Chad Nusbaum

Closing gaps in the human genome using sequencing by synthesis (2009)

Garber, Manuel, Zody, Michael C, Arachchi, Harindra M, Berlin, Aaron, Gnerre, Sante, Green, Lisa M, ...

Abstract The most recent release of the finished human genome contains 260 euchromatic gaps (excluding chromosome Y). Recent work has helped explain a large number of these unresolved regions as...

Short-term genome evolution of Listeria monocytogenesin a non-controlled environment (2008)

Orsi, Renato H, Borowsky, Mark L, Lauer, Peter, Young, Sarah K, Nusbaum, Chad, Galagan, James E, ...

Abstract Background While increasing data on bacterial evolution in controlled environments are available, our understanding of bacterial genome evolution in natural environments is limited. We thus...

Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis (2006)

Kahmann, Regine, Bölker, Michael, Ma, Li-Jun, Brefort, Thomas, Saville, Barry J, ...

Ustilago maydis is a ubiquitous pathogen of maize and a well-established model organism for the study of plant-microbe interactions. This basidiomycete fungus does not use aggressive virulence...

Chromosome Conformation Capture Carbon Copy (5C): a massively parallel solution for mapping interactions between genomic elements (2006)

Dostie, Josee, Richmond, Joann M., Arnaout, Ramy A., Selzer, Rebecca R., Lee, William L., Honan, Tracey A., ...

Physical interactions between genetic elements located throughout the genome play important roles in gene regulation and can be identified with the Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) methodology....

Mapping of Myxococcus xanthus Social Motility dsp Mutations to the dif Genes

Lancero, Hope, Brofft, Jennifer E., Downard, John, Birren, Bruce W., Nusbaum, Chad, Naylor, Jerome, ...

Myxococcus xanthus dsp and dif mutants have similar phenotypes in that they are deficient in social motility and fruiting body development. We compared the two loci by genetic mapping,...

The Genome of M. acetivorans Reveals Extensive Metabolic and Physiological Diversity

Galagan, James E., Nusbaum, Chad, Roy, Alice, Endrizzi, Matthew G., Macdonald, Pendexter, FitzHugh, Will, ...

Methanogenesis, the biological production of methane, plays a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle and contributes significantly to global warming. The majority of methane in nature is derived...

The Complete Genome and Proteome of Mycoplasma mobile

Jaffe, Jacob D., Stange-Thomann, Nicole, Smith, Cherylyn, DeCaprio, David, Fisher, Sheila, Butler, Jonathan, ...

Although often considered “minimal” organisms, mycoplasmas show a wide range of diversity with respect to host environment, phenotypic traits, and pathogenicity. Here we report the complete...

Assembly of polymorphic genomes: Algorithms and application to Ciona savignyi

Vinson, Jade P., Jaffe, David B., O'Neill, Keith, Karlsson, Elinor K., Stange-Thomann, Nicole, Anderson, Scott, ...

Whole-genome assembly is now used routinely to obtain high-quality draft sequence for the genomes of species with low levels of polymorphism. However, genome assembly remains extremely challenging...

Structure and Architecture of the Maize Genome1[W]

Haberer, Georg, Young, Sarah, Bharti, Arvind K., Gundlach, Heidrun, Raymond, Christina, Fuks, Galina, ...

Maize (Zea mays or corn) plays many varied and important roles in society. It is not only an important experimental model plant, but also a major livestock feed crop and a significant source of...

Mapping of Myxococcus xanthus Social Motility dsp Mutations to the dif Genes

Lancero, Hope, Brofft, Jennifer E., Downard, John, Birren, Bruce W., Nusbaum, Chad, Naylor, Jerome, ...

Myxococcus xanthus dsp and dif mutants have similar phenotypes in that they are deficient in social motility and fruiting body development. We compared the two loci by genetic mapping,...

The Genome of M. acetivorans Reveals Extensive Metabolic and Physiological Diversity

Galagan, James E., Nusbaum, Chad, Roy, Alice, Endrizzi, Matthew G., Macdonald, Pendexter, FitzHugh, Will, ...

Methanogenesis, the biological production of methane, plays a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle and contributes significantly to global warming. The majority of methane in nature is derived...

The Complete Genome and Proteome of Mycoplasma mobile

Jaffe, Jacob D., Stange-Thomann, Nicole, Smith, Cherylyn, DeCaprio, David, Fisher, Sheila, Butler, Jonathan, ...

