Research

Identify differentially bound regions across CLIP-seq conditions (knockdown vs control, treatment vs vehicle, disease vs healthy) using DEWSeq (sliding-window DESeq2), Flipper (Skipper-downstream), ASpeak, edgeR, or limma-voom. Use when computing condition-level changes in RBP binding intensity, choosing peak-level vs window-level vs crosslink-level testing, designing replicate experiments, or distinguishing biological binding shifts from technical confounders.

Identify direct miRNA-target interactions from AGO HITS-CLIP, AGO-CLEAR-CLIP (chimeric reads), HEAP (Halo-Ago2 mouse), chimeric eCLIP / miR-eCLIP (deep miRNA-target profiling), or CLASH using chimeric-read processing pipelines, seed-pairing analysis, and 3' auxiliary pairing rules. Use when distinguishing direct miRNA targets from indirect, integrating CLIP-derived target maps with TargetScan / miRDB / DIANA predictions, applying canonical 7mer-8mer seed matching with 3' UTR context, or recov...

Calls microsatellite instability from WES/WGS/targeted-panel with MSIsensor, MSIsensor-pro, MSIsensor-ct (panel-aware), mSINGS, and MANTIS for FDA pembrolizumab MSI-H pan-tumor / Lynch syndrome / dMMR ICI biomarker. Use when stratifying ICI eligibility (Le 2015), pairing MSI with TMB-H (Sha 2020 / Salem 2018), screening Lynch syndrome (universal IHC + MSI), or distinguishing MSI-H tumors from POLE-exo hypermutator with overlapping signatures.

Prepares statistical reports for clinical trials following CONSORT 2025, SPIRIT 2025, ICH E9(R1) estimands, and FDA 2023 covariate adjustment guidance. Covers Table 1 generation, analysis populations (ITT/FAS/PP/Safety), the 5 ICH E9(R1) intercurrent-event strategies, MMRM under MAR (mmrm), reference-based MI (rbmi J2R/CR/CIR), Permutt tipping-point sensitivity, and Rubin's-rules vs frequentist variance debate. Use when preparing regulatory submissions, defining estimands, or implementing mis...

Performs time-to-event analysis for clinical trials including Cox proportional hazards regression with PH diagnostics, restricted mean survival time (RMST) under non-PH, competing risks via Fine-Gray vs cause-specific Cox, weighted log-rank and MaxCombo for non-proportional hazards, recurrent events (Andersen-Gill, PWP, WLW), and interval-censored data. Use when analyzing time-to-event endpoints (OS, PFS, DOR, TTR, TTNT) in oncology or other clinical trials.

Performs subgroup and heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) analyses for clinical trials. Covers Mantel-Haenszel pooling, Breslow-Day, interaction tests in regression, RERI for additive interaction, modern data-adaptive HTE methods (STEPP, SIDES, causal forests, X/R-learners), Bayesian shrinkage (Dixon-Simon, MAP, EXNEX), graphical multiplicity (Bretz-Maurer), and credibility frameworks (Sun BMJ, EMA 2019). Use when analyzing treatment effects across patient subgroups for regulatory submission...

Computes sample size and power for clinical trials including continuous, binary, and time-to-event endpoints; superiority, non-inferiority, and equivalence designs; FDA 2016 non-inferiority margin selection with M1/M2 framework; Schoenfeld 1981 and Lakatos 1988 for survival; Schuirmann TOST and 80-125% bioequivalence; minimum clinically important difference (MCID) vs δ distinction. Use when justifying trial size in protocol or SAP per CONSORT 2025 item 16a.

Implements multiplicity control for confirmatory clinical trials using graphical procedures (Bretz-Maurer-Hommel), gatekeeping (parallel, serial, mixed), Hochberg/Hommel/Holm with PRDS, and the closed-testing principle (Marcus-Peritz-Gabriel; Goeman 2021 admissibility). Covers FDA Multiple Endpoints Final Guidance (October 2022), graphical procedures via R gMCP, primary + key-secondary + subgroup hierarchies, and FWER vs FDR distinction. Use when designing the multiplicity strategy for confir...

Implements missing-data sensitivity analyses for confirmatory clinical trials including MMRM under MAR (with Kenward-Roger correction), reference-based multiple imputation (J2R, CR, CIR, LMCF per Carpenter-Roger 2013), Permutt delta-adjustment / tipping-point analysis, pattern-mixture identifying restrictions (CCMV, NCMV, ACMV), and the Cro vs Bartlett variance debate. Use when handling missing primary or secondary endpoint data in regulatory submissions following NRC 2010 and ICH E9(R1).

Designs Bayesian clinical trials including Phase I dose-finding (BOIN, CRM, EWOC, mTPI-2), meta-analytic-predictive (MAP) priors with robust mixtures for external data borrowing, EXNEX for basket trials, hierarchical models for safety AE (Berry-Berry), Bayesian platform trials (I-SPY 2, GBM AGILE, REMAP-CAP), and posterior probability stopping rules. Covers FDA Bayesian Devices Guidance (2010), FDA Bayesian Methodology in Drugs Draft (January 2026), BOIN Fit-for-Purpose qualification (Decembe...

