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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Guy St C SlaterSummaryAffiliation: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Country: UK Publications
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Automated generation of heuristics for biological sequence comparisonGuy St C Slater
The Ensembl Group, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
BMC Bioinformatics 6:31. 2005....
Improvements to services at the European Nucleotide ArchiveRasko Leinonen
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 38:D39-45. 2010..In this article, we briefly describe the content and scope of our archive and introduce major improvements to our services...
VectorBase: a data resource for invertebrate vector genomicsDaniel Lawson
European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 37:D583-7. 2009..We have continued to develop both the software infrastructure and tools for interrogating the stored data...
A database and API for variation, dense genotyping and resequencing dataDaniel Rios
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
BMC Bioinformatics 11:238. 2010..The 1000 Genomes Project and similar efforts in other species are challenging the methods previously used for storage and manipulation of such data necessitating the redesign of existing genome-wide bioinformatics resources...
Ensembl's 10th yearPaul Flicek
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 38:D557-62. 2010....
EMMA--mouse mutant resources for the international scientific communityPhil Wilkinson
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 38:D570-6. 2010..g. Ensembl. Other resources are able to display EMMA data by accessing our Distributed Annotation System server. EMMA database access is publicly available at http://www.emmanet.org...
Ensembl variation resourcesYuan Chen
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
BMC Genomics 11:293. 2010..Maximising the utility of the data requires that it be stored in an accessible manner that facilitates the integration of variation data with other genome resources such as gene annotation and comparative genomics...
An effective model for natural selection in promotersMichael M Hoffman
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Genome Res 20:685-92. 2010..The results show the first clear correlations between such a model and evolutionary processes...
EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: Complete, duplication-aware phylogenetic trees in vertebratesAlbert J Vilella
EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Genome Res 19:327-35. 2009..All data are made available in a number of formats and will be kept up to date with the Ensembl project...
ENFIN--A European network for integrative systems biologyPascal Kahlem
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
C R Biol 332:1050-8. 2009..The computational work includes the development of a database infrastructure (EnCORE), bioinformatics analysis methods and a novel platform for protein function analysis FuncNet...
Ensembl 2011Paul Flicek
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 39:D800-6. 2011..Since our previous report, we have substantially improved the presentation and integration of both data of disease relevance and the regulatory state of different cell types...
Ensembl 2012Paul Flicek
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 40:D84-90. 2012..Of these, 55 species appear on the main Ensembl website and six species are provided on the Ensembl preview site (Pre!Ensembl; http://pre.ensembl.org) with preliminary support. The past year has also seen improvements across the project...
Petabyte-scale innovations at the European Nucleotide ArchiveGuy Cochrane
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 37:D19-25. 2009....
Major submissions tool developments at the European Nucleotide ArchiveClara Amid
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 40:D43-7. 2012....
Advanced genomic data miningXose M Fernandez-Suarez
European Bioinformatics Institute, Ensembl Group, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PLoS Comput Biol 4:e1000121. 2008
The HGNC Database in 2008: a resource for the human genomeElspeth A Bruford
European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 36:D445-8. 2008..genenames.org, with direct links to the searchable HGNC database and other related database resources, such as the HCOP orthology search tool and manually curated gene family webpages...
Reactome: a database of reactions, pathways and biological processesDavid Croft
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 39:D691-7. 2011..The resulting inferred pathway sets can be browsed and analyzed with our Species Comparison tool. Collaborations are also underway to create manually curated data sets on the Reactome framework for chicken, Drosophila and rice...
The European Nucleotide ArchiveRasko Leinonen
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 39:D28-31. 2011....
Genome information resources - developments at EnsemblMartin P Hammond
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Trends Genet 20:268-72. 2004..Users can now display their own data in the context of other annotation. In addition, a fast and flexible data retrieval system, EnsMart, has been developed...
GeneWise and GenomewiseEwan Birney
The European Bioinformatics Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
Genome Res 14:988-95. 2004..The GeneWise algorithm was developed from a principled combination of hidden Markov models (HMMs). Both algorithms are highly accurate and can provide both accurate and complete gene structures when used with the correct evidence...
