C. Victor Jongeneel

Background (2008)

Christian Iseli, C. Victor Jongeneel

One of the problems associated with the large-scale analysis of unannotated, low quality EST sequences is the detection of coding regions and the correction of frameshift errors that they often...

Vertebrate conserved non coding DNA regions have a high persistence length and a short persistence time (2007)

Retelska, Dorota, Beaudoing, Emmanuel, Notredame, Cédric, Jongeneel, C Victor, Bucher, Philipp

Abstract Background The comparison of complete genomes has revealed surprisingly large numbers of conserved non-protein-coding (CNC) DNA regions. However, the biological function of CNC remains...

MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences (2007)

Pagni, Marco, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Cerutti, Lorenzo, Zahn-Zabal, Monique, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Hau, Jörg, ...

The MyHits web site (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is an integrated service dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences. Since its first description in 2004, both the user interface and the back end...

Rapid evolution of cancer/testis genes on the X chromosome (2007)

Stevenson, Brian J, Iseli, Christian, Panji, Sumir, Zahn-Zabal, Monique, Hide, Winston, Old, Lloyd J, ...

Abstract Background Cancer/testis (CT) genes are normally expressed only in germ cells, but can be activated in the cancer state. This unusual property, together with the finding that many CT...

Establishment of the epithelial-specific transcriptome of normal and malignant human breast cells based on MPSS and array expression data (2006)

Grigoriadis, Anita, Mackay, Alan, Reis-Filho, Jorge S, Steele, Dawn, Iseli, Christian, Stevenson, Brian J, ...

Abstract Introduction Diverse microarray and sequencing technologies have been widely used to characterise the molecular changes in malignant epithelial cells in breast cancers. Such gene expression...

Similarities and differences of polyadenylation signals in human and fly (2006)

Retelska, Dorota, Iseli, Christian, Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C Victor, Naef, Felix

Abstract Background Cleavage of messenger RNA (mRNA) precursors is an essential step in mRNA maturation. The signal recognized by the cleavage enzyme complex has been characterized as an A rich...

Bioinformatics: decoding the genome (2005)

Jongeneel, C Victor, Deutsch, Sam, Michielin, Olivier, Thomas, Arthur, Descombes, Patrick

Extracting the fundamental genomic sequence from the DNA From Genome to Sequence : Biology in the early 21st century has been radically transformed by the availability of the full genome sequences of...

Rapid and selective surveillance of Arabidopsis thaliana genome annotations with Centrifuge. (2005)

Florence Arm, C. Victor Jongeneel, Edward E

Summary: Centrifuge is a user-friendly system with which to simultaneously access Arabidopsis gene annotations and intra- and inter-organism sequence comparison data. The tool allows rapid retrieval...

Gene expression variation and expression quantitative trait mapping of human chromosome 21 genes (2005)

Deutsch, Samuel, Lyle, Robert, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., Attar, Homa, Subrahmanyan, Lakshman, Gehrig, Corinne, ...

Inter-individual differences in gene expression are likely to account for an important fraction of phenotypic differences, including susceptibility to common disorders. Recent studies have shown...

An atlas of human gene expression from massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) (2005)

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Delorenzi, Mauro, Iseli, Christian, Zhou, Daixing, Haudenschild, Christian D., Khrebtukova, Irina, ...

We have used massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) to sample the transcriptomes of 32 normal human tissues to an unprecedented depth, thus documenting the patterns of expression of almost...

Rapid and selective surveillance of Arabidopsis thaliana genome annotations with Centrifuge (2005)

Armand, Florence, Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Farmer, Edward E.

Summary: Centrifuge is a user-friendly system to simultaneously access Arabidopsis gene annotations and intra- and inter-organism sequence comparison data. The tool allows rapid retrieval of...

Rapid and selective surveillance of Arabidopsis thaliana genome annotations with Centrifuge (2005)

Armand, Florence, Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Farmer, Edward E.

