Having a BLAST with bioinformatics (and avoiding BLASTphemy).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug resistance remains a major public health challenge for malaria treatment and eradication. Individual loci associated with drug resistance to many antimalarials have been identified, but their epistasis with other resistance mechanisms has not yet been elucidated. RESULTS:We previously described two mut...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Herman JD,Rice DP,Ribacke U,Silterra J,Deik AA,Moss EL,Broadbent KM,Neafsey DE,Desai MM,Clish CB,Mazitschek R,Wirth DF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA splicing is a key post-transcriptional mechanism that generates protein diversity and contributes to the fine-tuning of gene expression, which may facilitate adaptation to environmental challenges. Here, we employ a systems approach to study alternative splicing changes upon enteric infection in females ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Bou Sleiman M,Frochaux MV,Andreani T,Osman D,Guigo R,Deplancke B

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell RNA-seq in samples from the human neocortex demonstrate that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are abundantly expressed in specific individual brain cells, despite being hard to detect in bulk samples. This result suggests that the lncRNAs might have important functions in specific cell types in the brain. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ma Q,Chang HY

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Completion of fungal, plant and human genomes paved the way to the identification of erythrocytic rhesus proteins and their kidney homologs as ammonium transporters. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ludewig U,von Wirén N,Rentsch D,Frommer WB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationships between proteins are often asymmetric: one protein (A) depends for its function on another protein (B), but the second protein does not depend on the first. In metabolic networks there are multiple pathways that converge into one central pathway. The enzymes in the converging pathways depen...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Notebaart RA,Kensche PR,Huynen MA,Dutilh BE

更新日期：2009-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an algorithm, multi-species cMonkey, for the simultaneous biclustering of heterogeneous multiple-species data collections and apply the algorithm to a group of bacteria containing Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus anthracis, and Listeria monocytogenes. The algorithm reveals evolutionary insights into the surpris...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Waltman P,Kacmarczyk T,Bate AR,Kearns DB,Reiss DJ,Eichenberger P,Bonneau R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The H subunit of the purple bacterial photosynthetic reaction center (PRC-H) is important for the assembly of the photosynthetic reaction center and appears to regulate electron transfer during the reduction of the secondary quinone. It contains a distinct cytoplasmic beta-barrel domain whose fold has no clo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Anantharaman V,Aravind L

更新日期：2002-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are significant limitations in existing methods for the genome-wide identification of genes whose expression patterns affect traits. RESULTS:The transcriptomes of five tissues from 27 genetically diverse maize inbred lines were deeply sequenced to identify genes exhibiting high and low levels of expre...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Lin HY,Liu Q,Li X,Yang J,Liu S,Huang Y,Scanlon MJ,Nettleton D,Schnable PS

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome-wide investigation of DNA methylation levels has been limited to reference transposable element positions. The methylation analysis of non-reference and mobile transposable elements has only recently been performed, but required both genome resequencing and MethylC-seq datasets. We have created epiTEome, a ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Daron J,Slotkin RK

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposase-Accessible Chromatin followed by sequencing (ATAC-seq) is a simple protocol for detection of open chromatin. Computational footprinting, the search for regions with depletion of cleavage events due to transcription factor binding, is poorly understood for ATAC-seq. We propose the first footprinting method ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Li Z,Schulz MH,Look T,Begemann M,Zenke M,Costa IG

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined approach of whole genome shotgun sequencing and ultra-high density linkage mapping using skim sequencing of a segregating population is effective for assembling allopolyploid genomes. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ming R,Man Wai C

更新日期：2015-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:mRNA processing is critical for gene expression. A challenge in regulating mRNA processing is how to recognize the actual mRNA processing sites, such as splice and polyadenylation sites, when the sequence content is insufficient for this purpose. Previous studies suggested that RNA structure affects mRNA pro...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Liu Z,Liu Q,Yang X,Zhang Y,Norris M,Chen X,Cheema J,Zhang H,Ding Y

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The wealth of genomic data in bacteria is helping microbiologists understand the factors involved in gene innovation. Among these, the expansion and reduction of gene families appears to have a fundamental role in this, but the factors influencing gene family size are unclear. RESULTS:The relative content o...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Pushker R,Mira A,Rodríguez-Valera F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an ontology to provide standardized nomenclature for anatomical terms in the postnatal mouse. The Adult Mouse Anatomical Dictionary is structured as a directed acyclic graph, and is organized hierarchically both spatially and functionally. The ontology will be used to annotate and integrate different...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hayamizu TF,Mangan M,Corradi JP,Kadin JA,Ringwald M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA replication plays an important role in mutagenesis, yet little is known about how it interacts with other mutagenic processes. Here, we use somatic mutation signatures-each representing a mutagenic process-derived from 3056 patients spanning 19 cancer types to quantify the strand asymmetry of mutational ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Tomkova M,Tomek J,Kriaucionis S,Schuster-Böckler B

