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20232025
most citedPhaVIP: Phage VIrion Protein classification based on chaos game representation and Vision Transformer

1 citations · 1 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

q-bio.GN2025

Computational approaches for virus host prediction: A review of methods and applications

Jiayu Shang, Cheng Peng, Jiaojiao Guan +3

Accurate prediction of virus-host interactions is critical for understanding viral ecology and developing applications like phage therapy. However, the growing number of computatio…

q-bio.GN2025

ViralQC: A Tool for Assessing Completeness and Contamination of Predicted Viral Contigs

Cheng Peng, Jiayu Shang, Jiaojiao Guan +1

Motivation: Viruses represent the most abundant biological entities on the planet and play vital roles in diverse ecosystems. Cataloging viruses across various environments is esse…

q-bio.GN2025

GiantHunter: Accurate detection of giant virus in metagenomic data using reinforcement-learning and Monte Carlo tree search

Fuchuan Qu, Cheng Peng, Jiaojiao Guan +3

Motivation: Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) are notable for their large genomes and extensive gene repertoires, which contribute to their widespread environmental pres…

q-bio.QM2024

PhaGO: Protein function annotation for bacteriophages by integrating the genomic context

Jiaojiao Guan, Yongxin Ji, Cheng Peng +4

Bacteriophages are viruses that target bacteria, playing a crucial role in microbial ecology. Phage proteins are important in understanding phage biology, such as virus infection,…

q-bio.GN2024

Accurate and efficient protein embedding using multi-teacher distillation learning

Jiayu Shang, Cheng Peng, Yongxin Ji +4

Motivation: Protein embedding, which represents proteins as numerical vectors, is a crucial step in various learning-based protein annotation/classification problems, including gen…

q-bio.GN2023★ 1 cited

PhaVIP: Phage VIrion Protein classification based on chaos game representation and Vision Transformer

Jiayu Shang, Cheng Peng, Xubo Tang +1

Motivation: As viruses that mainly infect bacteria, phages are key players across a wide range of ecosystems. Analyzing phage proteins is indispensable for understanding phages' fu…