Archive for the ‘SciLit’ Category
Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array
Sunday, March 31st, 2013Evolution versus “intelligen… Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2006 – PubMed – NCBI
Sunday, March 24th, 2013http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17369648
Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2006:299-310.
Evolution versus “intelligent design”: comparing the topology of protein-protein interaction networks to the Internet.
Yang Q, Siganos G, Faloutsos M, Lonardi S.
Retrotransposition of gene transcripts leads to structural variation in mammalian genomes
Sunday, March 17th, 2013Adam D Ewing, Tracy J Ballinger, Dent Earl, Broad Institute Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Christopher C Harris, Li Ding, Richard K Wilson and David Haussler
Absolute quantification of somatic DNA alterations in human cancer
Sunday, March 17th, 2013Nat Biotechnol. 2012 May;30(5):413-21. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2203. Carter SL, Cibulskis K, Helman E, McKenna A, Shen H, Zack T, Laird PW, Onofrio RC, Winckler W, Weir BA, Beroukhim R, Pellman D, Levine DA, Lander ES, Meyerson M, Getz G.
Facebook ‘likes’ can predict gender, ethnicity etc….
Sunday, March 17th, 2013http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110.abstract Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
Michal Kosinskia
David Stillwella, and
Thore Graepelb
regulatory cancer drivers
Monday, March 11th, 2013http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/science/new-mutations-discovered-in-melanomas.html
Two papers in Science talking about recurrent mutations in TERT promoter in melanoma.
1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/957.full
Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
Franklin W. Huang1,2,3,* Eran Hodis1,3,4,*,Mary Jue Xu1,3,4,Gregory V. Kryukov1,Lynda Chin5,6,Levi A. Garraway1,2,3,†
2) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/959.full
TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
Susanne Horn1,2,Adina Figl1,2,P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda1,Christine Fischer3,Antje Sucker2,Andreas Gast1,2,Stephanie Kadel1,2,Iris Moll2,Eduardo Nagore4,Kari Hemminki1,5,Dirk Schadendorf2,*,†,Rajiv Kumar1,*,†
Widespread splicing changes in human brain development and aging
Monday, March 11th, 2013bio v tech rep
Monday, March 11th, 2013http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n7/abs/nbt.1910.html
discusses (at a very basic level) the issue of tech versus bio reps related class:
correlated noise in TF co-association / FFLs
Saturday, March 9th, 2013http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2013.01.033
Cross Talk and Interference Enhance Information Capacity of a Signaling Pathway Sahand Hormoz
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A recurring motif in gene regulatory networks is transcription factors (TFs) that regulate each other and then bind to overlapping sites on DNA, where they interact and synergistically control transcription of a target gene. Here, we suggest that this motif maximizes information flow in a noisy network. Gene expression is an inherently noisy process due to thermal fluctuations and the small number of molecules involved. A consequence of multiple TFs interacting at overlapping binding sites is that their binding noise becomes correlated. Using concepts from information theory, we show that in general a signaling pathway transmits more information if 1), noise of one input is correlated with that of the other; and 2), input signals are not chosen independently.
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