TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bajić, Vladan P.
AU  - Salhi, Adil
AU  - Lakota, Katja
AU  - Radovanović, Aleksandar
AU  - Razali, Rozaimi
AU  - Živković, Lada
AU  - Spremo-Potparević, Biljana
AU  - Uludag, Mahmut
AU  - Tifratene, Faroug
AU  - Motwalli, Olaa
AU  - Marchand, Benoit
AU  - Bajić, Vladimir
AU  - Gojobori, Takashi
AU  - Isenović, Esma R.
AU  - Essack, Magbubah
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/10387
AB  - More than 30 types of amyloids are linked to close to 50 diseases in humans, the most prom- inent being Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is brain-related local amyloidosis, while another amyloidosis, such as AA amyloidosis, tends to be more systemic. Therefore, we need to know more about the biological entities’ influencing these amyloidosis processes. However, there is currently no support system developed specifically to handle this extraordinarily complex and demanding task. To acquire a systematic view of amyloidosis and how this may be relevant to the brain and other organs, we needed a means to explore "amyloid net- work systems" that may underly processes that leads to an amyloid-related disease. In this regard, we developed the DES-Amyloidoses knowledgebase (KB) to obtain fast and rele- vant information regarding the biological network related to amyloid proteins/peptides and amyloid-related diseases. This KB contains information obtained through text and data min- ing of available scientific literature and other public repositories. The information compiled into the DES-Amyloidoses system based on 19 topic-specific dictionaries resulted in 796,409 associations between terms from these dictionaries. Users can explore this infor- mation through various options, including enriched concepts, enriched pairs, and semantic similarity. We show the usefulness of the KB using an example focused on inflammasome- amyloid associations. To our knowledge, this is the only KB dedicated to human amyloid- related diseases derived primarily through literature text mining and complemented by data mining that provides a novel way of exploring information relevant to amyloidoses.
T2  - PLoS ONE
T1  - DES-Amyloidoses “Amyloidoses through thelooking-glass”: A knowledgebase developedfor exploring and linking information relatedto human amyloid-related diseases
VL  - 17
IS  - 7
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0271737
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Bajić, Vladan P. and Salhi, Adil and Lakota, Katja and Radovanović, Aleksandar and Razali, Rozaimi and Živković, Lada and Spremo-Potparević, Biljana and Uludag, Mahmut and Tifratene, Faroug and Motwalli, Olaa and Marchand, Benoit and Bajić, Vladimir and Gojobori, Takashi and Isenović, Esma R. and Essack, Magbubah",
year = "2022",
abstract = "More than 30 types of amyloids are linked to close to 50 diseases in humans, the most prom- inent being Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is brain-related local amyloidosis, while another amyloidosis, such as AA amyloidosis, tends to be more systemic. Therefore, we need to know more about the biological entities’ influencing these amyloidosis processes. However, there is currently no support system developed specifically to handle this extraordinarily complex and demanding task. To acquire a systematic view of amyloidosis and how this may be relevant to the brain and other organs, we needed a means to explore "amyloid net- work systems" that may underly processes that leads to an amyloid-related disease. In this regard, we developed the DES-Amyloidoses knowledgebase (KB) to obtain fast and rele- vant information regarding the biological network related to amyloid proteins/peptides and amyloid-related diseases. This KB contains information obtained through text and data min- ing of available scientific literature and other public repositories. The information compiled into the DES-Amyloidoses system based on 19 topic-specific dictionaries resulted in 796,409 associations between terms from these dictionaries. Users can explore this infor- mation through various options, including enriched concepts, enriched pairs, and semantic similarity. We show the usefulness of the KB using an example focused on inflammasome- amyloid associations. To our knowledge, this is the only KB dedicated to human amyloid- related diseases derived primarily through literature text mining and complemented by data mining that provides a novel way of exploring information relevant to amyloidoses.",
journal = "PLoS ONE",
title = "DES-Amyloidoses “Amyloidoses through thelooking-glass”: A knowledgebase developedfor exploring and linking information relatedto human amyloid-related diseases",
volume = "17",
number = "7",
doi = "10.1371/journal.pone.0271737"
}

Bajić, V. P., Salhi, A., Lakota, K., Radovanović, A., Razali, R., Živković, L., Spremo-Potparević, B., Uludag, M., Tifratene, F., Motwalli, O., Marchand, B., Bajić, V., Gojobori, T., Isenović, E. R.,& Essack, M.. (2022). DES-Amyloidoses “Amyloidoses through thelooking-glass”: A knowledgebase developedfor exploring and linking information relatedto human amyloid-related diseases. in PLoS ONE, 17(7).
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271737

