Strand bias structure in mouse DNA gives a glimpse of how chromatin structure affects gene expression.

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no commercially available vaccines against human protozoan parasitic diseases, despite the success of vaccination-induced long-term protection against infectious diseases. East Coast fever, caused by the protist Theileria parva, kills one million cattle each year in sub-Saharan Africa, and contribu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Norling M,Bishop RP,Pelle R,Qi W,Henson S,Drábek EF,Tretina K,Odongo D,Mwaura S,Njoroge T,Bongcam-Rudloff E,Daubenberger CA,Silva JC

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flammulina filiformis (previously known as Asian F. velutipes) is a popular commercial edible mushroom. Many bioactive compounds with medicinal effects, such as polysaccharides and sesquiterpenoids, have been isolated and identified from F. filiformis, but their biosynthesis and regulation at the molecular l...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen J,Li JM,Tang YJ,Ma K,Li B,Zeng X,Liu XB,Li Y,Yang ZL,Xu WN,Xie BG,Liu HW,Guo SX

更新日期：2020-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nucleosome positioning has an important role in gene regulation. However, dynamic positioning in vivo casts doubt on the reliability of predictions based on DNA sequence characteristics. What role does sequence-dependent positioning play? In this paper, using a curvature profile model, nucleosomes are predic...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu H,Duan X,Yu S,Sun X

更新日期：2011-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpreting gene expression profiles obtained from heterogeneous samples can be difficult because bulk gene expression measures are not resolved to individual cell populations. We have recently devised Population-Specific Expression Analysis (PSEA), a statistical method that identifies individual cell types...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kuhn A,Kumar A,Beilina A,Dillman A,Cookson MR,Singleton AB

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exosomes, endosome-derived membrane microvesicles, contain specific RNA transcripts that are thought to be involved in cell-cell communication. These RNA transcripts have great potential as disease biomarkers. To characterize exosomal RNA profiles systemically, we performed RNA sequencing analysis using thre...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Huang X,Yuan T,Tschannen M,Sun Z,Jacob H,Du M,Liang M,Dittmar RL,Liu Y,Liang M,Kohli M,Thibodeau SN,Boardman L,Wang L

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detoxification in the liver involves activation of nuclear receptors, such as the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR), which regulate downstream genes of xenobiotic metabolism. Frequently, the metabolism of endobiotics is also modulated, resulting in potentially harmful effects. We therefore used 1,4-Bis ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rezen T,Tamasi V,Lövgren-Sandblom A,Björkhem I,Meyer UA,Rozman D

更新日期：2009-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Starvation not only affects the nutritional and health status of the animals, but also the microbial composition in the host's intestine. Next-generation sequencing provides a unique opportunity to explore gut microbial communities and their interactions with hosts. However, studies on gut microbiomes have b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xia JH,Lin G,Fu GH,Wan ZY,Lee M,Wang L,Liu XJ,Yue GH

更新日期：2014-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major secondary metabolites, including flavonoids, caffeine, and theanine, are important components of tea products and are closely related to the taste, flavor, and health benefits of tea. Secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Camellia sinensis is differentially regulated in different tissues during growth a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li CF,Zhu Y,Yu Y,Zhao QY,Wang SJ,Wang XC,Yao MZ,Luo D,Li X,Chen L,Yang YJ

更新日期：2015-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The activity of the yeast activator protein 1 (Yap1p) increases under stress conditions, which leads to enhanced transcription of a number of genes encoding protective enzymes or other proteins. To obtain a global overview of changes in expression of Yap1p-targeted proteins, we compared a Yap1p-overexpressin...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jun H,Kieselbach T,Jönsson LJ

更新日期：2012-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Developing effective strategies to reveal modular structures in protein interaction networks is crucial for better understanding of molecular mechanisms of underlying biological processes. In this paper, we propose a new density-based algorithm (ADHOC) for clustering vertices of a protein interaction network...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu C,Li J,Zhao Y

更新日期：2010-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dimension reduction is a critical issue in the analysis of microarray data, because the high dimensionality of gene expression microarray data set hurts generalization performance of classifiers. It consists of two types of methods, i.e. feature selection and feature extraction. Principle component analysis ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li GZ,Bu HL,Yang MQ,Zeng XQ,Yang JY

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of cell type-specific genes (markers) is an essential step for the deconvolution of the cellular fractions, primarily, from the gene expression data of a bulk sample. However, the genes with significant changes identified by pair-wise comparisons cannot indeed represent the specificity of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li H,Sharma A,Ming W,Sun X,Liu H

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adjuvant Radiotherapy (RT) after surgical removal of tumors proved beneficial in long-term tumor control and treatment planning. For many years, it has been well concluded that radio-sensitivities of tumors upon radiotherapy decrease according to the sizes of tumors and RT models based on Poisson statistics ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang JY,Niemierko A,Yang MQ,Deng Y

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although an adverse early-life environment has been linked to an increased risk of developing the metabolic syndrome, the molecular mechanisms underlying altered disease susceptibility as well as their relevance to humans are largely unknown. Importantly, emerging evidence suggests that these effects operate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Emerald BS,Chng K,Masuda S,Sloboda DM,Vickers MH,Kambadur R,Gluckman PD

更新日期：2011-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Horseradish peroxidases (HRPs) from Armoracia rusticana have long been utilized as reporters in various diagnostic assays and histochemical stainings. Regardless of their increasing importance in the field of life sciences and suggested uses in medical applications, chemical synthesis and other industrial ap...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Näätsaari L,Krainer FW,Schubert M,Glieder A,Thallinger GG

