A new era in functional genomics screens

L Przybyla, LA Gilbert - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The past 25 years of genomics research first revealed which genes are encoded by the
human genome and then a detailed catalogue of human genome variation associated with …

A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing

AK Cain, L Barquist, AL Goodman, IT Paulsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the introduction of modern transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS)
methods, which combine genome-wide transposon mutagenesis with high-throughput …

Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with GEARS

Y Roohani, K Huang, J Leskovec - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding cellular responses to genetic perturbation is central to numerous biomedical
applications, from identifying genetic interactions involved in cancer to developing methods …

A genetic map of the response to DNA damage in human cells

M Olivieri, T Cho, A Álvarez-Quilón, K Li… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The response to DNA damage is critical for cellular homeostasis, tumor suppression,
immunity, and gametogenesis. In order to provide an unbiased and global view of the DNA …

Recent advances in systems and synthetic biology approaches for developing novel cell-factories in non-conventional yeasts

P Patra, M Das, P Kundu, A Ghosh - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial bioproduction of chemicals, proteins, and primary metabolites from cheap carbon
sources is currently an advancing area in industrial research. The model yeast …

Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes

TM Norman, MA Horlbeck, JM Replogle, AY Ge, A Xu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
How cellular and organismal complexity emerges from combinatorial expression of genes is
a central question in biology. High-content phenotyping approaches such as Perturb-seq …

Epistasis and adaptation on fitness landscapes

C Bank - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Epistasis occurs when the effect of a mutation depends on its carrier's genetic background.
Despite increasing evidence that epistasis for fitness is common, its role during evolution is …

Genetic modifiers and rare Mendelian disease

KMTH Rahit, M Tarailo-Graovac - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite advances in high-throughput sequencing that have revolutionized the discovery of
gene defects in rare Mendelian diseases, there are still gaps in translating individual …

CRISPR screens for functional interrogation of immunity

H Shi, JG Doench, H Chi - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-based technologies represent a major breakthrough in biomedical science as they
offer a powerful platform for unbiased screening and functional genomics in various fields …

Epistasis-driven identification of SLC25A51 as a regulator of human mitochondrial NAD import

E Girardi, G Agrimi, U Goldmann, G Fiume… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
About a thousand genes in the human genome encode for membrane transporters. Among
these, several solute carrier proteins (SLCs), representing the largest group of transporters …