Christian J. Stoeckert

GiardiaDB and TrichDB: integrated genomic resources for the eukaryotic protist pathogens Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis (2009)

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Brestelli, John, Brunk, Brian P., Carlton, Jane M., Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, ...

GiardiaDB (http://GiardiaDB.org) and TrichDB (http://TrichDB.org) house the genome databases for Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis, respectively, and represent the latest additions to the...

PlasmoDB: a functional genomic database for malaria parasites (2009)

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Brestelli, John, Brunk, Brian P., Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, Gajria, Bindu, ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is a functional genomic database for Plasmodium spp. that provides a resource for data analysis and visualization in a gene-by-gene or genome-wide scale. PlasmoDB...

GiardiaDB and TrichDB : integrated genomic resources for the eukaryotic protist pathogens Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis (2008)

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Brestelli, John, Brunk, Brian P., Carlton, Jane M., Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, ...

© 2008 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. The definitive version was published in Nucleic Acids...

Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project (2008)

Taylor, Chris F., Field, Dawn, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Aerts, Jan, Apweiler, Rolf, Asburner, Michael, ...

The Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project provides a resource for those exploring the range of extant minimum information checklists and fosters coordinated...

Systems biology-defined NF-κB regulons, interacting signal pathways and networks are implicated in the malignant phenotype of head and neck cancer cell lines differing in p53 status (2008)

Yan, Bin, Chen, Guang, Saigal, Kunal, Yang, Xinping, Jensen, Shane T, Van Waes, Carter, ...

Abstract Background Aberrant activation of the nuclear factor kappaB (NF- κ B) pathway has been previously implicated as a crucial signal promoting tumorigenesis. However, how NF- κ B acts as a key...

ToxoDB: an integrated Toxoplasma gondii database resource (2008)

Gajria, Bindu, Bahl, Amit, Brestelli, John, Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, Gao, Xin, ...

ToxoDB (http://ToxoDB.org) is a genome and functional genomic database for the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. It incorporates the sequence and annotation of the T. gondii ME49 strain, as well...

PPAR{gamma} and C/EBP factors orchestrate adipocyte biology via adjacent binding on a genome-wide scale (2008)

Lefterova, Martina I., Zhang, Yong, Steger, David J., Schupp, Michael, Schug, Jonathan, Cristancho, Ana, ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ(PPARγ), a nuclear receptor and the target of anti-diabetic thiazolinedione drugs, is known as the master regulator of adipocyte biology. Although it...

Assessing the Significance of Conserved Genomic Aberrations Using High Resolution Genomic Microarrays (2007)

Mitchell Guttman, Carolyn Mies, Katarzyna Dudycz-Sulicz, Sharon J. Diskin, Don A. Baldwin, Christian J. Stoeckert Jr., ...

Genomic aberrations recurrent in a particular cancer type can be important prognostic markers for tumor progression. Typically in early tumorigenesis, cells incur a breakdown of the DNA replication...

Expansion of adult beta-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is dependent on HNF-4{alpha} (2007)

Gupta, Rana K., Gao, Nan, Gorski, Regina K., White, Peter, Hardy, Olga T., Rafiq, Kiran, ...

The failure to expand functional pancreatic β-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Lineage tracing studies indicate that replication of existing...

Clustering of genes into regulons using integrated modeling-COGRIM (2007)

Chen, Guang, Jensen, Shane T, Stoeckert, Christian J

Abstract We present a Bayesian hierarchical model and Gibbs Sampling implementation that integrates gene expression, ChIP binding, and transcription factor motif data in a principled and robust...

ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center (2007)

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Heiges, Mark, Wang, Haiming, Wang, Zhiming, Fischer, Steve, Rhodes, Philippa, ...

ApiDB (http://ApiDB.org) represents a unified entry point for the NIH-funded Apicomplexan Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) that integrates numerous database resources and multiple data types. The...

EPConDB: a web resource for gene expression related to pancreatic development, beta-cell function and diabetes (2007)

Mazzarelli, Joan M., Brestelli, John, Gorski, Regina K., Liu, Junmin, Manduchi, Elisabetta, Pinney, Deborah F., ...

EPConDB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB) is a public web site that supports research in diabetes, pancreatic development and beta-cell function by providing information about genes expressed in...

A simple spreadsheet-based, MIAME-supportive format for microarray data: MAGE-TAB (2006)

Rayner, Tim F, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Spellman, Paul T, Causton, Helen C, Farne, Anna, Holloway, Ele, ...

Abstract Background Sharing of microarray data within the research community has been greatly facilitated by the development of the disclosure and communication standards MIAME and MAGE-ML by the...

Bayesian variable selection and data integration for biological regulatory networks (2006)

Jensen, Shane T., Chen, Guang, Stoeckert, Christian J.

A substantial focus of research in molecular biology are gene regulatory networks: the set of transcription factors and target genes which control the involvement of different biological processes in...

OrthoMCL-DB: querying a comprehensive multi-species collection of ortholog groups (2006)

Mackey, Aaron J, Stoeckert, Christian J, Roos, David S

The OrthoMCL database (http://orthomcl.cbil.upenn.edu) houses ortholog group predictions for 55 species, including 16 bacterial and 4 archaeal genomes representing phylogenetically diverse lineages,...

The SOFG Anatomy Entry List (SAEL): An Annotation Tool for Functional Genomics Data (2006)

Helen Parkinson, Stuart Aitken, Richard A. Baldock, Albert Burger, Terry F. Hayamizu, ...

A great deal of data in functional genomics studies needs to be annotated with low-resolution anatomical terms. For example, gene expression assays based on manually dissected samples (microarray,...

The MGED Ontology: A Framework for Describing Functional Genomics Experiments (2006)

Christian J. Stoeckert, Helen Parkinson

The Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) society was formed with an initial focus on experiments involving microarray technology. Despite the diversity of applications, there are common concepts...

Computational modeling of the Plasmodium falciparum interactome reveals protein function on a genome-wide scale (2006)

Date, Shailesh V., Stoeckert, Christian J.

Many thousands of proteins encoded by the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the causal organism of the deadliest form of human malaria, are of unknown function. It is of utmost importance that these...

STAC: A method for testing the significance of DNA copy number aberrations across multiple array-CGH experiments (2006)

Diskin, Sharon J., Eck, Thomas, Greshock, Joel, Mosse, Yael P., Naylor, Tara, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

Regions of gain and loss of genomic DNA occur in many cancers and can drive the genesis and progression of disease. These copy number aberrations (CNAs) can be detected at high resolution by using...

The MGED Ontology: a resource for semantics-based description of microarray experiments (2006)

Whetzel, Patricia L., Parkinson, Helen, Causton, Helen C., Fan, Liju, Fostel, Jennifer, Fragoso, Gilberto, ...

Motivation: The generation of large amounts of microarray data and the need to share these data bring challenges for both data management and annotation and highlights the need for standards. MIAME...

EPConDB: a web resource for gene expression related to pancreatic development, beta-cell function and diabetes (2006)

Mazzarelli, Joan M., Brestelli, John, Gorski, Regina K., Liu, Junmin, Manduchi, Elisabetta, Pinney, Deborah F., ...

EPConDB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB ) is a public web site that supports research in diabetes, pancreatic development and beta-cell function by providing information about genes expressed in...

EPConDB: a web resource for gene expression related to pancreatic development, beta-cell function and diabetes (2006)

Mazzarelli, Joan M., Brestelli, John, Gorski, Regina K., Liu, Junmin, Manduchi, Elisabetta, Pinney, Deborah F., ...

EPConDB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB ) is a public web site that supports research in diabetes, pancreatic development and beta-cell function by providing information about genes expressed in...

Computational modeling of the Plasmodium falciparum interactome reveals protein functionon a genome-wide scale (2006)

Date, Shailesh V., Stoeckert, Christian J.

