omics data from patients with colorectal cancer and patients with stomach adenocarcinoma and then assay 15 types of genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic variations.

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Liquid biopsy has emerged as a promising non-invasive approach for detecting, monitoring diseases, and predicting their recurrence. However, the effective utilization of liquid biopsy data to identify reliable biomarkers for various cancers and other diseases requires further exploration. Here, we present cfOmics, a web-accessible database (https://cfomics.

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This study aims to analyze the potential biomarkers using bioinformatics technology, explore the pathogenesis, and investigate potential Chinese herbal ingredients for the Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), which could provide theoretical basis for early diagnosis and effective treatment of ccRCC. The gene expression datasets GSE6344 and GSE53757 were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database to screen differentially expressed genes (DEGs) involved in ccRCC carcinogenesis and disease progression. Enrichment analyses, protein-protein interaction networks construction, survival analysis and herbal medicines screening were performed with related software and online analysis platforms.

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Background: Various studies have reported cell-free RNAs (cfRNAs) as noninvasive biomarkers for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, they have not been independently validated, and some results are contradictory. We provided a comprehensive evaluation of various types of cfRNA biomarkers and a full mining of the biomarker potential of new features of cfRNA.

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Background: Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies are changing the ways cancer diagnosis and treatment, which leads to a new branch of precision medicine: "Precision Oncology". This study aims to deliver a structured overview to carry out a bibliometric analysis of precision oncology research over the past 10 years retrospectively.

Methods: Bibliometric methods including clustering analysis and co-occurrence visualized study were conducted based on publications of academic databases Web of Science Main Collection from 1st January 2012, to 31st December 2021.

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This study aimed to investigate the effects of scaffold matrix attachment region binding protein 1 (SMAR1) on the development of bladder cancer (BCa). SMAR1 expression in paired tumor and corresponding adjacent normal tissues from 55 BCa patients was detected by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. BCa cells were transfected to regulate SMAR1 expression.

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Background: Research has shown that the progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is modulated by long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). However, the roles of specific lncRNAs in the malignancy of ccRCC are still unknown.

Methods: TCGA and GSE66272 datasets were used to predict differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in ccRCC.

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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play key roles in post-transcriptional regulation. Accurate identification of RBP binding sites in multiple cell lines and tissue types from diverse species is a fundamental endeavor towards understanding the regulatory mechanisms of RBPs under both physiological and pathological conditions. Our POSTAR annotation processes make use of publicly available large-scale CLIP-seq datasets and external functional genomic annotations to generate a comprehensive map of RBP binding sites and their association with other regulatory events as well as functional variants.

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Long extracellular RNAs (exRNAs) in plasma can be profiled by new sequencing technologies, even with low abundance. However, cancer-related exRNAs and their variations remain understudied. We investigated different variations (i.

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Osteonecrosis is a common human disease in orthopedics. It is difficult to treat, and half of patients may need artificial joint replacement, resulting in a considerable economic burden and a reduction in quality of life. Hormones are one of the major causes of osteonecrosis and high doses of corticosteroids are considered the most dangerous factor.

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Osteoporosis (OP) treatment has always been challenging for elderly menopausal females. An animal model with a closer genetic association to human OP is essential for treatment research. Given its close genetic association to primates, the tree shrew is a suitable candidate for meeting the requirements for such an animal model.

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Background: Bone damage is a condition that affects the quality of life of patients. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are important for bone repair. Osteoking is a natural compound in traditional Chinese Medicine used to treat bone diseases; however, the effect of Osteoking on the differentiation of MSCs has not been reported.

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Submillimeter single-crystal monolayer and multilayer graphene domains were prepared by an atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition method with suppressing nucleation on copper foils through an annealing procedure. A facile oxidation visualization method was applied to study the nucleation density and morphology of graphene domains on copper foils. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, polarized optical microscopy, and Raman spectra showed that the submillimeter graphene domains were monolayer single crystals.

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This is a research to enhance the application of natural language understanding and ontology in the Chinese medical text semantic annotation and content analysis, and so to provide technology support for the computer-readable electronic medical records (EMR). The Chinese EMR information extraction and statistical analysis of related subjects in accordance to the user's demands were performed through building the named entity rules, the classified word list and field ontology by using GATE platform on the basis of EMR text set's construction and pre-processing. The automatic and artificial semantic annotation of EMR text set was implemented.

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