External signals shape the epigenome.

abstract：:As DNA sequencing outpaces improvements in computer speed, there is a critical need to accelerate tasks like alignment and SNP calling. Crossbow is a cloud-computing software tool that combines the aligner Bowtie and the SNP caller SOAPsnp. Executing in parallel using Hadoop, Crossbow analyzes data comprising 38-fold ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Langmead B,Schatz MC,Lin J,Pop M,Salzberg SL

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:A new study shows that genomic introgression between two Heliconius butterfly species is not solely confined to color pattern loci. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ffrench-Constant RH

更新日期：2016-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Host-associated microbiomes, the microorganisms occurring inside and on host surfaces, influence evolutionary, immunological, and ecological processes. Interactions between host and microbiome affect metabolism and contribute to host adaptation to changing environments. Meta-analyses of host-associated bacte...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Woodhams DC,Bletz MC,Becker CG,Bender HA,Buitrago-Rosas D,Diebboll H,Huynh R,Kearns PJ,Kueneman J,Kurosawa E,LaBumbard BC,Lyons C,McNally K,Schliep K,Shankar N,Tokash-Peters AG,Vences M,Whetstone R

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has identified the human NOD-like receptor NLRX1 as a negative regulator of intracellular signaling leading to type I interferon production. Here we discuss these findings and the questions and implications they raise regarding the function of NOD-like receptors in the antiviral response. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Pietras EM,Cheng G

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ever since DNA microarrays were first applied to the quantitation of RNA levels, there has been considerable interest in generating a protein homolog that can be used to assay cellular protein expression. A recent paper describes the first microarray that can be used for such protein profiling. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Tomlinson IM,Holt LJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short hairpin RNAs can provide stable gene silencing via RNA interference. Recent studies have shown toxicity in vivo that appears to be related to saturation of the endogenous microRNA pathway. Will these findings limit the therapeutic use of such hairpins? ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Snøve O Jr,Rossi JJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abundant pseudogenes are a feature of mammalian genomes. Processed pseudogenes (PPs) are reverse transcribed from mRNAs. Recent molecular biological studies show that mammalian long interspersed element 1 (L1)-encoded proteins may have been involved in PP reverse transcription. Here, we present the first com...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Ohshima K,Hattori M,Yada T,Gojobori T,Sakaki Y,Okada N

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The forkhead transcription factor FOXM1 is a key regulator of the cell cycle. It is frequently over-expressed in cancer and is emerging as an important therapeutic target. In breast cancer FOXM1 expression is linked with estrogen receptor (ERα) activity and resistance to endocrine therapies, with high levels...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Sanders DA,Ross-Innes CS,Beraldi D,Carroll JS,Balasubramanian S

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of base editors have been developed to achieve C-to-T editing in different genomic contexts. Here, we compare a panel of five base editors on their C-to-T editing efficiencies and product purity at commonly editable sites, including some human pathogenic C-to-T mutations. We further profile the accessibiliti...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wang Y,Gao R,Wu J,Xiong YC,Wei J,Zhang S,Yang B,Chen J,Yang L

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In eukaryotic cells, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) uses the products of both nuclear and mitochondrial genes to generate cellular ATP. Interspecies comparative analysis of these genes, which appear to be under strong functional constraints, may shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms that act on a set...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Tripoli G,D'Elia D,Barsanti P,Caggese C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A report of the Keystone Symposia joint meetings on DNA Methylation and Epigenomics held in Keystone, Colorado, USA, 29 March to 3 April, 2015. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Chatterjee A,Eccles MR

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rare coding variants constitute an important class of human genetic variation, but are underrepresented in current databases that are based on small population samples. Recent studies show that variants altering amino acid sequence and protein function are enriched at low variant allele frequency, 2 to 5%, b...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Marth GT,Yu F,Indap AR,Garimella K,Gravel S,Leong WF,Tyler-Smith C,Bainbridge M,Blackwell T,Zheng-Bradley X,Chen Y,Challis D,Clarke L,Ball EV,Cibulskis K,Cooper DN,Fulton B,Hartl C,Koboldt D,Muzny D,Smith R,Soug

