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TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

Daehwan Kim, Geo Pertea, Cole Trapnell, Harold Pimentel, Ryan Kelley, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2013, 14:R36 (25 April 2013)

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A major update to TopHat, the popular Bowtie-based spliced aligner

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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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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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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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Sixty years of genome biology

W Doolittle, Peter Fraser, Mark B Gerstein, Brenton R Graveley, Steven Henikoff, Curtis Huttenhower, Alicia Oshlack, Chris P Ponting, John L Rinn, Michael C Schatz, Jernej Ule, Detlef Weigel, George M Weinstock Genome Biology 2013, 14:113 (25 April 2013)

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Members of Genome Biology's Editorial Board select their highlights from the 60 years of genome biology that followed the double helix

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How to evaluate a graduate studentship, or choosing the right doctoral advisor

Duncan T Odom Genome Biology 2013, 14:114 (29 April 2013)

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Duncan Odom has some sage advice for those considering PhD options

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The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage

John Abramyan, Daleen Badenhorst, Kyle K Biggar, Glen M Borchert, Christopher W Botka, Rachel M Bowden, Edward L Braun, Anne M Bronikowski, Benoit G Bruneau, Leslie T Buck, Blanche Capel, Todd A Castoe, Mike Czerwinski, Kim D Delehaunty, Scott V Edwards, Catrina C Fronick, Matthew K Fujita, Lucinda Fulton, Tina A Graves, Richard E Green, Wilfried Haerty, Ramkumar Hariharan, LaDeana H Hillier, Alisha K Holloway, Daniel Janes, Fredric J Janzen, Cyriac Kandoth, Lesheng Kong, Jason de Koning, Yang Li et al. Genome Biology 2013, 14:R28 (28 March 2013)

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The genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, reveals insights into its extreme tolerance to anoxia and freezing

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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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The fractured genome of HeLa cells

David Mittelman, John H Wilson Genome Biology 2013, 14:111 (17 April 2013)

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David Mittelman and John Wilson steer clear of the controversy, and offer a scientific perspective on the HeLa cell genome

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Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

Ben Langmead, Cole Trapnell, Mihai Pop, Steven L Salzberg Genome Biology 2009, 10:R25 (4 March 2009)

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Bowtie: a new ultrafast memory-efficient tool for the alignment of short DNA sequence reads to large genomes.

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Differential expression analysis for sequence count data

Simon Anders, Wolfgang Huber Genome Biology 2010, 11:R106 (27 October 2010)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central | 1 comment | F1000 Biology |  Editor’s summary

DEseq allows the determination of differential expression of read count data from RNA-seq or ChIP-seq experiments

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Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

Jo Vandesompele, Katleen De Preter, Filip Pattyn, Bruce Poppe, Nadine Van Roy, Anne De Paepe, Frank Speleman Genome Biology 2002, 3:research0034-research0034.11 (18 June 2002)

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Using real-time reverse transcription PCR ten housekeeping genes from different abundance and functional classes in various human tissues were evaluated. The conventional use of a single gene for normalization leads to relatively large errors in a significant proportion of samples tested.

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CRISPR-Cas systems target a diverse collection of invasive mobile genetic elements in human microbiomes

Quan Zhang, Mina Rho, Haixu Tang, Thomas G. Doak, Yuzhen Ye Genome Biology 2013, 14:R40 (29 April 2013)

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Analysis of CRISPR sequences contained in human metagenomic datasets reveals a variety of different targeted mobile genetic elements

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Neurogenomics of speech and language disorders: the road ahead

Pelagia Deriziotis, Simon E Fisher Genome Biology 2013, 14:204 (18 April 2013)

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From GWAS to Neanderthal genomes: Fisher and Deriziotis review what genomics can teach us about speech, language and their associated disorders

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jMOSAiCS: joint analysis of multiple ChIP-seq datasets

Xin Zeng, Rajendran Sanalkumar, Emery H Bresnick, Hongda Li, Qiang Chang, Sunduz Keles 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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Systematic biases in DNA copy number originate from isolation procedures

Sebastiaan van Heesch, Michal Mokry, Veronika Boskova, Wade Junker, Rajdeep Mehon, Pim Toonen, Ewart de Bruijn, James D Shull, Timothy J Aitman, Edwin Cuppen, Victor Guryev Genome Biology 2013, 14:R33 (24 April 2013)

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A new study pinpoints the sources of copy number variation biases, highlighting the important issue of sample preparation

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CRAC: an integrated approach to the analysis of RNA-seq reads

Nicolas Philippe, Mikaël Salson, Thérèse Commes, Eric Rivals Genome Biology 2013, 14:R30 (28 March 2013)

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Integrated analysis of mutations, indels and splice or chimeric junctions from RNA-seq data

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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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Phosphoproteomics data classify hematological cancer cell lines according to tumor type and sensitivity to kinase inhibitors

