John Quackenbush

Data reporting standards: making the things we use better (2009)

Quackenbush, John

Abstract Genomic data often persist far beyond the initial study in which they were generated. But the true value of the data is tied to their being both used and useful, and the usefulness of the...

Data-driven normalization strategies for high-throughput quantitative RT-PCR (2009)

Mar, Jessica C, Kimura, Yasumasa, Schroder, Kate, Irvine, Katharine M, Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, Suzuki, Harukazu, ...

Abstract Background High-throughput real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a widely used technique in experiments where expression patterns of genes are to...

The Journal of Experimental Biology 210, 1507-1517 Published by The Company of Biologists 2007 doi:10.1242/jeb.004432 Extracting biology from high-dimensional biological data (2009)

John Quackenbush

The promise of the genome project was that a complete sequence would provide us with information that would transform biology and medicine. But the ‘parts list ’ that has emerged from the genome...

Promoting coherent minimum reporting requirements for biological and biomedical investigations : The MIBBI Project. (2008)

Taylor, Chris, Field, Dawn, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Apweiler, Rolf, Ashburner, Michael, Ball, Cathy, ...

The Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project aims to foster the coordinated development of minimum-information checklists and provide a resource for those...

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...

Seeded Bayesian Networks: Constructing genetic networks from microarray data (2008)

Djebbari, Amira, Quackenbush, John

Abstract Background DNA microarrays and other genomics-inspired technologies provide large datasets that often include hidden patterns of correlation between genes reflecting the complex processes...

Sources of variation in baseline gene expression levels from toxicogenomics study control animals across multiple laboratories (2008)

Boedigheimer, Michael J, Wolfinger, Russell D, Bass, Michael B, Bushel, Pierre R, Chou, Jeff W, Cooper, Matthew, ...

Abstract Background The use of gene expression profiling in both clinical and laboratory settings would be enhanced by better characterization of variance due to individual, environmental, and...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm043 Gene (2008)

Jun S. Song, Kaveh Maghsoudi, Wei Li, Edward Fox, John Quackenbush, X. Shirley Liu

Motivation: New generation Affymetrix oligonucleotide microarrays often have blob-like image defects that will require investigators to either repeat their hybridization assays or analyze their data...

BIOINFORMATICS Estimating p-values in small microarray experiments (2008)

Hyuna Yang A, Gary Churchill A, John Quackenbush

Motivation: Microarray data typically have small numbers of observations per gene which can result in low power for statistical tests. Test statistics that borrow information from data across all of...

BIOINFORMATICS Indelign: A probabilistic framework for annotation of insertions and deletions in a multiple alignment (2008)

Jaebum Kim, Saurabh Sinha, John Quackenbush

Motivation: A quantitative study of molecular evolutionary events such as substitutions, insertions and deletions from closely related genomes requires (i) an accurate multiple sequence alignment...

BIOINFORMATICS An Interactive Power Analysis Tool for Microarray Hypothesis Testing and Generation (2008)

Jinwook Seo, Heather Gordish-dressman, Eric P. Hoffman, John Quackenbush

Motivation: Human clinical projects typically require a priori statistical power analysis. Towards this end, we sought to build a flexible and interactive power analysis tool for microarray studies...

Adding sequence context to a Markov background model improves the identification of regulatory elements (2008)

Nak-kyeong Kim, Kannan Tharakaraman, John L. Spouge, John Quackenbush

Motivation: Many computational methods for identifying regulatory elements use a likelihood ratio between motif and background models. Often, the methods use a background model of independent bases....

[9] TM4 Microarray Software Suite (2008)

I. Saeed, Nirmal K. Bhagabati, John C. Braisted, Wei Liang, Vasily Sharov, Eleanor A. Howe, ...

Tusher, V. G., Tibshirani, R., and Chu, G. (2001). Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 5116–5121. Zhang, L., Miles, M....

Based upon Biotechniques, 29(3), Sept 2000,548-562 A Concise Guide to cDNA Microarray Analysis – II (2008)

Priti Hegde, Rong Qi, Kristie Abernathy, Cheryl Gay, Sonia Dharap, Renee Gaspard, ...

Microarray expression analysis has become one of the most widely used functional genomics tools. Efficient application of this technique requires the development of robust and reproducible protocols....

