Ivan Ovcharenko

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Affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi ECR Browser: a tool for visualizing and accessing data from comparisons of multiple vertebrate genomes
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Genome Biology Division and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:W280-6. 2004
  2. ncbi Identifying synonymous regulatory elements in vertebrate genomes
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology, and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 33:W403-7. 2005
  3. ncbi Evolution and functional classification of vertebrate gene deserts
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology, and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 15:137-45. 2005
  4. ncbi Mulan: multiple-sequence local alignment and visualization for studying function and evolution
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 15:184-94. 2005
  5. ncbi Interpreting mammalian evolution using Fugu genome comparisons
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L 441, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Genomics 84:890-5. 2004
  6. ncbi eShadow: a tool for comparing closely related sequences
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology and Institutional Computing EEBI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 14:1191-8. 2004
  7. ncbi Dcode.org anthology of comparative genomic tools
    Gabriela G Loots
    Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-441 Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 33:W56-64. 2005
  8. ncbi rVISTA 2.0: evolutionary analysis of transcription factor binding sites
    Gabriela G Loots
    Genome Biology Division and EEBI Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-441, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:W217-21. 2004
  9. ncbi zPicture: dynamic alignment and visualization tool for analyzing conservation profiles
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 14:472-7. 2004
  10. ncbi ECRbase: database of evolutionary conserved regions, promoters, and transcription factor binding sites in vertebrate genomes
    Gabriela Loots
    CMLS 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
    Bioinformatics 23:122-4. 2007

