Dating branches on the tree of life using DNA.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein domains display a range of structural diversity, with numerous additions and deletions of secondary structural elements between related domains. We have observed a small number of cases of surprising large-scale deletions of core elements of structural domains. We propose a new concept called domain ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Prakash A,Bateman A

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We propose that a computerized, internet-based graphical description language for systems biology will be essential for describing, archiving and analyzing complex problems of biological function in health and disease. RESULTS:We outline here a conceptual basis for designing such a language and describe Bio...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Cook DL,Farley JF,Tapscott SJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role played by microRNAs (miRs) as common regulators in physiologic processes such as development and various disease states was recently highlighted. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) linked to RHO (which encodes rhodopsin) is the most frequent form of inherited retinal degeneration that leads to blindness, for...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Loscher CJ,Hokamp K,Kenna PF,Ivens AC,Humphries P,Palfi A,Farrar GJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences in 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, 5hmC, distributions may complicate previous observations of abnormal cytosine methylation statuses that are used for the identification of new tumor suppressor gene candidates that are relevant to human hepatocarcinogenesis. The simultaneous detection of 5-methylcytosi...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Gao F,Xia Y,Wang J,Lin Z,Ou Y,Liu X,Liu W,Zhou B,Luo H,Zhou B,Wen B,Zhang X,Huang J

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The chromodomain helicase DNA-binding family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factors play essential roles during eukaryote growth and development. They are recruited by specific transcription factors and regulate the expression of developmentally important genes. Here, we describe an unexpected role in...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Yang R,Zheng Z,Chen Q,Yang L,Huang H,Miki D,Wu W,Zeng L,Liu J,Zhou JX,Ogas J,Zhu JK,He XJ,Zhang H

更新日期：2017-05-31 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：:CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has transformed our ability to rapidly interrogate the functional impact of somatic mutations in human cancers. Droplet-based technology enables the analysis of Cas9-introduced gene edits in thousands of single cells. Using this technology, we analyze Ba/F3 cells engineered to express single o...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ten Hacken E,Clement K,Li S,Hernández-Sánchez M,Redd R,Wang S,Ruff D,Gruber M,Baranowski K,Jacob J,Flynn J,Jones KW,Neuberg D,Livak KJ,Pinello L,Wu CJ

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial tissues house gammadelta T cells, which are important for the mucosal immune system and may be involved in controlling malignancies, infections and inflammation. Whole-genome gene-expression analysis provides a new way to study the signals required for the activation of gammadelta T cells, their mode of act...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Boismenu R,Havran WL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A report of the 6th Georgia Tech-Oak Ridge National Lab International Conference on Bioinformatics 'In silico Biology: Gene Discovery and Systems Genomics', Atlanta, USA, 15-17 November, 2007. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Weng Z,Guigó R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays have been used in a wide variety of experimental systems, but realizing their full potential is contingent on sophisticated and rigorous experimental design and data analysis. This article highlights what is needed to get the most out of microarrays in terms of accurately and effectively revealing differen...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Griffin RS,Mills CD,Costigan M,Woolf CJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop PIRCh-seq, a method which enables a comprehensive survey of chromatin-associated RNAs in a histone modification-specific manner. We identify hundreds of chromatin-associated RNAs in several cell types with substantially less contamination by nascent transcripts. Non-coding RNAs are found enriched on chromat...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fang J,Ma Q,Chu C,Huang B,Li L,Cai P,Batista PJ,Tolentino KEM,Xu J,Li R,Du P,Qu K,Chang HY

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The EpiGRAPH web service http://epigraph.mpi-inf.mpg.de/ enables biologists to uncover hidden associations in vertebrate genome and epigenome datasets. Users can upload sets of genomic regions and EpiGRAPH will test multiple attributes (including DNA sequence, chromatin structure, epigenetic modifications and evolutio...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Bock C,Halachev K,Büch J,Lengauer T

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately quantify all the microRNAs (miRNAs) in a sample is important for understanding miRNA biology and for development of new biomarkers and therapeutic targets. We develop a new method for preparing miRNA sequencing libraries, RealSeq®-AC, that involves ligating the miRNAs with a single adapter an...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Barberán-Soler S,Vo JM,Hogans RE,Dallas A,Johnston BH,Kazakov SA

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular RNAs are a class of endogenous RNAs with various functions in eukaryotic cells. Worthy of note, circular RNAs play a critical role in cancer. Currently, nothing is known about their role in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The identification of circular RNAs in HNSCC might become usefu...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Verduci L,Ferraiuolo M,Sacconi A,Ganci F,Vitale J,Colombo T,Paci P,Strano S,Macino G,Rajewsky N,Blandino G

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many different methods exist to adjust for variability in cell-type mixture proportions when analyzing DNA methylation studies. Here we present the result of an extensive simulation study, built on cell-separated DNA methylation profiles from Illumina Infinium 450K methylation data, to compare the performanc...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： McGregor K,Bernatsky S,Colmegna I,Hudson M,Pastinen T,Labbe A,Greenwood CM

