Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

Computationally-designed synthetic protein assemblies that evolve like viruses | Nature Research Microbiology Community

May 22, 2018

Evolution of a designed protein assembly encapsulating its own RNA genome https://www.Nature.com/articles/nature25157 The opposite, in a sense, of #BioInspired. Computational design of man-made virus capsid

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Computationally-designed synthetic protein assemblies that evolve like viruses | Nature Research Microbiology Community

https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/users/75986-gabriel-butterfield/posts/29055-computationally-designed-synthetic-protein-assemblies-that-evolve-like-viruses

Paper for Journal Club Tomorrow

May 22, 2018

Susceptibility of brain atrophy to TRIB3 in #Alzheimer’s disease, evidence from functional prioritization in imaging genetics
http://www.PNAS.org/content/115/12/3162.long Nice connection of developing phenotypes from #imaging, combined w. simple polygenic scores from genotypes

Multi-day rhythms modulate seizure risk in epilepsy | Nature Communications

May 1, 2018

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02577-y

Genome-Scale Signatures of Gene Interaction from Compound Screens Predict Clinical Efficacy of Targeted Cancer Therapies – ScienceDirect

April 28, 2018

Genome-Scale Signatures of Gene Interaction from #CompoundScreens Predict…Efficacy of Targeted Cancer Therapies
https://www.ScienceDirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405471218300097 How to find drug combos: Find expression response profiles associated w/ a drug target. A synergistic drug might change profiles similarly

Cryo-EM structure of substrate-bound human telomerase holoenzyme | Nature

April 28, 2018

#CryoEM structure of substrate-bound human telomerase holoenzyme https://www.Nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0062-x Quote: “2 flexibly RNA-tethered lobes: the catalytic core (w/ #TERT & conserved motifs of telomerase RNA) & an H/ACA RNP”

systematic comparison of dnase-seq & atac-seq

April 21, 2018

Reproducible inference of TF footprints in #ATACseq & DNase-seq…via protocol-specific bias modeling
https://www.BiorXiv.org/content/early/2018/03/19/284364 Systematic comparison of the 2 assay HT @gamzeandgursoy

Mapping the mouse Allelome reveals tissue-specific regulation of allelic expression | eLife

April 21, 2018

Mapping the mouse Allelome reveals tissue-specific regulation of allelic expression https://eLifeSciences.org/articles/25125 More noncoding than coding #allelic activity. Also, finding windows of allelic activity for chromatin

Daniel Andergassen,
Christoph P Dotter,
Daniel Wenzel,
Verena Sigl,
Philipp C Bammer,
Markus Muckenhuber,
Daniela Mayer,
Tomasz M Kulinski,
Hans-Christian Theussl,
Josef M Penninger,
Christoph Bock,
Denise P Barlow ,
Florian M Pauler ,
Quanah J Hudson

Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria

Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from functional and population genomic data | Nature Genetics

March 18, 2018

Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious #noncoding variants from functional & population genomic data
https://www.Nature.com/articles/ng.3810 LINSIGHT, by @ASiepel et al., combines DNAse & conservation information

Yi-Fei Huang, Brad Gulko & Adam Siepel
Nature Genetics 49, 618–624 (2017)
doi:10.1038/ng.3810
Published online:
13 March 2017

New algorithm can create movies from just a few snippets of text | Science | AAAS

March 18, 2018

Interesting paper by alumnus Renqiang Min on “Video Generation from Text,” using a generative #MachineLearning model.
http://www.AAAI.org/GuideBook2018/16152-72279-GB.pdf (Press report by @SilverJacket: New algorithm can create movies from just a few snippets of text
http://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2018/02/new-algorithm-can-create-movies-just-few-snippets-text )

Video Generation from Text Yitong Li†∗, Martin Renqiang Min‡ , Dinghan Shen† , David Carlson† , Lawrence Carin† †

Nature 03142018 Single cell rnaseq of development of human brain Pfc

March 18, 2018

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25980

A single-cell RNA-seq survey of the developmental landscape of the human prefrontal cortex

Suijuan Zhong
, Shu Zhang
[…]
Xiaoqun Wang
Nature
doi:10.1038/nature25980