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Recent Reviews published in Genome Biology

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  1. Transposable elements (TEs) are notable drivers of genetic innovation. Over evolutionary time, TE insertions can supply new promoter, enhancer, and insulator elements to protein-coding genes and establish nove...

    Authors: Patricia Gerdes, Sandra R. Richardson, Dixie L. Mager and Geoffrey J. Faulkner
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:100
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  2. Almost 20 % of all infectious human diseases are vector borne and, together, are responsible for over one million deaths per annum. Over the past decade, the decreasing costs of massively parallel sequencing t...

    Authors: David C. Rinker, R. Jason Pitts and Laurence J. Zwiebel
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:95
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  3. Cell-to-cell variation and heterogeneity are fundamental and intrinsic characteristics of stem cell populations, but these differences are masked when bulk cells are used for omic analysis. Single-cell sequenc...

    Authors: Lu Wen and Fuchou Tang
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:71
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  7. We have witnessed an explosion in our understanding of the evolution and structure of plant genomes in recent years. Here, we highlight three important emergent realizations: (1) that the evolutionary history of

    Authors: Jonathan F. Wendel, Scott A. Jackson, Blake C. Meyers and Rod A. Wing
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:37
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  8. RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has a wide variety of applications, but no single analysis pipeline can be used in all cases. We review all of the major steps in RNA-seq data analysis, including experimental design, ...

    Authors: Ana Conesa, Pedro Madrigal, Sonia Tarazona, David Gomez-Cabrero, Alejandra Cervera, Andrew McPherson, Michał Wojciech Szcześniak, Daniel J. Gaffney, Laura L. Elo, Xuegong Zhang and Ali Mortazavi
    Citation: Genome Biology 2016 17:13
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Genome Biology 2016 17:181