26.
Strand-specific libraries for high throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) prepared without poly(A) selection
Zhao
Zhang,
William
E
Theurkauf,
Zhiping
Weng,
Phillip
D
Zamore
Silence 2012, 3 :9 (28 December 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
27.
Clamp loader ATPases and the evolution of DNA replication machinery
Brian
A
Kelch,
Debora
L
Makino,
Mike
O'Donnell,
John
Kuriyan
BMC Biology 2012, 10 :34 (20 April 2012)
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Editor’s summary
The speed of DNA replication depends on the sliding clamp which encircles the DNA and holds the polymerase in place. Mike O'Donnell, John Kuriyan and colleagues review the growing understanding of the conformational rearrangements whereby the clamp loader opens the clamp and screws it on to the DNA throughout DNA synthesis.
28.
A high-density 3D localization algorithm for stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy
Hazen
Babcock,
Yaron
M
Sigal,
Xiaowei
Zhuang
Optical Nanoscopy 2012, 1 :6 (16 July 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
29.
MESSA: MEta-Server for protein Sequence Analysis
Qian
Cong,
Nick
V
Grishin
BMC Biology 2012, 10 :82 (2 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Using amalgamated sequence alignments to generate information about local sequence properties, 3D structure and protein function, the new meta-server MESSA provides an integrated, holistic view of proteins via a user-friendly interface.
30.
Multiparameter behavioral profiling reveals distinct thermal response regimes in Caenorhabditis elegans
Rajarshi
Ghosh,
Aylia
Mohammadi,
Leonid
Kruglyak,
William
S
Ryu
BMC Biology 2012, 10 :85 (31 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
By developing a novel assay to quantitate C elegans thermal avoidance behavior, William Ryu and colleagues discovered that different genes are utilized to provide the same phenotypic response, depending on the severity of the applied stimulus.
31.
Development of a luciferase-based reporter of transcriptional gene silencing that enables bidirectional mutant screening in Arabidopsis thaliana
So Youn
Won,
Shengben
Li,
Binglian
Zheng,
Yuanyuan
Zhao,
Dongming
Li,
Xin
Zhao,
Huilan
Yi,
Lei
Gao,
Thanh Theresa
Dinh,
Xuemei
Chen
Silence 2012, 3 :6 (7 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
A luciferase-based reporter system, LUCH, is used to screen for bidirectional mutants that enhance or suppress transcriptional gene silencing, elucidating the mechanisms of DNA methylation and demethylation.
32.
Accelerated exon evolution within primate segmental duplications
Belen
Lorente-Galdos,
Jonathan
Bleyhl,
Gabriel
Santpere,
Laura
Vives,
Oscar
Ramírez,
Jessica
Hernandez,
Roger
Anglada,
Gregory
M
Cooper,
Arcadi
Navarro,
Evan
E
Eichler,
Tomas
Marques-Bonet
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :R9 (29 January 2013)
Abstract | Provisional PDF
| PubMed
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Editor’s summary
A new study looks at segmental duplication genes in humans and macaques to elucidate exon evolution in primates
33.
Dissecting the regulatory architecture of gene expression QTLs
Daniel
J
Gaffney,
Jean-Baptiste
Veyrieras,
Jacob
F
Degner,
Roger
Pique-Regi,
Athma
A
Pai,
Gregory
E
Crawford,
Matthew
Stephens,
Yoav
Gilad,
Jonathan
K
Pritchard
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :R7 (31 January 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central | F1000 Biology
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Editor’s summary
An analysis of eQTLs located in regulatory elements in the human genome
34.
The structure of the leukemia drug imatinib bound to human quinone reductase 2 (NQO2)
Jonathan
A
Winger,
Oliver
Hantschel,
Giulio
Superti-Furga,
John
Kuriyan
BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :7 (24 February 2009)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
The tyrosine-kinase inhibitor imatinib is revealed by X-ray crystallography to occupy the active site of the oxidoreductase NQO2, a secondary target whose inhibition may be responsible for side effects in leukaemia patients receiving treatment with the drug.