Pedro Casado, Maria P Alcolea, Francesco Iorio, Juan-Carlos Rodriguez-Prados, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Simon Joel, Pedro R Cutillas Genome Biology 2013, 14:R37 (29 April 2013)

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A phosphoproteomic approach helps to distinguish between different types of blood cancers and gauges their sensitivity to kinase inhibitors

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Interactions between immunity, proliferation and molecular subtype in breast cancer prognosis

Srikanth Nagalla, Jeff W Chou, Mark C Willingham, Jimmy Ruiz, James P Vaughn, Purnima Dubey, Timothy L Lash, Stephen J Hamilton-Dutoit, Jonas Bergh, Christos Sotiriou, Michael A Black, Lance D Miller Genome Biology 2013, 14:R34 (24 April 2013)

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An analysis of nearly 2,000 breast cancer microarray samples reveals the presence of prognostic metagenes

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Single-cell biology meeting marks rebirth of an old science

Sten Linnarsson Genome Biology 2013, 14:305 (19 April 2013)

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A report on the third Single Cell Analyses meeting, held at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA, March 6-9, 2013

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EMu: probabilistic inference of mutational processes and their localization in the cancer genome

Andrej Fischer, Christopher JR Illingworth, Peter J Campbell, Ville Mustonen Genome Biology 2013, 14:R39 (29 April 2013)

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A method to infer mutational processes from cancer sequencing data and to determine the genomic sites at which they are active

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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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A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data

Mark D Robinson, Alicia Oshlack Genome Biology 2010, 11:R25 (2 March 2010)

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A novel and empirical method for normalization of RNA-seq data is presented

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Draft genome of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, a major forest pest

Christopher I Keeling, Macaire MS Yuen, Nancy Y Liao, T Roderick Docking, Simon K Chan, Greg A Taylor, Diana L Palmquist, Shaun D Jackman, Anh Nguyen, Maria Li, Hannah Henderson, Jasmine K Janes, Yongjun Zhao, Pawan Pandoh, Richard Moore, Felix AH Sperling, Dezene PW Huber, Inanc Birol, Stephen JM Jones, Joerg Bohlmann Genome Biology 2013, 14:R27 (27 March 2013)

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The genome sequence of the mountain pine beetle, only the second beetle genome to be sequenced

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The draft genome and transcriptome of Cannabis sativa

Harm van Bakel, Jake M Stout, Atina G Cote, Carling M Tallon, Andrew G Sharpe, Timothy R Hughes, Jonathan E Page Genome Biology 2011, 12:R102 (20 October 2011)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central | 1 comment | F1000 Biology |  Editor’s summary

The genome and transcriptome of marijuana, and comparative analysis with resequenced hemp, explains the genetic basis of psychoactivity

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Genome-wide analysis of plant nat-siRNAs reveals insights into their distribution, biogenesis and function

Xiaoming Zhang, Jing Xia, Yifan E Lii, Blanca E Barrera-Figueroa, Xuefeng Zhou, Shang Gao, Lu Lu, Dongdong Niu, Zheng Chen, Christy Leung, Timothy Wong, Huiming Zhang, Jianhua Guo, Yi Li, Renyi Liu, Wanqi Liang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Weixiong Zhang, Hailing Jin Genome Biology 2012, 13:R20 (22 March 2012)

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In Arabidopsis and rice, natural antisense transcripts are processed into siRNAs by DCL1 and DCL3

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Integrated miRNA and mRNA expression profiling of mouse mammary tumor models identifies miRNA signatures associated with mammary tumor lineage

Min Zhu, Ming Yi, Chang Hee Kim, Chuxia Deng, Yi Li, Daniel Medina, Robert M Stephens, Jeffrey E Green Genome Biology 2011, 12:R77 (16 August 2011)

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Expression profiling in mouse models of mammary tumors identifies miRNA signatures particular to lineages or driver oncogenes

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The complex binding of PRDM9

Laure Ségurel Genome Biology 2013, 14:112 (24 April 2013)

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A Research Highlight by Laure Segurel offers a perspective on this issue's Research Article delineating the DNA-binding properties of PRDM9

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Functional analysis of transcription factor binding sites in human promoters

Troy W Whitfield, Jie Wang, Patrick J Collins, E Christopher Partridge, Shelley Aldred, Nathan D Trinklein, Richard M Myers, Zhiping Weng Genome Biology 2012, 13:R50 (5 September 2012)

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TFBSs are predicted from ENCODE data, and experiments in four cell lines find 70% to be functional

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From RNA-seq reads to differential expression results

Alicia Oshlack, Mark D Robinson, Matthew D Young Genome Biology 2010, 11:220 (22 December 2010)

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Many methods and tools are available for preprocessing high-throughput RNA sequencing data and detecting differential expression.