Bajić VP, Salhi A, Lakota K, Radovanović A, Razali R, Živković L, Spremo-Potparević B, Uludag M, Tifratene F, Motwalli O, Marchand B, Bajić V, Gojobori T, Isenović ER, Essack M. DES-Amyloidoses “Amyloidoses through thelooking-glass”: A knowledgebase developedfor exploring and linking information relatedto human amyloid-related diseases. in PLoS ONE. 2022;17(7).
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271737 .

Bajić, Vladan P., Salhi, Adil, Lakota, Katja, Radovanović, Aleksandar, Razali, Rozaimi, Živković, Lada, Spremo-Potparević, Biljana, Uludag, Mahmut, Tifratene, Faroug, Motwalli, Olaa, Marchand, Benoit, Bajić, Vladimir, Gojobori, Takashi, Isenović, Esma R., Essack, Magbubah, "DES-Amyloidoses “Amyloidoses through thelooking-glass”: A knowledgebase developedfor exploring and linking information relatedto human amyloid-related diseases" in PLoS ONE, 17, no. 7 (2022),
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271737 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Essack, Magbubah
AU  - Salhi, Adil
AU  - Van Neste, Christophe
AU  - Raies, Arwa Bin
AU  - Tifratene, Faroug
AU  - Uludag, Mahmut
AU  - Hungler, Arnaud
AU  - Zarić, Božidarka
AU  - Zafirović, Sonja
AU  - Gojobori, Takashi
AU  - Isenović, Esma R.
AU  - Bajić, Vladan P.
PY  - 2020
UR  - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/8945
AB  - Normal cellular physiology and biochemical processes require undamaged RNA molecules. However, RNAs are frequently subjected to oxidative damage. Overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leads to RNA oxidation and disturbs redox (oxidation-reduction reaction) homeostasis. When oxidation damage affects RNA carrying protein-coding information, this may result in the synthesis of aberrant proteins as well as a lower efficiency of translation. Both of these, as well as imbalanced redox homeostasis, may lead to numerous human diseases. The number of studies on the effects of RNA oxidative damage in mammals is increasing by year due to the understanding that this oxidation fundamentally leads to numerous human diseases. To enable researchers in this field to explore information relevant to RNA oxidation and effects on human diseases, we developed DES-ROD, an online knowledgebase that contains processed information from 298,603 relevant documents that consist of PubMed abstracts and PubMed Central full-text articles. The system utilizes concepts/terms from 38 curated thematic dictionaries mapped to the analyzed documents. Researchers can explore enriched concepts, as well as enriched pairs of putatively associated concepts. In this way, one can explore mutual relationships between any combinations of two concepts from used dictionaries. Dictionaries cover a wide range of biomedical topics, such as human genes and proteins, pathways, Gene Ontology categories, mutations, noncoding RNAs, enzymes, toxins, metabolites, and diseases. This makes insights into different facets of the effects of RNA oxidation and the control of this process possible. The usefulness of the DES-ROD system is demonstrated by case studies on some known information, as well as potentially novel information involving RNA oxidation and diseases. DES-ROD is the first knowledgebase based on text and data mining that focused on the exploration of RNA oxidation and human diseases.
T2  - Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
T1  - DES-ROD: Exploring Literature to Develop New Links between RNA Oxidation and Human Diseases
VL  - 2020
SP  - 5904315
DO  - 10.1155/2020/5904315
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Essack, Magbubah and Salhi, Adil and Van Neste, Christophe and Raies, Arwa Bin and Tifratene, Faroug and Uludag, Mahmut and Hungler, Arnaud and Zarić, Božidarka and Zafirović, Sonja and Gojobori, Takashi and Isenović, Esma R. and Bajić, Vladan P.",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Normal cellular physiology and biochemical processes require undamaged RNA molecules. However, RNAs are frequently subjected to oxidative damage. Overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leads to RNA oxidation and disturbs redox (oxidation-reduction reaction) homeostasis. When oxidation damage affects RNA carrying protein-coding information, this may result in the synthesis of aberrant proteins as well as a lower efficiency of translation. Both of these, as well as imbalanced redox homeostasis, may lead to numerous human diseases. The number of studies on the effects of RNA oxidative damage in mammals is increasing by year due to the understanding that this oxidation fundamentally leads to numerous human diseases. To enable researchers in this field to explore information relevant to RNA oxidation and effects on human diseases, we developed DES-ROD, an online knowledgebase that contains processed information from 298,603 relevant documents that consist of PubMed abstracts and PubMed Central full-text articles. The system utilizes concepts/terms from 38 curated thematic dictionaries mapped to the analyzed documents. Researchers can explore enriched concepts, as well as enriched pairs of putatively associated concepts. In this way, one can explore mutual relationships between any combinations of two concepts from used dictionaries. Dictionaries cover a wide range of biomedical topics, such as human genes and proteins, pathways, Gene Ontology categories, mutations, noncoding RNAs, enzymes, toxins, metabolites, and diseases. This makes insights into different facets of the effects of RNA oxidation and the control of this process possible. The usefulness of the DES-ROD system is demonstrated by case studies on some known information, as well as potentially novel information involving RNA oxidation and diseases. DES-ROD is the first knowledgebase based on text and data mining that focused on the exploration of RNA oxidation and human diseases.",
journal = "Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity",
title = "DES-ROD: Exploring Literature to Develop New Links between RNA Oxidation and Human Diseases",
volume = "2020",
pages = "5904315",
doi = "10.1155/2020/5904315"
}

