Wheat functional genomics and engineering crop improvement.

abstract：:We introduce ABLE (Approximate Blockwise Likelihood Estimation), a novel simulation-based composite likelihood method that uses the blockwise site frequency spectrum to jointly infer past demography and recombination. ABLE is explicitly designed for a wide variety of data from unphased diploid genomes to genome-wide m...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Beeravolu CR,Hickerson MJ,Frantz LAF,Lohse K

更新日期：2018-09-25 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：:Normalization is an essential step in the analysis of high-throughput data. Multi-sample global normalization methods, such as quantile normalization, have been successfully used to remove technical variation. However, these methods rely on the assumption that observed global changes across samples are due to unwanted...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hicks SC,Irizarry RA

更新日期：2015-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of disease resistance genes in plants encode nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) proteins. This large family is encoded by hundreds of diverse genes per genome and can be subdivided into the functionally distinct TIR-domain-containing (TNL) and CC-domain-containing (CNL) subfamilies. The...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： McHale L,Tan X,Koehl P,Michelmore RW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MiRNAs play important roles in many diseases including cancers. However computational prediction of miRNA target genes is challenging and the accuracies of existing methods remain poor. We report mirMark, a new machine learning-based method of miRNA target prediction at the site and UTR levels. This method uses experi...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Menor M,Ching T,Zhu X,Garmire D,Garmire LX

更新日期：2014-01-01 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:Parasitism is a highly successful mode of life and one that requires suites of gene adaptations to permit survival within a potentially hostile host. Among such adaptations is the secretion of proteins capable of modifying or manipulating the host environment. Nippostrongylus brasiliensis is a well-studied m...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Harcus YM,Parkinson J,Fernández C,Daub J,Selkirk ME,Blaxter ML,Maizels RM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One challenge facing biologists is to tease out useful information from massive data sets for further analysis. A pathway-based analysis may shed light by projecting candidate genes onto protein functional relationship networks. We are building such a pathway-based analysis system. RESULTS:We have construct...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wu G,Feng X,Stein L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using oligonucleotide microarrays, we compared transcriptional profiles corresponding to the initial cell cycle stages of mouse fibroblasts lacking the small GTPases H-Ras and/or N-Ras with those of matching, wild-type controls. RESULTS:Serum-starved wild-type and knockout ras fibroblasts had very similar t...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Castellano E,Guerrero C,Núñez A,De Las Rivas J,Santos E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to RNA-sequencing transcript differential analysis, gene-level differential expression analysis is more robust and experimentally actionable. However, the use of gene counts for statistical analysis can mask transcript-level dynamics. We demonstrate that 'analysis first, aggregation second,' where the p value...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Yi L,Pimentel H,Bray NL,Pachter L

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing of dsRNA by ADAR proteins is a pervasive epitranscriptome feature. Tens of thousands of A-to-I editing events are defined in the mouse, yet the functional impact of most is unknown. Editing causing protein recoding is the essential function of ADAR2, but an essential rol...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Heraud-Farlow JE,Chalk AM,Linder SE,Li Q,Taylor S,White JM,Pang L,Liddicoat BJ,Gupte A,Li JB,Walkley CR

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The WOX genes form a plant-specific subclade of the eukaryotic homeobox transcription factor superfamily, which is characterized by the presence of a conserved DNA-binding homeodomain. The analysis of WOX gene expression and function shows that WOX family members fulfill specialized functions in key developmental proc...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： van der Graaff E,Laux T,Rensing SA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT) vast changes in the embryonic transcriptome are produced by a combination of two processes: elimination of maternally provided mRNAs and synthesis of new transcripts from the zygotic genome. Previous genome-wide analyses of the MZT have been restricted to whole...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Siddiqui NU,Li X,Luo H,Karaiskakis A,Hou H,Kislinger T,Westwood JT,Morris Q,Lipshitz HD

更新日期：2012-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression analysis of microRNA molecules is becoming increasingly important. In this study we assess the use of the mean expression value of all expressed microRNAs in a given sample as a normalization factor for microRNA real-time quantitative PCR data and compare its performance to the currently adopted approa...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Mestdagh P,Van Vlierberghe P,De Weer A,Muth D,Westermann F,Speleman F,Vandesompele J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The explosive growth in taxonomic metagenome profiling methods over the past years has created a need for systematic comparisons using relevant performance criteria. The Open-community Profiling Assessment tooL (OPAL) implements commonly used performance metrics, including those of the first challenge of the initiativ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Meyer F,Bremges A,Belmann P,Janssen S,McHardy AC,Koslicki D

