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Volume 10 Issue 3
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Too big to succeed?
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2009, 10:103 (30 March 2009)
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Bigger is not necessarily more beautiful when big pharma mergers are at issue.
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The origin recognition complex protein family
Bernard P Duncker, Igor N Chesnokov, Brendan J McConkey Genome Biology 2009, 10:214 (17 March 2009)
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The proteins of the origin recognition complex are found throughout all eukaryotes and have roles beyond that of DNA replication.
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Rac and Rho driving tumor invasion: who's at the wheel?
Marc Symons, Jeffrey E Segall Genome Biology 2009, 10:213 (6 March 2009)
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Interplay between Rho and Rac controls the invasive behavior of melanoma cells.
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The need for speed
Paul Flicek Genome Biology 2009, 10:212 (27 March 2009)
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A new sequence-alignment algorithm that uses advanced data structures to help data analysis keep pace with data generation.
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Yeasts as models in evolutionary biology
Zhenglong Gu, Stephen Oliver Genome Biology 2009, 10:304 (2 March 2009)
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A report of the workshop 'Evolutionary and Environmental Genomics of Yeasts', Heidelberg, Germany, 1-5 October 2008.
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Building bridges from 'omics' to cell biology
Brian Cox Genome Biology 2009, 10:305 (10 March 2009)
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A report from the Keystone Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology, 'Omics Meets Cell Biology', Breckenridge, Colorado, 25-30 January, 2009.
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Parallel RNAi screens across different cell lines identify generic and cell type-specific regulators of actin organization and cell morphology
Tao Liu, David Sims, Buzz Baum Genome Biology 2009, 10:R26 (5 March 2009)
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Parallel RNA interference screens and gene expression arrays in six Drosophila cell lines identified regulators of cell morphology, including a neuronal function for the kinase minibrain/DYRK1A in the regulation of protrusion morphology.
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Integrated analysis of breast cancer cell lines reveals unique signaling pathways
Laura M Heiser, Nicholas J Wang, Carolyn L Talcott, Keith R Laderoute, Merrill Knapp, Yinghui Guan, Zhi Hu, Safiyyah Ziyad, Barbara L Weber, Sylvie Laquerre, Jeffrey R Jackson, Richard F Wooster, Wen Kuo, Joe W Gray, Paul T Spellman Genome Biology 2009, 10:R31 (25 March 2009)
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Mapping of sub-networks in the EGFR-MAPK pathway in different breast cancer cell lines reveals that PAK1 may be a marker for sensitivity to MEK inhibitors.
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Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies
Olivier Harismendy, Pauline C Ng, Robert L Strausberg, Xiaoyun Wang, Timothy B Stockwell, Karen Y Beeson, Nicholas J Schork, Sarah S Murray, Eric J Topol, Samuel Levy, Kelly A Frazer Genome Biology 2009, 10:R32 (27 March 2009)
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Human sequence generated from three next-generation sequencing platforms reveals systematic variability in sequence coverage due to local sequence characteristics.
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Reconstructing the ubiquitin network - cross-talk with other systems and identification of novel functions
Thiago M Venancio, S Balaji, Lakshminarayan M Iyer, L Aravind Genome Biology 2009, 10:R33 (30 March 2009)
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A computational model of the yeast Ubiquitin system highlights interesting biological features including functional interactions between components and interplay with other regulatory mechanisms.
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DISTILLER: a data integration framework to reveal condition dependency of complex regulons in Escherichia coli
Karen Lemmens, Tijl De Bie, Thomas Dhollander, Sigrid C De Keersmaecker, Inge M Thijs, Geert Schoofs, Ami De Weerdt, Bart De Moor, Jos Vanderleyden, Julio Collado-Vides, Kristof Engelen, Kathleen Marchal Genome Biology 2009, 10:R27 (6 March 2009)
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DISTILLER, a data integration framework for the inference of transcriptional module networks, is presented and used to investigate the condition dependency and modularity in Escherichia coli networks.
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Uncovering metabolic pathways relevant to phenotypic traits of microbial genomes
Gabi Kastenmüller, Maria Schenk, Johann Gasteiger, Hans-Werner Mewes Genome Biology 2009, 10:R28 (10 March 2009)
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A new machine learning-based method is presented here for the identification of metabolic pathways related to specific phenotypes in multiple microbial genomes.
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A computational approach for genome-wide mapping of splicing factor binding sites
Martin Akerman, Hilda David-Eden, Ron Y Pinter, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund Genome Biology 2009, 10:R30 (18 March 2009)
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A computational method is presented for genome-wide mapping of splicing factor binding sites that considers both the genomic environment and evolutionary conservation.
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Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
Ben Langmead, Cole Trapnell, Mihai Pop, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2009, 10:R25 (4 March 2009)
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Bowtie: a new ultrafast memory-efficient tool for the alignment of short DNA sequence reads to large genomes.
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TFCat: the curated catalog of mouse and human transcription factors
Debra L Fulton, Saravanan Sundararajan, Gwenael Badis, Timothy R Hughes, Wyeth W Wasserman, Jared C Roach, Rob Sladek Genome Biology 2009, 10:R29 (12 March 2009)
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TFCat is a catalog of mouse and human transcription factors based on a reliable core collection of annotations obtained by expert review of the scientific literature
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