Essack, M., Salhi, A., Van Neste, C., Raies, A. B., Tifratene, F., Uludag, M., Hungler, A., Zarić, B., Zafirović, S., Gojobori, T., Isenović, E. R.,& Bajić, V. P.. (2020). DES-ROD: Exploring Literature to Develop New Links between RNA Oxidation and Human Diseases. in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2020, 5904315.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5904315

Essack M, Salhi A, Van Neste C, Raies AB, Tifratene F, Uludag M, Hungler A, Zarić B, Zafirović S, Gojobori T, Isenović ER, Bajić VP. DES-ROD: Exploring Literature to Develop New Links between RNA Oxidation and Human Diseases. in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2020;2020:5904315.
doi:10.1155/2020/5904315 .

Essack, Magbubah, Salhi, Adil, Van Neste, Christophe, Raies, Arwa Bin, Tifratene, Faroug, Uludag, Mahmut, Hungler, Arnaud, Zarić, Božidarka, Zafirović, Sonja, Gojobori, Takashi, Isenović, Esma R., Bajić, Vladan P., "DES-ROD: Exploring Literature to Develop New Links between RNA Oxidation and Human Diseases" in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2020 (2020):5904315,
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5904315 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Essack, Magbubah
AU  - Salhi, Adil
AU  - Stanimirović, Julijana
AU  - Tifratene, Faroug
AU  - Bin Raies, Arwa
AU  - Hungler, Arnaud
AU  - Uludag, Mahmut
AU  - Van Neste, Christophe
AU  - Trpković, Andreja
AU  - Bajić, Vladan P.
AU  - Bajić, Vladimir B.
AU  - Isenović, Esma R.
PY  - 2019
UR  - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/8389
AB  - In cellular physiology and signaling, reactive oxygen species (ROS) play one of the most critical roles. ROS overproduction leads to cellular oxidative stress. This may lead to an irrecoverable imbalance of redox (oxidation-reduction reaction) function that deregulates redox homeostasis, which itself could lead to several diseases including neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancers. In this study, we focus on the redox effects related to vascular systems in mammals. To support research in this domain, we developed an online knowledge base, DES-RedoxVasc, which enables exploration of information contained in the biomedical scientific literature. The DES-RedoxVasc system analyzed 233399 documents consisting of PubMed abstracts and PubMed Central full-text articles related to different aspects of redox biology in vascular systems. It allows researchers to explore enriched concepts from 28 curated thematic dictionaries, as well as literature-derived potential associations of pairs of such enriched concepts, where associations themselves are statistically enriched. For example, the system allows exploration of associations of pathways, diseases, mutations, genes/proteins, miRNAs, long ncRNAs, toxins, drugs, biological processes, molecular functions, etc. that allow for insights about different aspects of redox effects and control of processes related to the vascular system. Moreover, we deliver case studies about some existing or possibly novel knowledge regarding redox of vascular biology demonstrating the usefulness of DES-RedoxVasc. DES-RedoxVasc is the first compiled knowledge base using text mining for the exploration of this topic.
T2  - Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
T1  - Literature-Based Enrichment Insights into Redox Control of Vascular Biology
VL  - 2019
SP  - 1769437
DO  - 10.1155/2019/1769437
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Essack, Magbubah and Salhi, Adil and Stanimirović, Julijana and Tifratene, Faroug and Bin Raies, Arwa and Hungler, Arnaud and Uludag, Mahmut and Van Neste, Christophe and Trpković, Andreja and Bajić, Vladan P. and Bajić, Vladimir B. and Isenović, Esma R.",
year = "2019",
abstract = "In cellular physiology and signaling, reactive oxygen species (ROS) play one of the most critical roles. ROS overproduction leads to cellular oxidative stress. This may lead to an irrecoverable imbalance of redox (oxidation-reduction reaction) function that deregulates redox homeostasis, which itself could lead to several diseases including neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancers. In this study, we focus on the redox effects related to vascular systems in mammals. To support research in this domain, we developed an online knowledge base, DES-RedoxVasc, which enables exploration of information contained in the biomedical scientific literature. The DES-RedoxVasc system analyzed 233399 documents consisting of PubMed abstracts and PubMed Central full-text articles related to different aspects of redox biology in vascular systems. It allows researchers to explore enriched concepts from 28 curated thematic dictionaries, as well as literature-derived potential associations of pairs of such enriched concepts, where associations themselves are statistically enriched. For example, the system allows exploration of associations of pathways, diseases, mutations, genes/proteins, miRNAs, long ncRNAs, toxins, drugs, biological processes, molecular functions, etc. that allow for insights about different aspects of redox effects and control of processes related to the vascular system. Moreover, we deliver case studies about some existing or possibly novel knowledge regarding redox of vascular biology demonstrating the usefulness of DES-RedoxVasc. DES-RedoxVasc is the first compiled knowledge base using text mining for the exploration of this topic.",
journal = "Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity",
title = "Literature-Based Enrichment Insights into Redox Control of Vascular Biology",
volume = "2019",
pages = "1769437",
doi = "10.1155/2019/1769437"
}

