Games with a scientific purpose.

abstract：:The ability to quantitatively measure the expression of all genes in a given tissue or cell with a single assay is an exciting promise of gene-expression profiling technology. An in situ-synthesized 60-mer oligonucleotide microarray designed to detect transcripts from all mouse genes was validated, as well as a set of...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Carter MG,Sharov AA,VanBuren V,Dudekula DB,Carmack CE,Nelson C,Ko MS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells is controlled in part by chromatin-modifying factors that regulate histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation. However, it remains unclear how H3K4 demethylation contributes to ES cell function. RESULTS:Here, we show that KDM5B, which demethylates lysine 4 of histone H3...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Kidder BL,Hu G,Zhao K

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A new generation of DNA-sequencing platforms will become commercially available over the next few years. These instruments will enable re-sequencing of human genomes at a previously unimagined throughput and low cost. Here, I examine why the 1,000 dollar human genome is an important goal for research and clinical diag...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Mardis ER

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absolute tumor DNA copy numbers can currently be achieved only on a single gene basis by using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). We present GeneCount, a method for genome-wide calculation of absolute copy numbers from clinical array comparative genomic hybridization data. The tumor cell fraction is reliably e...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Lyng H,Lando M,Brøvig RS,Svendsrud DH,Johansen M,Galteland E,Brustugun OT,Meza-Zepeda LA,Myklebost O,Kristensen GB,Hovig E,Stokke T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of the phytochrome superfamily of red/far-red light receptors have a variety of biological roles in plants, algae, bacteria and fungi and demonstrate a diversity of spectral sensitivities and output signaling mechanisms. Over the past few years the first three-dimensional structures of phytochrome light-sensi...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Sharrock RA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of large plant genomes and main drivers of genome evolution. The most recent assembly of hexaploid bread wheat recovered the highly repetitive TE space in an almost complete chromosomal context and enabled a detailed view into the dynamics of TEs in the A, B, ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wicker T,Gundlach H,Spannagl M,Uauy C,Borrill P,Ramírez-González RH,De Oliveira R,International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium.,Mayer KFX,Paux E,Choulet F

更新日期：2018-08-17 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：:The Network of Cancer Genes (NCG) is a manually curated repository of 2372 genes whose somatic modifications have known or predicted cancer driver roles. These genes were collected from 275 publications, including two sources of known cancer genes and 273 cancer sequencing screens of more than 100 cancer types from 34...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Repana D,Nulsen J,Dressler L,Bortolomeazzi M,Venkata SK,Tourna A,Yakovleva A,Palmieri T,Ciccarelli FD

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate placement of an ancient whole-genome duplication (WGD) in relation to the lineage divergence is important. Here, we re-investigated the Aquilegia coerulea WGD and found it is more likely lineage-specific rather than shared by all eudicots. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Shi T,Chen J

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are notable drivers of genetic innovation. Over evolutionary time, TE insertions can supply new promoter, enhancer, and insulator elements to protein-coding genes and establish novel, species-specific gene regulatory networks. Conversely, ongoing TE-driven insertional mutagenesis, nonhomolo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Gerdes P,Richardson SR,Mager DL,Faulkner GJ

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA transposons are efficient tools in transgenesis and have therefore become popular in the analysis of the regulatory genome in vertebrates via enhancer trap screens. Here, I discuss recent progress in this field of research, with a focus on the application of one of these transposons, namely the medaka fish derived...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Korzh V

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:We describe the distribution of indels in the 44 Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) regions (about 1% of the human genome) and evaluate the potential contributions of small insertion and deletion polymorphisms (indels) to human genetic variation. We relate indels to known genomic annotation features and m...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Clark TG,Andrew T,Cooper GM,Margulies EH,Mullikin JC,Balding DJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Two recent studies have added microarrays to the toolkit used to analyze the origins of replication in yeast chromosomes, providing a fuller picture of how genomic DNA replication is organized. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Kearsey S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long noncoding enhancer RNAs (lnc-eRNAs) are a subset of stable eRNAs identified from annotated lncRNAs. They might act as enhancer activity-related therapeutic targets in cancer. However, the underlying mechanism of epigenetic activation and their function in cancer initiation and progression remain largely...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fang K,Huang W,Sun YM,Chen TQ,Zeng ZC,Yang QQ,Pan Q,Han C,Sun LY,Luo XQ,Wang WT,Chen YQ