Integrating biological data--the Distributed Annotation SystemAndrew M Jenkinson
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
BMC Bioinformatics 9:S3. 2008..DAS continues to expand its applicability and evolve in response to new challenges facing integrative bioinformatics...
The International Protein Index: an integrated database for proteomics experimentsPaul J Kersey
EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK
Proteomics 4:1985-8. 2004..IPI (the International Protein Index) has been developed to address these issues and offers complete nonredundant data sets representing the human, mouse and rat proteomes, built from the Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, Ensembl and RefSeq databases...
Velvet: algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphsDaniel R Zerbino
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Genome Res 18:821-9. 2008..Velvet represents a new approach to assembly that can leverage very short reads in combination with read pairs to produce useful assemblies...
Mouse genomic variation and its effect on phenotypes and gene regulationThomas M Keane
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
Nature 477:289-94. 2011..These sequences provide a starting point for a new era in the functional analysis of a key model organism...
Biological database design and implementationEwan Birney
EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Brief Bioinform 5:31-8. 2004..Our experience has led us to emphasise simplicity and conservative technology choices when building these databases. This is a short paper of advice that we hope is useful to people designing their own biological database...
The European Bioinformatics Institute's data resourcesCatherine Brooksbank
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 31:43-50. 2003..The EBI's databases and tools are all available on our website at www.ebi.ac.uk...
Genome browsing with Ensembl: a practical overviewGiulietta Spudich
EMBL Outstation EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB101SD, UK
Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 6:202-19. 2007..Genes and annotation are accessible through the Ensembl browser (http://www.ensembl.org), and through direct queries of its databases using the Perl API (Application Programme Interface), MySQL or BioMart...
Comparative genomics: genome-wide analysis in metazoan eukaryotesAbel Ureta-Vidal
EnsEMBL Project, Room A2-06, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nat Rev Genet 4:251-62. 2003..Each of these areas improves the methods of deciphering long genomic sequences and uncovering what lies hidden in them...
The discovery, positioning and verification of a set of transcription-associated motifs in vertebratesLaurence Ettwiller
EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK
Genome Biol 6:R104. 2005..We then used deeper comparative analysis across vertebrates to identify the active instances of these motifs. We have shown experimentally in Medaka fish that a subset of these predictions is involved in transcription...
The Ensembl core software librariesArne Stabenau
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Genome Res 14:929-33. 2004..The architecture of the core software libraries, the schema, and the factors influencing their design are described. All code and data are freely available...
Efficient storage of high throughput DNA sequencing data using reference-based compressionMarkus Hsi-Yang Fritz
European Molecular Biology Laboratory s European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Genome Res 21:734-40. 2011....
Pebble and rock band: heuristic resolution of repeats and scaffolding in the velvet short-read de novo assemblerDaniel R Zerbino
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
PLoS ONE 4:e8407. 2009..Despite the short length of their reads, micro-read sequencing technologies have shown their usefulness for de novo sequencing. However, especially in eukaryotic genomes, complex repeat patterns are an obstacle to large assemblies...
The systematic annotation of the three main GPCR families in ReactomeBijay Jassal
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB101SD, UK
Database (Oxford) 2010:baq018. 2010..Database URL: http://www.reactome.org...
VectorBase: a home for invertebrate vectors of human pathogensDaniel Lawson
European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 35:D503-5. 2007....
Estimating the neutral rate of nucleotide substitution using intronsMichael M Hoffman
European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, England
Mol Biol Evol 24:522-31. 2007..Although the intron method may be more useful for shorter evolutionary distances, it is less useful at longer distances due to the poor alignment of less-conserved positions...
Optimized design and assessment of whole genome tiling arraysStefan Graf
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Bioinformatics 23:i195-204. 2007..We have identified a number of design parameters to be optimized including uniqueness of the probe sequences within the whole genome, melting temperature and self-hybridization potential...
