Publications by authors named "Zhizhan Wang"

The cell wall is a crucial feature that allows ancestral streptophyte green algae to colonize land. Expansin, an extracellular protein that mediates cell wall loosening in a pH-dependent manner, could be a powerful tool for studying cell wall evolution. However, the evolutionary trajectory of the expansin family remains largely unknown.

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Soybean ( (L.) Merr.) is a globally significant crop, widely cultivated for oilseed production and animal feeds.

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Small RNAs (sRNAs) constitute a large portion of functional elements in eukaryotic genomes. Long inverted repeats (LIRs) can be transcribed into long hairpin RNAs (hpRNAs), which can further be processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) with vital biological roles. In this study, we systematically identified a total of 6 619 473 LIRs in 424 eukaryotic genomes and developed LIRBase (https://venyao.

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Article Synopsis
  • Development of interactive web applications for biological datasets is a key area in bioinformatics, and R is a leading programming language for this purpose.
  • The Shiny package, created by RStudio in 2012, revolutionized how R users could build web applications by converting R code into web-friendly formats like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, making it accessible even for non-programmers.
  • A review of over 470 biological web applications built using R/Shiny highlights essential steps for development, key R packages, deployment methods, and useful online resources.
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We report a facile, rapid, phase-transfer-assisted process to prepare Ag nanoparticles (AgNP) loaded graphene oxide (GO) nanocomposite, by using cysteine as a highly-effective phase transfer agent for AgNP movement from organic phase to water and subsequently as a covalent linkage for immobilizing AgNP on GO. The obtained c-Ag/GO nanocomposite possesses high nanoparticle loading efficiency, small particle size and monodispersity, strong binding force and good water dispersibility, which endow it with great potential in a variety of bio-applications. To illustrate potentail application, c-Ag/GO and its derivatives c-Ag/rGO were used for antibiosis and biosensing, respectively.

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Identification of structural variations between individuals is very important for the understanding of phenotype variations and diseases. Despite the existence of dozens of programs for prediction of structural variations, none of them is the golden standard in this field and the results of multiple programs were usually integrated to get more reliable predictions. Annotation and visualization of structural variations are important for the understanding of their functions.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques are widely used to identify pure substances and probe protein dynamics. Oil is a complex mixture composed of hydrocarbons, which have a wide range of molecular size distribution. Previous work show that empirical correlations of relaxation times and diffusion coefficients were found for simple alkane mixtures, and also the shape of the relaxation and diffusion distribution functions are related to the composition of the fluids.

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