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Volume 11 Issue 10
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A Faustian bargain
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2010, 11:138 (31 October 2010)
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Editor’s summary
An open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany.
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Bet hedging in the underworld
Xue-Xian Zhang, Paul B Rainey Genome Biology 2010, 11:137 (27 October 2010)
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A soil bacterium hedges its bets on how long it will take to find a new plant host by producing two kinds of daughter cells.
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Capturing the dynamic epigenome
Roger B Deal, Steven Henikoff Genome Biology 2010, 11:218 (8 October 2010)
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Direct measurements of chromatin dynamics are providing deeper insights into processes such as transcription, DNA replication and epigenetic inheritance.
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Report |
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Out of the sequencer and into the wiki as we face new challenges in genome informatics
Zemin Ning, Stephen B Montgomery Genome Biology 2010, 11:308 (28 October 2010)
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A report on the joint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust Conference 'Genome Informatics' meeting, 15-19 September 2010, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
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Somatic structural rearrangements in genetically engineered mouse mammary tumors
Ignacio Varela, Christiaan Klijn, Phillip J Stephens, Laura J Mudie, Lucy Stebbings, Danushka Galappaththige, Hanneke van der Gulden, Eva Schut, Sjoerd Klarenbeek, Peter J Campbell, Lodewyk FA Wessels, Michael R Stratton, Jos Jonkers, P Andrew Futreal, David J Adams Genome Biology 2010, 11:R100 (13 October 2010)
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Paired-end sequencing of mouse models of mammary tumors reveals the landscape of genome rearrangements and gene fusions.
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Comparative transcriptomics among floral organs of the basal eudicot Eschscholzia californica as reference for floral evolutionary developmental studies
Laura M Zahn, Xuan Ma, Naomi S Altman, Qing Zhang, P Kerr Wall, Donglan Tian, Cynthia J Gibas, Raad Gharaibeh, James H Leebens-Mack, Claude W dePamphilis, Hong Ma Genome Biology 2010, 11:R101 (15 October 2010)
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The California poppy’s transcriptome and its comparison with those of basal angiosperms reveals the poppy’s unique evolutionary position.
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An atlas of bovine gene expression reveals novel distinctive tissue characteristics and evidence for improving genome annotation
Gregory P Harhay, Timothy PL Smith, Leeson J Alexander, Christian D Haudenschild, John W Keele, Lakshmi K Matukumalli, Steven G Schroeder, Curtis P Van Tassell, Cathy R Gresham, Susan M Bridges, Shane C Burgess, Tad S Sonstegard Genome Biology 2010, 11:R102 (20 October 2010)
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Digital gene expression has been used to analyse transcription in 92 bovine tissues.
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Detecting sequence polymorphisms associated with meiotic recombination hotspots in the human genome
Jie Zheng, Pavel P Khil, R Daniel Camerini-Otero, Teresa M Przytycka Genome Biology 2010, 11:R103 (20 October 2010)
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An algorithm called LDsplit was developed to identify polymorphisms associated with meiotic recombination hotspots.
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Heterochronic evolution reveals modular timing changes in budding yeast transcriptomes
Daniel F Simola, Chantal Francis, Paul D Sniegowski, Junhyong Kim Genome Biology 2010, 11:R105 (22 October 2010)
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Expression timing changes during the cell cycle in woodland and lab S. cerevisiae strains reveal modular timing changes in evolution.
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Structure and dynamics of the pan-genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and closely related species
Claudio Donati, N Luisa Hiller, Hervé Tettelin, Alessandro Muzzi, Nicholas J Croucher, Samuel V Angiuoli, Marco Oggioni, Julie C Dunning Hotopp, Fen Z Hu, David R Riley, Antonello Covacci, Tim J Mitchell, Stephen D Bentley, Morgens Kilian, Garth D Ehrlich, Rino Rappuoli, E Richard Moxon, Vega Masignani Genome Biology 2010, 11:R107 (29 October 2010)
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Streptococcus pneumoniae genome analysis reveals that the presence of pathogenicity genes is not sufficient to determine virulence
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Improved variant discovery through local re-alignment of short-read next-generation sequencing data using SRMA
Nils Homer, Stanley F Nelson Genome Biology 2010, 11:R99 (8 October 2010)
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The novel short-read micro re-aligner SRMA improves variant discovery when aligning deep sequencing data to a reference genome.
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FusionSeq: a modular framework for finding gene fusions by analyzing paired-end RNA-sequencing data
Andrea Sboner, Lukas Habegger, Dorothee Pflueger, Stephane Terry, David Z Chen, Joel S Rozowsky, Ashutosh K Tewari, Naoki Kitabayashi, Benjamin J Moss, Mark S Chee, Francesca Demichelis, Mark A Rubin, Mark B Gerstein Genome Biology 2010, 11:R104 (21 October 2010)
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FusionSeq is a method for identifying fusion transcripts from RNA-seq data. Novel fusions are identified in prostate cancer datasets.
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Differential expression analysis for sequence count data
Simon Anders, Wolfgang Huber Genome Biology 2010, 11:R106 (27 October 2010)
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DEseq allows the determination of differential expression of read count data from RNA-seq or ChIP-seq experiments
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Rapid haplotype inference for nuclear families
Amy L Williams, David E Housman, Martin C Rinard, David K Gifford Genome Biology 2010, 11:R108 (29 October 2010)
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Hapi infers the haplotype of an individual based on sequence information from them and their parents.
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Correspondence |
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Do-it-yourself genetic testing
Steven L Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea Genome Biology 2010, 11:404 (7 October 2010)
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How to test your BRCA status and why we need to prepare for the personal genomics age.
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