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Patchwork: allele-specific copy number analysis of whole genome sequenced tumor tissue

Markus Mayrhofer, Sebastian DiLorenzo, Anders Isaksson Genome Biology 2013, 14:R24 (25 March 2013)

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Patchwork is a method for determining allele-specific copy number variation in sequenced tumor samples

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Analyzing and minimizing PCR amplification bias in Illumina sequencing libraries

Daniel Aird, Michael G Ross, Wei-Sheng Chen, Maxwell Danielsson, Timothy Fennell, Carsten Russ, David B Jaffe, Chad Nusbaum, Andreas Gnirke Genome Biology 2011, 12:R18 (21 February 2011)

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The optimization of PCR amplification steps in Illumina libraries significantly reduces sequencing bias

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Meeting report   Free Highly Accessed

The future of genomic medicine is here

Konrad J Karczewski Genome Biology 2013, 14:304 (27 March 2013)

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A report on the 6th annual Future of Genomic Medicine conference, held at the Scripps
Seaside Forum, La Jolla, CA, USA, March 7-8, 2013

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The Transcription Factor Encyclopedia

Dimas Yusuf, Stefanie L Butland, Magdalena I Swanson, Eugene Bolotin, Amy Ticoll, Warren A Cheung, Xiao Cindy Zhang, Christopher TD Dickman, Debra L Fulton, Jonathan S Lim, Jake M Schnabl, Oscar HP Ramos, Mireille Vasseur-Cognet, Charles N de Leeuw, Elizabeth M Simpson, Gerhart U Ryffel, Eric W-F Lam, Ralf Kist, Miranda SC Wilson, Raquel Marco-Ferreres, Jan J Brosens, Leonardo L Beccari, Paola Bovolenta, Bérénice A Benayoun, Lara J Monteiro, Helma DC Schwenen, Lars Grontved, Elizabeth Wederell, Susanne Mandrup, Reiner A Veitia et al. Genome Biology 2012, 13:R24 (29 March 2012)

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A high quality compendium of transcription factor data that allows researchers to add new data via a peer-review system

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Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

Yong Zhang, Tao Liu, Clifford A Meyer, Jérôme Eeckhoute, David S Johnson, Bradley E Bernstein, Chad Nusbaum, Richard M Myers, Myles Brown, Wei Li, X Shirley Liu Genome Biology 2008, 9:R137 (17 September 2008)

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MACS performs model-based analysis of ChIP-Seq data generated by short read sequencers.

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A de novo assembly of the newt transcriptome combined with proteomic validation identifies new protein families expressed during tissue regeneration

Mario Looso, Jens Preussner, Konstantinos Sousounis, Marc Bruckskotten, Christian S Michel, Ettore Lignelli, Richard Reinhardt, Sabrina Hoeffner, Marcus Krueger, Panagiotis A Tsonis, Thilo Borchardt, Thomas Braun Genome Biology 2013, 14:R16 (20 February 2013)

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A newt transcriptome, incorporating both undamaged and regenerating organs, reveals new protein families that may be involved in tissue regeneration

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Contribution of transcriptional regulation to natural variations in Arabidopsis

Wenqiong J Chen, Sherman H Chang, Matthew E Hudson, Wai-King Kwan, Jingqiu Li, Bram Estes, Daniel Knoll, Liang Shi, Tong Zhu Genome Biology 2005, 6:R32 (15 March 2005)

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Among five accessions 7,508 probe sets with no detectable genomic sequence variations were identified on the basis of the comparative genomic hybridization to the Arabidopsis GeneChip microarray, and used for accession-specific transcriptome analysis, identifying 60 genes that were differentially expressed in different accession backgrounds in an organ-dependent manner. Correlation analysis of expression patterns of these 7,508 genes between pairs of accessions identified a group of 65 highly plastic genes with distinct expression patterns in each accession.

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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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Function-informed transcriptome analysis of Drosophila renal tubule

Jing Wang, Laura Kean, Jingli Yang, Adrian K Allan, Shireen A Davies, Pawel Herzyk, Julian AT Dow Genome Biology 2004, 5:R69 (26 August 2004)

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Analysis of the transcriptome of the Drosophila melanogaster Malpighian (renal) tubule gives a radically new view of the function of the tubule, emphasising solute transport rather than fluid secretion.

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The genome sequence of the ground tit Pseudopodoces humilis provides insights into its adaptation to high altitude.