Designs adaptive clinical trials including group-sequential (O'Brien-Fleming, Pocock, Lan-DeMets spending), sample-size re-estimation (blinded Friede-Kieser, unblinded Cui-Hung-Wang, Mehta-Pocock promising zone), seamless Phase 2/3 with treatment-arm selection, population enrichment, and response-adaptive randomisation. Covers FDA 2019 Final Adaptive Designs Guidance, FDA 2022 Master Protocols, and ICH E20 Step 2b/3 draft (June 2025, NOT final). Use when planning interim analyses, sample-size...

Performs retrosynthetic planning using AiZynthFinder (template-based MCTS), maintained or version-pinned template-free models, ASKCOS, and emerging RetroSynFormer with explicit handling of route scoring, configurable MCTS rewards, building-block availability, and forward-prediction checks. Use when assessing synthetic feasibility of generated or selected molecules, planning multi-step syntheses, building synthesis-aware design pipelines, or screening libraries for retro-route feasibility.

Designs PROTACs, molecular glues, and bivalent degraders with explicit handling of E3 ligase choice (VHL, CRBN, IAP, MDM2, KEAP1), linker design (length, composition, rigidity), ternary complex prediction (PRosettaC, DeepTernary, AlphaFold3), cooperativity (alpha), DC50 / Dmax characterization, hook effect, and prediction-experiment reconciliation. Use when designing targeted protein degraders, planning linker SAR, predicting ternary complex stability, or building generative degrader workflows.

Designs covalent inhibitors and warheads targeting cysteine, lysine, serine, threonine, tyrosine, and aspartate residues, with explicit handling of warhead reactivity (acrylamide, chloroacetamide, vinyl sulfone, sulfonyl fluoride, fluorosulfate, aldehyde, boronate, nitrile), reversibility (kinact/Ki, t_residence), glutathione (GSH) stability, intrinsic reactivity assays, and covalent docking (DOCKovalent, GOLD, HCovDock). Use when designing covalent inhibitors for targeted covalent inhibition...

Performs gene-level association from GWAS summary statistics via genetically predicted tissue expression using FUSION, PrediXcan, S-PrediXcan, S-MultiXcan, UTMOST, MOSTWAS, kTWAS, EpiXcan, TIGAR-V2, and probabilistic fine-mapping with FOCUS and MA-FOCUS. Use when running TWAS from GWAS sumstats, prioritising candidate causal genes from a GWAS lead locus, picking single-tissue vs cross-tissue models, identifying LD-induced TWAS false positives, choosing ancestry-matched prediction weights, fin...

Maps GWAS-implicated loci to candidate effector (causal) genes by integrating variant-to-gene (V2G) features via Open Targets L2G (Mountjoy 2021), MAGMA gene-based association (de Leeuw 2015), FUMA SNP2GENE, cS2G combined SNP-to-gene scores (Gazal 2022), Polygenic Priority Scores (PoPS, Weeks 2023), FLAMES, INQUISIT, DEPICT, and enhancer-gene predictors (ABC, ENCODE-rE2G). Use when narrowing a GWAS lead locus to a candidate causal gene, picking between proximity, eQTL-based, and similarity-ba...

Predict enhancer-gene regulatory connections from ATAC-seq using ABC, ENCODE-rE2G, HiChIP, or Cicero. Use when linking distal enhancers to target genes, choosing between contact-aware (ABC, ENCODE-rE2G), accessibility-only (Cicero), and orthogonal (HiChIP H3K27ac, EpiMap) approaches, validating predictions against CRISPRi-FlowFISH gold-standard, or building cell-type-specific regulatory maps for fine-mapping or therapeutic target discovery.

Predicts whether a DNA variant alters mRNA splicing using sequence-based deep-learning tools — SpliceAI (10kb context dilated CNN, clinical default), Pangolin (multi-tissue), MMSplice (modular per-region CNN with calibrated ΔPSI), SpliceTransformer/TrASPr (tissue-aware transformers), SpliceVault (empirical 300K-RNA lookup of likely mis-splicing outcomes), CADD-Splice (composite score). Applies the ClinGen SVI 2023 framework for ACMG/AMP variant interpretation (PVS1, PP3, BP4 evidence codes), ...

Detects aberrant splicing in single rare-disease patients vs a control panel using FRASER 2.0 (Bioconductor; Beta-binomial autoencoder on Intron Jaccard Index, default delta cutoff 0.1, q hyperparameter), OUTRIDER (gene-level outlier expression via autoencoder denoising), LeafcutterMD (Dirichlet-multinomial outlier mode of LeafCutter for annotation-free junctions), and DROP (Snakemake pipeline integrating FRASER2 + OUTRIDER + monoallelic expression for clinical diagnostics). The statistical m...

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