Not exact matches
The RNA - guided endonuclease Cas9 is a versatile genome - editing tool with a broad range of applications
from therapeutics to functional
annotation of
genes.
The paper demonstrates how BinoX can be used to find many biologically meaningful pathway
annotations for
gene sets
from cancer and other diseases, which are not found by other methods.
In addition, the significant number (> 1000) novel models that came
from RNA - Seq that were absent
from the zebrafish cDNAs suggests that the deep sequencing offered by RNA - Seq can be used to expand the
gene annotation of even well - studied model organisms.
Phenotype data
from 449 mutant alleles were acquired, representing 320 unique
genes, of which half had no previous functional
annotation and data
from over 27,000 mice were captured, finding that 83 % of the mutant lines are phenodeviant, with 65 % demonstrating pleiotropy.
Functional
annotations from Ensembl BioMart, TAIR10, Phytozome, and MaizeGDB were based on homologs determined through Ensembl Compara
gene trees (gramene.org).
Up - to - date
gene annotation data were retrieved regularly
from common data sources (predominantly NCBI and Ensembl), and then stored in a CouchDB instance and indexed via Lucene.
We considered
genes with at least 5 reads mapping in exons and
from all biotypes in the
annotation.
Draft genome
annotation was transferred
from P. vivax P01 using RATT21 (version 1), and supplemented with the output of the Augustus22
gene finder, trained on P. vivax P01 as described in23.
While further study will be necessary to better understand the biological role these immune - inducible
genes play, it is clear
from this study that a transcriptional approach reveals a depth and complexity to the immune response in Nasonia that is not apparent
from only comparative and computational
annotations.
GO
Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a
gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence c
gene product, a term
from one of the three
Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence c
Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.
By sequencing RNA
from infected and uninfected control samples and identifying
genes that are differentially regulated by infection status, it is possible for the first time to identify all
genes regulated by a specific immune challenge independent of homology - based
annotations.
This makes them ideal to predict
gene function, by transferring known functional
annotations from orthologs in model organisms.
This
annotation was used to query 107 whole genome sequences
from 19 breeds and identified over 5500 alleles across the 550
genes of the seven AR loci: the IG heavy, kappa, and lambda loci; and the TR alpha, beta, gamma, and delta loci.