Held this year on April 25th, DNA Day celebrates the discovery of the double helix in 1953 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003.
At BMC, we mark DNA Day by providing you, the researcher, with some top open access content. Including both highly cited and accessed articles, we hope you find these articles of interest.
Published in 2019, here is some of our top accessed content from across our genetics portfolio.
1. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (Accesses: 3,991)
Achondroplasia: a comprehensive clinical review
2. Clinical Epigenetics (Accesses: 2,378)
3. BMC Genomics (Accesses: 2,076)
GOPHER: Generator Of Probes for capture Hi-C Experiments at high Resolution
4. BMC Bioinformatics (Accesses: 1,770)
5. Epigenetics & Chromatin (Accesses: 1,150)
Histone H3 lysine K4 methylation and its role in learning and memory​​​​​​
Since the beginning of 2018, here is some of our top cited content from across our genetics portfolio.
1. BMC Genetics (Citations: 14)
2. BMC Bioinformatics (Citations: 13)
ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees
3. Epigenetics & Chromatin (Citations: 12)
4. BMC Genomics (Citations: 12)
InfAcrOnt: calculating cross-ontology term similarities using information flow by a random walk
5. Human Genomics (Citations: 9)
Integrating rare genetic variants into pharmacogenetic drug response predictions
BMC Biology
Presenting one of the few whole Y-chromosome sequences reported among vertebrates, and provides insights into sex determination mechanisms.
BMC Medicine
Mapping malaria by combining parasite genomic and epidemiologic data
This article, on the use of parasite genetics and epidemiological modeling and mapping to understand malaria transmission, did well on social media and has future research implications.
Genome Biology
One of the journal’s most highly accessed papers of the year so far, this article looks at the variability at the single cell level of DNA splicing patterns and DNA methylation patterns, and how they relate.
Genome Medicine
A method for the fast and flexible profiling of ctDNA, named Next Generation-Targeted Amplicon Sequencing (NG-TAS), which can also monitor disease int the patient setting.
BioData Mining
Combining DNA methylation and RNA sequencing data of cancer for supervised knowledge extraction
BMC Genetics
The epigenetic regulation of HsMar1, a human DNA transposon
BMC Genomics
Metagenomic analysis of microbe-mediated vitamin metabolism in the human gut microbiome
Clinical Epigenetics
The emerging role of epigenetics in human autoimmune disorders
Epigenetics & Chromatin
DNA replication dynamics of vole genome and its epigenetic regulation
Genes & Nutrition
Hereditas
Human Genomics
A new bioinformatics tool to help assess the significance of BRCA1 variants
Lipids in Health and Disease
Mobile DNA
The impact of transposable element activity on therapeutically relevant human stem cells
Molecular Cytogenetics
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases