1.
Sixty years of genome biology
W
Doolittle,
Peter
Fraser,
Mark
B
Gerstein,
Brenton
R
Graveley,
Steven
Henikoff,
Curtis
Huttenhower,
Alicia
Oshlack,
Chris
P
Ponting,
John
L
Rinn,
Michael
C
Schatz,
Jernej
Ule,
Detlef
Weigel,
George
M
Weinstock
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :113 (25 April 2013)
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Members of Genome Biology's Editorial Board select their highlights from the 60 years of genome biology that followed the double helix
2.
Characterizing the state of the art in the computational assignment of gene function: lessons from the first critical assessment of functional annotation (CAFA)
Jesse
Gillis,
Paul
Pavlidis
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 (Suppl 3):S15 (22 April 2013)
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Whole-genome sequencing in an autism multiplex family
Lingling
Shi,
Xu
Zhang,
Ryan
Golhar,
Frederick
G
Otieno,
Mingze
He,
Cuiping
Hou,
Cecilia
Kim,
Brendan
Keating,
Gholson
J
Lyon,
Kai
Wang,
Hakon
Hakonarson
Molecular Autism 2013, 4 :8 (18 April 2013)
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Low concordance of multiple variant-calling pipelines: practical implications for exome and genome sequencing
Jason
O'Rawe,
Tao
Jiang,
Guangqing
Sun,
Yiyang
Wu,
Wei
Wang,
Jingchu
Hu,
Paul
Bodily,
Lifeng
Tian,
Hakon
Hakonarson,
W Evan
Johnson,
Zhi
Wei,
Kai
Wang,
Gholson
J
Lyon
Genome Medicine 2013, 5 :28 (27 March 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Head-to-head comparison of widely used variant calling pipelines including SOAP, GATK and Complete Genomics using default parameters reveals discrepancies between the pipelines.
5.
Modeling the evolution dynamics of exon-intron structure with a general random fragmentation process
Liya
Wang,
Lincoln
D
Stein
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13 :57 (28 February 2013)
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Improvement of the Oryza sativa Nipponbare reference genome using next generation sequence and optical map data
Yoshihiro
Kawahara,
Melissa
de la Bastide,
John
P
Hamilton,
Hiroyuki
Kanamori,
W Richard
McCombie,
Shu
Ouyang,
David
C
Schwartz,
Tsuyoshi
Tanaka,
Jianzhong
Wu,
Shiguo
Zhou,
Kevin
L
Childs,
Rebecca
M
Davidson,
Haining
Lin,
Lina
Quesada-Ocampo,
Brieanne
Vaillancourt,
Hiroaki
Sakai,
Sung Shin
Lee,
Jungsok
Kim,
Hisataka
Numa,
Takeshi
Itoh,
C Robin
Buell,
Takashi
Matsumoto
Rice 2013, 6 :4 (6 February 2013)
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Kerfuffle: a web tool for multi-species gene colocalization analysis
Robert
Aboukhalil,
Bernard
Fendler,
Gurinder
S
Atwal
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :22 (17 January 2013)
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The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names
Brad
Boyle,
Nicole
Hopkins,
Zhenyuan
Lu,
Juan Antonio
Raygoza Garay,
Dmitry
Mozzherin,
Tony
Rees,
Naim
Matasci,
Martha
L
Narro,
William
H
Piel,
Sheldon
J
Mckay,
Sonya
Lowry,
Chris
Freeland,
Robert
K
Peet,
Brian
J
Enquist
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :16 (16 January 2013)
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9.
Computational thinking in the era of big data biology
Michael
C
Schatz
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :177 (29 November 2012)
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by Mike Schatz
10.
Broad applications of single-cell nucleic acid analysis in biomedical research
Michael
Wigler
Genome Medicine 2012, 4 :79 (30 October 2012)
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Following the advent of single-cell analyses, Michael Wigler muses on how these will be valuable in the study and diagnosis of diseases other than cancer, as well as in basic cell biology.
11.
Unique small RNA signatures uncovered in the tammar wallaby genome
James
Lindsay,
Dawn
M
Carone,
Judy
Brown,
Laura
Hall,
Sohaib
Qureshi,
Sarah
E
Mitchell,
Nicholas
Jannetty,
Greg
Hannon,
Marilyn
Renfree,
Andrew
Pask,
Michael
O’Neill,
Rachel
O’Neill
BMC Genomics 2012, 13 :559 (17 October 2012)
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FACS-based purification of Arabidopsis microspores, sperm cells and vegetative nuclei
Filipe
Borges,
Rui
Gardner,
Telma
Lopes,
Joseph
P
Calarco,
Leonor
C
Boavida,
R
Slotkin,
Robert
A
Martienssen,
Jörg
D
Becker
Plant Methods 2012, 8 :44 (17 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
The paper provides simple and efficient FACS-based purification protocols for Arabidopsis microspores, vegetative nuclei and sperm cells.
13.
Illuminating the genetics of complex human diseases
Michael
C
Schatz
BMC Proceedings 2012, 6 (Suppl 6):O4 (1 October 2012)
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Cul4B regulates neural progenitor cell growth
Helio
C
Liu,
Grigori
Enikolopov,
Yuzhi
Chen
BMC Neuroscience 2012, 13 :112 (19 September 2012)
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Modeling gene expression using chromatin features in various cellular contexts
Xianjun
Dong,
Melissa
C
Greven,
Anshul
Kundaje,
Sarah
Djebali,
James
B
Brown,
Chao
Cheng,
Thomas
R
Gingeras,
Mark
Gerstein,
Roderic
Guigó,
Ewan
Birney,
Zhiping
Weng
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :R53 (5 September 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Models for linking gene expression with chromatin features vary according to cellular context and RNA measurement method
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An encyclopedia of mouse DNA elements (Mouse ENCODE)
John
A
Stamatoyannopoulos,
Michael
Snyder,
Ross
Hardison,
Bing
Ren,
Thomas
Gingeras,
David
M
Gilbert,
Mark
Groudine,
Michael
Bender,
Rajinder
Kaul,
Theresa
Canfield,
Erica
Giste,
Audra
Johnson,
Mia
Zhang,
Gayathri
Balasundaram,
Rachel
Byron,
Vaughan
Roach,
Peter
J
Sabo,
Richard
Sandstrom,
A Sandra
Stehling,
Robert
E
Thurman,
Sherman
M
Weissman,
Philip
Cayting,
Manoj
Hariharan,
Jin
Lian,
Yong
Cheng,
Stephen
G
Landt,
Zhihai
Ma,
Barbara
J
Wold,
Job
Dekker
et al.
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :418 (13 August 2012)
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Editor’s summary
The Mouse ENCODE Consortium is applying the same experimental pipelines developed for human ENCODE to annotate the mouse genome
17.
Identifying disease mutations in genomic medicine settings: current challenges and how to accelerate progress
Gholson
J
Lyon,
Kai
Wang
Genome Medicine 2012, 4 :58 (26 July 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Gholson Lyon and Kai Wang review the challenges in applying genome sequencing to identify and catalog disease mutations, and they consider how to facilitate better collaboration to accelerate progress.
18.
The rise of a digital immune system
Michael
C
Schatz,
Adam
M
Phillippy
GigaScience 2012, 1 :4 (12 July 2012)
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Mike Schatz and Adam Phillippy feel the time is right for developing a sequencing-based pathogen surveillance system, and discuss the idea of a "digital immune system"
19.
Computational identification and analysis of novel sugarcane microRNAs
Flávia
Thiebaut,
Clícia
Grativol,
Mariana
Carnavale-Bottino,
Cristian
Rojas,
Milos
Tanurdzic,
Laurent
Farinelli,
Robert
A
Martienssen,
Adriana
Hemerly,
Paulo Cavalcanti
Ferreira
BMC Genomics 2012, 13 :290 (2 July 2012)
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A generalizable pre-clinical research approach for orphan disease therapy
Chandree
L
Beaulieu,
Mark
E
Samuels,
Sean
Ekins,
Christopher
R
McMaster,
Aled
M
Edwards,
Adrian
R
Krainer,
Geoffrey
G
Hicks,
Brendan
J
Frey,
Kym
M
Boycott,
Alex
E
MacKenzie
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2012, 7 :39 (15 June 2012)
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Current challenges in de novo plant genome sequencing and assembly
Michael
C
Schatz,
Jan
Witkowski,
W Richard
McCombie
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :243 (27 April 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Michael Schatz and colleagues assess challenges in de novo plant genome assembly and review the best practices for the plant community
22.
A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots
Yuannian
Jiao,
Jim
Leebens-Mack,
Saravanaraj
Ayyampalayam,
John
E
Bowers,
Michael
R
McKain,
Joel
McNeal,
Megan
Rolf,
Daniel
R
Ruzicka,
Eric
Wafula,
Norman
J
Wickett,
Xiaolei
Wu,
Yong
Zhang,
Jun
Wang,
Yeting
Zhang,
Eric
J
Carpenter,
Michael
K
Deyholos,
Toni
M
Kutchan,
Andre
S
Chanderbali,
Pamela
S
Soltis,
Dennis
W
Stevenson,
Richard
McCombie,
J
Pires,
Gane
Wong,
Douglas
E
Soltis,
Claude
W
dePamphilis
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :R3 (26 January 2012)
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An investigation of when the gamma polyploidization event occurred in relation to speciation events in angiosperm history
23.
Genetic adaptation to high altitude in the Ethiopian highlands
Laura
B
Scheinfeldt,
Sameer
Soi,
Simon
Thompson,
Alessia
Ranciaro,
Dawit
Woldemeskel,
William
Beggs,
Charla
Lambert,
Joseph
P
Jarvis,
Dawit
Abate,
Gurja
Belay,
Sarah
A
Tishkoff
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :R1 (20 January 2012)
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Editor’s summary
The genetics of hypoxia selection in an Ethiopian high-altitude population are distinct from Andean and Tibetan genotypes, suggestive of convergent evolution
24.
Accurate proteome-wide protein quantification from high-resolution 15 N mass spectra
Zia
Khan,
Sasan
Amini,
Joshua
S
Bloom,
Cristian
Ruse,
Amy
A
Caudy,
Leonid
Kruglyak,
Mona
Singh,
David
H
Perlman,
Saeed
Tavazoie
Genome Biology 2011, 12 :R122 (19 December 2011)
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A fast, user-friendly bioinformatic tool for accurate quantification of proteins in 15N mass spectrometry data
25.
Epigenomic insights into common disease
Kate
Revill,
Benjamin
Tycko
Genome Medicine 2011, 3 :71 (15 November 2011)
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Revill and Tycko report on the Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference on 'Epigenomics of Common Diseases', highlighting this fast-moving field with particular emphasis on genome-wide studies.