Archive for the ‘SciLit’ Category

Inferring gene regulatory logic from high-throughput measurements of thousands of systematically designed promoters : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Segal cites: Measurements of 1000s of…designed promoters
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n6/full/nbt.2205.html Num. binding sites correlated w/ expr., for 1st few #ICSG2015

Recurrent somatic mutations in regulatory regions of human cancer genomes

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3332.html

Unraveling determinants of transcription factor binding outside the core binding site

Monday, June 8th, 2015

Segal cites: Determinants of TF binding outside the core binding site http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2015/06/05/gr.185033.114.abstract Large-scale measurement of affinity #ICSG2015

Structural insights into mis-regulation of protein kinase A in human tumors

Monday, June 8th, 2015

Hendrickson cites: Structural insights into mis-regulation of PKA in…tumorshttp://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1374 SNV stops reg. domain binding #ICSG2015

In other case showed recurring DnaJ–PKA fusion didn’t have coding effect but non-coding effect on promotor

vol. 112 no. 5
1374–1379, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1424206112
Structural insights into mis-regulation of protein kinase A in human tumors

Jonah Cheunga,1,
Christopher Gintera,
Michael Cassidya,
Matthew C. Franklina,
Michael J. Rudolpha,
Nicolas Robineb,
Robert B. Darnellb,c,d, and
Wayne A. Hendricksona,e,1

PLOS Computational Biology: Exploring the Evolution of Novel Enzyme Functions within Structurally Defined Protein Superfamilies

Sunday, June 7th, 2015

Evolution of…Enzyme Functions w/in Structural…Superfamilies http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002403 Most changes involve substrates rather than chemistry

develops functional change matrix…
based on 276 fams

High hopes

Monday, June 1st, 2015

High hopes http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6192/18.summary Resurgence interest in the medical benefits of #psychedelics. Is it possible to get them without the high?

Similarity network fusion for aggregating data types on a genomic scale : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group

Monday, June 1st, 2015

Similarity #network fusion for aggregating data types http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n3/full/nmeth.2810.html Combines mRNA, miRNA & gene fusions to classify cancer subtypes
http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/SNF/SNF

Found this review

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

Nice graph of seq. machine output v time

http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(15)00340-8

Machine learning applications in genetics and genomics : Nature Reviews Genetics : Nature Publishing Group

Saturday, May 30th, 2015

#Machinelearning applications in…genomics
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v16/n6/full/nrg3920.html Nice overview of key distinctions betw generative & discriminative models

In their review, “Machine learning in genetics and genomics”, Libbrecht and Noble overview important aspects of application of machine learning to genomic data. The review presents illustrative classical genomics problems where machine learning techniques have proven useful and describes the differences between supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning as well as generative and discriminative models. The authors discuss considerations that should be made when selecting the right machine learning approach depending on the biological problem and data at hand, provide general practical guidelines and suggest possible solutions to common challenges.

Identification of Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program (ATS Journals)

Saturday, May 30th, 2015

Identification of #Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis
http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.200906-0896OC#.VWk-gFxViko 5 canonical groups based on lung function, meds usage, &c

Canonical clustering of asthmatic patients into different groups