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Predicting the effects of frameshifting indels
Jing Hu, Pauline C Ng Genome Biology 2012, 13:R9 (9 February 2012)
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SIFT Indel is a method for predicting the effects of frameshifting indels in coding regions
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Population-specificity of human DNA methylation
Hunter B Fraser, Lucia Lam, Sarah Neumann, Michael S Kobor Genome Biology 2012, 13:R8 (9 February 2012)
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Measurement of TSS-proximal DNA methylation in CEU and YRI genomes reveals significant population specificity
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Sequencing three crocodilian genomes to illuminate the evolution of archosaurs and amniotes
John A St John, Edward L Braun, Sally R Isberg, Lee G Miles, Amanda Y Chong, Jaime Gongora, Pauline Dalzell, Christopher Moran, Bertrand Bed'Hom, Arkhat Abzhanov, Shane C Burgess, Amanda M Cooksey, Todd A Castoe, Nicholas G Crawford, Llewellyn D Densmore, Jennifer C Drew, Scott V Edwards, Brant C Faircloth, Matthew K Fujita, Matthew J Greenwold, Federico G Hoffmann, Jonathan M Howard, Taisen Iguchi, Daniel E Janes, Shahid Khan, Satomi Kohno, AP Jason de Koning, Stacey L Lance, Fiona M McCarthy, John E McCormack Genome Biology 2012, 13:415 (31 January 2012)
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An Open Letter describing the project to sequence the genomes of the saltwater crocodile, the American alligator and the Indian gharial
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Dissecting the regulatory architecture of gene expression QTLs
Daniel J Gaffney, Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, Jacob F Degner, Pique-Regi Roger, Athma A Pai, Gregory E Crawford, Matthew Stephens, Yoav Gilad, Jonathan K Pritchard Genome Biology 2012, 13:R7 (31 January 2012)
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An analysis of eQTLs located in regulatory elements in the human genome
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MetaMerge: scaling up genome-scale metabolic reconstructions, with application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Leonid Chindelevitch, Sarah Stanley, Deborah Hung, Aviv Regev, Bonnie Berger Genome Biology 2012, 13:R6 (31 January 2012)
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An algorithm that reconciles metabolic network reconstructions into a single model
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Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology
Christopher J Mungall, Carlo Torniai, Georgios V Gkoutos, Suzanna E Lewis, Melissa A Haendel Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5 (31 January 2012)
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A description of the Uberon ontology tool that allows comparisons of genomic information across multiple animal phyla
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SpliceGrapher: Detecting patterns of alternative splicing from RNA-seq data in the context of gene models and EST data
Mark F Rogers, Julie Thomas, Anireddy SN Reddy, Asa Ben-Hur Genome Biology 2012, 13:R4 (31 January 2012)
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A tool that uses a priori information to optimize alternative splicing prediction from RNA-seq data
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The dog particle
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2012, 13:142 (30 January 2012)
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In a big announcement suspiciously soon before their funding is renewed, canine researchers have news about the Briggs Noson
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Co-survival of the fittest few: mosaic amplification of receptor tyrosine kinases in glioblastoma
Feng Chen, Li Ding Genome Biology 2012, 13:141 (30 January 2012)
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Li Ding highlights recent findings suggesting that tumor cells with different driver mutations may coevolve rather than compete during clonal evolution
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Dynamic systems
Chris Bakal Genome Biology 2012, 13:312 (30 January 2012)
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A report of the Wellcome Trust Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Conference, Hinxton, UK, 29 November to 1 December 2011.
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Low-cost sequencing opens new insights into diverse plant genomes
Kenneth D Birnbaum Genome Biology 2012, 13:311 (30 January 2012)
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A report on the 2011 ?Plant Genomes and Biotechnology: From Genes to Networks? meeting, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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DNA-protein interactions in high definition
Eric M Mendenhall, Bradley E Bernstein Genome Biology 2012, 13:139 (27 January 2012)
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Mendenhall and Bernstein highlight ChIP-exo, which is an elegant, genome-wide approach to define the precise DNA sequences bound by transcription factors
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Whack-an-E. coli with the morbidostat
Ofer Fridman, Amir Goldberg, Nathalie Q Balaban Genome Biology 2012, 13:140 (27 January 2012)
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Nathalie Balaban and colleagues highlight a landmark study of antibiotic resistance evolutionary trajectories, which is centered on a morbidostat
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A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots
Yuannian Jiao, Jim Leebens-Mack, Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam, John E. Bowers, Michael R McKain, Joel McNeal, Megan Rolf, Daniel R Ruzicka, Eric Wafula, Norman J Wickett, Xiaolei Wu, Yong Zhang, Jun Wang, Yeting Zhang, Eric J Carpenter, Michael K Deyholos, Toni M Kutchan, Andre S Chanderbali, Pamela S Soltis, Dennis W Stevenson, Richard McCombie, Chris J Pires, Gane KA-SHU Wong, Douglas E Soltis, Claude W dePamphilis Genome Biology 2012, 13:R3 (26 January 2012)
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An investigation of when the gamma polyploidization event occurred in relation to speciation events in angiosperm history
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Implications for health and disease in the genetic signature of the Ashkenazi Jewish population
Saurav Guha, Jeffrey A Rosenfeld, Anil K Malhotra, Annette T Lee, Peter K Gregersen, John M Kane, Itsik Pe'er, Ariel Darvasi, Todd Lencz Genome Biology 2012, 13:R2 (25 January 2012)
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A population-specific genetic signature, derived from a large genotyping study, helps explain why some diseases are overrepresented in the Ashkenazi population
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What is complex about complex disorders?
