Temporal response patterns of Layer 4 rat barrel cortex neurons across various naturalistic whisker motions. by Dinh K Tang, Mark B Flegg, Ramesh Rajan

“…Despite significant advancements in this area, the characterisation of information encoding through the precise timing of spikes in the somatosensory cortex is limited. …”
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Offline prompt reinforcement learning method based on feature extraction by Tianlei Yao, Xiliang Chen, Yi Yao, Weiye Huang, Zhaoyang Chen

“…By sampling the specific information in the offline dataset as trajectory samples, the task information is encoded to help the pre-trained model quickly understand the task characteristics and the sequence generation paradigm to quickly adapt to the downstream tasks. …”
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Novel Chemokine-Based Immunotoxins for Potent and Selective Targeting of Cytomegalovirus Infected Cells by Katja Spiess, Mads G. Jeppesen, Mikkel Malmgaard-Clausen, Karen Krzywkowski, Thomas N. Kledal, Mette M. Rosenkilde

“…One recent example targeted the virus-encoded G protein-coupled receptor US28 as a strategy for specific and efficient treatment of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infections. …”
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Quantum distance approximation for persistence diagrams by Bernardo Ameneyro, Rebekah Herrman, George Siopsis, Vasileios Maroulas

“…Our implementation is a weighted version of the quantum approximate optimization Algorithm that relies on control clauses to encode the constraints of the optimization problem.…”
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Encapsulation and Melanization Are Not Correlated to Successful Immune Defense Against Parasitoid Wasps in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> by Lilla B. Magyar, István Andó, Gyöngyi Cinege

“…Expression profiles of the <i>PPO2</i> and <i>PPO3</i> prophenoloxidase genes, which encode key enzymes in the melanization reaction, were detected by qRT-PCR. …”
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CryJ-LAMP DNA Vaccines for Japanese Red Cedar Allergy Induce Robust Th1-Type Immune Responses in Murine Model by Yan Su, Michael Connolly, Anthony Marketon, Teri Heiland

“…We utilized the lysosomal targeting property of lysosomal-associated membrane protein-1 (LAMP-1) to make DNA vaccines that encode LAMP-1 and the sequences of immunodominant allergen CryJ1 or CryJ2 from the JRC pollen. …”
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The Contribution of Archives Management in the Performance of Local Government Central Registry, Rwanda. by Judith, Uwamwezi

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PURE: a Prompt-based framework with dynamic Update mechanism for educational Relation Extraction by Xiaohui Cui, Yu Yang, Dongmei Li, Jinman Cui, Xiaolong Qu, Chao Song, Haoran Liu, Siyuan Ke

“…This framework embraces a prompt-tuning strategy and employs a more appropriate MacBERT-large model to encode the instances wrapped by prompt templates. …”
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Prediction of influenza A virus-human protein-protein interactions using XGBoost with continuous and discontinuous amino acids information by Binghua Li, Xin Li, Xiaoyu Li, Li Wang, Jun Lu, Jia Wang

“…Then we used conjoint triad (CT) and Moran autocorrelation (Moran) to encode biologically relevant features. The joint consideration utilizing the complementary information between contiguous and discontinuous amino acids provides a more comprehensive description of PPI information. …”
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Sequence Analysis of Hypothetical Proteins from 26695 to Identify Potential Virulence Factors by Ahmad Abu Turab Naqvi, Farah Anjum, Faez Iqbal Khan, Asimul Islam, Faizan Ahmad, Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan

“…The genome of H. pylori 26695 strain contains 1,555 coding genes that encode 1,445 proteins. Out of these, 340 proteins are characterized as hypothetical proteins (HP). …”
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The design of experiments for the transcriptome studies by high-throughput sequencing methods by P. N. Menshanov, N. N. Dygalo

