Emerging roles of chromatin in the maintenance of genome organization and function in plants.

abstract：:DNA shuffling has proven to be a powerful technique for the directed evolution of proteins. A mix of theoretical and applied research has now provided insights into how recombination can be guided to more efficiently generate proteins and even organisms with altered functions. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Bacher JM,Reiss BD,Ellington AD

更新日期：2002-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA splicing is a key post-transcriptional mechanism that generates protein diversity and contributes to the fine-tuning of gene expression, which may facilitate adaptation to environmental challenges. Here, we employ a systems approach to study alternative splicing changes upon enteric infection in females ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Bou Sleiman M,Frochaux MV,Andreani T,Osman D,Guigo R,Deplancke B

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent phylogenetic analyses have identified Amborella trichopoda, an understory tree species endemic to the forests of New Caledonia, as sister to a clade including all other known flowering plant species. The Amborella genome is a unique reference for understanding the evolution of angiosperm genomes becau...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Zuccolo A,Bowers JE,Estill JC,Xiong Z,Luo M,Sebastian A,Goicoechea JL,Collura K,Yu Y,Jiao Y,Duarte J,Tang H,Ayyampalayam S,Rounsley S,Kudrna D,Paterson AH,Pires JC,Chanderbali A,Soltis DE,Chamala S,Barbazuk B,So

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Whole-exome sequencing (WES) has been successful in identifying genes that cause familial Parkinson's disease (PD). However, until now this approach has not been deployed to study large cohorts of unrelated participants. To discover rare PD susceptibility variants, we performed WES in 1148 unrelated cases an...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Jansen IE,Ye H,Heetveld S,Lechler MC,Michels H,Seinstra RI,Lubbe SJ,Drouet V,Lesage S,Majounie E,Gibbs JR,Nalls MA,Ryten M,Botia JA,Vandrovcova J,Simon-Sanchez J,Castillo-Lizardo M,Rizzu P,Blauwendraat C,Chouhan AK

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An intriguing recent study examines the role of miR-1202, a glutamate receptor regulating microRNA, in regulating major depressive disorder. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Rucker JJ,McGuffin P

更新日期：2014-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We propose a new method for supervised learning from gene expression data. We call it 'tree harvesting'. This technique starts with a hierarchical clustering of genes, then models the outcome variable as a sum of the average expression profiles of chosen clusters and their products. It can be applied to many...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hastie T,Tibshirani R,Botstein D,Brown P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated DNA elements and region-specific protein modifications combine within chromosomes to form a transcriptionally silent chromatin structure called heterochromatin. Recent work in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe reveals that RNA is also an integral component of silent heterochromatin, providing a new ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Bailis JM,Forsburg SL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

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:DNA methylation is a key epigenetic mechanism for driving and stabilizing cell-fate decisions. Local deposition and removal of DNA methylation are tightly coupled with transcription factor binding, although the relationship varies with the specific differentiation process. Conversion of monocytes to osteocla...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： de la Rica L,Rodríguez-Ubreva J,García M,Islam AB,Urquiza JM,Hernando H,Christensen J,Helin K,Gómez-Vaquero C,Ballestar E

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

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：: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：BACKGROUND:Rice blast disease is caused by the filamentous Ascomycetous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and results in significant annual rice yield losses worldwide. Infection by this and many other fungal plant pathogens requires the development of a specialized infection cell called an appressorium. The molecular processe...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Oh Y,Donofrio N,Pan H,Coughlan S,Brown DE,Meng S,Mitchell T,Dean RA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All the reports on insect small RNAs come from holometabolous insects whose genome sequence data are available. Therefore, study of hemimetabolous insect small RNAs could provide more insights into evolution and function of small RNAs in insects. The locust is an important, economically harmful hemimetabolou...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wei Y,Chen S,Yang P,Ma Z,Kang L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse is an important model of human genetic disease. Describing phenotypes of mutant mice in a standard, structured manner that will facilitate data mining is a major challenge for bioinformatics. Here we describe a novel, compositional approach to this problem which combines core ontologies from a variety of sou...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Gkoutos GV,Green EC,Mallon AM,Hancock JM,Davidson D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of mutations discovered in cancer genomes can be explained by the activity of a few elementary mutational processes. We present a novel probabilistic method, EMu, to infer the mutational signatures of these processes from a collection of sequenced tumors. EMu naturally incorporates the tumor-specific oppo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Fischer A,Illingworth CJ,Campbell PJ,Mustonen V

