has developed a practical, computational technique, IgDiscover, that enables rapid production of individualized
V gene databases following deep sequencing of expressed antibody repertoires.
To find a solution to this, Marcel Martin at Bioinformatics Long - term Support (WABI) at SciLifeLab, in collaboration with the group of Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam at Karolinska Institutet, has developed a practical, computational technique, IgDiscover, that enables rapid production of individualized
V gene databases following deep sequencing of expressed antibody repertoires.
It also
has a gene database and is in the process of cataloguing the global gene pool.
Not exact matches
Using bioinformatics techniques, Dr Jason Brunt and Dr Andrew Carter, working with Professor Mike Peck and Dr Sandra Stringer, screened this
database for other entries that were similar to the predicted proteins that the botulinum toxin
gene would produce.
In fact, the MESA researchers
had included 46 different variants of the
gene in their sequencing
database.
Importantly, the workflow is highly customisable, allowing users to choose parameters, change tools and run the software on their own
genes, without
having to use the Ensembl
database.
He lamented to a graduate student that he
had never heard from Prasher; then a search on a computer
database turned up a recent paper by Prasher reporting the cloning of the synthetic GFP
gene.
To solve this problem, Su, Good and their colleagues at TSRI
have integrated biomedical data into Wikidata, a public, editable
database where researchers can easily link
genes, proteins and more.
Rudolph Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Ellen Wijsman of the University of Washington, Seattle, both say that they
have checked large
databases and
have found «no evidence» of an AD
gene on chromosome 12.
First, the researchers looked at published
databases of positively selected brain
genes, which
have been classified into 22 categories according to their function.
By compiling a
database of 110 different prokaryote genomes, Todd J. Treangen and Eduardo P. C. Rocha of the Pasteur Institute in Paris calculated the number of
genes that
had been acquired through horizontal
gene transfer.
Researchers
would then
have to pore through four or five
databases for each one, trying to discern which
genes (or the proteins they encode)
have features most likely to affect the biology of the disorder — a painstaking task.
In 2002 a student in Christiano's lab was studying the Human Genome Project
database and noticed an unnamed region where Christiano
had predicted the human version of the lanceolate
gene would reside.
«None of these genomic features is really a smoking gun per se, but combining them led to a robust detection of «new» viruses — viruses we did not
have in the
database, but can identify because they
have capsid
genes and a viral organization,» he said.
The yellow - flag system
would consist of a centralized biosafety sequence
database that
would be annotated as evidence of the function of suspect
genes comes to light.
Before now, researchers wanting to find out whether disease
genes could be targeted with drugs
had to search piecemeal through scientific literature, clinical trials
databases or other sources of information, some of which were not publicly available or easily searchable.
«It
has taken us years to assemble the clinical outcome
database and tissue samples, generate the immunohistochemical biomarkers,
gene expression profiles and analyse the data for this study — and we were delighted to find a definite link between alpha beta crystallin and breast cancer progression, which we hope will ultimately improve clinical outcomes.
The team
has created a publicly accessible
database for researchers of all the patterns of
gene activation that differ between male and female pigeons.
Shotgun sequences random fragments of DNA, not one consistent
gene, so it requires researchers to
have a strong
database they can use to match the sequences to an organism.
Its Italian counterpart
has condemned the patenting of
gene fragments «of unknown function», and the Italian senate is believed to
have instructed publicly funded laboratories not to send data to the
database.
I
have come here to find out more about my body's unique blend of environmental toxins and genetics from the scientists who run the Comparative Toxicogenomics
Database (CTD), an online envirogenomics tool that cross-references thousands of chemicals,
genes, and diseases.
Functional perilipins (PLIN proteins encoded by the PLIN
genes)(Lu et al., 2001)
have been identified in very diverse organisms such as Drosophila (Teixeira et al., 2003), Dictyostelium (Du et al., 2013) and fungi (Wang & St Leger, 2007) and protein
databases list clear orthologues in diverse, non-plant eukaryota, including the simplest metazoan Trichoplax adherens, sponges, crustaceans, and choanoflagelates (UniProt proteins B3RRM2, I1GA14, G5DCP6, F2UJD9, respectively).
A team led by Pablo Tamayo and Jill Mesirov of the Broad Institute and University of California, San Diego, and Broad bioinformatician Arthur Liberzon,
has generated «hallmark»
gene sets from the Molecular Signatures
Database (MSigDB), one of the most comprehensive and widely used
databases for
gene set enrichment analysis.
The process they
have followed in order to gather the specific information was to extract from the published literature all pharmacogenomic biomarkers that relate to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved drugs with pharmacogenomic information in their label and make them available in a
database that triangulates between drugs,
genes and pharmacogenomics biomarkers.
In Emory's Department of Pharmacology, the Traynelis and Yuan labs
have been harvesting the vast amounts of information now available from public genome
databases, to better understand how changes in the NMDA receptor
genes relate to function.
Using
databases created by other labs, the Duke University scientists cross-checked areas of human DNA that
had developed differences from chimp DNA with areas of DNA they expected to be important for
gene regulation.