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A report on the Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells, Dresden, Germany, 22-24 May 2008. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Herzel H,Blüthgen N

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq) is the gold standard for studying genome-wide DNA methylation. We developed MOABS to increase the speed, accuracy, statistical power and biological relevance of BS-seq data analysis. MOABS detects differential methylation with 10-fold coverage at single-CpG resolution based on a Beta-Bino...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Sun D,Xi Y,Rodriguez B,Park HJ,Tong P,Meong M,Goodell MA,Li W

更新日期：2014-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemispheric asymmetry in neuronal processes is a fundamental feature of the human brain and drives symptom lateralization in Parkinson's disease (PD), but its molecular determinants are unknown. Here, we identify divergent epigenetic patterns involved in hemispheric asymmetry by profiling DNA methylation in ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Li P,Ensink E,Lang S,Marshall L,Schilthuis M,Lamp J,Vega I,Labrie V

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dictyostelium discoideum is a eukaryote with a simple lifestyle and a relatively small genome whose sequence has been fully determined. It is widely used for studies on cell signaling, movement and multicellular development. Ras guanine-nucleotide exchange factors (RasGEFs) are the proteins that activate Ras...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wilkins A,Szafranski K,Fraser DJ,Bakthavatsalam D,Müller R,Fisher PR,Glöckner G,Eichinger L,Noegel AA,Insall RH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent completion of the DNA sequence of human chromosome 21 has provided the first look at the 225 genes that are candidates for involvement in Down syndrome (trisomy 21). A broad functional classification of these genes, their expression data and evolutionary conservation, and comparison with the gene content of...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Gardiner K,Davisson M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent, genome-wide study shows that the transcriptional program underlying leaf senescence is active and complex, reflecting the activation of more than 2,000 genes in Arabidopsis, with gene products involved in a broad spectrum of regulatory, biochemical and cellular events. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Gepstein S

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Protein kinases are critical to cellular signalling and post-translational gene regulation, but their biological substrates are difficult to identify. We show that cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) consensus motifs are frequently clustered in CDK substrate proteins. Based on this, we introduce a new computational strategy...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Moses AM,Hériché JK,Durbin R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The direct examination of large, unbiased samples of young gene duplicates in their early stages of evolution is crucial to understanding the origin, divergence and preservation of new genes. Furthermore, comparative analysis of multiple genomes is necessary to determine whether patterns of gene duplication ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Katju V,Farslow JC,Bergthorsson U

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mobilization of transposable elements (TEs) is suppressed by host genome defense mechanisms. Recent studies showed that the cis-regulatory region of Arabidopsis thaliana COPIA78/ONSEN retrotransposons contains heat-responsive elements (HREs), which cause their activation during heat stress. However, it r...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Pietzenuk B,Markus C,Gaubert H,Bagwan N,Merotto A,Bucher E,Pecinka A

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional annotation of proteins identified in genome sequencing projects is based on similarities to homologs in the databases. As a result of the possible strategies for divergent evolution, homologous enzymes frequently do not catalyze the same reaction, and we conclude that assignment of function from sequenc...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Gerlt JA,Babbitt PC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genomic binding of CTCF is highly conserved across mammals, but the mechanisms that underlie its stability are poorly understood. One transcription factor known to functionally interact with CTCF in the context of X-chromosome inactivation is the ubiquitously expressed YY1. Because combinatorial transcri...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Schwalie PC,Ward MC,Cain CE,Faure AJ,Gilad Y,Odom DT,Flicek P

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The functional impact of genetic variation has been extensively surveyed, revealing that genetic changes correlated to phenotypes lie mostly in non-coding genomic regions. Studies have linked allele-specific genetic changes to gene expression, DNA methylation, and histone marks but these investigations have ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Cheung WA,Shao X,Morin A,Siroux V,Kwan T,Ge B,Aïssi D,Chen L,Vasquez L,Allum F,Guénard F,Bouzigon E,Simon MM,Boulier E,Redensek A,Watt S,Datta A,Clarke L,Flicek P,Mead D,Paul DS,Beck S,Bourque G,Lathrop M,

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole-exome sequencing (WES) has been successful in identifying genes that cause familial Parkinson's disease (PD). However, until now this approach has not been deployed to study large cohorts of unrelated participants. To discover rare PD susceptibility variants, we performed WES in 1148 unrelated cases an...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Jansen IE,Ye H,Heetveld S,Lechler MC,Michels H,Seinstra RI,Lubbe SJ,Drouet V,Lesage S,Majounie E,Gibbs JR,Nalls MA,Ryten M,Botia JA,Vandrovcova J,Simon-Sanchez J,Castillo-Lizardo M,Rizzu P,Blauwendraat C,Chouhan AK

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00