Functional analysis of transcription factor binding sites in human promoters.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent advancements in next-generation sequencing have rapidly improved our ability to study genomic material at an unprecedented scale. Despite substantial improvements in sequencing technologies, errors present in the data still risk confounding downstream analysis and limiting the applicability of sequenc...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Mitchell K,Brito JJ,Mandric I,Wu Q,Knyazev S,Chang S,Martin LS,Karlsberg A,Gerasimov E,Littman R,Hill BL,Wu NC,Yang HT,Hsieh K,Chen L,Littman E,Shabani T,Enik G,Yao D,Sun R,Schroeder J,Eskin E,Zelikovsky A,S

更新日期：2020-03-17 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：BACKGROUND:The current bovine genomic reference sequence was assembled from a Hereford cow. The resulting linear assembly lacks diversity because it does not contain allelic variation, a drawback of linear references that causes reference allele bias. High nucleotide diversity and the separation of individuals by hundr...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Crysnanto D,Pausch H

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here our experience in annotating the Drosophila melanogaster genome sequence, in the course of which we developed several new open-source software tools and a database schema to support large-scale genome annotation. We have developed these into an integrated and reusable software system for whole-genome ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Mungall CJ,Misra S,Berman BP,Carlson J,Frise E,Harris N,Marshall B,Shu S,Kaminker JS,Prochnik SE,Smith CD,Smith E,Tupy JL,Wiel C,Rubin GM,Lewis SE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large fraction of the human genome is attributable to L1 retrotransposon sequences. Not only do L1s themselves make up a significant portion of the genome, but L1-encoded proteins are thought to be responsible for the transposition of other repetitive elements and processed pseudogenes. In addition, L1s ca...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Szak ST,Pickeral OK,Landsman D,Boeke JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) comprises a group of diseases characterized by the abnormal development of malignant myeloid cells. Recent studies have demonstrated an important role for aberrant transcriptional regulation in AML pathophysiology. Although several transcription factors (TFs) involved in myeloid ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Chang LW,Payton JE,Yuan W,Ley TJ,Nagarajan R,Stormo GD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Altering the biochemical makeup of chromatin by the incorporation of histone variants during development represents a key mechanism in regulating gene expression. The histone variant H2A.B, H2A.B.3 in mice, appeared late in evolution and is most highly expressed in the testis. In the mouse, it is encoded by ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Anuar ND,Kurscheid S,Field M,Zhang L,Rebar E,Gregory P,Buchou T,Bowles J,Koopman P,Tremethick DJ,Soboleva TA

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear pore complexes, the conduits for information exchange between the nucleus and cytoplasm, appear broadly similar in eukaryotes from yeast to human. Precisely how nuclear pore complexes regulate macromolecular and ionic traffic remains unknown, but recent advances in the identification and characterization of co...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Adam SA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provide powerful models for studying cellular differentiations and unlimited sources of cells for regenerative medicine. However, a comprehensive single-cell level differentiation roadmap for hPSCs has not been achieved. RESULTS:We use high throughput single-cell RNA-seq...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Han X,Chen H,Huang D,Chen H,Fei L,Cheng C,Huang H,Yuan GC,Guo G

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein folding game Foldit shows that games are an effective way to recruit, engage and organize ordinary citizens to help solve difficult scientific problems. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Good BM,Su AI

更新日期：2011-12-28 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：BACKGROUND:Gynecologic malignancy is one of the leading causes of mortality in female adults worldwide. Comprehensive genomic analysis has revealed a list of molecular aberrations that are essential to tumorigenesis, progression, and metastasis of gynecologic tumors. However, targeting such alterations has frequently l...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Sa JK,Hwang JR,Cho YJ,Ryu JY,Choi JJ,Jeong SY,Kim J,Kim MS,Paik ES,Lee YY,Choi CH,Kim TJ,Kim BG,Bae DS,Lee Y,Her NG,Shin YJ,Cho HJ,Kim JY,Seo YJ,Koo H,Oh JW,Lee T,Kim HS,Song SY,Bae JS,Park WY,Han HD

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A central goal of biogerontology is to identify robust gene-expression biomarkers of aging. Here we develop a method where the biomarkers are networks of genes selected based on age-dependent activity and a graph-theoretic property called modularity. Tested on Caenorhabditis elegans, our algorithm yields better biomar...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fortney K,Kotlyar M,Jurisica I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The regulatory mechanisms underlying tissue specificity are a crucial part of the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. A genome-wide analysis of promoters in the context of gene-expression patterns in tissue surveys provides a means of identifying the general principles for these mechanism...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Schug J,Schuller WP,Kappen C,Salbaum JM,Bucan M,Stoeckert CJ Jr

