Biology of Genomes: making sense of sequence [PDF]
A report on the Biology of Genomes meeting held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA, 5-9 May 2009.
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Sequencing Enabling Design and Learning in Synthetic Biology
The ability to read and quantify nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA using sequencing technologies has revolutionized our understanding of life. With the emergence of synthetic biology, these tools are now being put to work in new ways - enabling de novo biological design.
Gilliot, Pierre-Aurelien M A+1 more
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Lineage-specific interface proteins match up the cell cycle and differentiation in embryo stem cells
The shortage of molecular information on cell cycle changes along embryonic stem cell (ESC) differentiation prompts an in silico approach, which may provide a novel way to identify candidate genes or mechanisms acting in coordinating the two programs. We
Angela Re+4 more
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Developing and applying heterogeneous phylogenetic models with XRate [PDF]
Modeling sequence evolution on phylogenetic trees is a useful technique in computational biology. Especially powerful are models which take account of the heterogeneous nature of sequence evolution according to the "grammar" of the encoded gene features.
A Heger+32 more
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Quantification of within-sample genetic heterogeneity from SNP-array data
Intra-tumour genetic heterogeneity (ITH) fosters drug resistance and is a critical hurdle to clinical treatment. ITH can be well-measured using multi-region sampling but this is costly and challenging to implement.
Pierre Martinez+5 more
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MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability
We report a major update of the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program. This version has several new features, including options for adding unaligned sequences into an existing alignment, adjustment of direction in nucleotide alignment, constrained ...
K. Katoh, D. Standley
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Mapping-friendly sequence reductions: Going beyond homopolymer compression
Summary: Sequencing errors continue to pose algorithmic challenges to methods working with sequencing data. One of the simplest and most prevalent techniques for ameliorating the detrimental effects of homopolymer expansion/contraction errors present in ...
Luc Blassel, Paul Medvedev, Rayan Chikhi
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Is the pan-genome also a pan-selectome? [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/Vl9wKI]
The comparative genomics of prokaryotes has shown the presence of conserved regions containing highly similar genes (the 'core genome') and other regions that vary in gene content (the ‘flexible’ regions).
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera+1 more
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Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega
Multiple sequence alignments are fundamental to many sequence analysis methods. Most alignments are computed using the progressive alignment heuristic. These methods are starting to become a bottleneck in some analysis pipelines when faced with data sets
Fabian Sievers+11 more
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The Technology and Biology of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing [PDF]
The differences between individual cells can have profound functional consequences, in both unicellular and multicellular organisms. Recently developed single-cell mRNA-sequencing methods enable unbiased, high-throughput, and high-resolution transcriptomic analysis of individual cells. This provides an additional dimension to transcriptomic information
Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk+7 more
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