Archive for the ‘SciLit’ Category

Genomic Analysis of the Clonal Origins of Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Sunday, June 8th, 2014

Science. 2008 Nov 28;322(5906):1377-80. doi: 10.1126/science.1164266.

Mullighan CG1, Phillips LA, Su X, Ma J, Miller CB, Shurtleff SA, Downing JR.

Interesting older paper

Genomic analysis of the clonal origins of relapsed ALL
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5906/1377.abs Older paper, describing relapse as arising from minor subclone

Genetic Maps of the Brain Lead to Surprises – Scientific American

Sunday, June 8th, 2014

Neuroscience

Scientific American 310, 70 – 77 (2014)
Published online: 18 March 2014 | doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0414-70

The Genetic Geography of the Brain

Ed Lein & Mike Hawrylycz

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-maps-of-the-brain-lead-to-surprises

Data Science and Prediction | December 2013 | Communications of the ACM

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

#DataScience & Prediction: Nice overview of the field, emphasizing testable models, even when causation isn’t implied
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/12/169933-data-science-and-prediction/fulltext

Massive Genomic Decay in Serratia symbiotica, a Recently Evolved Symbiont of Aphids

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

Massive Genomic Decay in… a Recently Evolved #Symbiont of Aphids. Creation of #pseudogenes in many COG categories
http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/195.long

Gaelen R. Burke & Nancy A. Moran

Geometric and electronic factors in the rational design of transition-metal-centered boron molecular wheels

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

CB9 nice decomposition of sigma bonds: 9*2c-2e + 4*3c-2e

Geometric & electronic factors in… design of… B molecular wheels. Minimum E #isomer via Coalescence Kick (CK)
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/138/13/10.1063/1.4798935

Characterization of the human ESC transcriptome by hybrid sequencing

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Characterization of the… #transcriptome by hybrid sequencing, using Illumina reads to error-correct #PacBio ones
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/50/E4821.long

Inferring Cellular Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models

Monday, May 26th, 2014

Inferring… #Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models. Nice intro to #Bayesian methods, useful for #teaching
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/303/5659/799.abs

Viruses Reconsidered | The Scientist Magazine(R)

Monday, May 26th, 2014

#Viruses Reconsidered: Some huge, megabase-scale #genomes but no ribosomes. Usually filtered out in metagenomics
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39244/title/Viruses-Reconsidered

Phylogenetic…Studies of Informational Genes… Highlight Existence of a 4th Domain of Life Including Giant #Viruses
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0015530

M. Boyer et al., “Phylogenetic and phyletic studies of informational genes in genomes highlight existence of a 4th domain of life including giant viruses,” PLOS ONE, 5:e15530, 2010.

Clustering polymerase reveals TRUC – new Domains to life

Genomic hypomethylation in the human germline associates with selective structural mutability in the human genome.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Hypomethylation in the human germline associates w/ structural mutability: Many #SVs in #genomic #methylation deserts
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002692

Genomic hypomethylation in the human germline associates with selective structural mutability in the human genome.
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002692

Li J, Harris RA, Cheung SW, Coarfa C, Jeong M, Goodell MA, White LD, Patel A, Kang SH, Shaw C, Chinault AC, Gambin T, Gambin A, Lupski JR, Milosavljevic A.

PLoS Genet. 2012;8(5):e1002692. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002692. Epub 2012 May 17.
PMID: 22615578 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article

Mutability as a measure of methylation, viz:
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The MI model is based on the fact that in mammals DNA methylation predominantly occurs in CpG dinucleotides, increasing the probability of transitions to TpG or CpA dinucleotides. The MI calculation by Sigurdsson et al. [48] implicitly uses mutability of CpGs in the human genome as an indicator of methylation in the germline. We apply this method of by integrating four million non-redundant SNPs from the HapMap project. Methylation index values were calculated for the same set of 100 Kbp windows used for sperm methylome construction to facilitate comparison.
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Also :

Confounding by repetitive elements and CpG islands does not explain the association between hypomethylation and genomic instability. http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003333

Harris RA, Shaw C, Li J, Cheung SW, Coarfa C, Jeong M, Goodell MA, White LD, Patel A, Kang SH, Chinault AC, Gambin T, Gambin A, Lupski JR, Milosavljevic A.

PLoS Genet. 2013;9(2):e1003333. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003333. Epub 2013 Feb 28. No abstract available.
PMID: 23468659 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article

retroelement functional recruitment

Monday, May 12th, 2014

DUX4 binding to #retroelements creates promoters that are active… Highlights #chipseq binding sites in #repeats
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003947 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=24278031
PLoS Genet. 2013 Nov;9(11):e1003947. doi:
10.1371/journal.pgen.1003947. Epub 2013 Nov 21.
DUX4 binding to retroelements creates promoters that are active in FSHD muscle and testis.
Young JM, Whiddon JL, Yao Z, Kasinathan B, Snider L, Geng LN, Balog J, Tawil R, van der Maarel SM, Tapscott SJ.