Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

Allele-Specific QTL Fine Mapping with PLASMA: The American Journal of Human Genetics

July 17, 2021

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(19)30505-1

metabrain QTL

July 17, 2021

https://www.metabrain.nl/

Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analysis reveals downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases by N. de Klein et al., bioRxiv, 2021.

doi:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.01.433439

Reconciling modern machine-learning practice and the classical bias–variance trade-off

May 31, 2021

QT:{{“U-shaped bias–variance trade-off curve has shaped our view of model selection and directed applications of learning algorithms in practice. “}}
Nice discussion of the limitations of the bias-variance tradeoff for #DeepLearning
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15849

Interpretation of allele-specific chromatin accessibility using cell state-aware deep learning

May 18, 2021

https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2021/04/08/gr.260851.120.abstract

Using multiple measurements of tissue to estimate subject- and cell-type-specific gene expression | Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic

May 3, 2021

Nice analysis integrating bulk & single-cell data, to get at inter-individual differences in the expression of genes in specific
cell types https://academic.OUP.com/bioinformaticsformatics/article/36/3/782/5545976

Using multiple measurements of tissue to estimate subject- and cell-type-specific gene expression

https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/36/3/782/5545976

Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection rescues B and T cell responses to variants after first vaccine dose | Science

May 2, 2021

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/29/science.abh1282

Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data | Nature Biomedical Engineering

April 28, 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-00640-6

Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline

April 7, 2021

Stumbled onto this paper. Thought the conclusion that Europeans were more cold-sensitive due to TRPM8 was quite counter-intuitive – but interesting nevertheless
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007298

cold receptor

Massively parallel ultrafast random bit generation with a chip-scale laser | Science

March 29, 2021

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/948

Low rattling: A predictive principle for self-organization in active collectives | Science

January 29, 2021

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6524/90