Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

GigaDB Dataset – DOI 10.5524/100034 – Hepatocellular carcinoma genomic data from the Asia Cancer Research Group.

March 28, 2014

Looks like 88 freely available liver cancer genome datasets
http://gigadb.org/dataset/100034

Predicting Social Security numbers from public data

March 27, 2014

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Such findings highlight the hidden privacy costs of widespread information dissemination and the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies (11), underscoring the role of public records as breeder documents (12) of more sensitive data.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975.full

GigaScience | Full text | The rise of a digital immune system

March 27, 2014

http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/1/1/4

2 new FANTOM papers

March 27, 2014

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The atlas is used to compare regulatory programs between different cells at unprecedented depth, to identify disease-associated regulatory single nucleotide polymorphisms, and to classify
cell-type-specific and ubiquitous enhancers.
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A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature13182.html

An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature12787.html

het/hom

March 24, 2014

het/hom ratio = ~1.5
in the sequencing of many Asian individuals (Table 1)

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n8/fig_tab/ng.872_T1.html

From
Extensive genomic and transcriptional diversity identified through massively parallel DNA and RNA sequencing of eighteen Korean individuals
Nature Genetics 43, 745-752 (2011) doi:10.1038/ng.872

age distribution of repeats

March 24, 2014

From the following article:
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
Nature 409, 860-921(15 February 2001)
doi:10.1038/35057062

Alu age distribution

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6822/fig_tab/409860a0_F18.html

number of transcription factor molecules per cell

March 6, 2014

System-wide analyses have underestimated #protein abundances… Corrected protein conc. better correlated w/ #mRNA
https://peerj.com/articles/270

…once a non linear bias in mass spec. data is corrected, the concentration of the factor expressed at the median level is present at 70,000 molecules per cell. ….

Li, J, Bickel, P.J. and Biggin M.D. (2014) System Wide Analyses have Underestimated Protein Abundances and the Importance of Transcription in Mammals. PeerJ DOI10.7717/peerj.270

PARADIGM-SHIFT predicts the function of mutations in multiple cancers using pathway impact analysis

March 3, 2014

PARADIGM-SHIFT predicts… function of mutations in… #cancers using pathway[s]. #Network-based gene prioritization
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/18/i640

Detection and replication of epistasis influencing transcription in humans : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

March 2, 2014

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13005.html

Genome Biology | Full text | Identification of fusion genes in breast cancer by paired-end RNA-sequencing

February 28, 2014

http://genomebiology.com/2011/12/1/R6https://code.google.com/p/fusioncatcher