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of mutations discovered in cancer genomes can be explained by the activity of a few elementary mutational processes. We present a novel probabilistic method, EMu, to infer the mutational signatures of these processes from a collection of sequenced tumors. EMu naturally incorporates the tumor-specific oppo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fischer A,Illingworth CJ,Campbell PJ,Mustonen V

更新日期：2013-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Many essential transcription factors have conserved roles in regulating biological programs, yet their genomic occupancy can diverge significantly. A new study demonstrates that such variations are primarily due to cis-regulatory sequences, rather than differences between the regulators or nuclear environments. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Zinzen RP,Furlong EE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early gene expression studies classified breast tumors into at least three clinically relevant subtypes. Although most current gene signatures are prognostic for estrogen receptor (ER) positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancers, few are informative for ER negative/HER2 negative an...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Haibe-Kains B,Desmedt C,Rothé F,Piccart M,Sotiriou C,Bontempi G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) studies suggested that it was unusual to see more than one isoform being produced from a gene in a single cell, even when multiple isoforms were detected in matched bulk RNA-seq samples. However, these studies generally did not consider the impact of dropouts or isoform ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Westoby J,Artemov P,Hemberg M,Ferguson-Smith A

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

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：: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:Light and carbon are two essential signals influencing plant growth and development. Little is known about how carbon and light signaling pathways intersect or influence one another to affect gene expression. RESULTS:Microarrays are used to investigate carbon and light signaling interactions at a genome-wid...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Thum KE,Shin MJ,Palenchar PM,Kouranov A,Coruzzi GM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, non-coding regulatory RNAs that regulate gene expression by guiding target mRNA cleavage or translational inhibition. So far, identification of miRNAs has been limited to a few model plant species, such as Arabidopsis, rice and Populus, whose genomes have been sequenc...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Yao Y,Guo G,Ni Z,Sunkar R,Du J,Zhu JK,Sun Q

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each human has approximately 50 to 280 frameshifting indels, yet their implications are unknown. We created SIFT Indel, a prediction method for frameshifting indels that has 84% accuracy. The percentage of human frameshifting indels predicted to be gene-damaging is negatively correlated with allele frequency. We also ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hu J,Ng PC

更新日期：2012-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is tremendous potential for genome sequencing to improve clinical diagnosis and care once it becomes routinely accessible, but this will require formalizing research methods into clinical best practices in the areas of sequence data generation, analysis, interpretation and reporting. The CLARITY Challe...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Brownstein CA,Beggs AH,Homer N,Merriman B,Yu TW,Flannery KC,DeChene ET,Towne MC,Savage SK,Price EN,Holm IA,Luquette LJ,Lyon E,Majzoub J,Neupert P,McCallie D Jr,Szolovits P,Willard HF,Mendelsohn NJ,Temme R,Finkel R

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many existing pipelines for scRNA-seq data apply pre-processing steps such as normalization or imputation to account for excessive zeros or "drop-outs." Here, we extensively analyze diverse UMI data sets to show that clustering should be the foremost step of the workflow. We observe that most drop-outs disappear once ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Kim TH,Zhou X,Chen M

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin is not a uniform macromolecular entity; it contains different domains characterized by complex signatures of DNA and histone modifications. Such domains are organized both at a linear scale along the genome and spatially within the nucleus. We discuss recent discoveries regarding mechanisms that establish bo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Vergara Z,Gutierrez C

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele-specific expression is traditionally studied by bulk RNA sequencing, which measures average expression across cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing allows the comparison of expression distribution between the two alleles of a diploid organism and the characterization of allele-specific bursting. Here, we propose SC...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Jiang Y,Zhang NR,Li M

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A report of the Keystone Symposium 'DNA Replication and Recombination' held in Keystone, USA, 27 February to 4 March 2011. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Johansson E,Speck C,Chabes A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CTCF binding contributes to the establishment of a higher-order genome structure by demarcating the boundaries of large-scale topologically associating domains (TADs). However, despite the importance and conservation of TADs, the role of CTCF binding in their evolution and stability remains elusive. RESULTS...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Kentepozidou E,Aitken SJ,Feig C,Stefflova K,Ibarra-Soria X,Odom DT,Roller M,Flicek P

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00