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of recombinant Cas9 protein and synthetic guide RNAs into mouse zygotes has been shown to facilitate gene disruption and knock-ins using the CRISPR system. These technologies may soon displace genetic modification using embryonic stem cells. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Skarnes WC

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neisseria meningitidis is an important human commensal and pathogen that causes several thousand deaths each year, mostly in young children. How the pathogen replicates and causes disease in the host is largely unknown, particularly the role of metabolism in colonization and disease. Completed genome sequenc...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Mendum TA,Newcombe J,Mannan AA,Kierzek AM,McFadden J

更新日期：2011-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional characterization of non-coding elements in the human genome is a major genomic challenge and the maturation of genome-editing technologies is revolutionizing our ability to achieve this task. Oncogene-induced senescence, a cellular state of irreversible proliferation arrest that is enforced follow...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Han R,Li L,Ugalde AP,Tal A,Manber Z,Barbera EP,Chiara VD,Elkon R,Agami R

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa, and it has been subdivided into three subspecies: Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which cause sleeping sickness in humans, and the nonhuman infective Trypano...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Cooper A,Tait A,Sweeney L,Tweedie A,Morrison L,Turner CM,MacLeod A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first highly specific knockouts of a microRNA, miR155, in mice result in multiple defects in adaptive immunity, and also show the feasibility of investigating at least some microRNAs by gene knockout. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Moffett HF,Novina CD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite their regional economic importance and being increasingly reared globally, the origins and evolution of the llama and alpaca remain poorly understood. Here we report reference genomes for the llama, and for the guanaco and vicuña (their putative wild progenitors), compare these with the published alp...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fan R,Gu Z,Guang X,Marín JC,Varas V,González BA,Wheeler JC,Hu Y,Li E,Sun X,Yang X,Zhang C,Gao W,He J,Munch K,Corbett-Detig R,Barbato M,Pan S,Zhan X,Bruford MW,Dong C

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pooled CRISPR screens allow researchers to interrogate genetic causes of complex phenotypes at the genome-wide scale and promise higher specificity and sensitivity compared to competing technologies. Unfortunately, two problems exist, particularly for CRISPRi/a screens: variability in guide efficiency and large rare o...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Daley TP,Lin Z,Lin X,Liu Y,Wong WH,Qi LS

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

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:The nature of the protein molecular clock, the protein-specific rate of amino acid substitutions, is among the central questions of molecular evolution. Protein expression level is the dominant determinant of the clock rate in a number of organisms. It has been suggested that highly expressed proteins evolve...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Plata G,Gottesman ME,Vitkup D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies of molecular evolution are focused on individual genes and proteins. However, understanding the design principles and evolutionary properties of molecular networks requires a system-wide perspective. In the present work we connect molecular evolution on the gene level with system properties of a...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Vitkup D,Kharchenko P,Wagner A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudogenes reveal ancestral gene functions. Some obligate intracellular bacteria, such as Mycobacterium leprae and Rickettsia spp., carry substantial fractions of pseudogenes. Until recently, horizontal gene transfers were considered to be rare events in obligate host-associated bacteria. RESULTS:We presen...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fuxelius HH,Darby AC,Cho NH,Andersson SG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ELXR (Exon Locator and Extractor for Resequencing) streamlines the process of determining exon/intron boundaries and designing PCR and sequencing primers for high-throughput resequencing of exons. We have pre-computed ELXR primer sets for all exons identified from the human, mouse, and rat mRNA reference sequence (Ref...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Schageman JJ,Horton CJ,Niu S,Garner HR,Pertsemlidis A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome instability leads to aneuploidy, a state in which cells have abnormal numbers of chromosomes, and is found in two out of three cancers. In a chromosomal instable p53 deficient mouse model with accelerated lymphomagenesis, we previously observed whole chromosome copy number changes affecting all ly...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Bakker B,Taudt A,Belderbos ME,Porubsky D,Spierings DC,de Jong TV,Halsema N,Kazemier HG,Hoekstra-Wakker K,Bradley A,de Bont ES,van den Berg A,Guryev V,Lansdorp PM,Colomé-Tatché M,Foijer F

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The binding of transcription factors to specific locations in the genome is integral to the orchestration of transcriptional regulation in cells. To characterize transcription factor binding site function on a large scale, we predicted and mutagenized 455 binding sites in human promoters. We carried out func...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Whitfield TW,Wang J,Collins PJ,Partridge EC,Aldred SF,Trinklein ND,Myers RM,Weng Z

更新日期：2012-09-26 00:00:00