Summary: Centrifuge is a user-friendly system with which to simultaneously access Arabidopsis gene annotations and intra- and inter-organism sequence comparison data. The tool allows rapid retrieval...

Gene Expression Variation and Expression Quantitative Trait (eQTL) Mapping of Human Chromosome 21 Genes (2005)

Deutsch, Samuel, Lyle, Robert, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., Attar, Homa, Subrahmanyan, Lakshman, Gehrig, Corinne, ...

Inter-individual differences in gene expression are likely to account for an important fraction of phenotypic differences, including susceptibility to common disorders. Recent studies have shown...

MyHits: a new interactive resource for protein annotation and domain identification (2004)

Pagni, Marco, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Cerutti, Lorenzo, Zahn-Zabal, Monique, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Falquet, Laurent

The MyHits web server (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is a new integrated service dedicated to the annotation of protein sequences and to the analysis of their domains and signatures. Guest users can use...

trome, trEST and trGEN: databases of predicted protein sequences (2004)

Sperisen, Peter, Iseli, Christian, Pagni, Marco, Stevenson, Brian J., Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C. Victor

We previously introduced two new protein databases (trEST and trGEN) of hypothetical protein sequences predicted from EST and HTG sequences, respectively. Here, we present the updates made on these...

Swiss EMBnet node web server (2003)

Laurent Falquet, Lorenza Bordoli, Vassilios Ioannidis, Marco Pagni, C. Victor Jongeneel

EMBnet is a consortium of collaborating bioinformatics groups located mainly within Europe

eVOC: A Controlled Vocabulary for Unifying Gene Expression Data (2003)

Kelso, Janet, Visagie, Johann, Theiler, Gregory, Christoffels, Alan, Bardien, Soraya, Smedley, Damian, ...

Expression data contribute significantly to the biological value of the sequenced human genome,providing extensive information about gene structure and the pattern of gene expression. ESTs,together...

Swiss EMBnet node web server (2003)

Falquet, Laurent, Bordoli, Lorenza, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Pagni, Marco, Jongeneel, C. Victor

EMBnet is a consortium of collaborating bioinformatics groups located mainly within Europe (http://www.embnet.org). Each member country is represented by a ‘node’, a group responsible for the...

Making sense of score statistics for sequence alignments (2001)

Pagni, Marco, Jongeneel, C. Victor

The search for similarity between two biological sequences lies at the core of many applications in bioinformatics. This paper aims to highlight a few of the principles that should be kept in mind...

Searching the expressed sequence tag (EST) databases: Panning for genes (2000)

Jongeneel, C. Victor

The genomes of living organisms contain many elements, including genes coding for proteins. The portions of the genes expressed as mature mRNA, collectively known as the transcriptome, represent only...

Nickel and skin irritants up-regulate tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} mRNA in keratinocytes by different but potentially synergistic mechanisms (1995)

Lisby, Steen, Müller, Kai M., Jongeneel, C. Victor, Saurat, Jean-Hilaire, Hauser, Conrad, Borst, J.

A critical role of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α in irritant contact dermatitis and in the challenge phase of allergic contact dermatitis has recently been demonstrated in vivo. As in situ...

A 3-D model for the CD40 ligand predicts that it is a compact trimer similar to the tumor necrosis factors (1993)

Peitsch, Manuel C., Jongeneel, C. Victor, Arai, K.

Based on the similarity in primary structure between the newly characterized ligand for CD40 (CD40L) and the tumor necrosis factors (TNFs), we have modeled a detailed 3-D structure for CD40L. We used...

Replication of herpes simplex virus type I DNA in permeabilized infected cells (1980)

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Bachenheimer, Steven L.

Herpes simplex type 1 (HSV)-infected Vero cells can be permeabilized by a combination of hypotonic shock and a mild emulsifier, gum arabic. Permeabilized cells will incorporate triphosphate...

Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags

Dias Neto, Emmanuel, Garcia Correa, Ricardo, Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio, Briones, Marcelo R. S., Nagai, Maria Aparecida, Da Silva, Wilson, ...