Essack, M., Salhi, A., Stanimirović, J., Tifratene, F., Bin Raies, A., Hungler, A., Uludag, M., Van Neste, C., Trpković, A., Bajić, V. P., Bajić, V. B.,& Isenović, E. R.. (2019). Literature-Based Enrichment Insights into Redox Control of Vascular Biology. in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2019, 1769437.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1769437

Essack M, Salhi A, Stanimirović J, Tifratene F, Bin Raies A, Hungler A, Uludag M, Van Neste C, Trpković A, Bajić VP, Bajić VB, Isenović ER. Literature-Based Enrichment Insights into Redox Control of Vascular Biology. in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2019;2019:1769437.
doi:10.1155/2019/1769437 .

Essack, Magbubah, Salhi, Adil, Stanimirović, Julijana, Tifratene, Faroug, Bin Raies, Arwa, Hungler, Arnaud, Uludag, Mahmut, Van Neste, Christophe, Trpković, Andreja, Bajić, Vladan P., Bajić, Vladimir B., Isenović, Esma R., "Literature-Based Enrichment Insights into Redox Control of Vascular Biology" in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2019 (2019):1769437,
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1769437 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Salhi, Adil
AU  - Essack, Magbubah
AU  - Alam, Tanvir
AU  - Bajić, Vladan P.
AU  - Ma, Lina
AU  - Radovanovic, Aleksandar
AU  - Marchand, Benoit
AU  - Schmeier, Sebastian
AU  - Zhang, Zhang
AU  - Bajić, Vladimir B.
PY  - 2017
UR  - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1675
AB  - Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), particularly microRNAs (miRNAs) and long ncRNAs (lncRNAs), are important players in diseases and emerge as novel drug targets. Thus, unraveling the relationships between ncRNAs and other biomedical entities in cells are critical for better understanding ncRNA roles that may eventually help develop their use in medicine. To support ncRNA research and facilitate retrieval of relevant information regarding miRNAs and lncRNAs from the plethora of published ncRNA-related research, we developed DES-ncRNA (www.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/des_ncrna). DES-ncRNA is a knowledgebase containing text- and data-mined information from public scientific literature and other public resources. Exploration of mined information is enabled through terms and pairs of terms from 19 topic-specific dictionaries including, for example, antibiotics, toxins, drugs, enzymes, mutations, pathways, human genes and proteins, drug indications and side effects, mutations, diseases, etc. DES-ncRNA contains approximately 878,000 associations of terms from these dictionaries of which 36,222 (5,373) are with regards to miRNAs (lncRNAs). We provide several ways to explore information regarding ncRNAs to users including controlled generation of association networks as well as hypotheses generation. We show an example how DES-ncRNA can aid research on Alzheimer disease and suggest potential therapeutic role for Fasudil. DES-ncRNA is a powerful tool that can be used on its own or as a complement to the existing resources, to support research in human ncRNA. To our knowledge, this is the only knowledgebase dedicated to human miRNAs and lncRNAs derived primarily through literature-mining enabling exploration of a broad spectrum of associated biomedical entities, not paralleled by any other resource.
T2  - RNA Biology
T1  - DES-ncRNA: A knowledgebase for exploring information about human micro and long noncoding RNAs based on literature-mining
VL  - 14
IS  - 7