Many thousands of proteins encoded by the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the causal organism of the deadliest form of human malaria, are of unknown function. It is of utmost importance that these...

STAC: A method for testing the significance of DNA copy number aberrations across multiple array-CGH experiments (2006)

Diskin, Sharon J., Eck, Thomas, Greshock, Joel, Mosse, Yael P., Naylor, Tara, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

Regions of gain and loss of genomic DNA occur in many cancers and can drive the genesis and progression of disease. These copy number aberrations (CNAs) can be detected at high resolution by using...

OrthoMCL-DB: querying a comprehensive multi-species collection of ortholog groups (2006)

Chen, Feng, Mackey, Aaron J., Stoeckert, Christian J., Roos, David S.

The OrthoMCL database (http://orthomcl.cbil.upenn.edu) houses ortholog group predictions for 55 species, including 16 bacterial and 4 archaeal genomes representing phylogenetically diverse lineages,...

EPConDB: a web resource for gene expression related to pancreatic development, beta-cell function and diabetes (2006)

Mazzarelli, Joan M., Brestelli, John, Gorski, Regina K., Liu, Junmin, Manduchi, Elisabetta, Pinney, Deborah F., ...

EPConDB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB ) is a public web site that supports research in diabetes, pancreatic development and beta-cell function by providing information about genes expressed in...

EPConDB: a web resource for gene expression related to pancreatic development, beta-cell function and diabetes (2006)

Mazzarelli, Joan M., Brestelli, John, Gorski, Regina K., Liu, Junmin, Manduchi, Elisabetta, Pinney, Deborah F., ...

EPConDB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB ) is a public web site that supports research in diabetes, pancreatic development and beta-cell function by providing information about genes expressed in...

Promoter features related to tissue specificity as measured by Shannon entropy (2005)

Schug, Jonathan, Schuller, Winfried-Paul, Kappen, Claudia, Salbaum, J Michael, Bucan, Maja, Stoeckert, Christian J

Abstract Background The regulatory mechanisms underlying tissue specificity are a crucial part of the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. A genome-wide analysis of promoters in...

Defining the mammalian CArGome (2005)

Sun, Qiang, Chen, Guang, Streb, Jeffrey W., Long, Xiaochun, Yang, Yumei, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

Serum response factor (SRF) binds a 1216-fold degenerate cis element known as the CArG box. CArG boxes are found primarily in muscle- and growth-factor-associated genes although the full spectrum of...

A practical false discovery rate approach to identifying patterns of differential expression in microarray data (2005)

Grant, Gregory R., Liu, Junmin, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Summary: Searching for differentially expressed genes is one of the most common applications for microarrays, yet statistically there are difficult hurdles to achieving adequate rigor and...

A practical false discovery rate approach to identifying patterns of differential expression in microarray data (2005)

Grant, Gregory R., Liu, Junmin, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Searching for differentially expressed genes is one of the most common applications for microarrays, yet statistically there are difficult hurdles to achieving adequate rigor and practicality. False...

An object model and database for functional genomics (2004)

Jones, Andrew, Hunt, Ela, Wastling, Jonathan M., Pizarro, Angel, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Motivation: Large-scale functional genomics analysis is now feasible and presents significant challenges in data analysis, storage and querying. Data standards are required to enable the development...

An object model and database for functional genomics (2004)

Jones, Andrew, Hunt, Ela, Wastling, Jonathan, Pizarro, Angel, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Motivation: Large scale functional genomics analysis is now feasible, and presents significant challenges in data analysis, storage and querying. Data standards are required to enable the development...

An object model and database for functional genomics (2004)

Jones, Andrew, Hunt, Ela, Wastling, Jonathan, Pizarro, Angel, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Motivation: Large scale functional genomics analysis is now feasible, and presents significant challenges in data analysis, storage and querying. Data standards are required to enable the development...

ApiEST-DB: analyzing clustered EST data of the apicomplexan parasites (2004)

Li, Li, Crabtree, Jonathan, Fischer, Steve, Pinney, Deborah, Stoeckert, Christian J., Sibley, L. David, ...