Theoretical considerations predict that amplification of expressed gene transcripts by reverse transcription–PCR using arbitrarily chosen primers will result in the preferential amplification of...

Comprehensive sampling of gene expression in human cell lines with massively parallel signature sequencing

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Iseli, Christian, Stevenson, Brian J., Riggins, Gregory J., Lal, Anita, Mackay, Alan, ...

Whereas information is rapidly accumulating about the structure and position of genes encoded in the human genome, less is known about the complexity and relative abundance of their expression in...

Swiss EMBnet node web server

Falquet, Laurent, Bordoli, Lorenza, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Pagni, Marco, Jongeneel, C. Victor

EMBnet is a consortium of collaborating bioinformatics groups located mainly within Europe (http://www.embnet.org). Each member country is represented by a ‘node’, a group responsible for the...

Long-Range Heterogeneity at the 3′ Ends of Human mRNAs

Iseli, Christian, Stevenson, Brian J., De Souza, Sandro J., Samaia, Helena B., Camargo, Anamaria A., Buetow, Kenneth H., ...

The publication of a draft of the human genome and of large collections of transcribed sequences has made it possible to study the complex relationship between the transcriptome and the genome. In...

The generation and utilization of a cancer-oriented representation of the human transcriptome by using expressed sequence tags

Brentani, Helena, Caballero, Otávia L., Camargo, Anamaria A., Da Silva, Aline M., Da Silva, Wilson Araújo, Neto, Emmanuel Dias, ...

Whereas genome sequencing defines the genetic potential of an organism, transcript sequencing defines the utilization of this potential and links the genome with most areas of biology. To exploit the...

trome, trEST and trGEN: databases of predicted protein sequences

Sperisen, Peter, Iseli, Christian, Pagni, Marco, Stevenson, Brian J., Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C. Victor

We previously introduced two new protein databases (trEST and trGEN) of hypothetical protein sequences predicted from EST and HTG sequences, respectively. Here, we present the updates made on these...

eVOC: A Controlled Vocabulary for Unifying Gene Expression Data

Kelso, Janet, Visagie, Johann, Theiler, Gregory, Christoffels, Alan, Bardien, Soraya, Smedley, Damian, ...

Expression data contribute significantly to the biological value of the sequenced human genome,providing extensive information about gene structure and the pattern of gene expression. ESTs,together...

MyHits: a new interactive resource for protein annotation and domain identification

Pagni, Marco, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Cerutti, Lorenzo, Zahn-Zabal, Monique, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Falquet, Laurent

The MyHits web server (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is a new integrated service dedicated to the annotation of protein sequences and to the analysis of their domains and signatures. Guest users can use...

Identification of cancer/testis-antigen genes by massively parallel signature sequencing

Chen, Yao-Tseng, Scanlan, Matthew J., Venditti, Charis A., Chua, Ramon, Theiler, Gregory, Stevenson, Brian J., ...

Massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) generates millions of short sequence tags corresponding to transcripts from a single RNA preparation. Most MPSS tags can be unambiguously assigned to...

An atlas of human gene expression from massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Delorenzi, Mauro, Iseli, Christian, Zhou, Daixing, Haudenschild, Christian D., Khrebtukova, Irina, ...

We have used massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) to sample the transcriptomes of 32 normal human tissues to an unprecedented depth, thus documenting the patterns of expression of almost...

Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags

Dias Neto, Emmanuel, Garcia Correa, Ricardo, Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio, Briones, Marcelo R. S., Nagai, Maria Aparecida, Da Silva, Wilson, ...

Theoretical considerations predict that amplification of expressed gene transcripts by reverse transcription–PCR using arbitrarily chosen primers will result in the preferential amplification of...

Comprehensive sampling of gene expression in human cell lines with massively parallel signature sequencing

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Iseli, Christian, Stevenson, Brian J., Riggins, Gregory J., Lal, Anita, Mackay, Alan, ...

Whereas information is rapidly accumulating about the structure and position of genes encoded in the human genome, less is known about the complexity and relative abundance of their expression in...

Swiss EMBnet node web server

Falquet, Laurent, Bordoli, Lorenza, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Pagni, Marco, Jongeneel, C. Victor

EMBnet is a consortium of collaborating bioinformatics groups located mainly within Europe (http://www.embnet.org). Each member country is represented by a ‘node’, a group responsible for the...

Long-Range Heterogeneity at the 3′ Ends of Human mRNAs

Iseli, Christian, Stevenson, Brian J., De Souza, Sandro J., Samaia, Helena B., Camargo, Anamaria A., Buetow, Kenneth H., ...

The publication of a draft of the human genome and of large collections of transcribed sequences has made it possible to study the complex relationship between the transcriptome and the genome. In...

The generation and utilization of a cancer-oriented representation of the human transcriptome by using expressed sequence tags

Brentani, Helena, Caballero, Otávia L., Camargo, Anamaria A., Da Silva, Aline M., Da Silva, Wilson Araújo, Neto, Emmanuel Dias, ...

Whereas genome sequencing defines the genetic potential of an organism, transcript sequencing defines the utilization of this potential and links the genome with most areas of biology. To exploit the...

trome, trEST and trGEN: databases of predicted protein sequences

Sperisen, Peter, Iseli, Christian, Pagni, Marco, Stevenson, Brian J., Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C. Victor

We previously introduced two new protein databases (trEST and trGEN) of hypothetical protein sequences predicted from EST and HTG sequences, respectively. Here, we present the updates made on these...

eVOC: A Controlled Vocabulary for Unifying Gene Expression Data

Kelso, Janet, Visagie, Johann, Theiler, Gregory, Christoffels, Alan, Bardien, Soraya, Smedley, Damian, ...

Expression data contribute significantly to the biological value of the sequenced human genome,providing extensive information about gene structure and the pattern of gene expression. ESTs,together...

MyHits: a new interactive resource for protein annotation and domain identification

Pagni, Marco, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Cerutti, Lorenzo, Zahn-Zabal, Monique, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Falquet, Laurent

The MyHits web server (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is a new integrated service dedicated to the annotation of protein sequences and to the analysis of their domains and signatures. Guest users can use...

Identification of cancer/testis-antigen genes by massively parallel signature sequencing

Chen, Yao-Tseng, Scanlan, Matthew J., Venditti, Charis A., Chua, Ramon, Theiler, Gregory, Stevenson, Brian J., ...

Massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) generates millions of short sequence tags corresponding to transcripts from a single RNA preparation. Most MPSS tags can be unambiguously assigned to...

An atlas of human gene expression from massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Delorenzi, Mauro, Iseli, Christian, Zhou, Daixing, Haudenschild, Christian D., Khrebtukova, Irina, ...

We have used massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) to sample the transcriptomes of 32 normal human tissues to an unprecedented depth, thus documenting the patterns of expression of almost...

Indexing Strategies for Rapid Searches of Short Words in Genome Sequences

Iseli, Christian, Ambrosini, Giovanna, Bucher, Philipp, Jongeneel, C. Victor

Searching for matches between large collections of short (14–30 nucleotides) words and sequence databases comprising full genomes or transcriptomes is a common task in biological sequence analysis....

MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences

Pagni, Marco, Ioannidis, Vassilios, Cerutti, Lorenzo, Zahn-Zabal, Monique, Jongeneel, C. Victor, Hau, Jörg, ...

The MyHits web site (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is an integrated service dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences. Since its first description in 2004, both the user interface and the back end...

Genome-wide analysis of cancer/testis gene expression

Hofmann, Oliver, Caballero, Otavia L., Stevenson, Brian J., Chen, Yao-Tseng, Cohen, Tzeela, Chua, Ramon, ...

Cancer/Testis (CT) genes, normally expressed in germ line cells but also activated in a wide range of cancer types, often encode antigens that are immunogenic in cancer patients, and present...