更新日期：2013-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of the clinical significance of genomic alterations remains the most severe bottleneck preventing the realization of personalized medicine in cancer. We propose a knowledge commons to facilitate collaborative contributions and open discussion of clinical decision-making based on genomic events in cancer...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Good BM,Ainscough BJ,McMichael JF,Su AI,Griffith OL

更新日期：2014-08-27 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：:Two landmark studies of cell signaling, by RNA interference and phosphoproteomics, provide complementary global views of the pathways downstream of receptor kinases, including those regulated by Erks. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Yaffe MB,White FM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool for understanding both patterns of descent over time and space (phylogeography) and the molecular processes underpinning genome divergence in pathogenic bacteria. Here, we describe a synthesis between these perspectives by employing a recently developed Bay...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Castillo-Ramírez S,Corander J,Marttinen P,Aldeljawi M,Hanage WP,Westh H,Boye K,Gulay Z,Bentley SD,Parkhill J,Holden MT,Feil EJ

更新日期：2012-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two distinct classes of regulators have been implicated in regulating neuronal gene expression and mediating neuronal identity: transcription factors such as REST/NRSF (RE1 silencing transcription factor) and CREB (cAMP response element-binding protein), and microRNAs (miRNAs). How these two classes of regul...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wu J,Xie X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are implicated in various biological processes. As a layer of the gene regulatory network, circRNA expression is also an intermediate phenotype bridging genetic variation and phenotypic changes. Thus, analyzing circRNA expression variation will shed light on molecular fundamentals of...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Liu Z,Ran Y,Tao C,Li S,Chen J,Yang E

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The initiation and subsequent evolution of cancer are largely driven by a relatively small number of somatic mutations with critical functional impacts, so-called driver mutations. Identifying driver mutations in a patient's tumor cells is a central task in the era of precision cancer medicine. Over the deca...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Chen H,Li J,Wang Y,Ng PK,Tsang YH,Shaw KR,Mills GB,Liang H

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternate splicing of key signaling molecules in the Toll-like receptor (Tlr) cascade has been shown to dramatically alter the signaling capacity of inflammatory cells, but it is not known how common this mechanism is. We provide transcriptional evidence of widespread alternate splicing in the Toll-like rece...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Wells CA,Chalk AM,Forrest A,Taylor D,Waddell N,Schroder K,Himes SR,Faulkner G,Lo S,Kasukawa T,Kawaji H,Kai C,Kawai J,Katayama S,Carninci P,Hayashizaki Y,Hume DA,Grimmond SM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first genome sequence of the extinct European wild aurochs reveals the genetic foundation of native British and Irish landraces of cattle.See related Research article: www.dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0790-2. ...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Orlando L

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity is a particularly complex disease that at least partially involves genetic and environmental perturbations to gene-networks connecting the hypothalamus and several metabolic tissues, resulting in an energy imbalance at the systems level. RESULTS:To provide an inter-tissue view of obesity with respec...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Dobrin R,Zhu J,Molony C,Argman C,Parrish ML,Carlson S,Allan MF,Pomp D,Schadt EE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic changes in DNA methylation (i.e., spontaneous epimutations) contribute to methylome diversity in plants. Here, we describe AlphaBeta, a computational method for estimating the precise rate of such stochastic events using pedigree-based DNA methylation data as input. We demonstrate how AlphaBeta can be emplo...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Shahryary Y,Symeonidi A,Hazarika RR,Denkena J,Mubeen T,Hofmeister B,van Gurp T,Colomé-Tatché M,Verhoeven KJF,Tuskan G,Schmitz RJ,Johannes F

更新日期：2020-10-06 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：:The genetic and molecular analysis of circadian timekeeping mechanisms has accelerated as a result of the increasing volume of genomic markers and nucleotide sequence information. Completion of whole genome sequences and the use of differential gene expression technology will hasten the discovery of the clock output p...

journal_title：Genome biology

authors： Hardin PE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00