Although often considered “minimal” organisms, mycoplasmas show a wide range of diversity with respect to host environment, phenotypic traits, and pathogenicity. Here we report the complete...

The Breakpoint Region of the Most Common Isochromosome, i(17q), in Human Neoplasia Is Characterized by a Complex Genomic Architecture with Large, Palindromic, Low-Copy Repeats

Barbouti, Aikaterini, Stankiewicz, Pawel, Nusbaum, Chad, Cuomo, Christina, Cook, April, Höglund, Mattias, ...

Although a great deal of information has accumulated regarding the mechanisms underlying constitutional DNA rearrangements associated with inherited disorders, virtually nothing is known about the...

Assembly of polymorphic genomes: Algorithms and application to Ciona savignyi

Vinson, Jade P., Jaffe, David B., O'Neill, Keith, Karlsson, Elinor K., Stange-Thomann, Nicole, Anderson, Scott, ...

Whole-genome assembly is now used routinely to obtain high-quality draft sequence for the genomes of species with low levels of polymorphism. However, genome assembly remains extremely challenging...

Structure and Architecture of the Maize Genome1[W]

Haberer, Georg, Young, Sarah, Bharti, Arvind K., Gundlach, Heidrun, Raymond, Christina, Fuks, Galina, ...

Maize (Zea mays or corn) plays many varied and important roles in society. It is not only an important experimental model plant, but also a major livestock feed crop and a significant source of...

Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome

Bruggmann, Rémy, Bharti, Arvind K., Gundlach, Heidrun, Lai, Jinsheng, Young, Sarah, Pontaroli, Ana C., ...

Maize (Zea mays or corn), both a major food source and an important cytogenetic model, evolved from a tetraploid that arose about 4.8 million years ago (Mya). As a result, maize has extensive...

Chromosome Conformation Capture Carbon Copy (5C): A massively parallel solution for mapping interactions between genomic elements

Dostie, Josée, Richmond, Todd A., Arnaout, Ramy A., Selzer, Rebecca R., Lee, William L., Honan, Tracey A., ...

Physical interactions between genetic elements located throughout the genome play important roles in gene regulation and can be identified with the Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) methodology....

Genomewide Analysis of PRC1 and PRC2 Occupancy Identifies Two Classes of Bivalent Domains

Ku, Manching, Koche, Richard P., Rheinbay, Esther, Mendenhall, Eric M., Endoh, Mitsuhiro, Mikkelsen, Tarjei S., ...

In embryonic stem (ES) cells, bivalent chromatin domains with overlapping repressive (H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation) and activating (H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation) histone modifications mark the...

ALLPATHS: De novo assembly of whole-genome shotgun microreads

Butler, Jonathan, MacCallum, Iain, Kleber, Michael, Shlyakhter, Ilya A., Belmonte, Matthew K., Lander, Eric S., ...

New DNA sequencing technologies deliver data at dramatically lower costs but demand new analytical methods to take full advantage of the very short reads that they produce. We provide an initial,...

Quality scores and SNP detection in sequencing-by-synthesis systems

Brockman, William, Alvarez, Pablo, Young, Sarah, Garber, Manuel, Giannoukos, Georgia, Lee, William L., ...

Promising new sequencing technologies, based on sequencing-by-synthesis (SBS), are starting to deliver large amounts of DNA sequence at very low cost. Polymorphism detection is a key application. We...

Quantitative Deep Sequencing Reveals Dynamic HIV-1 Escape and Large Population Shifts during CCR5 Antagonist Therapy In Vivo

Tsibris, Athe M. N., Korber, Bette, Arnaout, Ramy, Russ, Carsten, Lo, Chien-Chi, Leitner, Thomas, ...

High-throughput sequencing platforms provide an approach for detecting rare HIV-1 variants and documenting more fully quasispecies diversity. We applied this technology to the V3 loop-coding region...

Ab initio construction of a eukaryotic transcriptome by massively parallel mRNA sequencing

Yassour, Moran, Kaplan, Tommy, Fraser, Hunter B., Levin, Joshua Z., Pfiffner, Jenna, Adiconis, Xian, ...

Defining the transcriptome, the repertoire of transcribed regions encoded in the genome, is a challenging experimental task. Current approaches, relying on sequencing of ESTs or cDNA libraries, are...