Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome: Cell

November 12, 2021

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)01279-4

A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

Kai Zhang 8
James D. Hocker 8
Michael Miller
….
Allen Wang
Sebastian Preissl
Bing Ren 9

Published:November 12, 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.10.024

A wider field of view to predict expression | Nature Methods

November 10, 2021

A gene sequence-to-expression machine learning model achieves improved accuracy by incorporating information about potential long-range interactions.

Yang Young Lu and William Staford Noble

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01259-4

The triumphs and limitations of computational methods for scRNA-seq | Nature Methods

November 10, 2021

Liked this @KharchenkoLab review – in particular, the descriptions of the various low-dimensional approximations & the simple motivation for these using PCA. Also, found the step-by-step workflow in the text & figures helpful.

Note also the reference to expression entropy for determining the direction in trajectories.

Review Article
Published: 21 June 2021

The triumphs and limitations of computational methods for scRNA-seq

Peter V. Kharchenko

Nature Methods volume 18, pages723–732 (2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01171-x

Anatomical structures, cell types and biomarkers of the Human Reference Atlas

November 10, 2021

Anatomical structures, cell types and biomarkers of the Human Reference Atlas https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-021-00788-6.pdf

cell type specific brain eQTL paper preprint

November 3, 2021

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.09.21264604v1.full.pdf

UK Biobank 450k Whole Exome release coming soon on the Research Analysis Platform

November 2, 2021

Article
Published: 18 October 2021
Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants

Joshua D. Backman, Alexander H. Li, Anthony Marcketta, Dylan Sun, Joelle Mbatchou, Michael D. Kessler, Christian Benner, Daren Liu, Adam E. Locke, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Ashish Yadav, Nilanjana Banerjee, Christopher Gillies, Amy Damask, Simon Liu, Xiaodong Bai, Alicia Hawes, Evan Maxwell, Lauren Gurski, Kyoko Watanabe, Jack A. Kosmicki, Veera Rajagopal, Jason Mighty, Regeneron Genetics Center, DiscovEHR, Marcus Jones, Lyndon Mitnaul, Eli Stahl, Giovanni Coppola, Eric Jorgenson, Lukas Habegger, William J. Salerno, Alan R. Shuldiner, Luca A. Lotta, John D. Overton, Michael N. Cantor, Jeffrey G. Reid, George Yancopoulos, Hyun M. Kang, Jonathan Marchini, Aris Baras, Gonçalo R. Abecasis & Manuel A. Ferreira -Show fewer authors
Nature (2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04103-z

seems to be an incredible data set – 450K exomes!

Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar | Nature

November 2, 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03854-z

graph genome applied in Rice pan-genome

October 17, 2021

Cell
2021 Jun 24;184(13):3542-3558.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.046. Epub 2021 May 28.
Pan-genome analysis of 33 genetically diverse rice accessions reveals hidden genomic variations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009286742100581X

motif discovery on personal genomes

October 9, 2021

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009444

Navigating the new era of assisted suicide and execution drugs | Journal of Law and the Biosciences | Oxford Academic

October 2, 2021

https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/4/2/424/4265564
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