更新日期：2011-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge on tissue- and disease-specific functions of human genes is rather limited and highly context-specific. Here, we have developed a method for the comparison of mRNA expression levels of most human genes across 9,783 Affymetrix gene expression array experiments representing 43 normal human tissue types, 68...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Kilpinen S,Autio R,Ojala K,Iljin K,Bucher E,Sara H,Pisto T,Saarela M,Skotheim RI,Björkman M,Mpindi JP,Haapa-Paananen S,Vainio P,Edgren H,Wolf M,Astola J,Nees M,Hautaniemi S,Kallioniemi O

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have constructed Bayesian prior-based, amino-acid sequence profiles for the complete yeast mitochondrial proteome and used them to develop methods for identifying and characterizing the context of protein mutations that give rise to human mitochondrial diseases. (Bayesian priors are conditional probabilit...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Plasterer TN,Smith TF,Mohr SC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key components of the programmed cell death pathway are conserved between Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster and humans. The search for additional homologs has been facilitated by the availability of the entire genomic sequence for each of these organisms. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Tittel JN,Steller H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene dosage change is a mild perturbation that is a valuable tool for pathway reconstruction in Drosophila. While it is often assumed that reducing gene dose by half leads to two-fold less expression, there is partial autosomal dosage compensation in Drosophila, which may be mediated by feedback or buffering...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Malone JH,Cho DY,Mattiuzzo NR,Artieri CG,Jiang L,Dale RK,Smith HE,McDaniel J,Munro S,Salit M,Andrews J,Przytycka TM,Oliver B

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a bioinformatic tool, Tumor Aberration Prediction Suite (TAPS), for the identification of allele-specific copy numbers in tumor samples using data from Affymetrix SNP arrays. It includes detailed visualization of genomic segment characteristics and iterative pattern recognition for copy number identificati...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Rasmussen M,Sundström M,Göransson Kultima H,Botling J,Micke P,Birgisson H,Glimelius B,Isaksson A

更新日期：2011-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ADAR proteins are among the most extensively studied RNA binding proteins. They bind to their target and deaminate specific adenosines to inosines. ADAR activity is essential, and the editing of a subset of their targets is critical for viability. Recently, a huge number of novel ADAR targets were detected b...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Pinto Y,Cohen HY,Levanon EY

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The function of the non-coding portion of the human genome remains one of the most important questions of our time. Its vast complexity is exemplified by the recent identification of an unusual and notable component of the transcriptome - very long intergenic non-coding RNAs, termed vlincRNAs. RESULTS:Here ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： St Laurent G,Shtokalo D,Dong B,Tackett MR,Fan X,Lazorthes S,Nicolas E,Sang N,Triche TJ,McCaffrey TA,Xiao W,Kapranov P

更新日期：2013-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A report on the 18th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Aarhus, Denmark, 20-25 August, 2001. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Liberles DA

更新日期：2001-01-01 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:Gene expression is a two-step synthesis process that ends with the necessary amount of each protein required to perform its function. Since the protein is the final product, the main focus of gene regulation should be centered on it. However, because mRNA is an intermediate step and the amounts of both mRNA ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： García-Martínez J,González-Candelas F,Pérez-Ortín JE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purification of proteins cross-linked to mRNAs has identified 800 mRNA-binding proteins and their characteristics. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Sibley CR,Attig J,Ule J

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The time of locus replication during S-phase is tightly regulated and correlates with chromatin state. Embryonic stem (ES) cells have an unusual chromatin profile where many developmental regulator genes that are not yet expressed are marked by both active and repressive histone modifications. This poised or...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Jørgensen HF,Azuara V,Amoils S,Spivakov M,Terry A,Nesterova T,Cobb BS,Ramsahoye B,Merkenschlager M,Fisher AG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although aberrant DNA methylation has been observed previously in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the patterns of differential methylation have not been comprehensively determined in all subtypes of ALL on a genome-wide scale. The relationship between DNA methylation, cytogenetic background, drug resista...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Nordlund J,Bäcklin CL,Wahlberg P,Busche S,Berglund EC,Eloranta ML,Flaegstad T,Forestier E,Frost BM,Harila-Saari A,Heyman M,Jónsson OG,Larsson R,Palle J,Rönnblom L,Schmiegelow K,Sinnett D,Söderhäll S,Pastinen T,Gusta

更新日期：2013-09-24 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: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：: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：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