Simple re-instantiation of small databases using cloud computing.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endogenous α-synuclein (α-Syn) is involved in many pathophysiological processes in the secondary injury stage after acute spinal cord injury (SCI), and the mechanism governing these functions has not been thoroughly elucidated to date. This research aims to characterize the effect of α-Syn knockdown on trans...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zeng H,Yu BF,Liu N,Yang YY,Xing HY,Liu XX,Zhou MW

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:NOD26-like intrinsic proteins (NIPs) that belong to the aquaporin superfamily are plant-specific and exhibit a similar three-dimensional structure. Experimental evidences however revealed that functional divergence should have extensively occurred among NIP genes. It is therefore intriguing to further invest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Wang H,Zhang Z,Wu J,Feng Y,Zhu Z

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemolymph plays key roles in honey bee molecule transport, immune defense, and in monitoring the physiological condition. There is a lack of knowledge regarding how the proteome achieves these biological missions for both the western and eastern honey bees (Apis mellifera and Apis cerana). A time-resolved pr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feng M,Ramadan H,Han B,Fang Y,Li J

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colon cancer occurrence is increasing worldwide, making it the third most frequent cancer. Although many therapeutic options are available and quite efficient at the early stages, survival is strongly decreased when the disease has spread to other organs. The identification of molecular markers of colon canc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Durand S,Trillet K,Uguen A,Saint-Pierre A,Le Jossic-Corcos C,Corcos L

更新日期：2017-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Butterflies and moths are emerging as model organisms in genetics and evolutionary studies. The family Hesperiidae (skippers) was traditionally viewed as a sister to other butterflies based on its moth-like morphology and darting flight habits with fast wing beats. However, DNA studies suggest that the famil...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cong Q,Borek D,Otwinowski Z,Grishin NV

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coral reefs are hotspots of oceanic biodiversity, forming the foundation of ecosystems that are important both ecologically and for their direct practical impacts on humans. Corals are declining globally due to a number of stressors, including rising sea-surface temperatures and pollution; such stresses can ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lehnert EM,Burriesci MS,Pringle JR

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease with a five-year survival of less than 5%. A better understanding of the underlying biology may suggest novel therapeutic targets. Recent surveys of the pancreatic cancer genome have uncovered numerous new alterations; yet systematic functional characterization of candid...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shain AH,Salari K,Giacomini CP,Pollack JR

更新日期：2013-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in whole genome profiling have revolutionized the cancer research field, but at the same time have raised new bioinformatics challenges. For next generation sequencing (NGS), these include data storage, computational costs, sequence processing and alignment, delineating appropriate statistical measu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rodriguez BA,Frankhouser D,Murphy M,Trimarchi M,Tam HH,Curfman J,Huang R,Chan MW,Lai HC,Parikh D,Ball B,Schwind S,Blum W,Marcucci G,Yan P,Bundschuh R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intramuscular fat (IMF) is one of the most important factors positively associated with meat quality. Triglycerides (TGs), as the main component of IMF, play an essential role in muscle lipid metabolism. This transcriptome analysis of pectoralis muscle tissue aimed to identify functional genes and biological...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu L,Liu X,Cui H,Liu R,Zhao G,Wen J

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The disease caused by Haemonchus contortus, a blood-feeding nematode of small ruminants, is of major economic importance worldwide. The infective third-stage larva (L3) of this gastric nematode is enclosed in a cuticle (sheath) and, once ingested with herbage by the host, undergoes an exsheathment process th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cantacessi C,Campbell BE,Young ND,Jex AR,Hall RS,Presidente PJ,Zawadzki JL,Zhong W,Aleman-Meza B,Loukas A,Sternberg PW,Gasser RB

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Abeta-binding alcohol dehydrogenase/17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 10 (ABAD/HSD10) is an enzyme involved in pivotal metabolic processes and in the mitochondrial dysfunction seen in the Alzheimer's disease. Here we use comparative genomic analyses to study the evolution of the HADH2 gene encodin...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Marques AT,Antunes A,Fernandes PA,Ramos MJ

更新日期：2006-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite its primary economic importance, genomic information on olive tree is still lacking. 454 pyrosequencing was used to enrich the very few sequence data currently available for the Olea europaea species and to identify genes involved in expression of fruit quality traits. RESULTS:Fruits of Coratina, a ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Alagna F,D'Agostino N,Torchia L,Servili M,Rao R,Pietrella M,Giuliano G,Chiusano ML,Baldoni L,Perrotta G

更新日期：2009-08-26 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:Vinyl chloride is a widespread groundwater pollutant and Group 1 carcinogen. A previous comparative genomic analysis revealed that the vinyl chloride reductase operon, vcrABC, of Dehalococcoides sp. strain VS is embedded in a horizontally-acquired genomic island that integrated at the single-copy tmRNA gene,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McMurdie PJ,Hug LA,Edwards EA,Holmes S,Spormann AM

更新日期：2011-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obtaining complete gene structures is one major goal of genome assembly. Some gene regions are fragmented in low quality and high-quality assemblies. Therefore, new approaches are needed to recover gene regions. Genomes are widely transcribed, generating messenger and non-coding RNAs. These widespread transc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu BH,Xiao J,Xue W,Xu GC,Sun MY,Li JT

