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Volume 13 Issue 11
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Computational thinking in the era of big data biology
Michael C Schatz Genome Biology 2012, 13:177 (29 November 2012)
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by Mike Schatz
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Why rodent pseudogenes refuse to retire
Manyuan Long, Li Zhang Genome Biology 2012, 13:178 (20 November 2012)
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Functional entities or curmudgeonly junk? The ceRNA hypothesis may explain why many rodent pseudogenes resist evolutionary erosion
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Dicer partners expand the repertoire of miRNA targets
Lukasz Jaskiewicz, Mihaela Zavolan Genome Biology 2012, 13:179 (29 November 2012)
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A Research Highlight by Lukasz Jaskiewicz and Mihaela Zavolan discusses how cofactors modify Dicer processing and, consequently, transcriptional networks
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Strategies towards sequencing complex crop genomes
James C Abbott, Sarah A Butcher Genome Biology 2012, 13:322 (19 November 2012)
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A report on the Strategies for de novo assemblies of complex crop genomes workshop held at The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK, 8-10 October 2012.
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International plant molecular biology: a bright future for green science
Sibum Sung, Enamul Huq, Z Jeffrey Chen Genome Biology 2012, 13:323 (19 November 2012)
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A report on the 10th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Jeju, South Korea, October 21-26, 2012.
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Microbiome dynamics of human epidermis following skin barrier disruption
Patrick LJM Zeeuwen, Jos Boekhorst, Ellen H van den Bogaard, Heleen D de Koning, Peter MC van de Kerkhof, Delphine M Saulnier, Iris I van Swam, Sacha AFT van Hijum, Michiel Kleerebezem, Joost Schalkwijk, Harro M Timmerman Genome Biology 2012, 13:R101 (15 November 2012)
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An analysis of the microbiota of the surface and deeper layers of skin, and how it changes following skin barrier disruption
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Evidence for conserved post-transcriptional roles of unitary pseudogenes and for frequent bifunctionality of mRNAs
Ana C Marques, Jennifer Tan, Sheena Lee, Lesheng Kong, Andreas Heger, Chris P Ponting Genome Biology 2012, 13:R102 (15 November 2012)
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Analysis of pseudogenes in the mouse genome shows that some transcripts have a regulatory role separate from their protein coding potential
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The multidrug-resistant PMEN1 pneumococcus is a paradigm for genetic success
Kelly L Wyres, Lotte M Lambertsen, Nicholas J Croucher, Lesley McGee, Anne von Gottberg, Josefina Liñares, Michael R Jacobs, Karl G Kristinsson, Bernard W Beall, Keith P Klugman, Julian Parkhill, Regine Hakenbeck, Stephen D Bentley, Angela B Brueggemann Genome Biology 2012, 13:R103 (16 November 2012)
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Sequencing of a collection of isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals extensive gene transfer between the virulent strain PMEN1 and other strains
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Hog1 bypasses stress-mediated down-regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II redistribution and chromatin remodeling
Mariona Nadal-Ribelles, Núria Conde, Oscar Flores, Juan González-Vallinas, Eduardo Eyras, Modesto Orozco, Eulàlia de Nadal, Francesc Posas Genome Biology 2012, 13:R106 (18 November 2012)
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Hog1 bypasses gene expression regulation by targeting RNA polymerase II machinery and inducing chromatin remodeling at stress-responsive loci
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Transposable elements reveal a stem cell-specific class of long noncoding RNAs
David Kelley, John Rinn Genome Biology 2012, 13:R107 (26 November 2012)
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A characterization of the transposable element content of human lincRNAs to resolve the evolutionary origins of lincRNAs in the human genome
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Organellar proteomics reveals hundreds of novel nuclear proteins in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Sophie C Oehring, Ben J Woodcroft, Suzette Moes, Johanna Wetzel, Olivier Dietz, Andreas Pulfer, Chaitali Dekiwadia, Pascal Maeser, Christian Flueck, Kathrin Witmer, Nicolas MB Brancucci, Igor Niederwieser, Paul Jenoe, Stuart A Ralph, Till S Voss Genome Biology 2012, 13:R108 (26 November 2012)
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A proteomic study of the nuclear proteome of Plasmodium falciparum reveals novel nuclear proteins
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Human genes with CpG island promoters have a distinct transcription-associated chromatin organization
Tanya Vavouri, Ben Lehner Genome Biology 2012, 13:R110 (27 November 2012)
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A study of the chromatin architecture at promoters reveals different histone modifications at those with CpG islands and those without
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A phenotypic screening platform to identify small molecule modulators of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii growth, motility and photosynthesis
Simon E Alfred, Anuradha Surendra, Chris Le, Ken Lin, Alexander Mok, Iain M Wallace, Michael Proctor, Malene L Urbanus, Guri Giaever, Corey Nislow Genome Biology 2012, 13:R105 (18 November 2012)
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An automated small molecule screening method for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and its application to identify bioactive compounds for agriculture, biofuels and therapeutics
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Computational discovery of regulatory elements in a continuous expression space
Mathieu Lajoie, Olivier Gascuel, Vincent Lefort, Laurent Bréhélin Genome Biology 2012, 13:R109 (27 November 2012)
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A novel method that identifies regulatory elements by estimating motif densities around each gene, using overlapping neighborhoods in expression space
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MIRAGE: a functional genomics-based approach for metabolic network model reconstruction and its application to cyanobacteria networks
Edward Vitkin, Tomer Shlomi Genome Biology 2012, 13:R111 (29 November 2012)
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MIRAGE is a gap-filling method for metabolic networks based on functional genomics data which is demonstrated, then applied to cyanobacterial networks
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InSilico DB genomic datasets hub: an efficient starting point for analyzing genome-wide studies in GenePattern, Integrative Genomics Viewer, and R/Bioconductor
Alain Coletta, Colin Molter, Robin Duqué, David Steenhoff, Jonatan Taminau, Virginie de Schaetzen, Stijn Meganck, Cosmin Lazar, David Venet, Vincent Detours, Ann Nowé, Hugues Bersini, David Y Weiss Solís Genome Biology 2012, 13:R104 (18 November 2012)
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A web-based data storage hub that connects genomics datasets to GUI and command line data analysis tools
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