Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

twin ASEs

December 15, 2014

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3162.html

Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions detected by transcriptome sequence analysis in twins

Alfonso Buil,
Andrew Anand Brown,
Tuuli Lappalainen,
Ana Viñuela,
Matthew N Davies,
Hou-Feng Zheng,
J Brent Richards,
Daniel Glass,
Kerrin S Small,
Richard Durbin,
Timothy D Spector
& Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

hi-C for 9 cell types

December 14, 2014

A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping

Suhas S.P. Rao
,Miriam H. Huntley
Neva C. Durand
Elena K. Stamenova
Ivan D. Bochkov
James T. Robinson
Adrian L. Sanborn
Ido Machol
Arina D. Omer
Eric S. Lander
Erez Lieberman Aiden

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.11.021

http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01497-4

A load driver device for engineering modularity in biological networks : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group

December 9, 2014

A load driver device for engineering modularity in…#networks http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3044.html Allows joining components w/o downstream retroactivity

Twitter “Exhaust” Reveals Patterns of Unemployment | MIT Technology Review

December 1, 2014

Social media fingerprints of unemployment, from detecting network components in tweet mining arxiv.org/abs/1411.3140 +
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532746/twitter-exhaust-reveals-patterns-of-unemployment

Lots of press for an arxiv paper, viz:
Twitter “Exhaust” Reveals Patterns of Unemployment | MIT Technology Review

QT:{{”

So the team analysed the rate at which messages were exchanged between regions using a standard community detection algorithm. This revealed 340 independent areas of economic activity, which largely coincide with other measures of geographic and economic distribution. “This result shows that the mobility detected from geolocated tweets and the communities obtained are a good description of economical areas,” they say.

Finally, they looked at the unemployment figures in each of these regions and then mined their database for correlations with twitter activity.

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CRE-Seq paper…

November 24, 2014

High-throughput functional testing of ENCODE segmentation
predictionsGenome Res. October 2014 24: 1595-1602; Published in Advance July 17, 2014,

that can be used for training predicted enhancers

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/24/10/1595.full.pdf

Nuclear reaction

November 22, 2014

Nuclear reaction
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21630959-how-complex-cells-evolved-mystery-new-idea-may-come-close Hypothesis from BMC paper on #evolution of eukaryotes from membrane blebs (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/76)

An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell

David A Baum and Buzz Baum

BMC Biology 2014, 12:76 doi:10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2

QT:{{”

The consensus is that the first eukaryote was a prokaryote which engulfed, but failed on several occasions to digest, other
prokaryotes. One of these undigested meals was a bacterium ancestral to mitochondria. Even today mitochondria have their own genes separate from those in the nucleus. These genes, which are carried on circular DNA molecules like those in bacteria, resemble those in a group of bacteria called Rickettsiales,

They imagine the original host prokaryote creating small protrusions, known to microbiologists as blebs, that poked out of it, as the diagram shows, like tiny fingers. Blebs like this are known to form in certain sorts of archaea, a group of prokaryotes distinct from bacteria proper that biochemical evidence suggests were involved in the formation of eukaryotes. The job of blebs is unclear, as archaea are not a well-studied group, but they may be feeding structures. The Drs Baum suggest that, in the case of the ancestral eukaryote, the blebs grew bigger and bigger, pinning proto-mitochondria (and, on a subsequent occasion, proto-chloroplasts), into the intervening spaces. “}}

A case study for cloud based high throughput analysis of NGS data using the globus genomics system

November 21, 2014

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037014000427

Whole-genome sequencing and comprehensive molecular profiling identify new driver mutations in gastric cancer

November 20, 2014

Dataset of 100 freely available STAD T/N pairs

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n6/full/ng.2983.html#affil-auth

Kai Wang,
Siu Tsan Yuen,
Jiangchun Xu,
Siu Po Lee,
Helen H N Yan,
Stephanie T Shi,
Hoi Cheong Siu,
Shibing Deng,
Kent Man Chu,
Simon Law,
Kok Hoe Chan,
Annie S Y Chan,
Wai Yin Tsui,
Siu Lun Ho,
Anthony K W Chan,
Jonathan L K Man,
Valentina Foglizzo,
Man Kin Ng,
April S Chan,
Yick Pang Ching,
Grace H W Cheng,
Tao Xie,
Julio Fernandez,
Vivian S W Li,
Hans Clevers,
Paul A Rejto,
Mao Mao
& Suet Yi Leung

Nature Genetics 46, 573–582 (2014) doi:10.1038/ng.2983Received 01 August 2013 Accepted 18 April 2014 Published online 11 May 2014

Circle of life

November 15, 2014

the "circle of life"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214001547#

Volume 24, Issue 6, pR238–R240, 17 March 2014

Evolution: Dynamics of De Novo Gene Emergence

Rafik Neme
Diethard Tautz

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.016

Multiplatform Analysis of 12 Cancer Types Reveals Molecular Classification within and across Tissues of Ori gin — ScienceDirect

November 11, 2014

– how to expand beyond 12 tumors?
– reclassification of lung squam. lung adeno. & subdivisions of breast cancer

Hoadley et al. … Stuart

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867414008769?via=ihub