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Dimensionality reduction is a key step in the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data. It produces a low-dimensional embedding for visualization and as a calculation base for downstream analysis. Nonlinear techniques are most suitable to handle the intrinsic complexity of large, heterogeneous single cell data. However, with no linear relation between gene and embedding coordinate, there is no way to extract the identity of genes driving any cell's position in the low-dimensional embedding, making it more difficult to characterize the underlying biological processes. In this paper, we introduce the concepts of local and global gene relevance to compute an equivalent of principal component analysis loadings for non-linear low-dimensional embeddings. Global gene relevance identifies drivers of the overall embedding, while local gene relevance identifies those of a defined subregion. We apply our method to single-cell RNAseq datasets from different experimental protocols and to different low dimensional embedding techniques. This shows our method's versatility to identify key genes for a variety of biological processes. To ensure reproducibility and ease of use, our method is released as part of destiny 3.0, a popular R package for building diffusion maps from single-cell transcriptomic data. It is readily available through Bioconductor. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press.The present study aimed to determine whether apelin-13 could attenuate cardiac fibrosis via inhibiting the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B (PI3K/Akt) pathway to inhibit reactive oxygen species in heart failure (HF) rats. HF models were established by inducing ischemia myocardial infarction (MI) through ligation of the left anterior descending artery in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. MI-induced changes in hemodynamics and cardiac function were reversed by apelin-13 administration. The increases in the levels of collagen I, collagen III, α-smooth muscle actin (SMA), and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) in the heart of MI rats and cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) treated with angiotensin (Ang) II were inhibited by apelin-13. The levels of PI3K and p-Akt increased in Ang II-treated CFs, and these increases were blocked by apelin-13. The PI3K overexpression reversed the effects of apelin-13 on Ang II-induced increases in collagen I, collagen III, α-SMA, and TGF-β, NADPH oxidase activity and superoxide anions in CFs. Apelin-13 reduced the increases in the levels of NADPH oxidase activity and superoxide anions in the heart of MI rats and CFs with Ang II treatment. The results demonstrated that apelin-13 improved cardiac dysfunction, impaired cardiac hemodynamics, and attenuated fibrosis of CFs induced by Ang II via inhibiting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway to inhibit oxidative stress. © 2020 The Author(s).MOTIVATION The discrimination ability of score functions to separate correct from incorrect peptide-spectrum matches in database-searching-based spectrum identification are hindered by many superfluous peaks belonging to unexpected fragmentation ions or by the lacking peaks of anticipated fragmentation ions. RESULTS Here, we present a new method, called BoltzMatch, to learn score functions using a particular stochastic neural networks, called restricted Boltzmann machines, in order to enhance their discrimination ability. BoltzMatch learns chemically explainable patterns among peak pairs in the spectrum data, and it can augment peaks depending on their semantic context or even reconstruct lacking peaks of expected ions during its internal scoring mechanism. As a result, BoltzMatch achieved 50% and 33% more annotations on high- and low-resolution MS2 data than XCorr at a 0.1% false discovery rate in our benchmark; conversely, XCorr yielded the same number of spectrum annotations as BoltzMatch, albeit with 4-6 times more errors. In addition, BoltzMatch alone does yield 14% more annotations than Prosit (which runs with Percolator), and BoltzMatch with Percolator yields 32% more annotations than Prosit at 0.1% FDR level in our benchmark. AVAILABILITY BoltzMatch is freely available at https//github.com/kfattila/BoltzMatch. SUPPORTING INFORMATION Supplementary materials are available at Bioinformatics Online. © The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email journals.permissions@oup.com.INTRODUCTION In 2010, the Joint Trauma System published a clinical practice guideline (CPG) for providing care to patients with suspicion of spinal cord injury. The CPG advocated for liberal use of cervical collars and adequate documentation of the practice. This performance improvement project examined C-spine CPG adherence in both the prehospital and military treatment facility (MTF) settings. Understanding challenges in CPG adherence facilitates evaluation of future CPGs and their success at implantation of the clinical guidance. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Department of Defense Trauma Registry was used to identify US Military casualties meeting the criteria for cervical collar placement between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2018. Criteria for cervical collar placement were defined as any patient who experienced a mechanism of injury relating to an explosion, fall, or motor-vehicle-related injury. Any patients with an AIS severity score greater than 1 to the head or having any ICD injury codes related to ata accurately portray nonadherence or adherence with lack of documentation. Future research and resources would benefit and expand the results collected in this paper, and cement the importance of CPG publication and adherence. © Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2020. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail journals.permissions@oup.com.MOTIVATION Protein Structural Annotations are essential abstractions to deal with the prediction of Protein Structures. ABT-737 Many increasingly sophisticated Protein Structural Annotations have been devised in the last few decades. However the need for annotations that are easy to compute, process and predict has not diminished. This is especially true for protein structures that are hardest to predict such as novel folds. RESULTS We propose Brewery, a suite of ab initio predictors of 1D Protein Structural Annotations. Brewery uses multiple sources of evolutionary information to achieve state-of-the-art predictions of Secondary Structure, Structural Motifs, Relative Solvent Accessibility and Contact Density. AVAILABILITY The web server, standalone program, Docker image and training sets of Brewery are available at http//distilldeep.ucd.ie/brewery/. © The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email journals.permissions@oup.com.