ApiEST‐DB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/paradbs‐servlet/) provides integrated access to publicly available EST data from protozoan parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa. The database currently...

An object model and database for functional genomics (2004)

Jones, Andrew, Hunt, Ela, Wastling, Jonathan, Pizarro, Angel, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Motivation: Large scale functional genomics analysis is now feasible, and presents significant challenges in data analysis, storage and querying. Data standards are required to enable the development...

An object model and database for functional genomics (2004)

Jones, Andrew, Hunt, Ela, Wastling, Jonathan, Pizarro, Angel, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Motivation: Large scale functional genomics analysis is now feasible, and presents significant challenges in data analysis, storage and querying. Data standards are required to enable the development...

Integrating computationally assembled mouse transcript sequences with the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) database (2003)

Zhu, Yunxia, King, Benjamin L, Parvizi, Babak, Brunk, Brian P, Stoeckert, Christian J, Quackenbush, John, ...

Abstract Databases of experimentally generated and computationally derived transcript sequences are valuable resources for genome analysis and annotation. The utility of such databases is enhanced...

OrthoMCL: Identification of Ortholog Groups for Eukaryotic Genomes (2003)

Li, Li, Stoeckert, Christian J., Roos, David S.

The identification of orthologous groups is useful for genome annotation, studies on gene/protein evolution, comparative genomics, and the identification of taxonomically restricted sequences....

PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. A database integrating experimental and computational data (2003)

Bahl, Amit, Brunk, Brian, Crabtree, Jonathan, Fraunholz, Martin J., Gajria, Bindu, Grant, Gregory R., ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is the official database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequencing consortium. This resource incorporates the recently completed P. falciparum genome sequence and...

Gene Discovery in the Apicomplexa as Revealed by EST Sequencing and Assembly of a Comparative Gene Database (2003)

Li, Li, Brunk, Brian P., Kissinger, Jessica C., Pape, Deana, Tang, Keliang, Cole, Robert H., ...

Large-scale EST sequencing projects for several important parasites within the phylum Apicomplexa were undertaken for the purpose of gene discovery. Included were several parasites of medical...

Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML) (2002)

Spellman, Paul T, Miller, Michael, Stewart, Jason, Troup, Charles, Sarkans, Ugis, Chervitz, Steve, ...

Abstract Background Meaningful exchange of microarray data is currently difficult because it is rare that published data provide sufficient information depth or are even in the same format from one...

© 2002 Spellman et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd (2002)

Paul T Spellman, Michael Miller, Jason Stewart, Charles Troup, Steve Chervitz, Derek Bernhart, ...

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at

PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. An integrated database providing tools for accessing, analyzing and mapping expression and sequence data (both finished and unfinished) (2002)

Bahl, Amit, Brunk, Brian, Coppel, Ross L., Crabtree, Jonathan, Diskin, Sharon J., Fraunholz, Martin J., ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is the official database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequencing consortium. This resource incorporates finished and draft genome sequence data and...

K2/Kleisli and GUS: Experiments in Integrated Access to Genomic Data Sources (2001)

Davidson, Susan B, Crabtree, Jonathan, Brunk, Brian P., Schug, Jonathan, Tannen, Val, Overton, Chris, ...

The integration of heterogeneous data sources and software systems is a major issue in the biomed ical community and several approaches have been explored: linking databases, "on-the- fly"...

Generation of patterns from gene expression data by assigning confidence to differentially expressed genes (2000)

Manduchi, Elisabetta, Grant, Gregory R., McKenzie, Steven E., Overton, G. Christian, Surrey, Saul, Stoeckert, Christian J.

Motivation: A protocol is described to attach expression patterns to genes represented in a collection of hybridization array experiments. Discrete values are used to provide an easily interpretable...

