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ArticleBioMed research international2020

Identification of COVID-19 Infection-Related Human Genes Based on a Random Walk Model in a Virus-Human Protein Interaction Network.

YuHang Zhang, Tao Zeng, Lei Chen, ShiJian Ding, Tao Huang, Yu-Dong Cai

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Article in BioMed research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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YuHang ZhangSchool of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Tao ZengKey Laboratory of Systems Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Lei ChenCollege of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3068-1583
ShiJian DingSchool of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Tao HuangShanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1975-9693
Yu-Dong CaiSchool of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5664-7979

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Abstract

Coronaviruses are specific crown-shaped viruses that were first identified in the 1960s, and three typical examples of the most recent coronavirus disease outbreaks include severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. Particularly, COVID-19 is currently causing a worldwide pandemic, threatening the health of human beings globally. The identification of viral pathogenic mechanisms is important for further developing effective drugs and targeted clinical treatment methods. The delayed revelation of viral infectious mechanisms is currently one of the technical obstacles in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. In this study, we proposed a random walk model to identify the potential pathological mechanisms of COVID-19 on a virus-human protein interaction network, and we effectively identified a group of proteins that have already been determined to be potentially important for COVID-19 infection and for similar SARS infections, which help further developing drugs and targeted therapeutic methods against COVID-19. Moreover, we constructed a standard computational workflow for predicting the pathological biomarkers and related pharmacological targets of infectious diseases.

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BetacoronavirusBiomarkersCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansModels, GeneticPandemicsPneumonia, ViralProtein Interaction MapsSARS-CoV-2Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeBiomarkers

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