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The passionate life of Simon Chan
Luca Comai Genome Biology 2013, 14:103 (30 January 2013)
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Luca Comai remembers the late Simon Chan, whose work on centromere evolution features in the current issue of Genome Biology
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Quartz-Seq: a highly reproducible and sensitive single-cell RNA-Seq reveals non-genetic gene expression heterogeneity
Yohei Sasagawa, Itoshi Nikaido, Tetsutaro Hayashi, Hiroki Danno, Kenichiro D Uno, Takeshi Imai, Hiroki R Ueda Genome Biology 2013, 14:R31 (17 April 2013)
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Quartz-Seq is a method for performing single cell RNA-seq which displays high reproducibility
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Integrated analysis of recurrent properties of cancer genes to identify novel drivers
Matteo D'Antonio, Francesca D Ciccarelli Genome Biology 2013, 14:R52 (29 May 2013)
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A method to detect rare driver genes through integrated analysis of expression profiles, mutation effects and properties of known cancer genes
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The genome sequence of the most widely cultivated cacao type and its use to identify candidate genes regulating pod color
Juan C Motamayor, Keithanne Mockaitis, Jeremy Schmutz, Niina Haiminen, Donald Livingstone, Omar Cornejo, Seth D Findley, Ping Zheng, Filippo Utro, Stefan Royaert, Christopher Saski, Jerry Jenkins, Ram Podicheti, Meixia Zhao, Brian E Scheffler, Joseph C Stack, Frank A Feltus, Guiliana M Mustiga, Freddy Amores, Wilbert Phillips, Jean Philippe Marelli, Gregory D May, Howard Shapiro, Jianxin Ma, Carlos D Bustamante, Raymond J Schnell, Dorrie Main, Don Gilbert, Laxmi Parida, David N Kuhn et al.
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R53 (3 June 2013)
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The genome sequence of Theobroma cacao Matina 1-6 allows the identification of a gene associated with pod color
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The uses of genome-wide yeast mutant collections
Bart Scherens, Andre Goffeau Genome Biology 2004, 5:229 (25 June 2004)
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We assess five years of usage of the major genome-wide collections of mutants from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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CellProfiler: image analysis software for identifying and quantifying cell phenotypes
Anne E Carpenter, Thouis R Jones, Michael R Lamprecht, Colin Clarke, In Kang, Ola Friman, David A Guertin, Joo Chang, Robert A Lindquist, Jason Moffat, Polina Golland, David M Sabatini Genome Biology 2006, 7:R100 (31 October 2006)
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CellProfiler, the first free, open-source system for flexible and high-throughput cell image analysis is described.
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Characterization of heterotypic interaction effects in vitro to deconvolute global gene expression profiles in cancer
Martin Buess, Dimitry SA Nuyten, Trevor Hastie, Torsten Nielsen, Robert Pesich, Patrick O Brown Genome Biology 2007, 8:R191 (14 September 2007)
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In an effort to deconvolute global gene-expression profiles, an interaction between some breast cancer cells and stromal fibroblasts was found to induce an interferon response, which may be associated with a greater propensity for tumor progression.
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Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans
Fouad Zakharia, Analabha Basu, Devin Absher, Themistocles L Assimes, Alan S Go, Mark A Hlatky, Carlos Iribarren, Joshua W Knowles, Jun Li, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Steven Sidney, Audrey Southwick, Richard M Myers, Thomas Quertermous, Neil Risch, Hua Tang Genome Biology 2009, 10:R141 (22 December 2009)
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Genome-wide SNP analyses reveal the admixed African genetic ancestry of African Americans.
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Comparative transcriptomics among floral organs of the basal eudicot Eschscholzia californica as reference for floral evolutionary developmental studies
Laura M Zahn, Xuan Ma, Naomi S Altman, Qing Zhang, P Kerr Wall, Donglan Tian, Cynthia J Gibas, Raad Gharaibeh, James H Leebens-Mack, Claude W dePamphilis, Hong Ma Genome Biology 2010, 11:R101 (15 October 2010)
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The California poppy’s transcriptome and its comparison with those of basal angiosperms reveals the poppy’s unique evolutionary position.
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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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SWAN: Subset-quantile Within Array Normalization for Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips
Jovana Maksimovic, Lavinia Gordon, Alicia Oshlack Genome Biology 2012, 13:R44 (15 June 2012)
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A method for normalizing the Illumina 450k methylation array data, allowing analysis of the genome-wide methylation status of the human genome
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Food for thought from plant and animal genomes
Emily Abrash Genome Biology 2013, 14:302 (27 February 2013)
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A report on the Plant and Animal Genome XXI meeting, held in San Diego, USA, January 12-16, 2013.
