Lung endothelium exploits susceptible tumor cell states to instruct metastatic latency

M Jakab, KH Lee, A Uvarovskii, S Ovchinnikova… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In metastasis, cancer cells travel around the circulation to colonize distant sites. Due to the
rarity of these events, the immediate fates of metastasizing tumor cells (mTCs) are poorly …

The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species

TE Putman, K Schaper, N Matentzoglu… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bridging the gap between genetic variations, environmental determinants, and phenotypic
outcomes is critical for supporting clinical diagnosis and understanding mechanisms of …

HTCA: a database with an in-depth characterization of the single-cell human transcriptome

L Pan, S Shan, R Tremmel, W Li, Z Liao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) is one of the most used single-cell omics in recent
decades. The exponential growth of single-cell data has immense potential for large-scale …

Investigating open reading frames in known and novel transcripts using ORFanage

A Varabyou, B Erdogdu, SL Salzberg… - Nature computational …, 2023 - nature.com
ORFanage is a system designed to assign open reading frames (ORFs) to known and novel
gene transcripts while maximizing similarity to annotated proteins. The primary intended use …

Distance-dependent inhibition of translation initiation by downstream out-of-frame AUGs is consistent with a Brownian ratchet process of ribosome scanning

K Li, J Kong, S Zhang, T Zhao, W Qian - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Eukaryotic ribosomes are widely presumed to scan mRNA for the AUG codon to
initiate translation in a strictly 5′–3′ movement (ie, strictly unidirectional scanning model) …

Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget

L Luebbert, L Pachter - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation A recurring challenge in interpreting genomic data is the assessment of results in
the context of existing reference databases. With the increasing number of command line …

ContScout: sensitive detection and removal of contamination from annotated genomes

B Bálint, Z Merényi, B Hegedüs, IV Grigoriev… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contamination of genomes is an increasingly recognized problem affecting several
downstream applications, from comparative evolutionary genomics to metagenomics. Here …

IAnimal: a cross-species omics knowledgebase for animals

Y Fu, H Liu, J Dou, Y Wang, Y Liao… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the exponential growth of multi-omics data, its integration and utilization have brought
unprecedented opportunities for the interpretation of gene regulation mechanisms and the …

Versatile detection of diverse selective sweeps with flex-sweep

ME Lauterbur, K Munch, D Enard - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the impacts of selection pressures influencing modern-day genomic diversity
is a major goal of evolutionary genomics. In particular, the contribution of selective sweeps …

GraphLncLoc: long non-coding RNA subcellular localization prediction using graph convolutional networks based on sequence to graph transformation

M Li, B Zhao, R Yin, C Lu, F Guo… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The subcellular localization of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) is crucial for understanding
lncRNA functions. Most of existing lncRNA subcellular localization prediction methods use k …