Sense from sequence reads: methods for alignment and assemblyPaul Flicek
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Nat Methods 6:S6-S12. 2009..We discuss the current algorithmic approaches and future directions of these fundamental tools and provide specific examples for some commonly used tools...
EnsMart: a generic system for fast and flexible access to biological dataArek Kasprzyk
European Bioinformatics Institute EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SH, UK
Genome Res 14:160-9. 2004..Both implementations and the database are freely available for local installation, and can be extended or adapted to 'non-Ensembl' data sets...
Allele-specific and heritable chromatin signatures in humansEwan Birney
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Hum Mol Genet 19:R204-9. 2010..A detailed understanding of the relationship between normal genetic variation and chromatin variation can shed light on how polymorphisms in non-coding regions in the human genome might underlie phenotypic variation and disease...
Finding and sharing: new approaches to registries of databases and services for the biomedical sciencesDamian Smedley
European Bioinformatics Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA
Database (Oxford) 2010:baq014. 2010..We expect such approaches will result in improved discovery, uptake and utilization of data resources. Database URL: http://www.casimir.org.uk/casimir_ddf...
Databases and tools for browsing genomesEwan Birney
European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 3:293-310. 2002..This article reviews the database systems and tools for analysis that have so far been developed to address this...
Priorities for nucleotide trace, sequence and annotation data capture at the Ensembl Trace Archive and the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence DatabaseGuy Cochrane
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 36:D5-12. 2008..Priorities are discussed in terms of how reliably information can be captured, the long-term benefits of its capture and the ease with which it can be captured...
The variant call format and VCFtoolsPetr Danecek
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Bioinformatics 27:2156-8. 2011..VCFtools is a software suite that implements various utilities for processing VCF files, including validation, merging, comparing and also provides a general Perl API. AVAILABILITY: http://vcftools.sourceforge.net..
Ensembl Genomes: an integrative resource for genome-scale data from non-vertebrate speciesPaul J Kersey
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 40:D91-7. 2012....
Considerations for the inclusion of 2x mammalian genomes in phylogenetic analysesAlbert J Vilella
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Genome Biol 12:401. 2011..A response to 2x genomes - depth does matter by MC Milinkovitch, R Helaers, E Depiereux, AC Tzika and T Gabaldón. Genome Biol 2010, 11:R16...
ENFIN a network to enhance integrative systems biologyPascal Kahlem
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1115:23-31. 2007..We will give an overview of the projects tackled within ENFIN and discuss the challenges associated with integration for systems biology...
The Pfam protein families databaseAlex Bateman
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 30:276-80. 2002..New search tools, including taxonomy search and domain query, greatly add to the functionality and usability of the Pfam resource...
Picking pyknons out of the human genomeAlison Meynert
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Cell 125:836-8. 2006..Although it is unclear how pyknons might have arisen, it is possible that they may be involved in a new form of gene regulation...
Reactome: a knowledge base of biologic pathways and processesImre Vastrik
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Genome Biol 8:R39. 2007..Finally, we describe the use of Reactome both as a learning resource and as a computational tool to aid in the interpretation of microarrays and similar large-scale datasets...
Discovering novel cis-regulatory motifs using functional networksLaurence M Ettwiller
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Genome Res 13:883-95. 2003....
Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomesChristopher Greenman
Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Nature 446:153-8. 2007..Systematic sequencing of cancer genomes therefore reveals the evolutionary diversity of cancers and implicates a larger repertoire of cancer genes than previously anticipated...
An overview of EnsemblEwan Birney
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
Genome Res 14:925-8. 2004....
A physical map of the mouse genomeSimon G Gregory
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Nature 418:743-50. 2002..The human sequence may be used to facilitate construction of other mammalian genome maps using the same strategy...
The landscape of histone modifications across 1% of the human genome in five human cell linesChristoph M Koch
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB101SA, United Kingdom
Genome Res 17:691-707. 2007..These results provide an overview of the functional relationship among histone modifications and gene expression in human cells...
