Depositing annotated sequences in GenBank: there needs to be a better way.

abstract：:High-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have rapidly generated a large volume of genomic data. To aid the development and evaluation of new statistical models and computational methods, NGS-based simulators have been proposed to construct better experimental workflows. However, the comparative pe...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Zhao M,Liu D,Qu H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Because of the poor prognosis of late-stage gastric cancer patients, it is imperative to develop new strategies to improve the survival rate of this disease. Currently, immunotherapy is considered as an innovative approach for cance...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Zhao Q,Cao L,Guan L,Bie L,Wang S,Xie B,Chen X,Shen X,Cao F

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells are specialized cells with a dynamic chromatin structure, which is intimately connected with their pluripotency and physiology. In recent years somatic cells have been reprogrammed to a pluripotent state through over-expression of a defined set of transcription factors. These cell...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Delgado-Olguín P,Recillas-Targa F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic infection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) leads to severe life-threatening liver diseases such as cirrhosis of liver, fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Severity of the disease infects >180 million people worldwide. In recent years, many computational approaches have been proposed to study and analyze the...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Ray S,Maulik U,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of genetically isolated populations can empower next-generation association studies. In this review, we discuss the advantages of this approach and review study design and analytical considerations of genetic association studies focusing on isolates. We cite successful examples of using population isolates in ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Hatzikotoulas K,Gilly A,Zeggini E

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycomb group (PcG) proteins are key epigenetic regulators of gene expression in animals and plants. They act in multiprotein complexes, of which the best characterized is the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), which catalyses the trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me3) at chromatin targets. In Ar...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Huang Y,Chen DH,Liu BY,Shen WH,Ruan Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification of cytosines that undergoes dynamic changes in a temporal, spatial and cell-type-specific manner. Recent advances in technology have permitted the profiling of high-throughput methylomes in large numbers of biological samples. Various computational tools have been develope...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Liu H,Li S,Wang X,Zhu J,Wei Y,Wang Y,Wen Y,Wang L,Huang Y,Zhang B,Shang S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of evolutionary novelties is a fundamental process for adapting to the external environment and invading new niches and results in the diversification of life, which we can see in the world today. How such novel phenotypic traits are acquired in the course of evolution and are built up in developing embryo...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Moriyama Y,Koshiba-Takeuchi K

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant DNA methylation is considered to be one of the most common hallmarks of cancer. Several recent advances in assessing the DNA methylome provide great promise for deciphering the cancer-specific DNA methylation patterns. Herein, we present the current key technologies used to detect high-throughput genome-wide ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Fan S,Chi W

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemagglutinin (HA) is a transmembrane protein of the influenza A virus and a key component in its life cycle. The protein allows the virus to enter a host cell by recognizing specific glycans attached to transmembrane proteins of the host, which leads to viral endocytosis. In recent years, significant progress has bee...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Lazniewski M,Dawson WK,Szczepinska T,Plewczynski D

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery disease (CAD) and ischemic stroke are the two most predominant forms of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) caused by genetic, epigenetic and environmental risk factors. Although studies on the impact of 'epigenetics' in CVDs is not new, its effects are increasingly being realized as a key regulatory determ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Sharma AR,Shashikiran U,Uk AR,Shetty R,Satyamoorthy K,Rai PS

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Less than 2% of the human genome DNA is composed of protein-coding genes, although the majority of the human genome is transcribed, indicating the transcripts mostly are noncoding RNAs. Those noncoding RNAs with length between 200 nt and 200 kb are categorized as long noncoding RNA (lncRNA). Around 30 000 lncRNAs have...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Wang G,Liu C,Deng S,Zhao Q,Li T,Qiao S,Shen L,Zhang Y,Lü J,Meng L,Liang C,Yu Z

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent highlight of genomics research has been the discovery of many families of transcripts which have function but do not code for proteins. An important group is long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), which are typically longer than 200 nt, and whose members originate from thousands of loci across genomes. We review prog...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Bai Y,Dai X,Harrison AP,Chen M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to better understand several cellular processes, it is helpful to study how various components make up the system. This systems perspective is supported by several modelling tools including network analysis. Networks of protein-protein interactions (PPI networks) offer a way to depict, visualize and quantify ...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Jordán F,Nguyen TP,Liu WC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular network data are increasingly becoming available, necessitating the development of well performing computational tools for their analyses. Such tools enabled conceptually different approaches for exploring human diseases to be undertaken, in particular, those that study the relationship between a multitude o...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Janjić V,Pržulj N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing appreciation of the importance of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), together with the awareness that some of these RNAs are associated with chromatin, has inspired the development of methods to detect their sites of interaction on a genome-wide scale at high resolution. Hybridization capture methods combine a...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Machyna M,Simon MD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Omics, such as genomics, transcriptome and proteomics, has been affected by the era of big data. A huge amount of high dimensional and complex structured data has made it no longer applicable for conventional machine learning algorithms. Fortunately, deep learning technology can contribute toward resolving these chall...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Zhang Z,Zhao Y,Liao X,Shi W,Li K,Zou Q,Peng S

