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Volume 11 Issue 5
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A decade and genome of change
Clare Garvey Genome Biology 2010, 11:120 (5 May 2010)
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Innovations in genomic technologies have generated huge advances in biomedical research over the last decade.
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And they said it wouldn't last...
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2010, 11:121 (5 May 2010)
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In the 10 years that Genome Biology has been published the scientific changes have been amazing, as have the changes in the culture of science.
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Interesting things come in small packages
Edward F DeLong Genome Biology 2010, 11:118 (14 May 2010)
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An unusual uncultivated nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium lacks many of the signature features of typical cyanobacteria.
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Membrane traffic in the post-genomic era
Peter Hein, Mark von Zastrow Genome Biology 2010, 11:119 (25 May 2010)
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A multi-parametric genetic screening approach sheds light on integrated control of the endocytic pathway in mammalian cells.
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Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes
Mihaela Pertea, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2010, 11:206 (5 May 2010)
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The number of genes in the human genome is still an estimate.
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The case for cloud computing in genome informatics
Lincoln D Stein Genome Biology 2010, 11:207 (5 May 2010)
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With DNA sequencing now getting cheaper more quickly than data storage, the time may have come to use cloud computing for genome informatics.
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The next frontier of systems biology: higher-order and interspecies interactions
Michael A Fischbach, Nevan J Krogan Genome Biology 2010, 11:208 (5 May 2010)
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Systems biology is set to go beyond single species to the study of interspecies interactions.
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The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics
Eugene V Koonin Genome Biology 2010, 11:209 (5 May 2010)
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Comparative genomics and new phylogenies of eukaryote groups suggest a scenario in which the mitochondrial endosymbiosis triggered the origin of eukaryotes.
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Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences
Justin Kuczynski, Elizabeth K Costello, Diana R Nemergut, Jesse Zaneveld, Christian L Lauber, Dan Knights, Omry Koren, Noah Fierer, Scott T Kelley, Ruth E Ley, Jeffrey I Gordon, Rob Knight Genome Biology 2010, 11:210 (5 May 2010)
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Future sequencing of the human microbiota will require greater breadth rather than depth.
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Cancer genomics identifies determinants of tumor biology
Elaine R Mardis Genome Biology 2010, 11:211 (5 May 2010)
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Whole-genome analysis of human tumors has identified some unsuspected tumor-associated genes
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GWASs and the age of human as the model organism for autoimmune genetic research
Robert Plenge Genome Biology 2010, 11:212 (5 May 2010)
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Humans should perhaps be the model organism for autoimmune disease studies, considering the success of GWAS studies uncovering risk alleles.
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Microbial signaling and systems biology
Alistair JP Brown Genome Biology 2010, 11:302 (17 May 2010)
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A report of the symposium on Signaling and Systems Biology held during the Society for General Microbiology Spring Meeting, 29-30 March 2010, Edinburgh, UK
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Sequences to systems
Manolis Kellis, John L Rinn Genome Biology 2010, 11:303 (25 May 2010)
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A report of the seventh annual meeting on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, 23-27 March 2010, Cold Spring Harbor, USA.
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mRNA: a complex(ed) life
Michaela Müller, Karla M Neugebauer, Christian Eckmann Genome Biology 2010, 11:304 (25 May 2010)
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A report of the EMBL conference 'The Complex Life of mRNA: From Synthesis to Decay', Heidelberg, Germany, 18-21 March 2010.
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The dissection of transcriptional modules regulated by various drugs of abuse in the mouse striatum
Marcin Piechota, Michal Korostynski, Wojciech Solecki, Agnieszka Gieryk, Michal Slezak, Wiktor Bilecki, Barbara Ziolkowska, Elzbieta Kostrzewa, Iwona Cymerman, Lukasz Swiech, Jacek Jaworski, Ryszard Przewlocki Genome Biology 2010, 11:R48 (4 May 2010)
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The transcriptional response to six commonly-abused drugs was assessed in the mouse brain revealing common modules of drug-induced genes.