EpoDB: a database of genes expressed during vertebrate erythropoiesis (1998)

Fidel Salas, Juergen Haas, Brian Brunk, Christian J. Stoeckert, G. Christian Overton

EpoDB is a database designed for the study of gene regulation during differentiation and development of vertebrate red blood cells. In building EpoDB, we have taken the in advance approach to the...

EpoDB: a database of genes expressed during vertebrate erythropoiesis (1998)

Fidel Salas, Juergen Haas, Brian Brunk, Christian J. Stoeckert, G. Christian Overton

EpoDB is a database designed for the study of gene regulation during differentiation and development of vertebrate red blood cells. In building EpoDB, we have taken the in advance approach to the...

PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. An integrated database providing tools for accessing, analyzing and mapping expression and sequence data (both finished and unfinished)

Bahl, Amit, Brunk, Brian, Coppel, Ross L., Crabtree, Jonathan, Diskin, Sharon J., Fraunholz, Martin J., ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is the official database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequencing consortium. This resource incorporates finished and draft genome sequence data and annotation...

Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML)

Spellman, Paul T, Miller, Michael, Stewart, Jason, Troup, Charles, Sarkans, Ugis, Chervitz, Steve, ...

Meaningful exchange of microarray data is currently difficult because it is rare that published data provide sufficient information depth or are even in the same format from one publication to...

A molecular profile of a hematopoietic stem cell niche

Hackney, Jason A., Charbord, Pierre, Brunk, Brian P., Stoeckert, Christian J., Lemischka, Ihor R., Moore, Kateri A.

The hematopoietic microenvironment provides a complex molecular milieu that regulates the self-renewal and differentiation activities of stem cells. We have characterized a stem cell supportive...

Integrating computationally assembled mouse transcript sequences with the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) database

Zhu, Yunxia, King, Benjamin L, Parvizi, Babak, Brunk, Brian P, Stoeckert, Christian J, Quackenbush, John, ...

The analysis and results are presented of a semi-automated process of connecting transcript assemblies with highly curated biological information for mouse genes that is available through the Mouse...

PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. A database integrating experimental and computational data

Bahl, Amit, Brunk, Brian, Crabtree, Jonathan, Fraunholz, Martin J., Gajria, Bindu, Grant, Gregory R., ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is the official database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequencing consortium. This resource incorporates the recently completed P. falciparum genome sequence and...

Predicting Gene Ontology Functions from ProDom and CDD Protein Domains

Schug, Jonathan, Diskin, Sharon, Mazzarelli, Joan, Brunk, Brian P., Stoeckert, Christian J.

A heuristic algorithm for associating Gene Ontology (GO) defined molecular functions to protein domains as listed in the ProDom and CDD databases is described. The algorithm generates rules for...

ApiEST-DB: analyzing clustered EST data of the apicomplexan parasites

Li, Li, Crabtree, Jonathan, Fischer, Steve, Pinney, Deborah, Stoeckert, Christian J., Sibley, L. David, ...

ApiEST-DB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/paradbs-servlet/) provides integrated access to publicly available EST data from protozoan parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa. The database currently...

High-Resolution BAC-Based Map of the Central Portion of Mouse Chromosome 5

Crabtree, Jonathan, Wiltshire, Tim, Brunk, Brian, Zhao, Shaying, Schug, Jonathan, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

The current strategy for sequencing the mouse genome involves the combination of a whole-genome shotgun approach with clone-based sequencing. High-resolution physical maps will provide a foundation...

Coexisting proinflammatory and antioxidative endothelial transcription profiles in a disturbed flow region of the adult porcine aorta

Passerini, Anthony G., Polacek, Denise C., Shi, Congzhu, Francesco, Nadeene M., Manduchi, Elisabetta, Grant, Gregory R., ...

In the arterial circulation, regions of disturbed flow (DF), which are characterized by flow separation and transient vortices, are susceptible to atherogenesis, whereas regions of undisturbed...

OrthoMCL: Identification of Ortholog Groups for Eukaryotic Genomes

Li, Li, Stoeckert, Christian J., Roos, David S.