Qingle Cai, Xiaoju Qian, Yongshan Lang, Yadan Luo, Shengkai Pan, Yuanyuan Hui, Caiyun Gou, Yue Cai, Meirong Hao, Jinyang Zhao, Songbo Wang, Zhaobao Wang, Xinming Zhang, Jinchao Liu, Longhai Luo, Yingrui Li, Jun Wang, Rongjun He, Fumin Lei, Jiaohui Xu Genome Biology 2013, 14:R29 (28 March 2013)

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The ground tit genome, one of the highest quality avian genome assemblies to date, reveals potential mechanisms of high altitude adaptation

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Redistribution of H3K27me3 upon DNA hypomethylation results in de-repression of Polycomb-target genes

James P Reddington, Sara M Perricone, Colm E Nestor, Judith Reichmann, Neil A Youngson, Masako Suzuki, Diana Reinhardt, Donncha S Dunican, James G Prendegast, Heidi Mjoseng, Bernard H Ramsahoye, Emma Whitelaw, John M Greally, Ian R Adams, Wendy A Bickmore, Richard R Meehan Genome Biology 2013, 14:R25 (25 March 2013)

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An intact DNA methylome is required for appropriate Polycomb-mediated gene repression, as revealed by H3K4me3 and PRC2 mapping in hypomethylated cells

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Inferring the kinetics of stochastic gene expression from single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Jong Kim, John C Marioni Genome Biology 2013, 14:R7 (28 January 2013)

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A new framework for modeling stochastic gene expression in single cells yields insights into the regulatory role of histone modifications

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Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

Robert C Gentleman, Vincent J Carey, Douglas M Bates, Ben Bolstad, Marcel Dettling, Sandrine Dudoit, Byron Ellis, Laurent Gautier, Yongchao Ge, Jeff Gentry, Kurt Hornik, Torsten Hothorn, Wolfgang Huber, Stefano Iacus, Rafael Irizarry, Friedrich Leisch, Cheng Li, Martin Maechler, Anthony J Rossini, Gunther Sawitzki, Colin Smith, Gordon Smyth, Luke Tierney, Jean YH Yang, Jianhua Zhang Genome Biology 2004, 5:R80 (15 September 2004)

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A detailed description of the aims and methods of the Bioconductor project, an initiative for the collaborative creation of extensible software for computational biology and bioinformatics.

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Improving RNA-Seq expression estimates by correcting for fragment bias

Adam Roberts, Cole Trapnell, Julie Donaghey, John L Rinn, Lior Pachter Genome Biology 2011, 12:R22 (16 March 2011)

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An extension to Cufflinks corrects bias in RNA-seq datasets

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MetAMOS: a modular and open source metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline

Todd J Treangen, Sergey Koren, Daniel D Sommer, Bo Liu, Irina Astrovskaya, Brian Ondov, Aaron E Darling, Adam M Phillippy, Mihai Pop Genome Biology 2013, 14:R2 (15 January 2013)

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A modular, metagenomic analysis and assembly pipeline that inputs next-generation sequencing reads to generate genomic scaffolds and open reading frames

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Classification of human genomic regions based on experimentally determined binding sites of more than 100 transcription-related factors

Kevin Y Yip, Chao Cheng, Nitin Bhardwaj, James B Brown, Jing Leng, Anshul Kundaje, Joel Rozowsky, Ewan Birney, Peter Bickel, Michael Snyder, Mark Gerstein Genome Biology 2012, 13:R48 (5 September 2012)

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Machine learning analysis of ENCODE data for 100 transcription factors reveals six classes of genomic regions

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The GENCODE pseudogene resource

Baikang Pei, Cristina Sisu, Adam Frankish, Cédric Howald, Lukas Habegger, Xinmeng Mu, Rachel Harte, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Andrea Tanzer, Mark Diekhans, Alexandre Reymond, Tim J Hubbard, Jennifer Harrow, Mark B Gerstein Genome Biology 2012, 13:R51 (5 September 2012)

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The GENCODE pseudogene resource includes evidence for dead genes undergoing resurrection

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Transcriptome analyses of primitively eusocial wasps reveal novel insights into the evolution of sociality and the origin of alternative phenotypes

Pedro G Ferreira, Solenn Patalano, Ritika Chauhan, Richard Ffrench-Constant, Toni Gabaldon, Roderic Guigo, Seirian Sumner Genome Biology 2013, 14:R20 (26 February 2013)

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An RNA-seq analysis of the genetic mechanisms controlling alternative phenotypes in the primitive eusocial wasp Polistes canadensis

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Dysfunction of the intestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease and treatment

Xochitl C Morgan, Timothy L Tickle, Harry Sokol, Dirk Gevers, Kathryn L Devaney, Doyle V Ward, Joshua A Reyes, Samir A Shah, Neal LeLeiko, Scott B Snapper, Athos Bousvaros, Joshua Korzenik, Bruce E Sands, Ramnik J Xavier, Curtis Huttenhower Genome Biology 2012, 13:R79 (26 September 2012)

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An analysis of the microbes and microbial metabolism present in intestinal biopsies and stool samples from 231 IBD and healthy subjects

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DNA methylation of distal regulatory sites characterizes dysregulation of cancer genes

Dvir Aran, Sivan Sabato, Asaf Hellman Genome Biology 2013, 14:R21 (12 March 2013)

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A new study using an innovative machine learning approach finds that distal gene regulatory sites are hypermethylated in cancers

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Studying the microbiology of the indoor environment