Chromatin and heritability: how epigenetic studies can complement genetic approachesEwan Birney
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Trends Genet 27:172-6. 2011..In particular, I see more benefit to epigenetic studies being performed in the context of genetic studies, rather than as separate investigations...
A survey of homozygous deletions in human cancer genomesCharles Cox
Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:4542-7. 2005..They may also reflect a tendency to reduce the adverse effects of homozygous deletions by minimizing the number of genes removed...
Gene finding in the chicken genomeEduardo Eyras
Institut Municipal d Investigacio Medica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Centre de Regulacio Genomica, E08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
BMC Bioinformatics 6:131. 2005..We used the chicken sequence to test comparative and homology-based gene-finding methods followed by experimental validation as an effective genome annotation method...
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolutionLadeana 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...
Transcriptome analysis for the chicken based on 19,626 finished cDNA sequences and 485,337 expressed sequence tagsSimon J Hubbard
Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom
Genome Res 15:174-83. 2005....
The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiaeRobert A Holt
Celera Genomics, 45 West Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Science 298:129-49. 2002..An expressed sequence tag analysis of genes regulated by blood feeding provided insights into the physiological adaptations of a hematophagous insect...
Comparative genome and proteome analysis of Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogasterEvgeny M Zdobnov
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Science 298:149-59. 2002....
Sockeye: a 3D environment for comparative genomicsStephen B Montgomery
Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4E6, Canada
Genome Res 14:956-62. 2004..By using the Java3D API to visualize genomic data in a 3D environment, we are able to compactly display cross-sequence comparisons. This provides the user with a novel platform for visualizing and comparing genomic feature organization...
The Bioperl toolkit: Perl modules for the life sciencesJason E Stajich
University Program in Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Genome Res 12:1611-8. 2002..We conclude with a discussion of how the open-source nature of the project has contributed to the development effort...
Comparison of human chromosome 21 conserved nongenic sequences (CNGs) with the mouse and dog genomes shows that their selective constraint is independent of their genic environmentEmmanouil T Dermitzakis
Division of Medical Genetics, University of Geneva Medical School, CH 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Genome Res 14:852-9. 2004..We propose models for a global role of CNGs in genome function and regulation, through long-distance cis or trans chromosomal interactions...
Trawler: de novo regulatory motif discovery pipeline for chromatin immunoprecipitationLaurence Ettwiller
Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Nat Methods 4:563-5. 2007..Newly discovered motifs and their features (identity, conservation, position in sequence) are displayed on a web interface...
Immunity-related genes and gene families in Anopheles gambiaeGeorge K Christophides
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Science 298:159-65. 2002..Representative expression profiles confirm that sequence diversification is accompanied by specific responses to different immune challenges. Alternative RNA splicing may also contribute to expansion of the immune repertoire...
A SNP map of the rat genome generated from cDNA sequencesHeike Zimdahl
Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC, Robert-Rossle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin-Buch, Germany
Science 303:807. 2004
Unrestricted free access works and must continueSteven Salzberg
Nature 422:801. 2003
Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genomeRobert H Waterston
Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
Nature 420:520-62. 2002....
Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genomeRichard A Gibbs
Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Science 316:222-34. 2007..The complete description of the macaque genome blueprint enhances the utility of this animal model for biomedical research and improves our understanding of the basic biology of the species...
Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolutionRichard A Gibbs
Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, MS BCM226, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA <http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu
Nature 428:493-521. 2004....
Dry work in a wet world: computation in systems biologyPascal Kahlem
Mol Syst Biol 2:40. 2006
Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot projectEwan Birney
Nature 447:799-816. 2007..Together, these studies are defining a path for pursuit of a more comprehensive characterization of human genome function...
Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vectorVishvanath Nene
Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Science 316:1718-23. 2007..An increase in genes encoding odorant binding, cytochrome P450, and cuticle domains relative to An. gambiae suggests that members of these protein families underpin some of the biological differences between the two mosquito species...
The implications of alternative splicing in the ENCODE protein complementMichael L Tress
Structural Computational Biology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, E 28029 Madrid, Spain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5495-500. 2007....
