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Meeting report
A meeting report on the Third European Association for Cancer Research Conference on Cancer Genomics, held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, 25–28 June 2017.
Genome Biology 2017 18:147
Published on: 3 August 2017
Meeting report
A report on the Second Aegean International Conference on the Long and the Short of Non-Coding RNAs, held in Heraklion, Greece, 9–14 June 2017.
Genome Biology 2017 18:133
Published on: 7 July 2017
Editorial
Genome Biology 2017 18:132
Published on: 6 July 2017
Meeting Report
A report on the 11th Genomics of Rare Disease meeting held at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, 5–7 April, 2017.
Genome Biology 2017 18:89
Published on: 11 May 2017
Comment
Methylation in the bodies of active genes is common in animals and vascular plants. Evolutionary patterns indicate homeostatic functions for this type of methylation.
Genome Biology 2017 18:87
Published on: 9 May 2017
Q & A
In the second of our series of articles celebrating peer reviewers, we talk to Robert Lowe, who is a Lecturer in computational biology at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and a valued reviewer for Genome Biol...
Genome Biology 2017 18:72
Published on: 19 April 2017
Opinion
Supplements are increasingly important to the scientific record, particularly in genomics. However, they are often underutilized. Optimally, supplements should make results findable, accessible, interoperable,...
Genome Biology 2017 18:64
Published on: 5 April 2017
Q & A
Genome Biology 2017 18:62
Published on: 4 April 2017
Editorial
We summarize the remarkable progress that has been made in the identification and functional characterization of DNA sequence variants associated with disease.
Genome Biology 2017 18:20
Published on: 30 January 2017
Q & A
The director of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), Guy Rouleau, discusses the recent announcement that the MNI will be completely committed to open science.
Genome Biology 2017 18:14
Published on: 20 January 2017
MEETING REPORT
A report on the Genome Informatics conference, held at the Wellcome Genome Campus Conference Centre, Hinxton, United Kingdom, 19–22 September 2016.
Genome Biology 2017 18:5
Published on: 16 January 2017
Meeting Report
The 10th anniversary ‘Genomics of Common Diseases’ meeting was held in Baltimore, September 25-28, 2016. Professor Chris Haley reports from the meeting on progress and challenges in the field.
Genome Biology 2016 17:254
Published on: 9 December 2016
MEETING REPORT
A report on the Wellcome Trust Conference on Computational RNA Biology, held in Hinxton, UK, on 17–19 October 2016.
Genome Biology 2016 17:253
Published on: 7 December 2016
Opinion
Nanopore DNA strand sequencing has emerged as a competitive, portable technology. Reads exceeding 150 kilobases have been achieved, as have in-field detection and analysis of clinical pathogens. We summarize k...
Genome Biology 2016 17:239
Published on: 25 November 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Genome Biology 2016 17:256
Opinion
Studies of human genetic disorders have traditionally followed a reductionist paradigm. Traits are defined as Mendelian or complex based on family pedigree and population data, whereas alleles are deemed rare,...
Genome Biology 2016 17:233
Published on: 17 November 2016
Q and A
What can be done to encourage and support women of color in STEM fields? Genome Biology spoke with three women of color who have had success in the area of genomics research.
Genome Biology 2016 17:210
Published on: 11 October 2016
Q and A
Peer reviewers are the unsung heroes of science. We celebrate reviewers through a series of interviews with people who have made particularly strong recent contributions to Genome Biology as reviewers. The first ...
Genome Biology 2016 17:200
Published on: 29 September 2016
Comment
The spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers. A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that appr...
Genome Biology 2016 17:177
Published on: 23 August 2016
Editorial
Genome Biology 2016 17:172
Published on: 12 August 2016
Meeting Report
The first Virus Genomics and Evolution Conference was held at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, 8–10 June 2016.
Genome Biology 2016 17:159
Published on: 25 July 2016
Editorial
Genome Biology 2016 17:97
Published on: 10 May 2016
Opinion
Emerging single-cell epigenomic methods are being developed with the exciting potential to transform our knowledge of gene regulation. Here we review available techniques and future possibilities, arguing that...
Genome Biology 2016 17:72
Published on: 18 April 2016
Opinion
Single-cell transcriptomics has been employed in a growing number of animal studies, but the technique has yet to be widely used in plants. Nonetheless, early studies indicate that single-cell RNA-seq protocol...
Genome Biology 2016 17:65
Published on: 5 April 2016
Meeting Report
A report on the Plant Epigenetics: From Genotype to Phenotype Keystone Symposium held in Taos, New Mexico, USA, 15–19 February, 2016.
Genome Biology 2016 17:57
Published on: 29 March 2016
Opinion
As the cost of sequencing continues to decrease and the amount of sequence data generated grows, new paradigms for data storage and analysis are increasingly important. The relative scaling behavior of these e...
Genome Biology 2016 17:53
Published on: 23 March 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Genome Biology 2016 17:78
Meeting Report
A report on the second meeting on ‘Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology: Tools and Technologies’, held 28–29 January 2016 in Ghent, Belgium.
Genome Biology 2016 17:51
Published on: 17 March 2016
Meeting Report
A report on the first EMBO conference entitled “Next Gen Immunology—From Host Genome to the Microbiome: Immunity in the Genomic Era”, held at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 14–16 February, 2016.
Genome Biology 2016 17:50
Published on: 17 March 2016
Question & Answer
Simon Croft answers Genome Biology’s questions on ways to approach neglected tropical diseases in the genomics era, including re-evaluating the impact of new drugs and mass drug administration.
Genome Biology 2016 17:46
Published on: 14 March 2016
Comment
Michael Parker and Dominic Kwiatkowski discuss important ethical considerations for sustainable genomics research in Africa.
Genome Biology 2016 17:44
Published on: 8 March 2016
Comment
Genome Biology 2016 17:39
Published on: 2 March 2016
Meeting Report
A report on the 10th plant genome meeting entitled ‘Plant genomes and biotechnology: from genes to networks’, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2–5 December, 2015.
Genome Biology 2016 17:3
Published on: 11 January 2016
