DiMSum: an error model and pipeline for analyzing deep mutational scanning data and diagnosing common experimental pathologies

AJ Faure, JM Schmiedel, P Baeza-Centurion, B Lehner - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
Deep mutational scanning (DMS) enables multiplexed measurement of the effects of
thousands of variants of proteins, RNAs, and regulatory elements. Here, we present a …

What has a century of quantitative genetics taught us about nature's genetic tool kit?

CM Jakobson, DF Jarosz - Annual Review of Genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The complexity of heredity has been appreciated for decades: Many traits are controlled not
by a single genetic locus but instead by polymorphisms throughout the genome. The …

Comprehensive sequence-to-function mapping of cofactor-dependent RNA catalysis in the glmS ribozyme

JOL Andreasson, A Savinov, SM Block… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Massively parallel, quantitative measurements of biomolecular activity across sequence
space can greatly expand our understanding of RNA sequence-function relationships. We …

Minimum epistasis interpolation for sequence-function relationships

J Zhou, DM McCandlish - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Massively parallel phenotyping assays have provided unprecedented insight into how
multiple mutations combine to determine biological function. While such assays can …

Accurate inference of the full base-pairing structure of RNA by deep mutational scanning and covariation-induced deviation of activity

Z Zhang, P Xiong, T Zhang, J Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Despite the large number of noncoding RNAs in human genome and their roles in many
diseases include cancer, we know very little about them due to lack of structural clues. The …

Using patterns of signed linkage disequilibria to test for epistasis in flies and plants

G Sandler, SI Wright, AF Agrawal - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Whether deleterious mutations affect fitness independently, or synergistically, remains an
open question in evolutionary genetics. Previous work by reported an abundance of …

Genotype networks of 80 quantitative Arabidopsis thaliana phenotypes reveal phenotypic evolvability despite pervasive epistasis

G Schweizer, A Wagner - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We study the genotype-phenotype maps of 80 quantitative phenotypes in the model plant
Arabidopsis thaliana, by representing the genotypes affecting each phenotype as a …

Genotype-phenotype map of an RNA-ligand complex

O Puchta, G Sobczyk, V Smer-Barreto, H Ireland… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
RNA-ligand interactions play important roles in biology and biotechnology, but they often
involve complex three-dimensional folding of RNA and are difficult to predict. To …

Algorithmic biology of evolution and ecology

A Kaznatcheev - 2020 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Any process can be seen as an algorithm; its power and its limits can then be analysed with
the techniques of theoretical computer science. To analyse algorithms, we divide the world …

A survey of pairwise epistasis supports an outside-in hierarchy of clade-specifying and function-defining residues in PSD95 PDZ3

D Nedrud, W Coyote-Maestas, D Schmidt - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Deep mutational scanning enables data-driven models of protein structure and function.
Here, we adapted Saturated Programmable Insertion Engineering as an economical and …