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Sequestration: inadvertently killing biomedical research to score political points
Jeffrey T Leek, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2013, 14:109 (27 March 2013)
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Steven Salzberg and Jeff Leek are concerned about the Sequester's impact on biomedical research, and argue for a change in policy direction
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Recent progress in the use of genetics to understand links between type 2 diabetes and related metabolic traits
Hanieh Yaghootkar, Timothy M Frayling Genome Biology 2013, 14:203 (28 March 2013)
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Tim Frayling and Hanieh Yaghootkar review how modern genetics is informing our understanding of the mechanisms underlying type 2 diabetes
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RNA sequencing reveals sexually dimorphic gene expression before gonadal differentiation in chicken and allows comprehensive annotation of the W-chromosome
Katie L Ayers, Nadia M Davidson, Diana Demiyah, Kelly N Roeszler, Frank Grützner, Andrew H Sinclair, Alicia Oshlack, Craig A Smith Genome Biology 2013, 14:R26 (25 March 2013)
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A transcriptomic analysis of the chicken female-specific W sex chromosome sheds light on avian sex differentiation
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Raymond Gosling: the man who crystallized genes
Naomi Attar Genome Biology 2013, 14:402 (25 April 2013)
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"The most wonderful thing!" - Genome Biology meets Raymond Gosling, a key player in the discovery of the double helix
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p53 induces transcriptional and translational programs to suppress cell proliferation and growth
Fabricio Loayza-Puch, Jarno Drost, Koos Rooijers, Rui Lopes, Ran Elkon, Reuven Agami Genome Biology 2013, 14:R32 (17 April 2013)
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p53 activation results in mTOR inhibition and global repression of protein translation in response to oncogenic and energy stress
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DNA binding specificities of the long zinc-finger recombination protein PRDM9
Timothy Billings, Emil D Parvanov, Christopher L Baker, Michael Walker, Kenneth Paigen, Petko M Petkov Genome Biology 2013, 14:R35 (24 April 2013)
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A detailed analysis of DNA binding by PRDM9, the zinc finger protein that determines recombination hotspots in mammals
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jMOSAiCS: joint analysis of multiple ChIP-seq datasets
Xin Zeng, Rajendran Sanalkumar, Emery H Bresnick, Hongda Li, Qiang Chang, Sündüz Kele Genome Biology 2013, 14:R38 (29 April 2013)
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A novel probabilistic method for jointly analyzing multiple ChIP-seq datasets offers an improvement over chromHMM
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After the gold rush
Neil Hall Genome Biology 2013, 14:115 (7 May 2013)
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Neil Hall wonders whether genomics is ready for a plateau in sequencing costs
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Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance
Emilie Brasset, Séverine Chambeyron Genome Biology 2013, 14:306 (24 May 2013)
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A report on the 'Non-coding RNA, epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance' meeting, held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, April 11-12, 2013.
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Genome of the long-living sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)
Ray Ming, Robert VanBuren, Yanling Liu, Mei Yang, Yuepeng Han, Lei-Ting Li, Qiong Zhang, Min-Jeong Kim, Michael C Schatz, Michael Campbell, Jingping Li, John E Bowers, Haibao Tang, Eric Lyons, Ann A Ferguson, Giuseppe Narzisi, David R Nelson, Crysten E Blaby-Haas, Andrea R Gschwend, Yuannian Jiao, Joshua P Der, Fanchang Zeng, Jennifer Han, Xiang Jia Min, Karen A Hudson, Ratnesh Singh, Aleel K Grennan, Steven J Karpowicz, Jennifer R Watling, Kikukatsu Ito et al.
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R41 (10 May 2013)
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The genome of the long-living, slowly evolving sacred lotus reveals the genetic mechanisms underlying its adaptation to limited nutrient availability
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Longitudinal, genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation in twins from birth to 18 months of age reveals rapid epigenetic change in early life and pair-specific effects of discordance
David Martino, Yuk Jin Loke, Lavinia Gordon, Miina Ollikainen, Mark N Cruickshank, Richard Saffery, Jeffrey M Craig Genome Biology 2013, 14:R42 (22 May 2013)
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A longitudinal study of DNA methylation in twins at birth and 18 months finds that some loci drift in methylation status
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Adult monozygotic twins discordant for intra-uterine growth have indistinguishable genome-wide DNA methylation profiles
Nicole YP Souren, Pavlo Lutsik, Gilles Gasparoni, Sascha Tierling, Jasmin Gries, Matthias Riemenschneider, Jean-Pierre Fryns, Catherine Derom, Maurice P Zeegers, Jörn Walter Genome Biology 2013, 14:R44 (26 May 2013)
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Monozygotic twins discordant for birth weight have very similar DNA methylation profiles
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5-Hydroxymethylcytosine is an essential intermediate of active DNA demethylation processes in primary human monocytes
Maja Klug, Sandra Schmidhofer, Claudia Gebhard, Reinhard Andreesen, Michael Rehli Genome Biology 2013, 14:R46 (26 May 2013)
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TET2-mediated conversion of 5mC to 5hmC initiates active demethylation of the genome during monocyte differentiation
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