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of causal genes from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is the next important step for the translation of genetic findings into biologically meaningful mechanisms of disease and potential therapeutic targets. Using novel chromatin interaction detection techniques and allele specific as...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： McGovern A,Schoenfelder S,Martin P,Massey J,Duffus K,Plant D,Yarwood A,Pratt AG,Anderson AE,Isaacs JD,Diboll J,Thalayasingam N,Ospelt C,Barton A,Worthington J,Fraser P,Eyre S,Orozco G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methylation of nucleotides, notably in the forms of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) in DNA and N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in mRNA, carries important information for gene regulation. 5mC has been elucidated to participate in the regulation of fruit ripening, whereas the function of m6A in this process and the interplay ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Zhou L,Tian S,Qin G

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The distributed genome hypothesis (DGH) posits that chronic bacterial pathogens utilize polyclonal infection and reassortment of genic characters to ensure persistence in the face of adaptive host defenses. Studies based on random sequencing of multiple strain libraries suggested that free-living bacterial s...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hogg JS,Hu FZ,Janto B,Boissy R,Hayes J,Keefe R,Post JC,Ehrlich GD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenomic studies that use next generation sequencing experiments typically rely on the alignment of reads to a reference sequence. However, because of genetic diversity and the diploid nature of the human genome, we hypothesize that using a generic reference could lead to incorrectly mapped reads and bias ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Groza C,Kwan T,Soranzo N,Pastinen T,Bourque G

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural variants (SVs) remain challenging to represent and study relative to point mutations despite their demonstrated importance. We show that variation graphs, as implemented in the vg toolkit, provide an effective means for leveraging SV catalogs for short-read SV genotyping experiments. We benchmark vg against...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hickey G,Heller D,Monlong J,Sibbesen JA,Sirén J,Eizenga J,Dawson ET,Garrison E,Novak AM,Paten B

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria is a one of the most important infectious diseases and is caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. Previously, quantitative characterization of the P. falciparum transcriptome demonstrated that the strictly controlled progression of these parasites through their intra-erythrocytic develo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Foth BJ,Zhang N,Mok S,Preiser PR,Bozdech Z

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent publications have demonstrated how delivering CRISPR nucleases provides a promising solution to the growing problem of bacterial antibiotic resistance. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Beisel CL,Gomaa AA,Barrangou R

更新日期：2014-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome editing of malaria parasites is key to the generation of live attenuated parasites used in experimental vaccination approaches. DNA repair in Plasmodium generally occurs only through homologous recombination. This has been used to generate transgenic parasites that lack one to three genes, leading to ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Singer M,Marshall J,Heiss K,Mair GR,Grimm D,Mueller AK,Frischknecht F

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By using chromosome conformation capture technology, a recent study has revealed two alternative three-dimensional folding states of the human genome during the cell cycle. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Giorgetti L,Servant N,Heard E

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Map based cloning in Arabidopsis thaliana can be a difficult and time-consuming process, specifically if the phenotype is subtle and scoring labour intensive. Here, we have re-sequenced the 120-Mb genome of a novel Arabidopsis clock mutant early bird (ebi-1) in Wassilewskija (Ws-2). We demonstrate the utility of seque...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ashelford K,Eriksson ME,Allen CM,D'Amore R,Johansson M,Gould P,Kay S,Millar AJ,Hall N,Hall A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell lineage-specific DNA methylation patterns distinguish normal human leukocyte subsets and can be used to detect and quantify these subsets in peripheral blood. We have developed an approach that uses DNA methylation to simultaneously quantify multiple leukocyte subsets, enabling investigation of immune m...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Accomando WP,Wiencke JK,Houseman EA,Nelson HH,Kelsey KT

更新日期：2014-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of X-linked genes escapes silencing by X inactivation and is expressed from both X chromosomes in mammalian females. Species-specific differences in the identity of these genes have recently been discovered, suggesting a role in the evolution of sex differences. Chromatin analyses have aimed to discover how g...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Berletch JB,Yang F,Disteche CM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of complex organisms is believed to involve progressive restrictions in cellular fate. Understanding the scope and features of chromatin dynamics during embryogenesis, and identifying regulatory elements important for directing developmental processes remain key goals of developmental biology...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Thomas S,Li XY,Sabo PJ,Sandstrom R,Thurman RE,Canfield TK,Giste E,Fisher W,Hammonds A,Celniker SE,Biggin MD,Stamatoyannopoulos JA

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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