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Volume 7 Issue 9
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Fly's time
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2006, 7:115 (29 September 2006)
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Editor’s summary
The struggle between public and private efforts to sequence the fly genome is the subject of Michael Ashburner's new book, Won for All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced
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Genomics and the bacterial species problem
W Ford Doolittle, R Thane Papke Genome Biology 2006, 7:116 (29 September 2006)
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Do we need to describe bacteria as species, and if so, can we?
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Arrestins: ubiquitous regulators of cellular signaling pathways
Eugenia V Gurevich, Vsevolod V Gurevich Genome Biology 2006, 7:236 (2 October 2006)
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The arrestins are a small family of proteins that regulate the signaling and trafficking of G-protein-coupled receptors and also serve as ubiquitous signaling regulators in the cytoplasm and nucleus.
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Functional genomics of the yeast DNA-damage response
Gerard Cagney, David Alvaro, Robert JD Reid, Peter H Thorpe, Rodney Rothstein, Nevan J Krogan Genome Biology 2006, 7:233 (7 September 2006)
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Two high-throughput studies of the DNA-damage response in yeast reveal new regulatory pathways and genes involved.
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Molecular orchestration of the hepatic circadian symphony
Urs Albrecht Genome Biology 2006, 7:234 (28 September 2006)
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A recent study reveals multiple levels of regulation of the circadian expression of liver proteins.
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Report |
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A bright future for Chlamydomonas
Andrea L Manuell, Stephen P Mayfield Genome Biology 2006, 7:327 (12 September 2006)
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A report on the 12th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Portland, USA, 9-14 May 2006.
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Regulatory RNAs and the demise of 'junk' DNA
Frank J Slack Genome Biology 2006, 7:328 (28 September 2006)
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A report of the meeting 'Regulatory RNAs', the 71st Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, USA, 31 May-5 July 2006.
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The human urinary proteome contains more than 1500 proteins, including a large proportion of membrane proteins
Jun Adachi, Chanchal Kumar, Yanling Zhang, Jesper V Olsen, Matthias Mann Genome Biology 2006, 7:R80 (1 September 2006)
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A high confidence set of proteins in urine from healthy donors is described as a reference urinary proteome.
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Genomic features of Bordetella parapertussis clades with distinct host species specificity
Mary M Brinig, Karen B Register, Mark R Ackermann, David A Relman Genome Biology 2006, 7:R81 (6 September 2006)
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Genomic analysis of human and ovine Bordetella parapertussis strains reveals differences distinguishing the host-restricted subgroups.
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Multiplatform genome-wide identification and modeling of functional human estrogen receptor binding sites
Vinsensius B Vega, Chin-Yo Lin, Koon Lai, Say Li Kong, Min Xie, Xiaodi Su, Huey Teh, Jane S Thomsen, Ai Li Yeo, Wing Sung, Guillaume Bourque, Edison T Liu Genome Biology 2006, 7:R82 (9 September 2006)
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Refinement of the functional human estrogen receptor binding site model using a multi-platform genome-wide approach reveals extended binding specificity signal.
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Human fetal neuroblast and neuroblastoma transcriptome analysis confirms neuroblast origin and highlights neuroblastoma candidate genes
Katleen De Preter, Jo Vandesompele, Pierre Heimann, Nurten Yigit, Siv Beckman, Alexander Schramm, Angelika Eggert, Raymond L Stallings, Yves Benoit, Marleen Renard, Anne Paepe, Geneviève Laureys, Sven Påhlman, Frank Speleman Genome Biology 2006, 7:R84 (21 September 2006)
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Transcriptome profiling of neuroblasts and neuroblastoma tumor cells provides strong support for a neuroblast origin of neuroblastoma and highlights new candidate neuroblastoma genes
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Comparative sequence analysis reveals an intricate network among REST, CREB and miRNA in mediating neuronal gene expression
Jie Wu, Xiaohui Xie Genome Biology 2006, 7:R85 (26 September 2006)
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Using comparative sequence analysis, a network among REST, CREB and brain-related miRNAs is propsed to mediate neuronal gene expression.
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Multiple effects govern endogenous retrovirus survival patterns in human gene introns
Louie N van de Lagemaat, Patrik Medstrand, Dixie L Mager Genome Biology 2006, 7:R86 (27 September 2006)
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An analysis of human endogenous retrovirus families suggests suppression of splicing among young intronic retroviruses oriented antisense to gene transcription.
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Patterns of expansion and expression divergence in the plant polygalacturonase gene family
Joonyup Kim, Shin-Han Shiu, Sharon Thoma, Wen-Hsiung Li, Sara E Patterson Genome Biology 2006, 7:R87 (29 September 2006)
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Analysis of Arabidopsis and rice polygalacturonases suggests that polygalacturonases duplicates underwent rapid expression divergence and that the mechanisms of duplication affect the divergence rate.
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PhyloFacts: an online structural phylogenomic encyclopedia for protein functional and structural classification
Nandini Krishnamurthy, Duncan P Brown, Dan Kirshner, Kimmen Sjölander Genome Biology 2006, 7:R83 (14 September 2006)
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PhyloFacts, a structural phylogenomic database for protein functional and structural classification, is described.
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