35.
Efficient counting of
k
-mers in DNA sequences using a bloom filter
Páll
Melsted,
Jonathan
K
Pritchard
BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12 :333 (10 August 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
36.
A clinical genetic method to identify mechanisms by which pain causes depression and anxiety
Mitchell
B
Max,
Tianxia
Wu,
Steven
J
Atlas,
Robert
R
Edwards,
Jennifer
A
Haythornthwaite,
Antonella
F
Bollettino,
Heather
S
Hipp,
Colin
D
McKnight,
Inge
A
Osman,
Erin
N
Crawford,
Maryland
Pao,
Jemiel
Nejim,
Albert
Kingman,
Daniel
C
Aisen,
Michele
A
Scully,
Robert
B
Keller,
David
Goldman,
Inna
Belfer
Molecular Pain 2006, 2 :14 (19 April 2006)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
37.
Genotyping 1000 yeast strains by next-generation sequencing
Stefan
Wilkening,
Manu
M
Tekkedil,
Gen
Lin,
Emilie
S
Fritsch,
Wu
Wei,
Julien
Gagneur,
David
W
Lazinski,
Andrew
Camilli,
Lars
M
Steinmetz
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :90 (9 February 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
38.
ScanImage: Flexible software for operating laser scanning microscopes
Thomas
A
Pologruto,
Bernardo
L
Sabatini,
Karel
Svoboda
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2003, 2 :13 (17 May 2003)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
39.
Microarray analysis of microRNA expression in the developing mammalian brain
Eric
A
Miska,
Ezequiel
Alvarez-Saavedra,
Matthew
Townsend,
Akira
Yoshii,
Nenad
Šestan,
Pasko
Rakic,
Martha
Constantine-Paton,
H Robert
Horvitz
Genome Biology 2004, 5 :R68 (31 August 2004)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
A microarray technology suitable for analyzing the expression of microRNAs and of other small RNAs was used to determine the microRNA expression profile during mouse-brain development and observed a temporal wave of gene expression of sequential classes of microRNAs.
40.
Comparative genomics of the pathogenic ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis , its free-living relatives and a host species provide insights into adoption of a parasitic lifestyle and prospects for disease control
Robert
S
Coyne,
Linda
Hannick,
Dhanasekaran
Shanmugam,
Jessica
B
Hostetler,
Daniel
Brami,
Vinita
S
Joardar,
Justin
Johnson,
Diana
Radune,
Irtisha
Singh,
Jonathan
H
Badger,
Ujjwal
Kumar,
Milton
Saier,
Yufeng
Wang,
Hong
Cai,
Jianying
Gu,
Michael
W
Mather,
Akhil
B
Vaidya,
David
E
Wilkes,
Vidyalakshmi
Rajagopalan,
David
J
Asai,
Chad
G
Pearson,
Robert
C
Findly,
Harry
W
Dickerson,
Martin
Wu,
Cindy
Martens,
Yves
Van de Peer,
David
S
Roos,
Donna
M
Cassidy-Hanley,
Theodore
G
Clark
Genome Biology 2011, 12 :R100 (17 October 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
The genome of the pathogenic ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, which causes white spot disease in fish, is presented
41.
Mechanisms of stomatal development: an evolutionary view
Anne
Vatén,
Dominique
C
Bergmann
EvoDevo 2012, 3 :11 (12 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
42.
Exploding vesicles
Ting
F
Zhu,
Jack
W
Szostak
Journal of Systems Chemistry 2011, 2 :4 (1 December 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
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Editor’s summary
A dramatic phenomenon in which light triggers the sudden rupture of fatty acid vesicles has been observed in a primitive cell membrane model, and could lead to applications such as targeted drug delivery
43.
A comparative analysis of DNA methylation across human embryonic stem cell lines
Pao-Yang
Chen,
Suhua
Feng,
Jong
Joo,
Steve
E
Jacobsen,
Matteo
Pellegrini
Genome Biology 2011, 12 :R62 (6 July 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
A comparison of DNA methylation in three human embryonic stem cell lines
44.
