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AI for Precision Health
Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.
2025
4 publicationsAI for Drug Suitability2025
Machine Learning-Driven Insights and Predictions for CO2 Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Skander Charni, Raeesh Muhammad, Abdulkarem I. Amhamed, Brahim Aissa, Halima Bensmail — International Conference on Thermal Engineering (ICTEA) (2025)
AI for Disease Analysis2025
Comprehensive Analysis of Rare Variants Associated with Genetic Predisposition to Non-BRCA Familial Breast Cancer Among Arabs
Ehsan Ullah, Hikmat Abdel-Razeq, Sana Bentebbal, Abdullah Shaar, Nehad Alajez, Mohamad Saad, Julie V — Decock Clinical Cancer Research (2025)
AI for Disease Analysis2025
Genome‐Wide Association Study for Resting Electrocardiogram in the Qatari Population Identifies 6 Novel Genes and Validates Novel Polygenic Risk Scores
Nahin Khan, Abdullah Shaar, Khalid Kunji, Atlas Khan, Mohamed Elshrif, Mohammed Bashir, Mohammed Thamer Ali, Ayman Al Haj Zen, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Georges Nemer, Akl C. Fahed, Mohamad Saad — Journal of the American Heart Association (2025)
AI for Drug Suitability2025
Tisslet: Tissues-based Learning Estimation for Transcriptomics
Ahmed Miloudi, Aisha Al-Qahtani, Thamanna Hashir, Mohamed Chikri, Halima Bensmail — BMC bioinformatics (2025)
2024
2 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2024
PopMLvis: a tool for analysis and visualization of population structure using genotype data from genome-wide association studies
Mohamed Elshrif, Keivin Isufaj, Khalid Kunji, Mohamad Saad — BMC Bioinformatics (2024)
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Genetic Susceptibility to Arrhythmia Phenotypes in a Middle Eastern Cohort of 14,259 Whole-Genome Sequenced Individuals
Fatima Qafoud, Mohamed Elshrif, Khalid Kunji, Asma Althani, Amar Salam, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Nidal Asaad, Dawood Darbar, Mohamad Saad — Journal of Clinical Medicine (2024)
2023
2 publicationsAI for Drug Suitability2023
Multi-omics and machine learning reveal context-specific gene regulatory activities of PML::RARA in acute promyelocytic leukemia
William Villiers, Audrey Kelly, Xiaohan He, James Kaufman-Cook, Abdurrahman Elbasir, Halima Bensmail, Paul Lavender, Richard Dillon, Borbála Mifsud, Cameron S. Osborne — Nature Communications (2023)
AI for Drug Suitability2023
OutSingle: a novel method of detecting and injecting outliers in RNA-Seq count data using the optimal hard threshold for singular values
Edin Salkovic, Abdelkader Baggag, Ahmed Gamal Rashed Salem, Halima Bensmail*, Mohammad Amin — Sadeghi Bioinformatics (2023)
2022
4 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2022
Validation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Heart Disease in a Middle Eastern Cohort Using Whole Genome Sequencing
Mohamad Saad, Ayman El-Menyar, Khalid Kunji, Ehsan Ullah, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Iftikhar J — Kullo Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine (2022)
AI for Disease Analysis2022
Including diverse and admixed populations in genetic epidemiology research
Amke Caliebe, Fasil Tekola‐Ayele, Burcu F. Darst, Xuexia Wang, Yeunjoo E. Song, Jiang Gui, Ronnie A. Sebro, David J. Balding, Mohamad Saad, Marie‐Pierre Dubé — Genetic Epidemiology (2022)
AI for Disease Analysis2022
Untargeted Metabolomics Profiling Reveals Perturbations in Arginine-NO Metabolism in Middle Eastern Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