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Publications28

  1. ncbi ECR Browser: a tool for visualizing and accessing data from comparisons of multiple vertebrate genomes
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Genome Biology Division and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:W280-6. 2004
    ..The interconnection of the ECR Browser with other DNA sequence analysis tools creates a unique portal for studying and exploring vertebrate genomes...
  2. ncbi Identifying synonymous regulatory elements in vertebrate genomes
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology, and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 33:W403-7. 2005
    ..SynoR is publicly available at http://synor.dcode.org...
  3. ncbi Evolution and functional classification of vertebrate gene deserts
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology, and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 15:137-45. 2005
    ..Stable gene deserts resist chromosomal rearrangements and appear to harbor multiple distant regulatory elements physically linked to their neighboring genes, with the linearity of conservation invariant throughout vertebrate evolution...
  4. ncbi Mulan: multiple-sequence local alignment and visualization for studying function and evolution
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 15:184-94. 2005
    ..Source code for the aligners and the aligner-evaluation software can be freely downloaded from http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/...
  5. ncbi Interpreting mammalian evolution using Fugu genome comparisons
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L 441, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Genomics 84:890-5. 2004
    ..This newly defined threshold identifies 90% of all human/Fugu noncoding ECRs without the assistance of human-Fugu genome alignments and provides a very efficient filter for identifying functional human/mouse ECRs...
  6. ncbi eShadow: a tool for comparing closely related sequences
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology and Institutional Computing EEBI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 14:1191-8. 2004
    ..Here, we describe the eShadow comparative tool and its potential uses for analyzing both multiple nucleotide and protein alignments to predict putative functional elements...
  7. ncbi Dcode.org anthology of comparative genomic tools
    Gabriela G Loots
    Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-441 Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 33:W56-64. 2005
    ..Here, we briefly describe each one of these tools and provide specific examples on their practical applications. All the tools are publicly available at the http://www.dcode.org/ website...
  8. ncbi rVISTA 2.0: evolutionary analysis of transcription factor binding sites
    Gabriela G Loots
    Genome Biology Division and EEBI Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-441, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:W217-21. 2004
    ..The rVISTA tool is publicly available at http://rvista.dcode.org/...
  9. ncbi zPicture: dynamic alignment and visualization tool for analyzing conservation profiles
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Energy, Environment, Biology and Institutional Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 14:472-7. 2004
    ..Finally, we describe how this tool can be efficiently applied to the analysis of nonvertebrate genomes, including those of microbial organisms...
  10. ncbi ECRbase: database of evolutionary conserved regions, promoters, and transcription factor binding sites in vertebrate genomes
    Gabriela Loots
    CMLS 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
    Bioinformatics 23:122-4. 2007
    ..ECRbase currently includes human, rhesus macaque, dog, opossum, rat, mouse, chicken, frog, zebrafish and fugu genomes. It is freely accessible at http://ecrbase.dcode.org...
  11. ncbi Human variation in short regions predisposed to deep evolutionary conservation
    Gabriela G Loots
    Biology and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 27:1279-88. 2010
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  12. ncbi Array2BIO: from microarray expression data to functional annotation of co-regulated genes
    Gabriela G Loots
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    BMC Bioinformatics 7:307. 2006
    ..To provide an integrative, easy-to-use and automated toolkit for the analysis of Affymetrix microarray expression data we have developed Array2BIO, an application that couples several analytical methods into a single web based utility...
  13. ncbi Comparative analysis of chicken chromosome 28 provides new clues to the evolutionary fragility of gene-rich vertebrate regions
    Laurie Gordon
    Genome Biology Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
    Genome Res 17:1603-13. 2007
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  14. ncbi Mulan: multiple-sequence alignment to predict functional elements in genomic sequences
    Gabriela G Loots
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    Methods Mol Biol 395:237-54. 2007
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  15. ncbi Predicting tissue-specific enhancers in the human genome
    Len A Pennacchio
    Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Genome Res 17:201-11. 2007
    ..These results indicate the power of combining complementary genomic data sets as an initial computational foray into a global view of tissue-specific gene regulation in vertebrates...
  16. ncbi Identification of clustered YY1 binding sites in imprinting control regions
    Jeong Do Kim
    Department of Biological Sciences, Center for BioModular Multi Scale Systems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
    Genome Res 16:901-11. 2006
    ..Overall, our identification of three additional clustered YY1 binding sites in imprinted domains suggests a significant role for YY1 in mammalian genomic imprinting...
  17. ncbi Widespread ultraconservation divergence in primates
    Ivan Ovcharenko
    Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 25:1668-76. 2008
    ..Many of these genes are expressed in the central nervous system. Finally, UCE sequence variability within human populations has been identified, including population-specific nonsynonymous changes in protein-coding regions...
  18. ncbi DiRE: identifying distant regulatory elements of co-expressed genes
    Valer Gotea
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 36:W133-9. 2008
    ..Its integration with the Array2BIO server allows users to start their analysis with raw microarray expression data. The DiRE web server is freely available at http://dire.dcode.org...
  19. ncbi Human-zebrafish non-coding conserved elements act in vivo to regulate transcription
    Jordan T Shin
    Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 33:5437-45. 2005
    ..Together, these data support the utility of comparative genomics of distantly related vertebrate species to identify REs and provide a scaleable, in vivo quantitative assay to define functional activity of candidate REs...
  20. ncbi Generation and annotation of the DNA sequences of human chromosomes 2 and 4
    Ladeana W Hillier
    Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
    Nature 434:724-31. 2005
    ..Extensive analyses confirm the underlying construction of the sequence, and expand our understanding of the structure and evolution of mammalian chromosomes, including gene deserts, segmental duplications and highly variant regions...
  21. ncbi A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms
    Gane Ka-Shu Wong
    Beijing Institute of Genomics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing Proteomics Institute, Beijing 101300, China
    Nature 432:717-22. 2004
    ..In fact, most of the SNPs originated before domestication, and there is little evidence of selective sweeps for adaptive alleles on length scales greater than 100 kilobases...
  22. ncbi Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution
    Ladeana W Hillier
    Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
    Nature 432:695-716. 2004
    ..The distinctive properties of avian microchromosomes, together with the inferred patterns of conserved synteny, provide additional insights into vertebrate chromosome architecture...
  23. ncbi CREME: Cis-Regulatory Module Explorer for the human genome
    Roded Sharan
    International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:W253-6. 2004
    ..The identified cis-regulatory modules are statistically scored and significant combinations are reported and graphically visualized. Our web server is available at http://creme.dcode.org...
  24. ncbi The DNA sequence and biology of human chromosome 19
    Jane Grimwood
    Stanford Human Genome Center, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 975 California Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
    Nature 428:529-35. 2004
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  25. ncbi Scanning human gene deserts for long-range enhancers
    Marcelo A Nobrega
    U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA
    Science 302:413. 2003
  26. ncbi CREME: a framework for identifying cis-regulatory modules in human-mouse conserved segments
    Roded Sharan
    International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center St, Suite 600, Berkeley CA 94704, USA
    Bioinformatics 19:i283-91. 2003
    ..In the cell cycle set five of the seven identified sets of genes were coherently expressed. On the stress response data four of the six detected sets fell predominantly into well-defined functional sub-categories...
  27. ncbi Phylogenetic shadowing of primate sequences to find functional regions of the human genome
    Dario Boffelli
    U S Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA
    Science 299:1391-4. 2003
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  28. ncbi rVista for comparative sequence-based discovery of functional transcription factor binding sites
    Gabriela G Loots
    Genome Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Genome Res 12:832-9. 2002
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