Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor

W Huber, VJ Carey, R Gentleman, S Anders… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Bioconductor is an open-source, open-development software project for the analysis and
comprehension of high-throughput data in genomics and molecular biology. The project …

ceRNA in cancer: possible functions and clinical implications

X Qi, DH Zhang, N Wu, JH Xiao, X Wang… - Journal of medical …, 2015 - jmg.bmj.com
Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) are transcripts that can regulate each other at post-
transcription level by competing for shared miRNAs. CeRNA networks link the function of …

[HTML][HTML] A global reference for human genetic variation

1000 Genomes Project Consortium - Nature, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of
common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of …

An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

PH Sudmant, T Rausch, EJ Gardner, RE Handsaker… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Structural variants are implicated in numerous diseases and make up the majority of varying
nucleotides among human genomes. Here we describe an integrated set of eight structural …

A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

Nature genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Existing knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is
largely based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of common SNPs …

Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model

J Zhou, OG Troyanskaya - Nature methods, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying functional effects of noncoding variants is a major challenge in human genetics.
To predict the noncoding-variant effects de novo from sequence, we developed a deep …

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: multitissue gene regulation in humans

GTEx Consortium, KG Ardlie, DS Deluca, AV Segrè… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Understanding the functional consequences of genetic variation, and how it affects complex
human disease and quantitative traits, remains a critical challenge for biomedicine. We …

Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation

JD Buenrostro, B Wu, UM Litzenburger, D Ruff… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cell-to-cell variation is a universal feature of life that affects a wide range of biological
phenomena, from developmental plasticity, to tumour heterogeneity. Although recent …

StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads

M Pertea, GM Pertea, CM Antonescu, TC Chang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Methods used to sequence the transcriptome often produce more than 200 million short
sequences. We introduce StringTie, a computational method that applies a network flow …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

A Kundaje, W Meuleman, J Ernst, M Bilenky, A Yen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The reference human genome sequence set the stage for studies of genetic variation and its
association with human disease, but epigenomic studies lack a similar reference. To …