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER Data and text mining (2008)

Rainer Malik, Lude Franke, Arno Siebes, John Quackenbush

Combination of text-mining algorithms increases the performance

BIOINFORMATICS Analysis of HIV-1 pol sequences using Bayesian Networks: implications for drug resistance (2008)

Deforche K A, Er T B, Camacho R C, Grossman Z D, Soares Ma E, Laethem K A, ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) antiviral resistance is a major cause of antiviral therapy failure and compromises future treatment options. As a consequence, resistance testing is the...

BIOINFORMATICS EDITORIAL (2008)

John Quackenbush, Steven L. Salzberg

It is time to end the patenting of software

Minimum information specification for in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry experiments (MISFISHIE) (2008)

Deutsch, Eric W, Ball, Catherine A, Berman, Jules J, Bova, G Steven, Brazma, Alvis, Bumgarner, Roger E, ...

One purpose of the biomedical literature is to report results in sufficient detail that the methods of data collection and analysis can be independently replicated and verified. Here we present...

Identification of conserved gene expression features between murine mammary carcinoma models and human breast tumors (2007)

Herschkowitz, Jason I, Simin, Karl, Weigman, Victor J, Mikaelian, Igor, Usary, Jerry, Hu, Zhiyuan, ...

Abstract Background Although numerous mouse models of breast carcinomas have been developed, we do not know the extent to which any faithfully represent clinically significant human phenotypes. To...

Microarray blob-defect removal improves array analysis (2007)

Song, Jun S., Maghsoudi, Kaveh, Li, Wei, Fox, Edward, Quackenbush, John, Shirley Liu, X.

Motivation: New generation Affymetrix oligonucleotide microarrays often have blob-like image defects that will require investigators to either repeat their hybridization assays or analyze their data...

A cricket Gene Index: a genomic resource for studying neurobiology, speciation, and molecular evolution (2007)

Danley, Patrick D, Mullen, Sean P, Liu, Fenglong, Nene, Vishvanath, Quackenbush, John, Shaw, Kerry L

Abstract Background As the developmental costs of genomic tools decline, genomic approaches to non-model systems are becoming more feasible. Many of these systems may lack advanced genetic tools but...

Microarray Blob-Defect Removal Improves Array Analysis (2007)

Song, Jun S., Maghsoudi, Kaveh, Li, Wei, Fox, Edward, Quackenbush, John, Shirley Liu, X.

Motivation: New generation Affymetrix oligonucleotide microarrays often have blob-like image defects that will require investigators to either repeat their hybridization assays or analyze their data...

Inferring steady state single-cell gene expression distributions from analysis of mesoscopic samples (2006)

Mar, Jessica C, Rubio, Renee, Quackenbush, John

Abstract Background A great deal of interest has been generated by systems biology approaches that attempt to develop quantitative, predictive models of cellular processes. However, the starting...

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...

Gene expression profiling of lymphoblastoid cell lines from monozygotic twins discordant in severity of autism reveals differential regulation of neurologically relevant genes (2006)

Hu, Valerie W, Frank, Bryan C, Heine, Shannon, Lee, Norman H, Quackenbush, John

Abstract Background The autism spectrum encompasses a set of complex multigenic developmental disorders that severely impact the development of language, non-verbal communication, and social skills,...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Norihiro Maeda, Takeya Kasukawa, Rieko Oyama, Julian Gough, Martin Frith, Pär G. Engström, ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par G., ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par G., ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par G., ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par, ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par, ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par, ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Rosetta error model for gene expression analysis (2006)

Lee Weng, Hongyue Dai, Yihui Zhan, Yudong He, Sergey B. Stepaniants, E. Bassett, ...

The online version of this article has been published under an open access model. Users are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open access version of this article for...

process (2006)

Zhaohui Qin, John Quackenbush

microarray gene expression data using weighted Chinese restaurant

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs (2006)

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engstrom, Par G., ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Sonic hedgehog promotes CD4+ T lymphocyte proliferation and modulates the expression of a subset of CD28-targeted genes (2006)

Chan, Vera S. F., Chau, Suk-yi, Tian, Lina, Chen, Yan, Kwong, Simon K. Y., Quackenbush, John, ...

Sonic hedgehog (Shh) is a crucial morphogen in the development of numerous tissues and organs, including the nervous system, gastrointestinal tract and lung. Recent findings suggest that Shh plays an...

Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome (2006)

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...

Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome (2006)

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...

Sonic hedgehog promotes CD4+ T lymphocyte proliferation and modulates the expression of a subset of CD28-targeted genes (2006)

Chan, Vera S. F., Chau, Suk-yi, Tian, Lina, Chen, Yan, Kwong, Simon K. Y., Quackenbush, John, ...

