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| Feng Chi ChenSummaryAffiliation: National Health Research Institutes Country: Taiwan Publications
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Assessing determinants of exonic evolutionary rates in mammalsFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Mol Biol Evol 29:3121-9. 2012....
LDGIdb: a database of gene interactions inferred from long-range strong linkage disequilibrium between pairs of SNPsMing Chih Wang
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
BMC Res Notes 5:212. 2012..A user-friendly web resource that integrates information about non-physical SNP linkages, gene annotations, SNP information, and SNP-disease associations may thus be a good reference for biomedical research...
Independent effects of alternative splicing and structural constraint on the evolution of mammalian coding exonsFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Mol Biol Evol 29:187-93. 2012..Our results imply that nature can select for different biological features with regard to ASEs and IDRs, even though the two biological features tend to be localized in the same protein regions...
A community effort towards a knowledge-base and mathematical model of the human pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium LT2Ines Thiele
Center for Systems Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
BMC Syst Biol 5:8. 2011..Salmonella enterica subspecies I serovar Typhimurium is a human pathogen, causes various diseases and its increasing antibiotic resistance poses a public health problem...
Different alternative splicing patterns are subject to opposite selection pressure for protein reading frame preservationFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County 350, Taiwan
BMC Evol Biol 7:179. 2007..Therefore, it is necessary to re-evaluate the evolutionary effects of such splicing patterns on frame preservation...
The plausible reason why the length of 5' untranslated region is unrelated to organismal complexityChun Hsi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, 350 Taiwan
BMC Res Notes 4:312. 2011..abstract:..
Identification and evolutionary analysis of novel exons and alternative splicing events using cross-species EST-to-genome comparisons in human, mouse and ratFeng Chi Chen
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
BMC Bioinformatics 7:136. 2006..However, the extent of AS in mammals other than human and mouse is largely unknown, making it difficult to study AS evolution in mammals and its biomedical implications...
Human-specific insertions and deletions inferred from mammalian genome sequencesFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institute, Miaoli County 350, Taiwan
Genome Res 17:16-22. 2007..This functional bias suggests that human-specific indels might have contributed to human unique traits by causing changes at the RNA and protein level...
The effects of multiple features of alternatively spliced exons on the K(A)/K(S) ratio testFeng Chi Chen
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
BMC Bioinformatics 7:259. 2006..Furthermore, which exon feature dominates the results of the KA/KS ratio test and whether multiple exon features have additive effects have remained unexplored...
Identification and analysis of ancestral hominoid transcriptome inferred from cross-species transcript and processed pseudogene comparisonsYao Ting Huang
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
Genome Res 18:1163-70. 2008....
INDELSCAN: a web server for comparative identification of species-specific and non-species-specific insertion/deletion eventsFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institute, Miaoli County 350, Taiwan
Nucleic Acids Res 35:W633-8. 2007..The server also provides analytic figures and supports indel identification from user-uploaded alignments/annotations. INDELSCAN is freely accessible at http://indelscan.genomics.sinica.edu.tw/IndelScan/...
Plant Gene and Alternatively Spliced Variant Annotator. A plant genome annotation pipeline for rice gene and alternatively spliced variant identification with cross-species expressed sequence tag conservation from seven plant speciesFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institute, Miaoli County 350, Taiwan
Plant Physiol 143:1086-95. 2007..The data and the Web-based interface, RiceViewer, are available for public access at http://RiceViewer.genomics.sinica.edu.tw/...
Gene family size conservation is a good indicator of evolutionary ratesFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan
Mol Biol Evol 27:1750-8. 2010..Such a trend accords well with our observations of evolutionary rates. Our results thus point to the importance of family size conservation in the evolution of duplicate genes...
The genomic features that affect the lengths of 5' untranslated regions in multicellular eukaryotesChun Hsi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, 350 Taiwan, Republic of China
BMC Bioinformatics 12:S3. 2011..Furthermore, different selective constraints between vertebrates and invertebrates may lead to differences in the determinants of 5'UTR length, which have not been systematically analyzed...