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cellular mechanisms that underlie metal toxicity and detoxification are rather variegated and incompletely understood. Genomic phenotyping was used to assess the roles played by all nonessential Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins in modulating cell viability after exposure to cadmium, nickel, and other me...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ruotolo R,Marchini G,Ottonello S

更新日期：2008-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retrotransposons play a central role in plant evolution and could be a powerful endogenous source of genetic and epigenetic variability for crop breeding. To ensure genome integrity several silencing mechanisms have evolved to repress retrotransposon mobility. Even though retrotransposons fully depend on tra...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Thieme M,Lanciano S,Balzergue S,Daccord N,Mirouze M,Bucher E

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are implicated in various biological processes. As a layer of the gene regulatory network, circRNA expression is also an intermediate phenotype bridging genetic variation and phenotypic changes. Thus, analyzing circRNA expression variation will shed light on molecular fundamentals of...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Liu Z,Ran Y,Tao C,Li S,Chen J,Yang E

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-binding proteins regulate a number of cellular processes, including synthesis, folding, translocation, assembly and clearance of RNAs. Recent studies have reported that an unexpectedly large number of proteins are able to interact with RNA, but the partners of many RNA-binding proteins are still uncharac...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Cirillo D,Marchese D,Agostini F,Livi CM,Botta-Orfila T,Tartaglia GG

更新日期：2014-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments show that properly controlled recombination between homologous DNA molecules is essential for the maintenance of genome stability and for the prevention of tumorigenesis. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Modesti M,Kanaar R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the biochemical basis of microbial phenotypes is a main objective of comparative genomics. Here we present a novel method using multivariate machine learning techniques for comparing automatically derived metabolic reconstructions of sequenced genomes on a large scale. Applying our method to 266 genomes di...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Kastenmüller G,Schenk ME,Gasteiger J,Mewes HW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant-microbe interactions feature complex signal interplay between pathogens and their hosts. Phytophthora species comprise a destructive group of fungus-like plant pathogens, collectively affecting a wide range of plants important to agriculture and natural ecosystems. Despite the availability of genome se...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Jupe J,Stam R,Howden AJ,Morris JA,Zhang R,Hedley PE,Huitema E

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptochromes are photoreceptors that regulate entrainment by light of the circadian clock in plants and animals. They also act as integral parts of the central circadian oscillator in animal brains and as receptors controlling photomorphogenesis in response to blue or ultraviolet (UV-A) light in plants. Cryptochromes...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Lin C,Todo T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although chromosomal deletions and inversions are important in cancer, conventional methods for detecting DNA rearrangements require laborious indirect assays. Here we develop fluorescent reporters to rapidly quantify CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletions and inversions. We find that inversion depends on the non-homologous e...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Li Y,Park AI,Mou H,Colpan C,Bizhanova A,Akama-Garren E,Joshi N,Hendrickson EA,Feldser D,Yin H,Anderson DG,Jacks T,Weng Z,Xue W

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of histone modifications has been implicated in the regulation of gene expression. Together, these modifications have the potential to form a complex combinatorial regulatory code. Genome-wide mapping approaches provide new opportunities to decipher this code, but they may suffer from systematic biases....

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： van Leeuwen F,van Steensel B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess five years of usage of the major genome-wide collections of mutants from Saccharomyces cerevisiae: single deletion mutants, double mutants conferring 'synthetic' lethality and the 'TRIPLES' collection of mutants obtained by random transposon insertion. Over 100 experimental conditions have been tested and mo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Scherens B,Goffeau A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human lung tissue microbiota remains largely uncharacterized, although a number of studies based on airway samples suggest the existence of a viable human lung microbiota. Here we characterized the taxonomic and derived functional profiles of lung microbiota in 165 non-malignant lung tissue samples from ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Yu G,Gail MH,Consonni D,Carugno M,Humphrys M,Pesatori AC,Caporaso NE,Goedert JJ,Ravel J,Landi MT

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study explores the genome content of uncultured unicellular marine eukaryotes and provides insights about interactions between uncultured eukaryotes and other biological entities. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Worden AZ,Dupont C,Allen AE

更新日期：2011-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-cell transcriptomics is rapidly advancing our understanding of the cellular composition of complex tissues and organisms. A major limitation in most analysis pipelines is the reliance on manual annotations to determine cell identities, which are time-consuming and irreproducible. The exponential growt...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Abdelaal T,Michielsen L,Cats D,Hoogduin D,Mei H,Reinders MJT,Mahfouz A

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Big projects in biology - such as the human genome project and a number of related and ensuing enterprises - require big funding. A new tradition is growing in which some types of basic research take place within commercial organizations. This article reviews some of the reasons for this and some of the key players, i...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Swindells M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00