This uncertainty is unlikely to be resolved until a large sample of the genome
has been sequenced so that the fraction of
genes represented in the EST
databases can be assessed.
Although over 270,000 human expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were available in public
databases as of October, 1995, it is still unclear how many
genes have been identified by this methodology (Jordan, 1996).
Next they turned to the Saccharomyces Genome
Database (SGD) to find
genes that
have been shown to be lethal when overexpressed.
The comparison of sequence data was possible because in recent years thousands of DNA sequences for mosquito
genes (or fragments of
genes)
have been deposited in computer
databases.
By sequencing the exomes of multiple individuals, isolating what we
'd call «tier 1» variants — Nonsynonymous, nonsense, splice site, or frameshift - indel — and then removing all known common variants from public
databases, Dr. Shendure and colleagues can reduce 20,000
gene candidates down to a handful.
Awareness about 2 important publications from IMPC consortium 1 - The analysis of IMPC
database that uncovers 360 new human disease models
has just been published: Meehan et al., (2017) Disease model discovery from 3,328
gene knockouts by The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium.
Nevertheless, 18,693 (63 %)
have identifiable homologues in other organisms in the Swiss - Prot
database; there are no doubt novel or rapidly evolving sponge
genes unknown in other species.
FunCoup is a
database that maintains and visualises global
gene / protein networks of functional coupling that
have been constructed by Bayesian integration of diverse high - throughput data.
This revealed 5,562 and 6,228 loci that
have evidence of transcription in the VNO and OM respectively, that do not overlap any annotated
genes in the Ensembl
database.
To better illustrate
gene expression profiles in mouse ES cells, we
have organized the results in an interactive
database with a number of features and tools.
Out of the 40 instances of such large CNVs that were not implicated previously for AN or neuropsychiatric phenotypes, two of them contained
genes with previous neuropsychiatric associations, and only five of them
had no associated reports in public CNV
databases.
Many of the model organism
databases (MODs) used by members of the GSA community — including FlyBase, WormBase, SGD, ZFIN, and MGI —
have been supported by NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), along with others supporting human and other research — such as OMIM, the
Gene Ontology Consortium, and UniProt.
These include: a) Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of
genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of
gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clust
gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific
Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clust
Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs;
d) Expression Waves of
genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of
genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate
genes with various FunGenES
database clusters.
To better serve the broader research community, WormBase, with five other Model Organism
Databases and The
Gene Ontology project,
have begun to collaborate formally as the Alliance of Genome Resources.
To assist drug development through the identification of essential
genes and pathways, we
have measured competitive growth rates in mice of 2,578 barcoded Plasmodium berghei knockout mutants, representing > 50 % of the genome, and created a phenotype
database.
He developed a Quebec - wide
database tracking the incidence of
genes that cause metabolic disorders, and since the 1980s,
has advocated for the sharing of information to move genetics research forward.
Sequence searches for
genes that
have been trapped can be performed by running a BLAST search of the dbGSS
database.
To facilitate data comparison between the FunGenES
database and other resources, we
have included a series of links to other Stem cell
databases, i.e., to SCDb, Amazonia in the Study your
Gene (s) of Interest search engine.
Assigning 16S rRNA
gene sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) allows microbial ecologists to overcome the inconsistencies and biases within bacterial taxonomy and provides a strategy for clustering similar sequences that do not
have representatives in a reference
database.
We modeled how additional
genes would impact the assay by looking at the inclusion of other amplicons from the top 20
genes contributing to bladder cancer development listed in the COSMIC
database.
The Cancer
Gene Census (CGC) database contains 547 such gene across various cancer types.5 Remarkably, few driver genes having specific point mutations appear to be sufficient to rewire signalling networks in cancer, 1 which at the same time shows that — at least from the mutational side — cancer does not consist of an «infinite» number of different diseases, and in many cases treatment options targeted against driver genes might be transferred from one case to the n
Gene Census (CGC)
database contains 547 such
gene across various cancer types.5 Remarkably, few driver genes having specific point mutations appear to be sufficient to rewire signalling networks in cancer, 1 which at the same time shows that — at least from the mutational side — cancer does not consist of an «infinite» number of different diseases, and in many cases treatment options targeted against driver genes might be transferred from one case to the n
gene across various cancer types.5 Remarkably, few driver
genes having specific point mutations appear to be sufficient to rewire signalling networks in cancer, 1 which at the same time shows that — at least from the mutational side — cancer does not consist of an «infinite» number of different diseases, and in many cases treatment options targeted against driver
genes might be transferred from one case to the next.
It overlaps somewhat with recent «atlas» type papers from Tripathi and Lemaitre, but
has unique aspects and different
gene expression and Gal4
databases, so it will serve to complement these other studies.
Bridging the gap between human and companion animal research, Professor Kelly Swanson (University of Illinois, USA) acknowledged the foundation that human studies
have provided with respect to bacterial
gene catalogues,
databases and bioinformatics tools.
This music information
database has been in development for over a decade and is capable of classifying music at the song level across 450 different attributes — «
genes» that can be as specific as what types of strings are on the guitar, for example.