Scott T Kelley, Jack A Gilbert Genome Biology 2013, 14:202 (28 February 2013)

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Scott Kelley and Jack Gilbert review the microbiology of the built environment, and highlight how genomics can empower its study

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A metagenomic study of diet-dependent interaction between gut microbiota and host in infants reveals differences in immune response

Scott Schwartz, Iddo Friedberg, Ivan V Ivanov, Laurie A Davidson, Jennifer S Goldsby, David B Dahl, Damir Herman, Mei Wang, Sharon M Donovan, Robert S Chapkin Genome Biology 2012, 13:r32 (30 April 2012)

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A novel host-microbiome analysis method reveals a transcriptional immune response in the breast-fed infant gut associated with diet-specific microbiota

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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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Retrotransposition of gene transcripts leads to structural variation in mammalian genomes

Adam D Ewing, Tracy J Ballinger, Dent Earl, Broad Institute Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program and Platform, Christopher C Harris, Li Ding, Richard K Wilson, David Haussler Genome Biology 2013, 14:R22 (13 March 2013)

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An analysis of gene retrocopy insertion polymorphisms in the germlines of individual humans, chimpanzees and mice, and in cancerous somatic tissues

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Efficient and robust RNA-seq process for cultured bacteria and complex community transcriptomes

Georgia Giannoukos, Dawn M Ciulla, Katherine Huang, Brian J Haas, Jacques Izard, Joshua Z Levin, Jonathan Livny, Ashlee M Earl, Dirk Gevers, Doyle V Ward, Chad Nusbaum, Bruce W Birren, Andreas Gnirke Genome Biology 2012, 13:r23 (28 March 2012)

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A method is presented for transcriptome sequencing of complex bacterial mixtures or communities

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SOAPfuse: an algorithm for identifying fusion transcripts from paired-end RNA-Seq data

Wenlong Jia, Kunlong Qiu, Minghui He, Pengfei Song, Quan Zhou, Feng Zhou, Yuan Yu, Dandan Zhu, Michael L Nickerson, Shengqing Wan, Xiangke Liao, Xiaoqian Zhu, Shaoliang Peng, Yingrui Li, Jun Wang, Guangwu Guo Genome Biology 2013, 14:R12 (14 February 2013)

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SOAPfuse is a method for detecting fusion transcripts in RNA-seq data that has a high detection rate and low computational requirements

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Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies

Olivier Harismendy, Pauline C Ng, Robert L Strausberg, Xiaoyun Wang, Timothy B Stockwell, Karen Y Beeson, Nicholas J Schork, Sarah S Murray, Eric J Topol, Samuel Levy, Kelly A Frazer Genome Biology 2009, 10:R32 (27 March 2009)

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Human sequence generated from three next-generation sequencing platforms reveals systematic variability in sequence coverage due to local sequence characteristics.

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Genome of Acanthamoeba castellanii highlights extensive lateral gene transfer and early evolution of tyrosine kinase signaling

Michael Clarke, Amanda J Lohan, Bernard Liu, Ilias Lagkouvardos, Scott Roy, Nikhat Zafar, Claire Bertelli, Christina Schilde, Arash Kianianmomeni, Thomas R Burglin, Christian Frech, Bernard Turcotte, Klaus O Kopec, John M Synnott, Caleb Choo, Ivan Paponov, Aliza Finkler, Chris Soon Heng Tan, Andrew P Hutchins, Thomas Weinmeier, Thomas Rattei, Jeffery SC Chu, Gregory Gimenez, Manuel Irimia, Daniel J Rigden, David A Fitzpatrick, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, Alex Bateman, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Petrus Tang et al. Genome Biology 2013, 14:R11 (1 February 2013)

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Analysis of Acanthamoeba castellanii's genome reveals the role of lateral gene transfer and the evolution of tyrosine kinase signaling

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Ray Meta: scalable de novo metagenome assembly and profiling

Sébastien Boisvert, Frédéric Raymond, Élénie Godzaridis, François Laviolette, Jacques Corbeil Genome Biology 2012, 13:R122 (22 December 2012)

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A scalable, de novo metagenomic assembly method that couples taxonomic and ontology profiling

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Whole-genome reconstruction and mutational signatures in gastric cancer

Niranjan Nagarajan, Denis Bertrand, Axel M Hillmer, Zhi Zang, Fei Yao, Pierre-Étienne Jacques, Audrey SM Teo, Ioana Cutcutache, Zhenshui Zhang, Wah Lee, Yee Sia, Song Gao, Pramila N Ariyaratne, Andrea Ho, Xing Woo, Lavanya Veeravali, Choon Ong, Niantao Deng, Kartiki V Desai, Chiea Khor, Martin L Hibberd, Atif Shahab, Jaideepraj Rao, Mengchu Wu, Ming Teh, Feng Zhu, Sze Chin, Brendan Pang, Jimmy BY So, Guillaume Bourque et al. Genome Biology 2012, 13:R115 (13 December 2012)

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In this study the whole genome sequencing is used to reveal mutational signatures in gastric cancer.