The identification of orthologous groups is useful for genome annotation, studies on gene/protein evolution, comparative genomics, and the identification of taxonomically restricted sequences....

Gene Discovery in the Apicomplexa as Revealed by EST Sequencing and Assembly of a Comparative Gene Database

Li, Li, Brunk, Brian P., Kissinger, Jessica C., Pape, Deana, Tang, Keliang, Cole, Robert H., ...

Large-scale EST sequencing projects for several important parasites within the phylum Apicomplexa were undertaken for the purpose of gene discovery. Included were several parasites of medical...

Promoter features related to tissue specificity as measured by Shannon entropy

Schug, Jonathan, Schuller, Winfried-Paul, Kappen, Claudia, Salbaum, J Michael, Bucan, Maja, Stoeckert, Christian J

A genome-wide analysis of promoters was carried out in the context of gene expression patterns in tissue surveys using human microarray and EST-based expression data. The study revealed that most...

OrthoMCL-DB: querying a comprehensive multi-species collection of ortholog groups

Chen, Feng, Mackey, Aaron J., Stoeckert, Christian J., Roos, David S.

The OrthoMCL database () houses ortholog group predictions for 55 species, including 16 bacterial and 4 archaeal genomes representing phylogenetically diverse lineages, and most currently available...

Defining the mammalian CArGome

Sun, Qiang, Chen, Guang, Streb, Jeffrey W., Long, Xiaochun, Yang, Yumei, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

Serum response factor (SRF) binds a 1,216-fold degenerate cis element known as the CArG box. CArG boxes are found primarily in muscle and growth factor-associated genes though the full spectrum of...

Computational modeling of the Plasmodiumfalciparum interactome reveals protein functionon a genome-wide scale

Date, Shailesh V., Stoeckert, Christian J.

Many thousands of proteins encoded by the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the causal organism of the deadliest form of human malaria, are of unknown function. It is of utmost importance that these...

PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. An integrated database providing tools for accessing, analyzing and mapping expression and sequence data (both finished and unfinished)

Bahl, Amit, Brunk, Brian, Coppel, Ross L., Crabtree, Jonathan, Diskin, Sharon J., Fraunholz, Martin J., ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is the official database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequencing consortium. This resource incorporates finished and draft genome sequence data and annotation...

Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML)

Spellman, Paul T, Miller, Michael, Stewart, Jason, Troup, Charles, Sarkans, Ugis, Chervitz, Steve, ...

Meaningful exchange of microarray data is currently difficult because it is rare that published data provide sufficient information depth or are even in the same format from one publication to...

A molecular profile of a hematopoietic stem cell niche

Hackney, Jason A., Charbord, Pierre, Brunk, Brian P., Stoeckert, Christian J., Lemischka, Ihor R., Moore, Kateri A.

The hematopoietic microenvironment provides a complex molecular milieu that regulates the self-renewal and differentiation activities of stem cells. We have characterized a stem cell supportive...

Integrating computationally assembled mouse transcript sequences with the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) database

Zhu, Yunxia, King, Benjamin L, Parvizi, Babak, Brunk, Brian P, Stoeckert, Christian J, Quackenbush, John, ...

The analysis and results are presented of a semi-automated process of connecting transcript assemblies with highly curated biological information for mouse genes that is available through the Mouse...

PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. A database integrating experimental and computational data

Bahl, Amit, Brunk, Brian, Crabtree, Jonathan, Fraunholz, Martin J., Gajria, Bindu, Grant, Gregory R., ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is the official database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequencing consortium. This resource incorporates the recently completed P. falciparum genome sequence and...

Predicting Gene Ontology Functions from ProDom and CDD Protein Domains

Schug, Jonathan, Diskin, Sharon, Mazzarelli, Joan, Brunk, Brian P., Stoeckert, Christian J.

A heuristic algorithm for associating Gene Ontology (GO) defined molecular functions to protein domains as listed in the ProDom and CDD databases is described. The algorithm generates rules for...