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that the main factors of low prenatal growth in mammals are genetic and environmental. We used isogenic mice maintained in standard conditions to analyze how natural non-genetic microsomia (low birth weight) is produced in inbred mice and its long term effect on health. To better understand th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Miranda A,López-Cardona AP,Laguna-Barraza R,Calle A,López-Vidriero I,Pintado B,Gutiérrez-Adán A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The occurrence of liver cancer is higher in males than in females, and the incidence increases during aging. Signaling pathways regulated by retinoid x receptor alpha (RXRalpha) are involved in hepatocellular carcinogenesis. The phenotype of hepatocyte RXRalpha deficient mice is different between genders. To...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo M,Gong L,He L,Lehman-McKeeman L,Wan YJ

更新日期：2008-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The common marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus), a small non-endangered New World primate native to eastern Brazil, is becoming increasingly used as a non-human primate model in biomedical research, drug development and safety assessment. In contrast to the growing interest for the marmoset as an animal mode...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Datson NA,Morsink MC,Atanasova S,Armstrong VW,Zischler H,Schlumbohm C,Dutilh BE,Huynen MA,Waegele B,Ruepp A,de Kloet ER,Fuchs E

更新日期：2007-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mytilisepta virgata is a marine mussel commonly found along the coasts of Japan. Although this species has been the subject of occasional studies concerning its ecological role, growth and reproduction, it has been so far almost completely neglected from a genetic and molecular point of view. In the present ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gerdol M,Fujii Y,Hasan I,Koike T,Shimojo S,Spazzali F,Yamamoto K,Ozeki Y,Pallavicini A,Fujita H

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The small airway epithelium (SAE), the cell population that covers the human airway surface from the 6th generation of airway branching to the alveoli, is the major site of lung disease caused by smoking. The focus of this study is to provide quantitative assessment of the SAE transcriptome in the resting st...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hackett NR,Butler MW,Shaykhiev R,Salit J,Omberg L,Rodriguez-Flores JL,Mezey JG,Strulovici-Barel Y,Wang G,Didon L,Crystal RG

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transcription factors peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) are key transcriptional regulators of adipocyte differentiation and function. We and others have previously shown that binding sites of these two transcription factors show a high degr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schmidt SF,Jørgensen M,Chen Y,Nielsen R,Sandelin A,Mandrup S

更新日期：2011-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cotton (Gossypium spp.) fiber cell is an important unicellular model for studying cell differentiation. There is evidence suggesting that phosphorylation is a critical post-translational modification involved in regulation of a wide range of cell activities. Nevertheless, the sites of phosphorylation in ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma Q,Wu M,Pei W,Li H,Li X,Zhang J,Yu J,Yu S

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Celiac disease (CD) is caused by an uncontrolled immune response to gluten, a heterogeneous mixture of wheat storage proteins. The CD-toxicity of these proteins and their derived peptides is depending on the presence of specific T-cell epitopes (9-mer peptides; CD epitopes) that mediate the stimulation of HL...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Salentijn EM,Mitea DC,Goryunova SV,van der Meer IM,Padioleau I,Gilissen LJ,Koning F,Smulders MJ

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The membrane protein CD46, a ubiquitous cell surface pathogen receptor, can bind Streptococcus to trigger cell autophagy, which is a critical step in the control of infection. RESULTS:In this study, we found a new splice variant designated CD46 transcript variant (CD46-TV). The splice variant is characteriz...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang X,Zhong J,Gao Y,Ju Z,Huang J

更新日期：2014-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paired-tag sequencing approaches are commonly used for the analysis of genome structure. However, mammalian genomes have a complex organization with a variety of repetitive elements that complicate comprehensive genome-wide analyses. RESULTS:Here, we systematically assessed the utility of paired-end and mat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： van Heesch S,Kloosterman WP,Lansu N,Ruzius FP,Levandowsky E,Lee CC,Zhou S,Goldstein S,Schwartz DC,Harkins TT,Guryev V,Cuppen E

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Filarial nematodes cause debilitating human diseases. While treatable, recent evidence suggests drug resistance is developing, necessitating the development of novel targets and new treatment options. Although transcriptomic and proteomic studies around the nematode life cycle have greatly enhanced our knowl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luck AN,Anderson KG,McClung CM,VerBerkmoes NC,Foster JM,Michalski ML,Slatko BE

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) are a type of genetic marker that is informative for tracing the ancestral ethnicity of individuals. Application of AIMs has gained substantial attention in population genetics, forensic sciences, and medical genetics. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), the materials ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang HC,Wang PL,Lin CW,Chen CH,Chen CH

更新日期：2012-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phanerochaete chrysosporium, the model white rot basidiomycetous fungus, has the extraordinary ability to mineralize (to CO2) lignin and detoxify a variety of chemical pollutants. Its cytochrome P450 monooxygenases have recently been implied in several of these biotransformations. Our initial P450 cloning ef...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Doddapaneni H,Chakraborty R,Yadav JS

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Winter-ulcer Moritella viscosa infections continue to be a significant burden in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) farming. M. viscosa comprises two main clusters that differ in genetic variation and phenotypes including virulence. Horizontal gene transfer through acquisition and loss of mobile genetic elemen...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Karlsen C,Hjerde E,Klemetsen T,Willassen NP

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the high morbidity and mortality of fulminant hepatitis, early diagnosis followed by early effective treatment is the key for prognosis improvement. So far, little is known about the gene expression changes in the early stage of this serious illness. Identification of the genes related to the very ear...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen F,Zhu HH,Zhou LF,Li J,Zhao LY,Wu SS,Wang J,Liu W,Chen Z

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00