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qBase relative quantification framework and software for management and automated analysis of real-time quantitative PCR data

Jan Hellemans, Geert Mortier, Anne De Paepe, Frank Speleman, Jo Vandesompele Genome Biology 2007, 8:R19 (9 February 2007)

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qBase, a free program for the management and automated analysis of qPCR data, is described

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RNA sequencing reveals sexually dimorphic gene expression before gonadal differentiation in chicken embryos and allows comprehensive annotation of W-chromosome genes

Katie L Ayers, Nadia M Davidson, Diana Demiyah, Kelly N Roeszler, Frank Grutzner, 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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Galaxy: a comprehensive approach for supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research in the life sciences

Jeremy Goecks, Anton Nekrutenko, James Taylor, The Galaxy Team Genome Biology 2010, 11:R86 (25 August 2010)

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The Galaxy computing platform allows researchers to share data and data analysis workflows, facilitating easily reproducible analyses.

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High-throughput RNA interference screening using pooled shRNA libraries and next generation sequencing

David Sims, Ana M Mendes-Pereira, Jessica Frankum, Darren Burgess, Maria-Antonietta Cerone, Cristina Lombardelli, Costas Mitsopoulos, Jarle Hakas, Nirupa Murugaesu, Clare M Isacke, Kerry Fenwick, Ioannis Assiotis, Iwanka Kozarewa, Marketa Zvelebil, Alan Ashworth, Christopher J Lord Genome Biology 2011, 12:R104 (21 October 2011)

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The incorporation of next generation sequencing into RNAi screening makes for a rapid, user-friendly and high-throughput method

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Proteopedia - a scientific 'wiki' bridging the rift between three-dimensional structure and function of biomacromolecules

Eran Hodis, Jaime Prilusky, Eric Martz, Israel Silman, John Moult, Joel L Sussman Genome Biology 2008, 9:R121 (3 August 2008)

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Proteopedia is an interactive wiki-style web resource that presents 3D structural and functional information in a user-friendly manner and allows real-time community annotation.

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Analysis of variation at transcription factor binding sites in Drosophila and humans

Mikhail Spivakov, Junaid Akhtar, Pouya Kheradpour, Kathryn Beal, Charles Girardot, Gautier Koscielny, Javier Herrero, Manolis Kellis, Eileen EM Furlong, Ewan Birney Genome Biology 2012, 13:R49 (5 September 2012)

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Transcription factor binding site variability in fly and human provides evidence for a buffering phenomenon

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A CRISPR way to engineer the human genome

Sivaprakash Ramalingam, Narayana Annaluru, Srinivasan Chandrasegaran Genome Biology 2013, 14:107 (26 February 2013)

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Srinivasan Chandrasegaran and colleagues explain how recent advances in mammalian genome engineering exploit the natural properties of the bacterial CRISPR system

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Evaluation of genomic high-throughput sequencing data generated on Illumina HiSeq and Genome Analyzer systems

André E Minoche, Juliane C Dohm, Heinz Himmelbauer Genome Biology 2011, 12:R112 (8 November 2011)

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Error rates are compared in data from Illumina's HiSeq and GAIIx systems

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Do-it-yourself genetic testing

Steven L Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea Genome Biology 2010, 11:404 (7 October 2010)

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How to test your BRCA status and why we need to prepare for the personal genomics age.

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Comparative analysis of tandem repeats from hundreds of species reveals unique insights into centromere evolution

Daniel P Melters, Keith R Bradnam, Hugh A Young, Natalie Telis, Michael R May, J GRAHAM Ruby, Robert Sebra, Paul Peluso, John Eid, David Rank, Jose Fernando Garcia, Joseph L DeRisi, Timothy Smith, Christian Tobias, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Ian Korf, Simon WL Chan Genome Biology 2013, 14:R10 (30 January 2013)

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An analysis of centromere tandem repeats in 282 species reveals similar modes of evolution despite the lack of sequence conservation

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Composition of the adult digestive tract bacterial microbiome based on seven mouth surfaces, tonsils, throat and stool samples

Nicola Segata, Susan Haake, Peter Mannon, Katherine P Lemon, Levi Waldron, Dirk Gevers, Curtis Huttenhower, Jacques Izard Genome Biology 2012, 13:R42 (14 June 2012)

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The Human Microbiome Project's analysis of ten sites in the digestive tract of healthy human adults

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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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A novel and universal method for microRNA RT-qPCR data normalization

Pieter Mestdagh, Pieter Van Vlierberghe, An De Weer, Daniel Muth, Frank Westermann, Frank Speleman, Jo Vandesompele Genome Biology 2009, 10:R64 (16 June 2009)

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The mean expression value: a new method for accurate and reliable normalization of microRNA expression data from RT-qPCR experiments.

