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Volume 9 Issue 11
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The wisdom, and madness, of crowds
Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2008, 9:112 (1 December 2008)
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A 19th-century Scottish poet has a message for our times.
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Review |
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The Hedgehog protein family
Thomas R Bürglin Genome Biology 2008, 9:241 (19 November 2008)
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Hedgehog proteins, which are important in developmental signaling, have been joined by other newly discovered proteins from throughout the eukaryotes in the Hint-domain-containing group of proteins.
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Divergence in cis-regulatory networks: taking the 'species' out of cross-species analysis
Robert P Zinzen, Eileen EM Furlong Genome Biology 2008, 9:240 (4 November 2008)
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Significant differences between species in genomic occupancy of conserved transcription factors are mostly due to species-specificity of cis-regulatory sequences.
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Network-based approaches for linking metabolism with environment
Sarath Janga, M Madan Babu Genome Biology 2008, 9:239 (24 November 2008)
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Genome-wide metabolic maps allow the development of network-based computational approaches for linking an organism with its biochemical habitat.
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Report |
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A new era for proteomics research?
Mathias Uhlen Genome Biology 2008, 9:325 (4 November 2008)
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A report of the 7th Annual Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16-20 August 2008.
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From sequence to structure to networks
Nir Yosef, Lukas Käll Genome Biology 2008, 9:326 (4 November 2008)
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A report on the 7th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Cagliari, Italy, 22-26 September 2008.
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Bacterial networking
Kathleen Marchal, Sigrid CJ De Keersmaecker Genome Biology 2008, 9:327 (12 November 2008)
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A report of the ESF-EMBO Symposium Bacterial Networks (BacNet08), Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 13-18 September 2008.
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Research |
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A genomic analysis of the archaeal system Ignicoccus hospitalis-Nanoarchaeum equitans
Mircea Podar, Iain Anderson, Kira S Makarova, James G Elkins, Natalia Ivanova, Mark A Wall, Athanasios Lykidis, Kostantinos Mavromatis, Hui Sun, Matthew E Hudson, Wenqiong Chen, Cosmin Deciu, Don Hutchison, Jonathan R Eads, Abraham Anderson, Fillipe Fernandes, Ernest Szeto, Alla Lapidus, Nikos C Kyrpides, Milton H Saier, Paul M Richardson, Reinhard Rachel, Harald Huber, Jonathan A Eisen, Eugene V Koonin, Martin Keller, Karl O Stetter Genome Biology 2008, 9:R158 (10 November 2008)
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Sequencing of the complete genome of Ignicoccus hospitalis gives insight into its association with another species of Archaea, Nanoarchaeum equitans.
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Characterization of the differentially methylated region of the Impact gene that exhibits Glires-specific imprinting
Kohji Okamura, Richard F Wintle, Stephen W Scherer Genome Biology 2008, 9:R160 (13 November 2008)
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Comparative genomic analysis of the Impact locus, which is imprinted in Glires but not in other mammals, reveals features required for genomic imprinting.
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Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1
Jimmy H Saw, Bruce W Mountain, Lu Feng, Marina V Omelchenko, Shaobin Hou, Jennifer A Saito, Matthew B Stott, Dan Li, Guang Zhao, Junli Wu, Michael Y Galperin, Eugene V Koonin, Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Daniel J Rigden, Peter F Dunfield, Lei Wang, Maqsudul Alam Genome Biology 2008, 9:R161 (17 November 2008)
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Sequencing of the complete genome of Anoxybacillus flavithermus reveals enzymes that are required for silica adaptation and biofilm formation.
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Proteomics studies confirm the presence of alternative protein isoforms on a large scale
Michael L Tress, Bernd Bodenmiller, Ruedi Aebersold, Alfonso Valencia Genome Biology 2008, 9:R162 (18 November 2008)
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Stably expressed alternatively-spliced protein isoforms are produced on a genome-wide scale in Drosophila.
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Cell death upon epigenetic genome methylation: a novel function of methyl-specific deoxyribonucleases
Eri Fukuda, Katarzyna H Kaminska, Janusz M Bujnicki, Ichizo Kobayashi Genome Biology 2008, 9:R163 (21 November 2008)
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The McrBC methyl-specific deoxyribonuclease from Escherichia coli can respond to genome methylation by host killing.
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Genome adaptation to chemical stress: clues from comparative transcriptomics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida glabrata
Gaëlle Lelandais, Véronique Tanty, Colette Geneix, Catherine Etchebest, Claude Jacq, Frédéric Devaux Genome Biology 2008, 9:R164 (24 November 2008)
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Comparative transcriptomics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida glabrata revealed a remarkable conservation of response to drug-induced stress, despite underlying differences in the regulatory networks.
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Egr1 regulates the coordinated expression of numerous EGF receptor target genes as identified by ChIP-on-chip
Shilpi Arora, Yipeng Wang, Zhenyu Jia, Saynur Vardar-Sengul, Ayla Munawar, Kutbuddin S Doctor, Michael Birrer, Michael McClelland, Eileen Adamson, Dan Mercola Genome Biology 2008, 9:R166 (25 November 2008)
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UV stimulation of prostate cells causes an apoptotic response that is dependent on the zinc finger transcription factor Egr1; downstream targets of Egr1 in this response were identified.
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Chromatin Central: towards the comparative proteome by accurate mapping of the yeast proteomic environment
Anna Shevchenko, Assen Roguev, Daniel Schaft, Luke Buchanan, Bianca Habermann, Cagri Sakalar, Henrik Thomas, Nevan J Krogan, Andrej Shevchenko, A Francis Stewart Genome Biology 2008, 9:R167 (28 November 2008)
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High resolution mapping of the proteomic environment and proteomic hyperlinks in fission and budding yeast reveals that divergent hyperlinks are due to gene duplications.
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Whole genome transcriptome polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana
Xu Zhang, Jake K Byrnes, Thomas S Gal, Wen-Hsiung Li, Justin O Borevitz Genome Biology 2008, 9:R165 (24 November 2008)
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New methods for detecting global patterns of gene expression and splicing variation in natural Arabidopsis thaliana populations.
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ArrayPlex: distributed, interactive and programmatic access to genome sequence, annotation, ontology, and analytical toolsets
Patrick J Killion, Vishwanath R Iyer Genome Biology 2008, 9:R159 (12 November 2008)
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ArrayPlex is a software package that centrally provides a large number of flexible toolsets useful for functional genomics.
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Correspondence |
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Do we use the appropriate controls for the identification of informative methylation markers for early cancer detection?
Yasser Riazalhosseini, Jörg D Hoheisel Genome Biology 2008, 9:405 (26 November 2008)
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It is possible to miss potential DNA methylation markers of tumorigenesis because profiling results are initially filtered on the basis of inappropriate controls.
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