Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

Uncovering disease-disease relationships through the incomplete interactome

March 23, 2015

Disease-disease relationships through the incomplete interactome, by @barabasi http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6224/1257601.abstract #Network modules for 226 diseases

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Altogether, disease genes associated with 226 of the 299 diseases show a statistically significant tendency to form disease modules based on both Si andP(ds) (fig. S4).
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Genome sequence-independent identification of RNA editing sites : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group

March 21, 2015

Genome sequence-independent identification of #RNA editing
siteshttp://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.3314.html GIREMI uses LD to separate edit sites from #SNPs

Qing Zhang
& Xinshu Xiao

Nature Methods (2015) doi:10.1038/nmeth.3314Received

Linking signaling pathways to transcriptional programs in breast cancer

March 20, 2015

Linking #signaling pathways [phospho-proteins in samples] to transcriptional programs [TFs & targets], via matrices
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/24/11/1869.long

More verbosely:
using matrices to linking TF & targets and phosphorsylated proteins in particular samples to gene expression in specific samples

Linking signaling pathways to transcriptional programs in breast cancer

Hatice U. Osmanbeyoglu1,
Raphael Pelossof1,
Jacqueline F. Bromberg2 and
Christina S. Leslie1

Genome Research

Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

March 15, 2015

Convergent…specializations in brains of humans & songbirds http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6215/1256846.long Both have matching expression patterns across regions

related to the scaling you like

March 13, 2015

Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress

http://trancik.scripts.mit.edu/home/data/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052669

Béla Nagy,
J. Doyne Farmer,
Quan M. Bui,
Jessika E. Trancik

Published: February 28, 2013
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052669

Global Analysis of Short RNAs Reveals Widespread Promoter-Proximal Stalling and Arrest of Pol II in Drosophila

March 11, 2015

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2009/12/10/science.1181421

Published Online December 10 2009

Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1181421

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Global Analysis of Short RNAs Reveals Widespread Promoter-Proximal Stalling and Arrest of Pol II in Drosophila

Sergei Nechaev1,
David C. Fargo2,
Gilberto dos Santos1,
Liwen Liu3,
Yuan Gao4 and
Karen Adelman1,*

In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences : Nature Reviews Genetics : Nature Publishing Group

March 11, 2015

http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n7/full/nrg3684.html

Identification of an iridium-containing compound with a formal oxidation state of IX : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

March 7, 2015

Is this tetrahedral?

Ir-containing compound w/ a formal #oxidation state of IX http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7523/full/nature13795.html
Surpassing OsO4, removing d electron gives [IrO4]+ cation

"Removal of the remaining d electron from IrO4 would lead to the iridium tetroxide cation ([IrO4]+)"

Genotype to phenotype relationships in autism spectrum disorders : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group

February 26, 2015

Genotype to phenotype relationships in ASD http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v18/n2/abs/nn.3907.html Expression differences in #brain development for LOF-containing, M v F, &c

Also, netbag finds subnets assoc w autism

Topology of the human and mouse m6A RNA methylomes revealed by m6A-seq

February 21, 2015

Human & mouse [mRNA] #methylomes revealed by m6A-seq http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7397/full/nature11112.html Conservation across species & conditions (for most sites)

Dan Dominissini,
Sharon Moshitch-Moshkovitz,
Schraga Schwartz,

Rotem Sorek
& Gideon Rechavi

Nature 485, 201–206 (10 May 2012) doi:10.1038/nature11112