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Modeling gene expression using chromatin features in various cellular contexts

Xianjun Dong, Melissa C Greven, Anshul Kundaje, Sarah Djebali, James B Brown, Chao Cheng, Thomas R Gingeras, Mark Gerstein, Roderic GuigĂ³, Ewan Birney, Zhiping Weng Genome Biology 2012, 13:R53 (5 September 2012)

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Models for linking gene expression with chromatin features vary according to cellular context and RNA measurement method

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A 10-step guide to party conversation for bioinformaticians

Alicia Oshlack Genome Biology 2013, 14:104 (29 January 2013)

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Alicia Oshlack's 10-step guide to party conversation for bioinformaticians

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DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines

Jordana T Bell, Athma A Pai, Joseph K Pickrell, Daniel J Gaffney, Roger Pique-Regi, Jacob F Degner, Yoav Gilad, Jonathan K Pritchard Genome Biology 2011, 12:R10 (20 January 2011)

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Profiling lymphoblastoid cell lines from HapMap individuals reveals a significant genetic component for inter-individual DNA methylation and gene expression

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Current challenges in de novo plant genome sequencing and assembly

Michael C Schatz, Jan Witkowski, W Richard McCombie Genome Biology 2012, 13:243 (27 April 2012)

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Michael Schatz and colleagues assess challenges in de novo plant genome assembly and review the best practices for the plant community

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CGAL: computing genome assembly likelihoods

Atif Rahman, Lior Pachter Genome Biology 2013, 14:R8 (29 January 2013)

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A likelihood based approach for better estimation of genome assembly quality

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Inflammation-associated enterotypes, host genotype, cage and inter-individual effects drive gut microbiota variation in common laboratory mice

Falk Hildebrand, Thi Nguyen, Brigitta Brinkman, Roberto Yunta, Benedicte Cauwe, Peter Vandenabeele, Adrian Liston, Jeroen Raes Genome Biology 2013, 14:R4 (24 January 2013)

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A new study finds that enterotypes are not only present in mice, but also similar to those in humans

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Comparing protein abundance and mRNA expression levels on a genomic scale

Dov Greenbaum, Christopher Colangelo, Kenneth Williams, Mark Gerstein Genome Biology 2003, 4:117 (29 August 2003)

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We review the results of attempts to correlate protein abundance with mRNA expression levels, focusing on yeast.

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Comparative genomics of the core and accessory genomes of 48 Sinorhizobium strains comprising five genospecies

Masayuki Sugawara, Brendan Epstein, Brian Badgley, Tatsuya Unno, Lei Xu, Jennifer Reese, Prasad Gyaneshwar, Roxanne Denny, Joann Mudge, Arvind K Bharti, Andrew D Farmer, Gregory D May, Jimmy E Woodward, Claudine Medigue, David Vallenet, Aurelie Lajus, Zoe Rouy, Betsy Martinez-Vaz, Peter Tiffin, Nevin D Young, Michael J Sadowsky Genome Biology 2013, 14:R17 (20 February 2013)

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Sequencing the genomes of 48 strains of Sinorhizobium reveals a large heterogeneity in strategies for colonization in this family

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Premetazoan genome evolution and the regulation of cell differentiation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

Stephen R Fairclough, Zehua Chen, Eric Kramer, Qiandong Zeng, Sarah Young, Hugh M Robertson, Emina Begovic, Daniel J Richter, Carsten Russ, M Jody Westbrook, Gerard Manning, B Franz Lang, Brian Haas, Chad Nusbaum, Nicole King Genome Biology 2013, 14:R15 (18 February 2013)

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Genome sequencing of Salpingoeca rosetta reveals insights into the genome composition of the metazoan ancestor and the evolution of multicellularity

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Overview of the voltage-gated sodium channel family

Frank H Yu, William A Catterall Genome Biology 2003, 4:207 (24 February 2003)

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Different sodium channels have remarkably similar functional properties, but small changes in sodium-channel function are biologically relevant, as underscored by mutations that cause several human diseases of hyperexcitability.

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Transcriptional profiling of long non-coding RNAs and novel transcribed regions across a diverse panel of archived human cancers

Alayne L Brunner, Andrew H Beck, Badreddin Edris, Robert T Sweeney, Shirley X Zhu, Rui Li, Kelli Montgomery, Sushama Varma, Thea Gilks, Xiangqian Guo, Joseph W Foley, Daniela M Witten, Craig P Giacomini, Ryan A Flynn, Jonathan R Pollack, Robert Tibshirani, Howard Y Chang, Matt van de Rijn, Robert B West Genome Biology 2012, 13:R75 (28 August 2012)

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Transcript sequencings from 64 solid tumours of 17 diagnostic classes reveals cancer-specific lncRNAs

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The birth of the Epitranscriptome: deciphering the function of RNA modifications

