Computational Approaches to Decoding Plant Molecular Networks
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
2. BioDiscovery Institute, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA
3. Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA
Interests: plants bioinformatics; computational genomics; genome evolution; pathogenomics; metagenomics; gene prediction; structural variation detection; disease gene identification
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Dear Colleagues,
The rapid advancement of computational techniques has significantly enhanced the analysis of plant molecular data, providing crucial insights into the molecular mechanisms that govern plant growth, development, and responses to environmental changes. With the emergence of high-throughput technologies, vast amounts of plant molecular data, specifically from the fields of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics, are being generated at an unprecedented pace, presenting both challenges and opportunities for data analysis and interpretation.
This Special Issue aims to cover the latest research on the application of computational methods to plant molecular analyses. We welcome original research articles, review articles, and perspectives focusing on the development and application of advanced computational tools for plant molecular studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, innovative approaches in multi-omics data processing, integration, and interpretation and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in plant biology. Additionally, we seek contributions that explore the visualization of complex plant molecular networks and spur new advances in understanding plant systems.
Dr. Rajeev K. Azad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- computational techniques
- multi-omics data
- plant molecular analysis
- machine learning
- AI
- data integration
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