Archive for the ‘SciLit’ Category

After TopHat, Bowtie and Cufflinks — here’s Ballgown !

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

“Flexible isoform-level differential expression analysis with Ballgown” http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/03/30/003665

This synthetic yeast genome may reignite controversy regarding function of non-coding region

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Deletion of introns and other intergenic regions

Total Synthesis of a Functional Designer Eukaryotic Chromosome

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/03/26/science.1249252

http://syntheticyeast.org/

Looping Back to Leap Forward: Transcription Enters a New Era

Monday, March 31st, 2014

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867414002013#

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

Friday, March 28th, 2014

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

Predicting Social Security numbers from public data

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

QT:{{”
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

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

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

2 new FANTOM papers

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

QT:{{”
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

Monday, March 24th, 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

Monday, March 24th, 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

Thursday, March 6th, 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