“…The common questions in the design of the highthroughput sequencing experiments using RNA-Seq or Ribo-Seq methods are reviewed. The ENCODE guidelines (2011) as well as the recently published advances in the design of the studies of mammalian, animal and plant transcriptomes are also summarized in this review. …”
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A Constitutively Mannose-Sensitive Agglutinating Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strain, Carrying a Transposon in the Fimbrial Usher Gene stbC, Exhibits Mul... by Kuan-Hsun Wu, Ke-Chuan Wang, Lin-Wen Lee, Yi-Ning Huang, Kuang-Sheng Yeh

“…A transposon inserted in stbC, which would encode an usher for Stb fimbriae of a non-flagellar Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium LB5010 strain, conferred it to agglutinate yeast cells on both cultures. …”
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Fungal genomes: suffering with functional annotation errors by Tapan Kumar Mohanta, Ahmed Al-Harrasi

“…However, InterproScan analysis indicated that none of the protein sequences annotated as “calcium dependent protein kinase” were found to encode calcium binding EF-hands at the regulatory domain. …”
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Small open reading frames (sORFs): Driving big improvements in plant development and quality by Kui Dong, Chaofan Shan, Dongyu Wen, Zifan Cui, Jun Cao

“…Small open reading frames (sORFs) are defined as short nucleotide sequences, typically no longer than 300 base pairs, which have the potential to encode small peptides. With the advent of sophisticated technologies such as bioinformatics, ribosome profiling, and mass spectrometry, the investigation of sORFs has experienced a transformative shift and significant expansion. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the <i>ALDH</i> Gene Family in <i>Sinonovacula constricta</i> Bivalve in Response to Acute Hypersaline Stress by Jianing Yu, Biao Wu, Yinghui Dong, Zhihua Lin, Hanhan Yao

“…These genes are located on eight chromosomes, with tandem duplications observed on chromosome 10; they encode mostly acidic and hydrophilic proteins. Among them, <i>ScALDH18A1</i> contains a conserved P5CS domain that is implicated in proline synthesis and osmotic regulation. …”
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Spontaneously Diabetic Torii (SDT) Fatty Rat, a Novel Animal Model of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Shows Blunted Circadian Rhythms and Melatonin Secretion by Katsuya Sakimura, Tatsuya Maekawa, Shin-ichi Kume, Takeshi Ohta

“…To get an insight into the mechanism underlying the impaired melatonin secretion in SDT fatty rats, the expression of arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (Aanat) and acetylserotonin O-methyltransferase (Asmt) mRNA, which encode the rate-limiting enzymes for melatonin synthesis, was investigated in the pineal gland. …”
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Unexpected inheritance: multiple integrations of ancient bornavirus and ebolavirus/marburgvirus sequences in vertebrate genomes. by Vladimir A Belyi, Arnold J Levine, Anna Marie Skalka

“…The integrations represent genes that encode viral nucleocapsid, RNA-dependent-RNA-polymerase, matrix and, possibly, glycoproteins. …”
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Expanding the Diversity of <i>Actinobacterial Tectiviridae</i>: A Novel Genus from <i>Microbacterium</i> by Jacqueline M. Washington, Holly Basta, Angela Bryanne De Jesus, Madison G. Bendele, Steven G. Cresawn, Emily K. Ginser

“…Like other <i>Tectiviridae</i>, the phage genomes are arranged into two segments and include three highly conserved family genes that encode a DNA polymerase, double jelly-roll major capsid protein, and packaging ATPase. …”
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Comparing Effects of BK Virus Agnoprotein and Herpes Simplex-1 ICP47 on MHC-I and MHC-II Expression by Michela Cioni, Christian Mittelholzer, Marion Wernli, Hans H. Hirsch

“…Among human polyomaviruses, only BK virus (BKV) and JC virus (JCV) encode an agnoprotein upstream of VP1 on the viral late transcript. …”
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Impact of glycolysis inhibitor (2-DG) and oxidation and phosphorylation uncoupler (2,4-DNP) on brain metabolites by O. B. Shevelev, M. P. Moshkin

“…A deficiency of available energy for brain cells under neurodegenerative diseases is either developed due to age-dependent underexpression of genes that encode glycolytic enzymes or induced due to the uncoupling of oxidation and phosphorylation that could be mediated by inflammatory cytokines. …”
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