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Volume 12 Issue 3
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Closure of the NCBI SRA and implications for the long-term future of genomics data storage
GB Editorial Team Genome Biology 2011, 12:402 (22 March 2011)
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Closure of the NCBI SRA and implications for the long-term future of genomics data storage
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The walking dead
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2011, 12:108 (31 March 2011)
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Creationism, academic freedom and funding: keeping the zombie out of science.
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The role of imprinted genes in humans
Gudrun E Moore, Rebecca Oakey Genome Biology 2011, 12:106 (21 March 2011)
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Imprinting in humans seems to be less prevalent than in mice.
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Control of endogenous gene expression timing by introns
Annelie Oswald, Andrew C Oates Genome Biology 2011, 12:107 (29 March 2011)
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Comparison of gene expression from transgenes and endogenous genes with or without introns reveals a time-regulating role of introns in natural biological systems
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High-throughput phenotyping of multicellular organisms: finding the link between genotype and phenotype
Rosangela Sozzani, Philip N Benfey Genome Biology 2011, 12:219 (28 March 2011)
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A review of new methods for high-throughput phenotyping of multicellular organisms.
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The transient receptor potential family of ion channels
Bernd Nilius, Grzegorz Owsianik Genome Biology 2011, 12:218 (17 March 2011)
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The transient receptor potential (TRP) of ion channels activate voltage-dependent ion channels and are involved in physiological processes such as sensation of stimuli and ion homeostasis
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Report |
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'Next-generation' sequencing becomes 'now-generation'
Daniel E Neafsey, Brian J Haas Genome Biology 2011, 12:303 (18 March 2011)
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A report on the Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference, Marco Island, USA, 2-5 February 2011.
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Support for multiple classes of local expression clusters in Drosophila melanogaster, but no evidence for gene order conservation
Claudia C Weber, Laurence D Hurst Genome Biology 2011, 12:R23 (17 March 2011)
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The conservation of syntenic gene order previously described in yeast is not apparent in D. melanogaster
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Modeling antibiotic and cytotoxic effects of the dimeric isoquinoline IQ-143 on metabolism and its regulation in Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and human cells
Alexander Cecil, Carina Rikanović, Knut Ohlsen, Chunguang Liang, Jörg Bernhardt, Tobias A Oelschlaeger, Tanja Gulder, Gerhard Bringmann, Ulrike Holzgrabe, Matthias Unger, Thomas Dandekar Genome Biology 2011, 12:R24 (21 March 2011)
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Gene expression analysis and metabolic modeling offer insights into an antibiotic’s target
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Genome-wide assessment of imprinted expression in human cells
Lisanne Morcos, Bing Ge, Vonda Koka, Kevin CL Lam, Dmitry K Pokholok, Kevin L Gunderson, Alexandre Montpetit, Dominique J Verlaan, Tomi Pastinen Genome Biology 2011, 12:R25 (21 March 2011)
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A genome-wide survey of allelic expression bias in human cells suggests only a very small number of human genes are imprinted
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Community transcriptomics reveals universal patterns of protein sequence conservation in natural microbial communities
Frank J Stewart, Adrian K Sharma, Jessica A Bryant, John M Eppley, Edward F DeLong Genome Biology 2011, 12:R26 (22 March 2011)
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Analysis of several metagenomic datasets reveals that highly expressed genes are more conserved than less highly expressed ones
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A genome-wide view of mutation rate co-variation using multivariate analyses
Guruprasad Ananda, Francesca Chiaromonte, Kateryna D Makova Genome Biology 2011, 12:R27 (22 March 2011)
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Local genomic features influence the rate of different types of mutations in primate genomes
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Genome sequence of the stramenopile Blastocystis, a human anaerobic parasite
France Denoeud, Michaël Roussel, Benjamin Noel, Ivan Wawrzyniak, Corinne Da Silva, Marie Diogon, Eric Viscogliosi, Céline Brochier-Armanet, Arnaud Couloux, Julie Poulain, Béatrice Segurens, Véronique Anthouard, Catherine Texier, Nicolas Blot, Philippe Poirier, Geok Choo Ng, Kevin SW Tan, François Artiguenave, Olivier Jaillon, Jean-Marc Aury, Frédéric Delbac, Patrick Wincker, Christian P Vivarès, Hicham El Alaoui Genome Biology 2011, 12:R29 (25 March 2011)
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The genome sequence of the anaerobic stramenopile, Blastocystis, reveals the pathogenic potential of this important human parasite.
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hzAnalyzer: detection, quantification, and visualization of contiguous homozygosity in high-density genotyping datasets
Todd A Johnson, Yoshihito Niimura, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yusuke Nakamura, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda Genome Biology 2011, 12:R21 (11 March 2011)
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Novel methods are presented for the detection and analysis of homozygous tracts from genotype data
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Improving RNA-Seq expression estimates by correcting for fragment bias
Adam Roberts, Cole Trapnell, Julie Donaghey, John L Rinn, Lior Pachter Genome Biology 2011, 12:R22 (16 March 2011)
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An extension to Cufflinks corrects bias in RNA-seq datasets
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Full genome re-sequencing reveals a novel circadian clock mutation in Arabidopsis
Kevin Ashelford, Maria E Eriksson, Christopher M Allen, Rosalinda D'Amore, Mikael Johansson, Peter Gould, Suzanne Kay, Andrew J Millar, Neil Hall, Anthony Hall Genome Biology 2011, 12:R28 (23 March 2011)
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Re-sequencing of the Ws-2 Arabidopsis accession and a comparison with the reference accession reveals a novel circadian clock mutation.
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ISsaga is an ensemble of web-based methods for high throughput identification and semi-automatic annotation of insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes
Alessandro M Varani, Patricia Siguier, Edith Gourbeyre, Vincent Charneau, Mick Chandler Genome Biology 2011, 12:R30 (28 March 2011)
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ISsaga is a tool for identifying and annotating insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes.
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A vertebrate case study of the quality of assemblies derived from next-generation sequences
Liang Ye, LaDeana W Hillier, Patrick Minx, Nay Thane, Devin P Locke, John C Martin, Lei Chen, Makedonka Mitreva, Jason R Miller, Kevin V Haub, David J Dooling, Elaine R Mardis, Richard K Wilson, George M Weinstock, Wesley C Warren Genome Biology 2011, 12:R31 (31 March 2011)
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In a comparative analysis, the chicken genome is assembled using Sanger, Illumina or 454 reads from the same biological sample
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The CRIT framework for identifying cross patterns in systems biology and application to chemogenomics
Tara A Gianoulis, Ashish Agarwal, Michael Snyder, Mark B Gerstein Genome Biology 2011, 12:R32 (31 March 2011)
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Making connections between unrelated tabulated genomics datasets
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