ApiEST-DB: analyzing clustered EST data of the apicomplexan parasites

Li, Li, Crabtree, Jonathan, Fischer, Steve, Pinney, Deborah, Stoeckert, Christian J., Sibley, L. David, ...

ApiEST-DB (http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/paradbs-servlet/) provides integrated access to publicly available EST data from protozoan parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa. The database currently...

High-Resolution BAC-Based Map of the Central Portion of Mouse Chromosome 5

Crabtree, Jonathan, Wiltshire, Tim, Brunk, Brian, Zhao, Shaying, Schug, Jonathan, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

The current strategy for sequencing the mouse genome involves the combination of a whole-genome shotgun approach with clone-based sequencing. High-resolution physical maps will provide a foundation...

Coexisting proinflammatory and antioxidative endothelial transcription profiles in a disturbed flow region of the adult porcine aorta

Passerini, Anthony G., Polacek, Denise C., Shi, Congzhu, Francesco, Nadeene M., Manduchi, Elisabetta, Grant, Gregory R., ...

In the arterial circulation, regions of disturbed flow (DF), which are characterized by flow separation and transient vortices, are susceptible to atherogenesis, whereas regions of undisturbed...

OrthoMCL: Identification of Ortholog Groups for Eukaryotic Genomes

Li, Li, Stoeckert, Christian J., Roos, David S.

The identification of orthologous groups is useful for genome annotation, studies on gene/protein evolution, comparative genomics, and the identification of taxonomically restricted sequences....

Gene Discovery in the Apicomplexa as Revealed by EST Sequencing and Assembly of a Comparative Gene Database

Li, Li, Brunk, Brian P., Kissinger, Jessica C., Pape, Deana, Tang, Keliang, Cole, Robert H., ...

Large-scale EST sequencing projects for several important parasites within the phylum Apicomplexa were undertaken for the purpose of gene discovery. Included were several parasites of medical...

Promoter features related to tissue specificity as measured by Shannon entropy

Schug, Jonathan, Schuller, Winfried-Paul, Kappen, Claudia, Salbaum, J Michael, Bucan, Maja, Stoeckert, Christian J

A genome-wide analysis of promoters was carried out in the context of gene expression patterns in tissue surveys using human microarray and EST-based expression data. The study revealed that most...

OrthoMCL-DB: querying a comprehensive multi-species collection of ortholog groups

Chen, Feng, Mackey, Aaron J., Stoeckert, Christian J., Roos, David S.

The OrthoMCL database () houses ortholog group predictions for 55 species, including 16 bacterial and 4 archaeal genomes representing phylogenetically diverse lineages, and most currently available...

Defining the mammalian CArGome

Sun, Qiang, Chen, Guang, Streb, Jeffrey W., Long, Xiaochun, Yang, Yumei, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

Serum response factor (SRF) binds a 1,216-fold degenerate cis element known as the CArG box. CArG boxes are found primarily in muscle and growth factor-associated genes though the full spectrum of...

Computational modeling of the Plasmodiumfalciparum interactome reveals protein functionon a genome-wide scale

Date, Shailesh V., Stoeckert, Christian J.

Many thousands of proteins encoded by the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the causal organism of the deadliest form of human malaria, are of unknown function. It is of utmost importance that these...

ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Heiges, Mark, Wang, Haiming, Wang, Zhiming, Fischer, Steve, Rhodes, Philippa, ...

ApiDB () represents a unified entry point for the NIH-funded Apicomplexan Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) that integrates numerous database resources and multiple data types. The phylum...

EPConDB: a web resource for gene expression related to pancreatic development, beta-cell function and diabetes

Mazzarelli, Joan M., Brestelli, John, Gorski, Regina K., Liu, Junmin, Manduchi, Elisabetta, Pinney, Deborah F., ...

EPConDB () is a public web site that supports research in diabetes, pancreatic development and beta-cell function by providing information about genes expressed in cells of the pancreas. EPConDB...

