Archive for the 'SciLit' Category
The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight | Science
August 19, 2020Routes of influenza transmission
August 15, 2020Immunological signal of severe COVID-19
August 8, 2020Evolution and epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil
July 27, 2020Barcoded microbial system for high-resolution object provenance | Science
June 27, 2020https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/1135
Interesting paper. Wonder whether this technology could readily track people and thus has #privacy implications…
Barcoded microbial system for high-resolution object provenance
Jason Qian1,2,3,*, Zhi-xiang Lu1,2,*, Christopher P. Mancuso4,*, Han-Ying Jhuang1,*, Rocío del Carmen Barajas-Ornelas5,*, Sarah A. Boswell1,2,*, Fernando H. Ramírez-Guadiana5, Victoria Jones1,6,†, Akhila Sonti4, Kole Sedlack4,‡, Lior Artzi5, Giyoung Jung7, Mohammad Arammash1, Mary E. Pettit1, Michael Melfi1, Lorena Lyon1, Siân V. Owen6, Michael Baym2,6, Ahmad S. Khalil4,8, Pamela A. Silver1,8, David Z. Rudner5, Michael Springer1,2,§
Science 05 Jun 2020:
Vol. 368, Issue 6495, pp. 1135-1140
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba5584
Personalized and graph genomes reveal missing signal in epigenomic data
June 14, 2020Personalized and graph genomes reveal missing signal in epigenomic data Cristian Groza, Tony Kwan, Nicole Soranzo, Tomi Pastinen & Guillaume Bourque Genome Biology volume 21, Article number: 124 (2020)
QT:{{ “Using permissive cutoffs, modified reference genomes are found to alter approximately 1% of peak calls while de novo assembled genomes alter up to 5% of peaks.” }}
Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
June 12, 2020sequencing of Dead Sea Scrolls
June 6, 2020https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420305523
Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls