Background: Next-generation sequencing technologies allow researchers to obtain millions of sequence reads in a single experiment. One important use of the technology is the seque...
Daniel MacLean, Vincent Moulton, David J. Studholm...
Background: Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) based association studies aim at identifying SNPs associated with phenotypes, for example, complex diseases. The associated SNPs m...
Can Yang, Xiang Wan, Qiang Yang, Hong Xue, Weichua...
Background: Several diseases, many of which nowadays pandemic, consist of multifactorial pathologies. Paradigmatic examples come from the immune response to pathogens, in which ca...
Anil Sorathiya, Andrea Bracciali, Pietro Liò...
Background: The rate of mRNA transcription is controlled by transcription factors that bind to specific DNA motifs in promoter regions upstream of protein coding genes. Recent res...
Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Feifei Xu, Hans Ronne,...
Background: Recent genomic scale survey of epigenetic states in the mammalian genomes has shown that promoters and enhancers are correlated with distinct chromatin signatures, pro...
Kyoung-Jae Won, Iouri Chepelev, Bing Ren, Wei Wang