The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the ome-ome
Daniel
McDonald,
Jose
C
Clemente,
Justin
Kuczynski,
Jai
Rideout,
Jesse
Stombaugh,
Doug
Wendel,
Andreas
Wilke,
Susan
Huse,
John
Hufnagle,
Folker
Meyer,
Rob
Knight,
J
Caporaso
GigaScience 2012, 1 :7 (12 July 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
45.
A 5′-uridine amplifies miRNA/miRNA* asymmetry in Drosophila by promoting RNA-induced silencing complex formation
Hervé
Seitz,
Jogender
S
Tushir,
Phillip
D
Zamore
Silence 2011, 2 :4 (7 June 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
46.
Developmental roles of 21 Drosophila transcription factors are determined by quantitative differences in binding to an overlapping set of thousands of genomic regions
Stewart
MacArthur,
Xiao-Yong
Li,
Jingyi
Li,
James
B
Brown,
Hou Cheng
Chu,
Lucy
Zeng,
Brandi
P
Grondona,
Aaron
Hechmer,
Lisa
Simirenko,
Soile
VE
Keränen,
David
W
Knowles,
Mark
Stapleton,
Peter
Bickel,
Mark
D
Biggin,
Michael
B
Eisen
Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R80 (23 July 2009)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central | F1000 Biology
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Editor’s summary
Distinct developmental fates in Drosophila melanogaster are specified by quantitative differences in transcription factor occupancy on a common set of bound regions.
47.
Embryonic stem cell-specific signatures in cancer: insights into genomic regulatory networks and implications for medicine
Jonghwan
Kim,
Stuart
H
Orkin
Genome Medicine 2011, 3 :75 (29 November 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
Jonghwan Kim and Stuart Orkin review recent genome-scale and systems approaches to understand the regulatory networks that are common to embryonic stem (ES) cells and cancer.
48.
Annotation of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatic genome: a systematic review
Sima
Misra,
Madeline
A
Crosby,
Christopher
J
Mungall,
Beverley
B
Matthews,
Kathryn
S
Campbell,
Pavel
Hradecky,
Yanmei
Huang,
Joshua
S
Kaminker,
Gillian
H
Millburn,
Simon
E
Prochnik,
Christopher
D
Smith,
Jonathan
L
Tupy,
Eleanor
J
Whitfield,
Leyla
Bayraktaroglu,
Benjamin
P
Berman,
Brian
R
Bettencourt,
Susan
E
Celniker,
Aubrey
DNJ
de Grey,
Rachel
A
Drysdale,
Nomi
L
Harris,
John
Richter,
Susan
Russo,
Andrew
J
Schroeder,
ShengQiang
Shu,
Mark
Stapleton,
Chihiro
Yamada,
Michael
Ashburner,
William
M
Gelbart,
Gerald
M
Rubin,
Suzanna
E
Lewis
Genome Biology 2002, 3 :research0083-0083.22 (31 December 2002)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
The recent completion of the Drosophila melanogaster genomic sequence to high quality, and the availability of a greatly expanded set of Drosophila cDNA sequences, afforded FlyBase the opportunity to significantly improve genomic annotations.
49.
A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues
Radha
Shyamsundar,
Young
H
Kim,
John
P
Higgins,
Kelli
Montgomery,
Michelle
Jorden,
Anand
Sethuraman,
Matt
van de Rijn,
David
Botstein,
Patrick
O
Brown,
Jonathan
R
Pollack
Genome Biology 2005, 6 :R22 (14 February 2005)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
A systematic survey of gene expression in 115 human tissue samples using cDNA microarrays provides a dataset that can be used as a baseline for comparison with expression in diseased tissue.
50.
An interview with Patrick O Brown on the origins and future of open access
Patrick
O
Brown
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :33 (15 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
In an interview for the BMC Biology tenth anniversary collection, Patrick O Brown excavates his memory for the origins of open access publishing, and finds a vision of the future still to be fulfilled.