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Long-Read Isoform Sequencing Reveals a Hidden Complexity of the Transcriptional Landscape of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1

June 2017 Authors: Dóra Tombácz, Zsolt Csabai, Attila Szűcs, Zsolt Balázs, et al. Info: Scientists from Hungary and California conducted isoform sequencing with PacBio to analyze the transcriptome of herpes simplex virus type 1. They discovered dozens of previously unidentified … more »

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Comprehensive comparison of Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore Technologies and their applications to transcriptome analysis

June 2017 Authors: Jason Weirather, Mariateresa de Cesare, Yunhao Wang, Paolo Piazza, Vittorio Sebastiano, Xiu-Jie Wang, David Buck, Kin Fai Au Info: In this F1000 publication, scientists describe an evaluation of long-read sequencing technologies, finding that PacBio provides better data … more »

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quaddRAD: a new high-multiplexing and PCR duplicate removal ddRAD protocol produces novel evolutionary insights in a nonradiating cichlid lineage

May 2017 Authors: Franchini P, Monné Parera D, Kautt AF, Meyer A Info: Scientists from the University of Konstanz modified the original ddRAD-seq protocol to make it faster, more cost-effective, and higher-capacity. They report results from validating the new method … more »

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How to CATCH Your Gene of Interest

If you haven’t heard about CATCH by now, it’s time to catch up. Short for Cas9-assisted targeting of chromosome segments, CATCH comes from the lab of Yuval Ebenstein at Tel Aviv University and was first reported in this Nature Communications … more »

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Comparative Analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum Methylomes

April 2017 Authors: Ivan Erill, Marina Puigvert, Ludovic Legrand, Rodrigo Guarischi-Sousa, et al. Info: Scientists report results of analyzing epigenetic patterns in two strains of a plant pathogen. They determined that methylation regulates virulence and adaptation to different host plants. … more »

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Tripartite species interaction: eukaryotic hosts suffer more from phage susceptible than from phage resistant bacteria

April 2017 Authors: Carolin Wendling, Agnes Piecyk, Dominik Refardt, Cynthia Chibani, et al. Info: Scientists investigated the extent to which a bacterium’s susceptibility or resistance to prophages alters its own effect as a pathogen, finding that bacteria that were more … more »

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The RNA Exosome Syncs IAV-RNAPII Transcription to Promote Viral Ribogenesis and Infectivity

April 2017 Authors: Alexander Rialdi, Judd Hultquist, David Jimenez-Morales, Zuleyma Peralta, et al. Info: Scientists in New York and California teamed up to study the role of nuclear RNA exosomes in viral transcription, using influenza A. They found that the … more »

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Impaired human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replicative fitness in atypical viremic non-progressor individuals

March 2017 Authors: Jan Weber, Richard Gibson, Lenka Sácká, Dmytro Strunin, et al. Info: In this publication, scientists describe an analysis of the rates of HIV progression in several patients. They determined that reduced viral replicative fitness appears to be … more »

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Functional variation in allelic methylomes underscores a strong genetic contribution and reveals novel epigenetic alterations in the human epigenome

March 2017 Authors: Warren Cheung, Xiaojian Shao, Andréanne Morin, Valérie Siroux, et al. Info: Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions used ChIP-seq to elucidate the effects of epigenetics and phenotype across the human genome. They analyzed more than 900 … more »

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Defining the diverse spectrum of inversions, complex structural variation, and chromothripsis in the morbid human genome

March 2017 Authors: Ryan Collins, Harrison Brand, Claire Redin, Carrie Hanscom, et al. Info: Scientists at Harvard and other institutions sequenced nearly 700 individuals with autism spectrum disorder to build a comprehensive map of large structural variants. More than a … more »

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