Approaches to comparative sequence analysis: towards a functional view of vertebrate genomesElliott H Margulies
Genome Technology Branch, Genome Informatics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 5625 Fishers Lane, Room 5N 01N, MSC9400, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Rev Genet 9:303-13. 2008..Approaches to determining the biological significance of constrained sequence are also explored...
What everybody should know about the rat genome and its online resourcesSimon N Twigger
Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Nat Genet 40:523-7. 2008....
Levers and fulcrums: progress in cis-regulatory motif modelsEwan Birney
Nat Methods 5:297-8. 2008
An integrated resource for genome-wide identification and analysis of human tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (tDMRs)Vardhman K Rakyan
Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London, London E1 2AT, United Kingdom
Genome Res 18:1518-29. 2008....
A Bayesian deconvolution strategy for immunoprecipitation-based DNA methylome analysisThomas A Down
Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, and Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK
Nat Biotechnol 26:779-85. 2008....
TranscriptSNPView: a genome-wide catalog of mouse coding variationFiona Cunningham
Nat Genet 38:853. 2006
Identification of novel peptide hormones in the human proteome by hidden Markov model screeningOlivier Mirabeau
Mouse Biology Unit, EMBL, 00016 Monterotondo, Italy
Genome Res 17:320-7. 2007..Peptide hormones and their receptors are important diagnostic and therapeutic targets, and our results suggest that spexin and augurin are novel peptide hormones likely to be involved in physiological homeostasis...
EGASP: the human ENCODE Genome Annotation Assessment ProjectRoderic Guigo
Centre de Regulacio Genomica, Institut Municipal d Investigació Mèdica Universitat Pompeu Fabra, E08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Genome Biol 7:S2.1-31. 2006..These annotations were not available to the prediction groups prior to the submission deadline, so that their predictions were blind and an external advisory committee could perform a fair assessment...
In vivo validation of a computationally predicted conserved Ath5 target gene setFilippo Del Bene
Developmental Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
PLoS Genet 3:1661-71. 2007..Thus, our procedure, applied to whole genomes, is a fast and predictive tool to in silico filter the target genes of a given transcription factor with defined binding site...
Evolutionary genomics: come fly with usEwan Birney
Nature 450:184-5. 2007
Report of an EU projects workshop on systems biology held in Brussels, Belgium on 8 December 2004Ewan Birney
Syst Biol (Stevenage) 152:55-60. 2005
Update of the Anopheles gambiae PEST genome assemblyMaria V Sharakhova
Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Galvin Life Sciences Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556 0369, USA
Genome Biol 8:R5. 2007....
Challenges and standards in integrating surveys of structural variationStephen W Scherer
The Centre for Applied Genomics and Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 101 College Street, Room 14 701, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
Nat Genet 39:S7-15. 2007..From this, we derive recommendations for standards to be adopted, with the aim of ensuring the accurate presentation of this form of genetic variation to facilitate ongoing research...
The Anopheles gambiae genome: an updateEmmanuel Mongin
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Trends Parasitol 20:49-52. 2004..This article reviews progress and considers limitations in the current sequence assembly and gene annotation, as well as approaches to address these problems and outstanding issues that users of the data must bear in mind...
Confounding between recombination and selection, and the Ped/Pop method for detecting selectionPaul F O'Reilly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
Genome Res 18:1304-13. 2008..We apply the method to human HapMap and Perlegen data sets, finding confirmation of reported candidates as well as identifying new loci that may have undergone recent intense selection...
Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolutionWesley C Warren
Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
Nature 453:175-83. 2008..Sequencing of this genome now provides a valuable resource for deep mammalian comparative analyses, as well as for monotreme biology and conservation...
SNP and haplotype mapping for genetic analysis in the ratKathrin Saar
Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert Rossle Strae 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
Nat Genet 40:560-6. 2008..We provide a detailed SNP map and demonstrate its utility for mapping of quantitative trait loci. This community resource is openly available and augments the genetic tools for this workhorse of physiological studies...
