Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

A War on Obesity, Not the Obese

March 3, 2013

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/299/5608/856.abstract

Comment on “Evidence of Abundant and Purifying Selection in Humans for Recently Acquired Regulatory Functions ”

March 2, 2013

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1212/1212.3076.pdf

The Vast, Conserved Mammalian lincRNome

March 2, 2013

paper comparing human and mouse lncRNAs
The Vast, Conserved Mammalian lincRNome
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002917

regulatory cancer drivers

March 1, 2013

Two papers in Science talking about recurrent mutations in TERT promoter in melanoma.

1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/957.full
Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
Franklin W. Huang1,2,3,* Eran Hodis1,3,4,*,Mary Jue Xu1,3,4,Gregory V. Kryukov1,Lynda Chin5,6,Levi A. Garraway1,2,3,†

2) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/959.full
TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
Susanne Horn1,2,Adina Figl1,2,P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda1,Christine Fischer3,Antje Sucker2,Andreas Gast1,2,Stephanie Kadel1,2,Iris Moll2,Eduardo Nagore4,Kari Hemminki1,5,Dirk Schadendorf2,*,†,Rajiv Kumar1,*,†

FST and QST Under Neutrality – Genetics

March 1, 2013

http://www.genetics.org/content/180/2/1023.full.pdf

circRNAs can be functionally important

February 28, 2013

Old idea or miRNS sponging applied to a new class of RNAs — circRNAs
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11993.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228

Predicting the Binding Patterns of Hub Proteins: A Study Using Yeast Protein Interaction Networks

February 24, 2013

used the singlish/multi concept. Then used machine learning to predict whether a protein is singlish or multi

PLOS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056833
Taner Z. Sen

Developmental Milestones Punctuate Gene Expression in the Caenorhabditis Embryo

February 19, 2013

http://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/abstract/S1534-5807%2812%2900142-6

Michal Levin, Tamar Hashimshony, Florian Wagner, and Itai Yanai.
Developmental milestones punctuate gene expression in the
Caenorhabditis embryo. Developmental Cell (May 2012)

Nice disussion of the phylotypic stage .
Figure 4S-E have stage mapping between dmel and celegans

Abstractions for genomics – how data processing can be layered, including separating evidence from interference

February 17, 2013

Abstractions for genomics
Communications of the ACM
Volume 56 Issue 1, January 2013
Pages 83-93

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~varghese/PAPERS/querythegenome.pdf
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2398376

PLOS Computational Biology: Large-Scale Trends in the Evolution of Gene Structures within 11 Animal Genomes

February 16, 2013

intron & exon length distributions

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0020015