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Volume 11 Issue 8
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The past is a foreign country
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2010, 11:131 (27 August 2010)
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The scientific worldview of someone starting graduate school today is very different from that of previous generations.
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The missing graphical user interface for genomics
Michael C Schatz Genome Biology 2010, 11:128 (25 August 2010)
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The Galaxy package for genomic analysis empowers regular users through a much-needed and user-friendly graphical web interface.
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Transcription, one allele at a time
Timothée Lionnet, Robert H Singer Genome Biology 2010, 11:129 (27 August 2010)
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A new technique for the imaging of transcription from a single gene in living cells highlights the dynamic nature of transcriptional regulation.
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Elucidating the molecular characteristics of organogenesis in human embryos
Xin Geng, Guillermo Oliver Genome Biology 2010, 11:130 (27 August 2010)
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A transcriptomic analysis of early human organogenesis reveals the molecular signature of these processes.
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Dosage compensation and the global re-balancing of aneuploid genomes
Matthias Prestel, Christian Feller, Peter B Becker Genome Biology 2010, 11:216 (26 August 2010)
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The dosage-compensation systems that equalize X-chromosome expression between sexes exemplify the intricacies of compensating for differences in gene copy number.
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Report |
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An illuminated view of molecular biology
Yoseph Barash, Xinchen Wang Genome Biology 2010, 11:307 (26 August 2010)
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A report on the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 7th Special Interest Group meeting on Alternative Splicing, Boston, USA, 9-13 July 2010.
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Comprehensive transcriptome analysis of mouse embryonic stem cell adipogenesis unravels new processes of adipocyte development
Nathalie Billon, Raivo Kolde, Jüri Reimand, Miguel C Monteiro, Meelis Kull, Hedi Peterson, Konstantin Tretyakov, Priit Adler, Brigitte Wdziekonski, Jaak Vilo, Christian Dani Genome Biology 2010, 11:R80 (3 August 2010)
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A combined in silico and experimental analysis of mouse embryonic stem cell to adipocyte differentiation reveals new pathway dynamics and regulatory insights.
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Multiple distinct small RNAs originate from the same microRNA precursors
Weixiong Zhang, Shang Gao, Xuefeng Zhou, Jing Xia, Padmanabhan Chellappan, Xiang Zhou, Xiaoming Zhang, Hailing Jin Genome Biology 2010, 11:R81 (9 August 2010)
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Deep sequencing of Arabidopsis small RNAs reveals the existence of novel miRNA-like RNAs generated from miRNA precursor hairpins.
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Evolution of an adenocarcinoma in response to selection by targeted kinase inhibitors
Steven JM Jones, Janessa Laskin, Yvonne Y Li, Obi L Griffith, Jianghong An, Mikhail Bilenky, Yaron S Butterfield, Timothee Cezard, Eric Chuah, Richard Corbett, Anthony P Fejes, Malachi Griffith, John Yee, Montgomery Martin, Michael Mayo, Nataliya Melnyk, Ryan D Morin, Trevor J Pugh, Tesa Severson, Sohrab P Shah, Margaret Sutcliffe, Angela Tam, Jefferson Terry, Nina Thiessen, Thomas Thomson, Richard Varhol, Thomas Zeng, Yongjun Zhao, Richard A Moore, David G Huntsman, Inanc Birol, Martin Hirst, Robert A Holt, Marco A Marra et al.
Genome Biology 2010, 11:R82 (9 August 2010)
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The genomes of a primary tumor and two metastases were sequenced, and the information used to guide treatment
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Intronic motif pairs cooperate across exons to promote pre-mRNA splicing
Shengdong Ke, Lawrence A Chasin Genome Biology 2010, 11:R84 (12 August 2010)
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New motifs are found to act synergistically across exons to define exon boundaries and promote pre-RNA splicing in the human genome.
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Digital expression profiling of novel diatom transcripts provides insight into their biological functions
Uma Maheswari, Kamel Jabbari, Jean-Louis Petit, Betina M Porcel, Andrew E Allen, Jean-Paul Cadoret, Alessandra De Martino, Marc Heijde, Raymond Kaas, Julie La Roche, Pascal J Lopez, Véronique Martin-Jézéquel, Agnès Meichenin, Thomas Mock, Micaela Schnitzler Parker, Assaf Vardi, E Virginia Armbrust, Jean Weissenbach, Michaël Katinka, Chris Bowler Genome Biology 2010, 11:R85 (25 August 2010)
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Digital expression profiling of the diatom transcriptome under varying environmental conditions provides insights into the roles of novel diatom genes.
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Strand-specific RNA sequencing reveals extensive regulated long antisense transcripts that are conserved across yeast species
Moran Yassour, Jenna Pfiffner, Joshua Z Levin, Xian Adiconis, Andreas Gnirke, Chad Nusbaum, Dawn-Anne Thompson, Nir Friedman, Aviv Regev Genome Biology 2010, 11:R87 (26 August 2010)
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Strand-specific RNA sequencing in yeast species reveals antisense transcripts and their conserved expression across multiple species.
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Genomic acquisition of a capsular polysaccharide virulence cluster by non-pathogenic Burkholderia isolates
Bernice Meng Qi Sim, Narisara Chantratita, Wen Fong Ooi, Tannistha Nandi, Ryan Tewhey, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Janjira Thaipadungpanit, Sarinna Tumapa, Pramila Ariyaratne, Wing-Kin Sung, Xiao Hui Sem, Hui Hoon Chua, Kalpana Ramnarayanan, Chi Ho Lin, Yichun Liu, Edward J Feil, Mindy B Glass, Gladys Tan, Sharon J Peacock, Patrick Tan Genome Biology 2010, 11:R89 (27 August 2010)
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Sequencing and microarray analyses of non-pathogenic and pathogenic Burkholderia isolates reveals insight into the factors underlying the acquisition of pathogenesis.
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A standard variation file format for human genome sequences
Martin G Reese, Barry Moore, Colin Batchelor, Fidel Salas, Fiona Cunningham, Gabor T Marth, Lincoln Stein, Paul Flicek, Mark Yandell, Karen Eilbeck Genome Biology 2010, 11:R88 (26 August 2010)
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The genome variation format (GVF) and the 10Gen dataset provide a resource for the standardization of variant files and data analysis.
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Comprehensive modeling of microRNA targets predicts functional non-conserved and non-canonical sites
Doron Betel, Anjali Koppal, Phaedra Agius, Chris Sander, Christina Leslie Genome Biology 2010, 11:R90 (27 August 2010)
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mirSVR is a method for miRNA target prediction that, unusually, takes into account non-canonical binding sequences and non-conserved sites
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Cloud-scale RNA-sequencing differential expression analysis with Myrna
Ben Langmead, Kasper D Hansen, Jeffrey T Leek Genome Biology 2010, 11:R83 (11 August 2010)
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Myrna is a software pipeline for calculating differential gene expression from large RNA-seq data sets in the cloud.
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Galaxy: a comprehensive approach for supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research in the life sciences
Jeremy Goecks, Anton Nekrutenko, James Taylor, The Galaxy Team Genome Biology 2010, 11:R86 (25 August 2010)
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The Galaxy computing platform allows researchers to share data and data analysis workflows, facilitating easily reproducible analyses.
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