STAC: A method for testing the significance of DNA copy number aberrations across multiple array-CGH experiments

Diskin, Sharon J., Eck, Thomas, Greshock, Joel, Mosse, Yael P., Naylor, Tara, Stoeckert, Christian J., ...

Regions of gain and loss of genomic DNA occur in many cancers and can drive the genesis and progression of disease. These copy number aberrations (CNAs) can be detected at high resolution by using...

Clustering of genes into regulons using integrated modeling-COGRIM

Chen, Guang, Jensen, Shane T, Stoeckert, Christian J

COGRIM, an implementation that integrates gene expression, ChIP binding and transcription factor motif data, is described and applied to both unicellular and mammalian organisms.

Assessing the Significance of Conserved Genomic Aberrations Using High Resolution Genomic Microarrays

Guttman, Mitchell, Mies, Carolyn, Dudycz-Sulicz, Katarzyna, Diskin, Sharon J, Baldwin, Don A, Stoeckert, Christian J, ...

Genomic aberrations recurrent in a particular cancer type can be important prognostic markers for tumor progression. Typically in early tumorigenesis, cells incur a breakdown of the DNA replication...

Expansion of adult β-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is dependent on HNF-4α

Gupta, Rana K., Gao, Nan, Gorski, Regina K., White, Peter, Hardy, Olga T., Rafiq, Kiran, ...

The failure to expand functional pancreatic β-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Lineage tracing studies indicate that replication of existing...

ToxoDB: an integrated Toxoplasma gondii database resource

Gajria, Bindu, Bahl, Amit, Brestelli, John, Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, Gao, Xin, ...

ToxoDB (http://ToxoDB.org) is a genome and functional genomic database for the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. It incorporates the sequence and annotation of the T. gondii ME49 strain, as well...

Systems biology-defined NF-κB regulons, interacting signal pathways and networks are implicated in the malignant phenotype of head and neck cancer cell lines differing in p53 status

Yan, Bin, Chen, Guang, Saigal, Kunal, Yang, Xinping, Jensen, Shane T, Van Waes, Carter, ...

Detailed analysis of NFκB regulons in 1,265 genes differentially expressed in head and neck cancer cell lines differing in p53 status revealed a cross talk between NFkB and specific signaling...

The MGED Ontology: A Framework for Describing Functional Genomics Experiments

Stoeckert, Christian J., Parkinson, Helen

The Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) society was formed with an initial focus on experiments involving microarray technology. Despite the diversity of applications, there are common concepts...

The SOFG Anatomy Entry List (SAEL): An Annotation Tool for Functional Genomics Data

Parkinson, Helen, Aitken, Stuart, Baldock, Richard A., Bard, Jonathan B. L., Burger, Albert, Hayamizu, Terry F., ...

A great deal of data in functional genomics studies needs to be annotated with low-resolution anatomical terms. For example, gene expression assays based on manually dissected samples (microarray,...

PPARγ and C/EBP factors orchestrate adipocyte biology via adjacent binding on a genome-wide scale

Lefterova, Martina I., Zhang, Yong, Steger, David J., Schupp, Michael, Schug, Jonathan, Cristancho, Ana, ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ(PPARγ), a nuclear receptor and the target of anti-diabetic thiazolinedione drugs, is known as the master regulator of adipocyte biology. Although it...

GiardiaDB and TrichDB: integrated genomic resources for the eukaryotic protist pathogens Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Brestelli, John, Brunk, Brian P., Carlton, Jane M., Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, ...

GiardiaDB (http://GiardiaDB.org) and TrichDB (http://TrichDB.org) house the genome databases for Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis, respectively, and represent the latest additions to the...

PlasmoDB: a functional genomic database for malaria parasites

Aurrecoechea, Cristina, Brestelli, John, Brunk, Brian P., Dommer, Jennifer, Fischer, Steve, Gajria, Bindu, ...

PlasmoDB (http://PlasmoDB.org) is a functional genomic database for Plasmodium spp. that provides a resource for data analysis and visualization in a gene-by-gene or genome-wide scale. PlasmoDB...