Archive for the ‘SciLit’ Category

BMC Genomics | Abstract | Assessing structural variation in a personal genome—towards a human reference d iploid genome

Monday, May 4th, 2015

consensus method

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/16/286/abstract

Genome Biology | Full text | An integrative probabilistic model for identification of structural variation in sequencing data

Monday, May 4th, 2015

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We introduce GASVPro, an algorithm combining both paired read and read depth signals into a probabilistic model that can analyze multiple alignments of reads.
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http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/3/R22

Characterization of structural variants with single molecule and hybrid sequencing approaches

Monday, May 4th, 2015

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We present MultiBreak-SV, an algorithm to detect structural variants (SVs) from single molecule sequencing data, paired read sequencing data, or a combination of sequencing data from different platforms. “}}

uses pacbio

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/24/3458.long

Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment

Sunday, May 3rd, 2015

Microbial interaction betw humans & the indoor environment http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6200/1048.abstract
Unique personal signatures w/ implications for #forensics

Places change to conform to signature…..

The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

The evolutionary history of…metastatic prostate #cancer http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14347.html Unexpected: polyclonal "seeding" w/ much met-to-met spread

Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation

Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

Reverse-engineering #censorship in #China: Randomized expts
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/1251722.abstract Criticism is ok but calls for collective action are not

Transmissible Dog Cancer Genome Reveals the Origin and History of an Ancient Cell Lineage

Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

Transmissible Dog #Cancer #Genome Reveals…History of…Cell Lineage http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/437.abstract 1.9M somatic mutations from origin ~11K yrs ago

Can disparities be deadly?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Can disparities be deadly? http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/829.summary
Correlation v causation: does high government rank lead to good health or the converse

For the famous Whitehall study

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/829.summary

Automated validation of genetic variants from large databases: ensuring that variant references refer to the same genomic locations

Sunday, April 26th, 2015

Some initial comparisons of HGMD & OMIM, nice to incl. ClinVar in the future

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/6/891

The 8q24 cancer risk variant rs6983267 shows long-range interaction with : MYC: in colorectal cancer : Abstract : Nature Genetics

Sunday, April 26th, 2015

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v41/n8/abs/ng.403.html