Yogesh Saletore, Kate Meyer, Jonas Korlach, Igor D Vilfan, Samie Jaffrey, Christopher E Mason Genome Biology 2012, 13:175 (31 October 2012)

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First came genomics, and then epigenomics. But is epitranscriptomics the future? A picture is emerging of RNA methylation's functional importance

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Gene ontology analysis for RNA-seq: accounting for selection bias

Matthew D Young, Matthew J Wakefield, Gordon K Smyth, Alicia Oshlack Genome Biology 2010, 11:R14 (4 February 2010)

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GOseq is a method for GO analysis of RNA-seq data that takes into account the length bias inherent in RNA-seq

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Specific nuclear envelope transmembrane proteins can promote the location of chromosomes to and from the nuclear periphery

Nikolaj Zuleger, Shelagh Boyle, David A Kelly, Jose I de las Heras, Vassiliki Lazou, Nadia Korfali, Dzmitry G Batrakou, K Natalie Randles, Glenn E Morris, David J Harrison, Wendy A Bickmore, Eric C Schirmer Genome Biology 2013, 14:R14 (15 February 2013)

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A new study identifies nuclear envelope proteins which may reposition human chromosomes in a tissue-specific manner

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Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease

Neil Risch, Esteban Burchard, Elad Ziv, Hua Tang Genome Biology 2002, 3:comment2007-comment2007.12 (1 July 2002)

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A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. An epidemiologic perspective on the issue of human categorization in biomedical and genetic research strongly supports the continued use of self-identified race and ethnicity.

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Genome-wide mapping of FOXM1 binding reveals co-binding with estrogen receptor alpha in breast cancer cells

Deborah A Sanders, Caryn S Ross-Innes, Dario Beraldi, Jason S Carroll, Shankar Balasubramanian Genome Biology 2013, 14:R6 (24 January 2013)

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Binding sites for FOXM1 are mapped in breast cancer cell lines with and without estrogen receptor

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Genome sequencing of the important oilseed crop Sesamum indicum L

Haiyang Zhang, Hongmei Miao, Lei Wang, Lingbo Qu, Hongyan Liu, Qiang Wang, Meiwang Yue Genome Biology 2013, 14:401 (31 January 2013)

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The Sesame Genome Working Group describe the project for sequencing the sesame genome

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Accelerated exon evolution within primate segmental duplications

Belen Lorente-Galdos, Jonathan Bleyhl, Gabriel Santpere, Laura Vives, Oscar Ramirez, Jessica Hernandez, Roger Anglada, Gregory M Cooper, Arcadi Navarro, Evan E Eichler, Tomas Marques-Bonet Genome Biology 2013, 14:R9 (29 January 2013)

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A new study looks at segmental duplication genes in humans and macaques to elucidate exon evolution in primates

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Comprehensive modeling of microRNA targets predicts functional non-conserved and non-canonical sites

Doron Betel, Anjali Koppal, Phaedra Agius, Chris Sander, Christina Leslie Genome Biology 2010, 11:R90 (27 August 2010)

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mirSVR is a method for miRNA target prediction that, unusually, takes into account non-canonical binding sequences and non-conserved sites

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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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Aging effects on DNA methylation modules in human brain and blood tissue

Steve Horvath, Yafeng Zhang, Peter Langfelder, René S Kahn, Marco PM Boks, Kristel van Eijk, Leonard H van den Berg, Roel A Ophoff Genome Biology 2012, 13:R97 (3 October 2012)

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An age-related co-methylation module in human brain and blood tissue includes genes associated with Alzheimer's disease

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A Faustian bargain

Gregory A Petsko Genome Biology 2010, 11:138 (31 October 2010)

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An open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany.

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ggbio: an R package for extending the grammar of graphics for genomic data

Tengfei Yin, Dianne Cook, Michael Lawrence Genome Biology 2012, 13:R77 (31 August 2012)

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A consistent, robust and versatile software tool for visualizing genomic data

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MAnorm: a robust model for quantitative comparison of ChIP-Seq data sets

Zhen Shao, Yijing Zhang, Guo-Cheng Yuan, Stuart H Orkin, David J Waxman Genome Biology 2012, 13:R16 (16 March 2012)

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MAnorm is a method for quantitative comparison of ChIP-seq datasets

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Rapid, low-input, low-bias construction of shotgun fragment libraries by high-density in vitro transposition

Andrew Adey, Hilary G Morrison, Asan, Xu Xun, Jacob O Kitzman, Emily H Turner, Bethany Stackhouse, Alexandra P MacKenzie, Nicholas C Caruccio, Xiuqing Zhang, Jay Shendure Genome Biology 2010, 11:R119 (8 December 2010)

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Protocols for rapid, low-input sequencing library construction without clean up.

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Clinical applications of sequencing take center stage

Gustavo Glusman Genome Biology 2013, 14:303 (28 March 2013)

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A report on the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting, Marco Island, Florida, USA, February 20-23, 2013

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