SP  - 963
EP  - 971
DO  - 10.1080/15476286.2017.1312243
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Salhi, Adil and Essack, Magbubah and Alam, Tanvir and Bajić, Vladan P. and Ma, Lina and Radovanovic, Aleksandar and Marchand, Benoit and Schmeier, Sebastian and Zhang, Zhang and Bajić, Vladimir B.",
year = "2017",
abstract = "Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), particularly microRNAs (miRNAs) and long ncRNAs (lncRNAs), are important players in diseases and emerge as novel drug targets. Thus, unraveling the relationships between ncRNAs and other biomedical entities in cells are critical for better understanding ncRNA roles that may eventually help develop their use in medicine. To support ncRNA research and facilitate retrieval of relevant information regarding miRNAs and lncRNAs from the plethora of published ncRNA-related research, we developed DES-ncRNA (www.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/des_ncrna). DES-ncRNA is a knowledgebase containing text- and data-mined information from public scientific literature and other public resources. Exploration of mined information is enabled through terms and pairs of terms from 19 topic-specific dictionaries including, for example, antibiotics, toxins, drugs, enzymes, mutations, pathways, human genes and proteins, drug indications and side effects, mutations, diseases, etc. DES-ncRNA contains approximately 878,000 associations of terms from these dictionaries of which 36,222 (5,373) are with regards to miRNAs (lncRNAs). We provide several ways to explore information regarding ncRNAs to users including controlled generation of association networks as well as hypotheses generation. We show an example how DES-ncRNA can aid research on Alzheimer disease and suggest potential therapeutic role for Fasudil. DES-ncRNA is a powerful tool that can be used on its own or as a complement to the existing resources, to support research in human ncRNA. To our knowledge, this is the only knowledgebase dedicated to human miRNAs and lncRNAs derived primarily through literature-mining enabling exploration of a broad spectrum of associated biomedical entities, not paralleled by any other resource.",
journal = "RNA Biology",
title = "DES-ncRNA: A knowledgebase for exploring information about human micro and long noncoding RNAs based on literature-mining",
volume = "14",
number = "7",
pages = "963-971",
doi = "10.1080/15476286.2017.1312243"
}

Salhi, A., Essack, M., Alam, T., Bajić, V. P., Ma, L., Radovanovic, A., Marchand, B., Schmeier, S., Zhang, Z.,& Bajić, V. B.. (2017). DES-ncRNA: A knowledgebase for exploring information about human micro and long noncoding RNAs based on literature-mining. in RNA Biology, 14(7), 963-971.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2017.1312243

Salhi A, Essack M, Alam T, Bajić VP, Ma L, Radovanovic A, Marchand B, Schmeier S, Zhang Z, Bajić VB. DES-ncRNA: A knowledgebase for exploring information about human micro and long noncoding RNAs based on literature-mining. in RNA Biology. 2017;14(7):963-971.
doi:10.1080/15476286.2017.1312243 .

Salhi, Adil, Essack, Magbubah, Alam, Tanvir, Bajić, Vladan P., Ma, Lina, Radovanovic, Aleksandar, Marchand, Benoit, Schmeier, Sebastian, Zhang, Zhang, Bajić, Vladimir B., "DES-ncRNA: A knowledgebase for exploring information about human micro and long noncoding RNAs based on literature-mining" in RNA Biology, 14, no. 7 (2017):963-971,
https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2017.1312243 . .