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Widespread remodeling of mid-coding sequence nucleosomes by Isw1
Itay Tirosh, Nadejda Sigal, Naama Barkai Genome Biology 2010, 11:R49 (10 May 2010)
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In yeast, the chromatin remodeler Isw1 shifts nucleosomes from mid-coding, to more 5’ regions of genes and may regulate transcriptional elongation.
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Nucleosome rotational setting is associated with transcriptional regulation in promoters of tissue-specific human genes
Charles Hebert, Hugues Roest Crollius Genome Biology 2010, 11:R51 (12 May 2010)
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Human genes contain a 10 bp repeat of RR dinucleotides focused around the first nucleosome position suggesting a role in transcriptional control.
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Towards a comprehensive structural variation map of an individual human genome
Andy W Pang, Jeffrey R MacDonald, Dalila Pinto, John Wei, Muhammad A Rafiq, Donald F Conrad, Hansoo Park, Matthew E Hurles, Charles Lee, J Craig Venter, Ewen F Kirkness, Samuel Levy, Lars Feuk, Stephen W Scherer Genome Biology 2010, 11:R52 (19 May 2010)
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A comprehensive map of structural variation in the human genome provides a reference dataset for analyses of future personal genomes.
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A human functional protein interaction network and its application to cancer data analysis
Guanming Wu, Xin Feng, Lincoln Stein Genome Biology 2010, 11:R53 (19 May 2010)
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A high-quality human functional protein interaction network is constructed. Its utility is demonstrated in the identification of cancer candidate genes.
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Short RNA half-lives in the slow-growing marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
Claudia Steglich, Debbie Lindell, Matthias Futschik, Trent Rector, Robert Steen, Sallie W Chisholm Genome Biology 2010, 11:R54 (19 May 2010)
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RNA half lives in the slow growing cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus are surprisingly short and may enable rapid responses to environmental change.
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Studies on Xenopus laevis intestine reveal biological pathways underlying vertebrate gut adaptation from embryo to adult
Rachel A Heimeier, Biswajit Das, Daniel R Buchholz, Maria Fiorentino, Yun-Bo Shi Genome Biology 2010, 11:R55 (19 May 2010)
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The developmental transcriptome of the Xenopus laevis intestine, from embryo to adult, reveals insights into the regulation of gut development in all vertebrates.
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Evidence for natural antisense transcript-mediated inhibition of microRNA function
Mohammad Ali Faghihi, Ming Zhang, Jia Huang, Farzaneh Modarresi, Marcel P Van der Brug, Michael A Nalls, Mark R Cookson, Georges St-Laurent, Claes Wahlestedt Genome Biology 2010, 11:R56 (27 May 2010)
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The BACE1-antisense transcript and miR-485-5p have antagonistic regulatory effects on BACE1 transcript expression and are dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease patients.
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Screening the human exome: a comparison of whole genome and whole transcriptome sequencing
Elizabeth T Cirulli, Abanish Singh, Kevin V Shianna, Dongliang Ge, Jason P Smith, Jessica M Maia, Erin L Heinzen, James J Goedert, David B Goldstein, the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) Genome Biology 2010, 11:R57 (28 May 2010)
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RNA-seq is an efficient and cheaper alternative, compared with whole genome sequencing, for identifying coding variants in humans.
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Computational challenges in the analysis of ancient DNA
Kay Prüfer, Udo Stenzel, Michael Hofreiter, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Richard E Green Genome Biology 2010, 11:R47 (6 May 2010)
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A new method of next-generation sequencing analysis is presented which takes into account the biases characteristic of ancient, including Neandertal, DNA samples.
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Modeling non-uniformity in short-read rates in RNA-Seq data
Jun Li, Hui Jiang, Wing Wong Genome Biology 2010, 11:R50 (11 May 2010)
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Methods for modeling read counts from short read RNA-seq data.
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