Kevin J Mitchell Genome Biology 2012, 13:237 (23 January 2012)
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Complex disorders such as diabetes and schizophrenia are really groups of many distinct genetic disorders caused by rare, recent deleterious mutations
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Transcriptional enhancers in development and disease
Noboru Sakabe, Daniel Savic, Marcelo A Nobrega Genome Biology 2012, 13:238 (23 January 2012)
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Distal enhancers are important in development and disease, and genome-wide analyses are now giving greater insights into their function
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Genetic adaptation to high altitude in the Ethiopian highlands
Laura B Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, Simon Thompson, Alessia Ranciaro, Dawit Wolde Meskel, William Beggs, Charla Lambert, Joseph P Jarvis, Dawit Abate, Gurja Belay, Sarah A Tishkoff Genome Biology 2012, 13:R1 (20 January 2012)
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The genetics of hypoxia selection in an Ethiopian high-altitude population are distinct from Andean and Tibetan genotypes, suggestive of convergent evolution
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SpeCond: a method to detect condition-specific gene expression
Florence MG Cavalli, Richard Bourgon, Juan M Vaquerizas, Nicholas M Luscombe Genome Biology 2011, 12:413 (30 December 2011)
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Correction: A method to detect condition-specific gene expression from microarray data
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Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development
Marilyn B Renfree, Anthony T Papenfuss, Janine E Deakin, James Lindsay, Thomas Heider, Katherine Belov, Willem Rens, Paul D Waters, Elizabeth A Pharo, Geoff Shaw, Emily SW Wong, Christophe M Lefèvre, Kevin R Nicholas, Yoko Kuroki, Matthew J Wakefield, Kyall R Zenger, Chenwei Wang, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, Frank W Nicholas, Danielle Hickford, Hongshi Yu, Kirsty R Short, Hannah V Siddle, Stephen R Frankenberg, Keng Y Chew, Brandon R Menzies, Jessica M Stringer, Shunsuke Suzuki, Timothy A Hore, Margaret L Delbridge Genome Biology 2011, 12:414 (30 December 2011)
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Correction: The tammar wallaby genome and transcriptome sequences yield insights into many aspects of mammalian biology
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Interrogation of global mutagenesis data with a genome scale model of Neisseria meningitidis to assess gene fitness in vitro and in sera
Tom A Mendum, Jane Newcombe, Ahmad A Mannan, Andrzej A Kierzek, Johnjoe McFadden Genome Biology 2011, 12:R127 (30 December 2011)
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A global screen of mutant fitness in Neisseria meningitidis was used to construct a genome-scale metabolic network
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MicroRNAs and their isomiRs function cooperatively to target common biological pathways
Nicole Cloonan, Shivangi Wani, Qinying Xu, Jian Gu, Kristi Lea, Sheila Heater, Catalin Barbacioru, Anita L Steptoe, Hilary C Martin, Ehsan Nourbakhsh, Keerthana Krishnan, Brooke Gardiner, Xiaohui Wang, Katia Nones, Jason A Steen, Nick Matigan, David L Wood, Karin S Kassahn, Nic Waddell, Jill Shepherd, Clarence Lee, Jeff Ichikawa, Kevin McKernan, Kelli Bramlett, Scott Kuersten, Sean M Grimmond Genome Biology 2011, 12:R126 (30 December 2011)
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IsomiRs act cooperatively with canonical miRNAs to regulate gene expression
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Making enhancers from spare parts of the genome
David Fredman, Xianjun Dong, Boris Lenhard Genome Biology 2011, 12:138 (29 December 2011)
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Boris Lenhard and colleagues on how developmental enhancers form in genomes by the recycling of existing functional elements
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Evolution of biological interaction networks: from models to real data
Mark GF Sun, Philip M Kim Genome Biology 2011, 12:235 (28 December 2011)
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Sun and Kim review progress in the study of biological network evolution, with a focus on the protein-protein interaction network
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Opening sequence: computational genomics in the era of high-throughput sequencing
Emily V Chambers, Alida S Kindt, Colin AM Semple Genome Biology 2011, 12:310 (28 December 2011)
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A report on the 11th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics, November 2011.
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