A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis

A Conesa, P Madrigal, S Tarazona, D Gomez-Cabrero… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has a wide variety of applications, but no single
analysis pipeline can be used in all cases. We review all of the major steps in RNA-seq data …

Evolution to the rescue: using comparative genomics to understand long non-coding RNAs

I Ulitsky - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged in recent years as major players in a
multitude of pathways across species, but it remains challenging to understand which of …

Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown

M Pertea, D Kim, GM Pertea, JT Leek, SL Salzberg - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing of mRNA (RNA-seq) has become the standard method for
measuring and comparing the levels of gene expression in a wide variety of species and …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral organoids recapitulate epigenomic signatures of the human fetal brain

C Luo, MA Lancaster, R Castanon, JR Nery… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells recapitulate the early three-
dimensional organization of the human brain, but whether they establish the epigenomic …

Regulatory evolution of innate immunity through co-option of endogenous retroviruses

EB Chuong, NC Elde, C Feschotte - Science, 2016 - science.org
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are abundant in mammalian genomes and contain
sequences modulating transcription. The impact of ERV propagation on the evolution of …

–Omic and electronic health record big data analytics for precision medicine

PY Wu, CW Cheng, CD Kaddi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Rapid advances of high-throughput technologies and wide adoption of electronic
health records (EHRs) have led to fast accumulation of–omic and EHR data. These …

High-resolution expression map of the Arabidopsis root reveals alternative splicing and lincRNA regulation

S Li, M Yamada, X Han, U Ohler, PN Benfey - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
The extent to which alternative splicing and long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs)
contribute to the specialized functions of cells within an organ is poorly understood. We …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation biology: sequencing and data analysis approaches for non-model organisms

RR da Fonseca, A Albrechtsen, GE Themudo… - Marine genomics, 2016 - Elsevier
As sequencing technologies become more affordable, it is now realistic to propose studying
the evolutionary history of virtually any organism on a genomic scale. However, when …

Benchmarking of the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing for quantitative and qualitative assessment of cDNA populations

S Oikonomopoulos, YC Wang, H Djambazian… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
To assess the performance of the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION sequencing
platform, cDNAs from the External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC) RNA Spike-In mix …

CANTATAdb: a collection of plant long non-coding RNAs

MW Szcześniak, W Rosikiewicz… - Plant and Cell …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a class of potent regulators of gene expression
that are found in a wide array of eukaryotes; however, our knowledge about these molecules …