MrBac: a web server for draft metabolic network reconstructions for bacteriaYu Chieh Liao
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan 350, Taiwan
Bioeng Bugs 2:284-7. 2011..The high efficiency and accuracy of MrBac may accelerate the advances of systems biology studies on microbiology. MrBac is freely available at http://sb.nhri.org.tw/MrBac...
An experimentally validated genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of Klebsiella pneumoniae MGH 78578, iYL1228Yu Chieh Liao
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan 350, Taiwan
J Bacteriol 193:1710-7. 2011..The genome-scale metabolic reconstruction for K. pneumoniae presented here thus provides an experimentally validated in silico platform for further studies of this important industrial and biomedical organism...
Scanning for the signatures of positive selection for human-specific insertions and deletionsChun Hsi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan
Genome Biol Evol 2009:415-9. 2009..Our results suggest that HS indels may have been associated with human adaptive changes at both the species level and the subpopulation level...
Phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated serine and threonine residues evolve at different rates in mammalsSean Chun Chang Chen
Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Mol Biol Evol 27:2548-54. 2010..We also find that the human lineage has gained more phosphorylated T residues and lost fewer phosphorylated Y residues than the mouse lineage. The cause of the gain/loss imbalance remains a mystery but should be worth exploring...
Exploring the selective constraint on the sizes of insertions and deletions in 5' untranslated regions in mammalsChun Hsi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, 350 Taiwan
BMC Evol Biol 11:192. 2011..The presence of non-3n indels in uORFs can potentially disrupt the functions of these regulatory elements. We thus hypothesize that natural selection disfavors non-3n indels in 5'UTRs when these regulatory elements are present...
CNVVdb: a database of copy number variations across vertebrate genomesFeng Chi Chen
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County 350, Taipei, Taiwan
Bioinformatics 25:1419-21. 2009..AVAILABILITY: CNVVdb is freely accessible at (http://CNVVdb.genomics.sinica.edu.tw)...
Position-dependent correlations between DNA methylation and the evolutionary rates of mammalian coding exonsTrees Juen Chuang
Physical and Computational Genomics Division, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:15841-6. 2012..The first exons appear more prone to the mutagenic effects, whereas the other exons are more influenced by the regulatory effects of DNA methylation...
Changes in transcriptional orientation are associated with increases in evolutionary rates of enterobacterial genesChieh Hua Lin
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, 35 Keyen Road, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Republic of China
BMC Bioinformatics 12:S19. 2011..Therefore, it is of interest to investigate whether CTOs have an independent effect on the evolutionary rates of the affected genes, and whether these genes are subject to any type of selection pressure in prokaryotes...
GEMSiRV: a software platform for GEnome-scale metabolic model simulation, reconstruction and visualizationYu Chieh Liao
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan 350, Taiwan, R O C
Bioinformatics 28:1752-8. 2012..Although some of the required functions have been served separately by existing tools, a free software resource that simultaneously serves the needs of the three major components is not yet available...
CAPIH: a Web interface for comparative analyses and visualization of host-HIV protein-protein interactionsFan Kai Lin
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, 350 Taiwan, Republic of China
BMC Microbiol 9:164. 2009..However, the differences in host-HIV-1 interactions between human and these model organisms have remained unexplored...
Opposite evolutionary effects between different alternative splicing patternsFeng-Chi Chen
Mol Biol Evol 24:1443-6. 2007..Therefore, the previous view that ASEs accelerate evolution of protein subsequences needs to be modified...
Alternatively and constitutively spliced exons are subject to different evolutionary forcesFeng-Chi Chen
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Mol Biol Evol 23:675-82. 2006..The overall trends of higher KA and lower KS in ASEs than in CSEs are also observed in human-rat and mouse-rat comparisons. Therefore, our observations hold for mammals of different molecular clocks...
A comparative method for identification of gene structures and alternatively spliced variantsTrees-Juen Chuang
Genomics Research Center, Academia, Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Bioinformatics 20:3064-79. 2004..With its dual functions in cross-species conserved sequence analysis and AS analysis, PSEP is highly suitable for studying the evolution of AS patterns and for finding unidentified gene expression features...