Ehsan Ullah, Ayman El-Menyar, Khalid Kunji, Reem Elsousy, Haira R. B. Mokhtar, Eiman Ahmad, Maryam Al-Nesf, Alka Beotra, Mohammed Al-Maadheed, Vidya Mohamed-Ali, Mohamad Saad, Jassim Al — Suwaidi Metabolites (2022)
AI for Disease Analysis2022
Genetic predisposition to cancer across people of different ancestries in Qatar: a population-based, cohort study
Mohamad Saad, Younes Mokrab, Najeeb Halabi, Jingxuan Shan, Rozaimi Razali, Khalid Kunji, Najeeb Syed, Ramzi Temanni, Murugan Subramanian, Michele Ceccarelli, Said I Ismail, Wadha Al-Muftah, Radja Badji, Hamdi Mbarek, Dima Darwish, Tasnim Fadl, Heba Yasin, Maryem Ennaifar, Rania Abdellatif, Fatima Alkuwari, Muhammad Alvi, Yasser Al-Sarraj, Chadi Saad, Eleni Fethnou, Fatima Qafoud, Eiman Alkhayat, Nahla Afifi, Sara Tomei, Wei Liu, Stephan Lorenz, Najeeb Syed, Hakeem Almabrazi, Fazulur R Vempalli, Ramzi Temanni, Tariq Abu Saqri, Mohammedhusen Khatib, Mehshad Hamza, Tariq Abu Zaid, Ahmed El Khouly, Tushar Pathare, Shafeeq Poolat, Rashid Al-Ali, Omar Albagha, Souhaila Al-Khodor, Mashael Alshafai, Ramin Badii, Lotfi Chouchane, Xavier Estivill, Khalid Fakhro, Hamdi Mbarek, Younes Mokrab, Jithesh V Puthen, Karsten Suhre, Zohreh Tatari, Arash Rafii Tabrizi, Davide Bedognetti, Lotfi Chouchane — The Lancet Oncology (2022)
2021
1 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2021
Germline genetic contribution to the immune landscape of cancer
Rosalyn W. Sayaman, Mohamad Saad, Vésteinn Thorsson, Donglei Hu, Wouter Hendrickx, Jessica Roelands, Eduard Porta-Pardo, Younes Mokrab, Farshad Farshidfar, Tomas Kirchhoff, Randy F. Sweis, Oliver F. Bathe, Carolina Heimann, Michael J. Campbell, Cynthia Stretch, Scott Huntsman, Rebecca E. Graff, Najeeb Syed, Laszlo Radvanyi, Simon Shelley, Denise Wolf, Francesco M. Marincola, Michele Ceccarelli, Jérôme Galon, Elad Ziv, Davide Bedognetti Immunity — Immunity (2021)
2020
2 publicationsAI for Drug Suitability2020
Comprehensive review and assessment of computational methods for predicting RNA post-transcriptional modification sites from RNA sequences
Zhen Chen, Pei Zhao, Fuyi Li, Yanan Wang, A. Ian Smith, Geoffrey I. Webb, Tatsuya Akutsu, Abdelkader Baggag, Halima Bensmail, Jiangning Song — Briefings in Bioinformatics (2020)
AI for Drug Suitability2020
BCrystal: An interpretable sequence-based protein crystallization predictor
Abdurrahman Elbasir, Raghvendra Mall, Khalid Kunji, Reda Rawi, Zeyaul Islam, Gwo Yu Chuang, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail Bioinformatics — Bioinformatics (2020)
2019
1 publicationsAI for Drug Suitability2019
DeepCrystal: A Deep Learning Framework for Sequence-based Protein Crystallization Prediction
Abdurrahman Elbasir, Balasubramanian Moovarkumudalvan, Khalid Kunji, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail, Raghvendra Mall — IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (2019)
2018
2 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2018
Comparison and assessment of family- and population-based genotype imputation methods in large pedigrees
Ehsan Ullah, Raghvendra Mall, Mostafa M. Abbas, Khalid Kunji, Alejandro Q. Nato, Halima Bensmail, Ellen M. Wijsman, Mohamad Saad — Genome Research (2018)
AI for Drug Suitability2018
RGBM: Regularized gradient boosting machines for identification of the transcriptional regulators of discrete glioma subtypes
Raghvendra Mall, Luigi Cerulo, Luciano Garofano, Veronique Frattini, Khalid Kunji, Halima Bensmail, Thais S. Sabedot, Houtan Noushmehr, Anna Lasorella, Antonio Iavarone, Michele Ceccarelli — Nucleic Acids Research (2018)