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Volume 7 Issue 4
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Instructions for repair
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2006, 7:106 (28 April 2006)
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Peer review is the foundation quality in science, but now, in the US, the system is broken. What's the best way to fix things.
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Plant NBS-LRR proteins: adaptable guards
Leah McHale, Xiaoping Tan, Patrice Koehl, Richard W Michelmore Genome Biology 2006, 7:212 (26 April 2006)
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Plant nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) proteins are a large family involved in disease resistance; they may monitor the status of proteins targeted by pathogens.
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Getting to synaptic complexes through systems biology
Bryen A Jordan, Edward B Ziff Genome Biology 2006, 7:214 (27 April 2006)
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A systems biology approach using network maps and annotated functions of synaptic components has identified biologically relevant networks within a synaptic neurotransmitter receptor complex.
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TANGOing along the protein secretion pathway
Catherine Rabouille, Vangelis Kondylis Genome Biology 2006, 7:213 (28 April 2006)
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An RNAi screen in Drosophila cells has identified about 100 TANGO proteins, which may regulate protein exocytosis or secretion.
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Circadian rhythms lit up in Chlamydomonas
Ghislain Breton, Steve A Kay Genome Biology 2006, 7:215 (28 April 2006)
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A high-throughput luciferase-based assay for circadian gene expression gives a boost to the study of circadian rhythms in Chlamydomonas.
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Metabolic cycle, cell cycle, and the finishing kick to Start
Bruce Futcher Genome Biology 2006, 7:107 (26 April 2006)
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Two contrasting views of the relation of the metabolic cycle to the cell cycle in budding yeast are compared.
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Report |
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Shelling out for genomics
Timothy S McClintock, Charles D Derby Genome Biology 2006, 7:312 (20 April 2006)
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A report on the symposium 'Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Crustacean Biology' held as part of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2006 Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA, 4-8 January 2006.
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Signals and systems
Nevan J Krogan, Timothy R Hughes Genome Biology 2006, 7:313 (25 April 2006)
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A report on the 2006 Keystone Conference on Signaling Networks, Vancouver, Canada, 30 January-4 February 2006.
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Cancer and kinases: reports from the front line
Stephen K Burley Genome Biology 2006, 7:314 (25 April 2006)
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A report on the Keystone Symposium 'Cancer and Kinases: Lessons from the Clinic', Santa Fe, USA, 14-19 February 2006.
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RNA editing of human microRNAs
Matthew J Blow, Russell J Grocock, Stijn van Dongen, Anton J Enright, Ed Dicks, P Andrew Futreal, Richard Wooster, Michael R Stratton Genome Biology 2006, 7:R27 (4 April 2006)
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A survey of RNA editing of miRNAs from ten human tissues indicates that RNA editing increases the diversity of miRNAs and their targets.
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Genes regulated by estrogen in breast tumor cells in vitro are similarly regulated in vivo in tumor xenografts and human breast tumors
Chad J Creighton, Kevin E Cordero, Jose M Larios, Rebecca S Miller, Michael D Johnson, Arul M Chinnaiyan, Marc E Lippman, James M Rae Genome Biology 2006, 7:R28 (7 April 2006)
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Estrogen-regulated gene expression profiles of in vivo breast tumor cell lines and in vitro xenografts and breast tumors are remarkably similar.
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Comparative analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae WW domains and their interacting proteins
Jay R Hesselberth, John P Miller, Anna Golob, Jason E Stajich, Gregory A Michaud, Stanley Fields Genome Biology 2006, 7:R30 (10 April 2006)
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A protein interaction map for 12 of the 13 WW domains present in the proteins of S. cerevisiae was generated by using protein microarray data.
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Benchmarking ortholog identification methods using functional genomics data
Tim Hulsen, Martijn A Huynen, Jacob de Vlieg, Peter MA Groenen Genome Biology 2006, 7:R31 (13 April 2006)
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A benchmarking of the most popular orthologous identification methods using functional genomics data identifies the two best methods.
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Mutation patterns of amino acid tandem repeats in the human proteome
Loris Mularoni, Roderic Guigó, M Mar Albà Genome Biology 2006, 7:R33 (26 April 2006)
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A genome-wide report on the types of mutations occurring in amino acid repeats of human proteins shows that the mutational dynamics of different types of repeats are very diverse.
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The genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum has recognizable core and accessory components
J Peter W Young, Lisa C Crossman, Andrew WB Johnston, Nicholas R Thomson, Zara F Ghazoui, Katherine H Hull, Margaret Wexler, Andrew RJ Curson, Jonathan D Todd, Philip S Poole, Tim H Mauchline, Alison K East, Michael A Quail, Carol Churcher, Claire Arrowsmith, Inna Cherevach, Tracey Chillingworth, Kay Clarke, Ann Cronin, Paul Davis, Audrey Fraser, Zahra Hance, Heidi Hauser, Kay Jagels, Sharon Moule, Karen Mungall, Halina Norbertczak, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Mandy Sanders, Mark Simmonds, Sally Whitehead, Julian Parkhill et al.
Genome Biology 2006, 7:R34 (26 April 2006)
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The genome sequence of the α-proteobacterial N2-fixing symbiont of legumes, Rhizobium leguminosarum, is described, revealing a 'core' and an 'accessory' component.
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Novel gene and gene model detection using a whole genome open reading frame analysis in proteomics
Damian Fermin, Baxter B Allen, Thomas W Blackwell, Rajasree Menon, Marcin Adamski, Yin Xu, Peter Ulintz, Gilbert S Omenn, David J States Genome Biology 2006, 7:R35 (28 April 2006)
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High-throughput mass spectroscopy data combined with a six-frame translation of the human genome can be used to identify novel protein encoding genes, as demonstrated with a search for plasma proteins.
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A classification based framework for quantitative description of large-scale microarray data
Dipen P Sangurdekar, Friedrich Srienc, Arkady B Khodursky Genome Biology 2006, 7:R32 (20 April 2006)
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A new classification-based framework is presented that allows quantitative description of microarray data in terms of significance of co-expression within any gene group and condition-specific gene class activity.
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Reference based annotation with GeneMapper
Sourav Chatterji, Lior Pachter Genome Biology 2006, 7:R29 (5 April 2006)
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GeneMapper, a new program for transferring annotations from a well-annotated reference genome to other genomes, is described.
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