Exploring cellular responses to stimuli using extensive gene expression profiles has become a routine procedure performed on a daily basis. Raw and processed data from these studies are available on public databases but the opportunity to fully...
Read More »Deciphering the Cancer Transcriptome
from Genetic Engineering News by Richard A. Stein – In recent years, scientists have adopted a gene-centric view of cancer, a tendency to see each malignant transformation as the consequence of alterations in a discrete number of genes or pathways. ...
Read More »A Combination of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq reveals H3K4me3 landscape in the human brain
Regulators of the histone H3-trimethyl lysine-4 (H3K4me3) mark are significantly associated with the genetic risk architecture of common neurodevelopmental disease, including schizophrenia and autism. Typical H3K4me3 is primarily localized in the form of sharp peaks, extending in neuronal chromatin on ...
Read More »RNA sequencing – current and prospective uses in metabolic research
Previous global RNA analysis was restricted to known transcripts in species with a defined transcriptome. Next generation sequencing has transformed transcriptomics by making it possible to analyse expressed genes with an exon level resolution from any tissue in any species ...
Read More »Discovery of Novel Genes and Gene Isoforms by Integrating Transcriptomic and Proteomic Profiling
Comprehensively identifying gene expression in both transcriptomic and proteomic levels of one tissue is a prerequisite for a deeper understanding of its biological functions. Alternative splicing and RNA-editing, two main forms of transcriptional processing, play important roles in transcriptome and ...
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