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current era of epigenetics research, we have observed many examples of epigenetic modifications, like histone modification and DNA methylation, in various fatal diseases. These include solid tumors, hematological malignancies and viral infections with DNA or RNA viruses. The purpose of this review is to summari...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Sen S,Maulik U

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most commonly diagnosed malignancy in men in the Western world and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men worldwide. Although most cancers have the potential to metastasize under appropriate conditions, PCa favors the skeleton as a primary site of metastasis, su...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Hudson BD,Kulp KS,Loots GG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome has an almost equal distribution of unique and transposable genetic elements. Although at the transcriptome level, a relatively higher contribution from transposable elements derived RNA has been reported. This is further highlighted with evidence from pervasive transcription. Of the total RNA, noncod...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Chattopadhyay P,Srinivasa Vasudevan J,Pandey R

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature termination of transcription, or attenuation, is an efficient RNA-based regulatory strategy that is commonly used in bacterial organisms. Attenuators are generally located in the 50 untranslated regions of genes or operons and combine a Rho-independent terminator, controlling transcription, with an RNA eleme...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Naville M,Gautheret D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation is crucial for successful barley improvement. Genomic technologies are improving dramatically and are providing access to the genetic diversity within this important crop species. Diverse collections of barley germplasm are being assembled and mined via genome-wide association studies and the identif...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Muñoz-Amatriaín M,Cuesta-Marcos A,Hayes PM,Muehlbauer GJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next generation Sequencing (NGS) provides a powerful tool for discovery of domestication genes in crop plants and their wild relatives. The accelerated domestication of new plant species as crops may be facilitated by this knowledge. Re-sequencing of domesticated genotypes can identify regions of low diversity associa...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Henry RJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Cell Atlas is a large, international consortium that aims to identify and describe every cell type in the human body. The comprehensive cellular maps that arise from this ambitious effort have the potential to transform many aspects of fundamental biology and clinical practice. Here, we discuss the technical...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Hon CC,Shin JW,Carninci P,Stubbington MJT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-seq is a methodology for RNA profiling based on next-generation sequencing that enables to measure and compare gene expression patterns at unprecedented resolution. Although the appealing features of this technique have promoted its application to a wide panel of transcriptomics studies, the fast-evolving nature o...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Finotello F,Di Camillo B

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a complex disease, driven by aberrant activity in numerous signaling pathways in even individual malignant cells. Epigenetic changes are critical mediators of these functional changes that drive and maintain the malignant phenotype. Changes in DNA methylation, histone acetylation and methylation, noncoding R...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Kagohara LT,Stein-O'Brien GL,Kelley D,Flam E,Wick HC,Danilova LV,Easwaran H,Favorov AV,Qian J,Gaykalova DA,Fertig EJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of evolution in immune defense genes help to understand the evolutionary dynamics between hosts and pathogens. Multiple insect genomes have been sequenced, with many of them having annotated immune genes, which paves the way for a comparative genomic analysis of insect immunity. In this review, I summarize th...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Viljakainen L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plant communicates within itself and with the outside world by deploying an array of agents that include several attractants by virtue of their color and smell. In this category, the contribution of 'carotenoids and apocarotenoids' is very significant. Apocarotenoids, the carotenoid-derived compounds, show wide repr...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Dhar MK,Mishra S,Bhat A,Chib S,Kaul S

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on plant three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture made rapid progress over the past 5 years. Numerous Hi-C interaction data sets were generated in a wide range of plant species, allowing for a comprehensive overview on 3D chromosome folding principles in the plant kingdom. Plants lack important genes report...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Grob S

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of RNA splicing in 1977 the knowledge of this important biological process has increased steadily following the identification of many of the mechanistic features of splicing: from the basic cis-acting splicing signals, through the detail composition and dynamics of the spliceosome, to the role pla...

journal_title：Briefings in functional genomics

authors： Buratti E,Baralle M,Baralle FE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00