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is one of the most important fruit trees cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas. However, a lack of transcriptomic and genomic information hinders our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying fruit set and fruit development in litchi. Shading during early fru...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li C,Wang Y,Huang X,Li J,Wang H,Li J

更新日期：2013-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aquaporins (AQPs), as members of the major intrinsic protein (MIP) superfamily, facilitated the permeation of water and other solutes and are involved in multiple biological processes. AQP family exists in almost all living organisms and is highly diversified in vertebrates in both classification and functio...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jia Y,Liu X

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral disease that affects most of the commercially important shrimps and causes serious economic losses to the shrimp farming industry worldwide. However, little information is available in terms of the molecular mechanisms of the host-virus interaction. In this study, we used...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Leu JH,Chang CC,Wu JL,Hsu CW,Hirono I,Aoki T,Juan HF,Lo CF,Kou GH,Huang HC

更新日期：2007-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the advent of high-throughput sequencing and the consequent reduction in the cost of sequencing, many organisms have been completely sequenced and most of their genes identified. It thus has become possible to represent whole genomes as ordered lists of gene identifiers and to study the rearrangem...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yue F,Zhang M,Tang J

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Massively-parallel sequencing at depth is now enabling tumor heterogeneity and evolution to be characterized in unprecedented detail. Tracking these changes in clonal architecture often provides insight into therapeutic response and resistance. In complex cases involving multiple timepoints, standard visuali...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Miller CA,McMichael J,Dang HX,Maher CA,Ding L,Ley TJ,Mardis ER,Wilson RK

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proliferation and tumor differentiation captured by the genomic grade index (GGI) are important prognostic indicators in breast cancer (BC) especially for the estrogen receptor positive (ER+) disease. The aims of this study were to convert this microarray index to a qRT-PCR assay (PCR-GGI), which could be re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Toussaint J,Sieuwerts AM,Haibe-Kains B,Desmedt C,Rouas G,Harris AL,Larsimont D,Piccart M,Foekens JA,Durbecq V,Sotiriou C

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S. aureus is one of the main pathogens responsible for the intra-mammary infection in dairy ruminants. Although much work has been carried out to understand the complex physiological and cellular events that occur in the mammary gland in response to S. aureus, the protective mechanisms are still poorly under...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cremonesi P,Capoferri R,Pisoni G,Del Corvo M,Strozzi F,Rupp R,Caillat H,Modesto P,Moroni P,Williams JL,Castiglioni B,Stella A

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past 50,000 years, shifts in human-environmental or human-human interactions shaped genetic differences within and among human populations, including variants under positive selection. Shaped by environmental factors, such variants influence the genetics of modern health, disease, and treatment outc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Handelman SK,Seweryn M,Smith RM,Hartmann K,Wang D,Pietrzak M,Johnson AD,Kloczkowski A,Sadee W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is a costly global disease that burdens farmers with yield loss and high fungicide expenses. This sophisticated biotrophic parasite infiltrates wheat leaves and develops infection structures inside host cells, appropriating nutrients while sup...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mueth NA,Ramachandran SR,Hulbert SH

更新日期：2015-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2009 the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) started to roll out regional bioinformatics conferences in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The open and competitive bid for the first meeting in Asia (ISCB-Asia) was awarded to Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) which has been running the I...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schönbach C,Tan TW,Kelso J,Rost B,Nathan S,Ranganathan S

更新日期：2011-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The insect order Neuroptera encompasses more than 5,700 described species. To date, only three neuropteran mitochondrial genomes have been fully and one partly sequenced. Current knowledge on neuropteran mitochondrial genomes is limited, and new data are strongly required. In the present work, the mitochondr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Negrisolo E,Babbucci M,Patarnello T

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A composite biological structure, such as an insect head or abdomen, contains many internal structures with distinct functions. Composite structures are often used in RNA-seq studies, though it is unclear how expression of the same gene in different tissues and structures within the same structure affects th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Johnson BR,Atallah J,Plachetzki DC

更新日期：2013-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bordetella petrii is the only environmental species hitherto found among the otherwise host-restricted and pathogenic members of the genus Bordetella. Phylogenetically, it connects the pathogenic Bordetellae and environmental bacteria of the genera Achromobacter and Alcaligenes, which are opportunistic patho...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gross R,Guzman CA,Sebaihia M,dos Santos VA,Pieper DH,Koebnik R,Lechner M,Bartels D,Buhrmester J,Choudhuri JV,Ebensen T,Gaigalat L,Herrmann S,Khachane AN,Larisch C,Link S,Linke B,Meyer F,Mormann S,Nakunst D,Rückert

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The programmed cell death 2 (Pdcd2) gene on mouse chromosome 17 was evaluated as a member of a highly conserved synteny, a candidate for an imprinted locus, and a candidate for the Hybrid sterility 1 (Hst1) gene. RESULTS:New mouse transcripts were identified at this locus: an alternative Pdcd2 mRNA skipping...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mihola O,Forejt J,Trachtulec Z

更新日期：2007-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Yesso scallop, Patinopecten (Mizuhopecten) yessoensis, is a commercially important bivalve in the coastal countries of Northeast Asia. It has complex modes of sex differentiation, but knowledge of the mechanisms underlying this sex determination and differentiation is limited. RESULTS:In this study, the...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhou L,Liu Z,Dong Y,Sun X,Wu B,Yu T,Zheng Y,Yang A,Zhao Q,Zhao D

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00