Sonic hedgehog (Shh) is a crucial morphogen in the development of numerous tissues and organs, including the nervous system, gastrointestinal tract and lung. Recent findings suggest that Shh plays an...

The TIGR Maize Database (2006)

Chan, Agnes P., Pertea, Geo, Cheung, Foo, Lee, Dan, Zheng, Li, Whitelaw, Cathy, ...

Maize is a staple crop of the grass family and also an excellent model for plant genetics. Owing to the large size and repetitiveness of its genome, we previously investigated two approaches to...

Molecular processes during fat cell development revealed by gene expression profiling and functional annotation (2005)

Hackl, Hubert, Burkard, Thomas, Sturn, Alexander, Rubio, Renee, Schleiffer, Alexander, Tian, Sun, ...

Abstract Background Large-scale transcription profiling of cell models and model organisms can identify novel molecular components involved in fat cell development. Detailed characterization of the...

A robust method for the amplification of RNA in the sense orientation (2005)

Marko, Nicholas F, Frank, Bryan, Quackenbush, John, Lee, Norman H

Abstract Background Small quantities of RNA (1–4 μg total RNA) available from biological samples frequently require a single round of amplification prior to analysis, but current amplification...

based on (2005)

Gene Expression, Amira Djebbari, Svetlana Karamycheva, Eleanor Howe, John Quackenbush

Vol. 21 no. 15 2005, pages 3324–3326 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti503 MeSHer: identifying biological concepts in microarray assays

MeSHer: identifying biological concepts in microarray assays based on PubMed references and MeSH terms (2005)

Amira Djebbari, Svetlana Karamycheva, Eleanor Howe, John Quackenbush

Summary: MeSHer uses a simple statistical approach to identify biological concepts in the form of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) obtained from the PubMed database that are significantly...

CGHAnalyzer: a stand-alone software package for cancer genome analysis using array-based DNA copy number data (2005)

Margolin, Adam A., Greshock, Joel, Naylor, Tara L., Mosse, Yael, Maris, John M., Bignell, Graham, ...

Summary: This synopsis provides an overview of array-based comparative genomic hybridization data display, abstraction and analysis using CGHAnalyzer, a software suite, designed specifically for this...

MeSHer: identifying biological concepts in microarray assays based on PubMed references and MeSH terms (2005)

Djebbari, Amira, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Howe, Eleanor, Quackenbush, John

Summary: MeSHer uses a simple statistical approach to identify biological concepts in the form of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) obtained from the PubMed database that are significantly...

CGHAnalyzer: a stand-alone software package for cancer genome analysis using array-based DNA copy number data (2005)

Margolin, Adam A., Greshock, Joel, Naylor, Tara L., Mosse, Yael, Maris, John M., Bignell, Graham, ...

Summary: This synopsis provides an overview of array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) data display, abstraction and analysis using CGHAnalyzer, a software suite, designed specifically...

MeSHer: identifying biological concepts in microarray assays based on PubMed references and MESH terms (2005)

Djebbari, Amira, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Howe, Eleanor, Quackenbush, John

Summary: MeSHer uses a simple statistical approach to identify biological concepts in the form of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) obtained from the PubMed database that are significantly...

Submission of Microarray Data to Public Repositories (2004)

Catherine A. Ball, Alvis Brazma, Helen Causton, Steve Chervitz, Ron Edgar, Pascal Hingamp, ...

The Microarray Gene Expression Data Society believe that the time is right for journals to require that microarray data be deposited in public repositories, as a condition for publication.

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones (2004)

Tadashi Imanishi, Takeshi Itoh, Yutaka Suzuki, Claire O'Donovan, Satoshi Fukuchi, Kanako O. Koyanagi, ...

An international team has systematically validated and annotated just over 21,000 human genes using full-length cDNA, thereby providing a valuable new resource for the human genetics community.

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones (2004)

Tadashi Imanishi, Takeshi Itoh, Yutaka Suzuki, Claire O'Donovan, Satoshi Fukuchi, Kanako O. Koyanagi, ...

The human genome sequence defines our inherent biological potential; the realization of the biology encoded therein requires knowledge of the function of each gene. Currently, our knowledge in this...

Use of a multi-virus array for the study of human viral and retroviral pathogens: gene expression studies and ChIP-chip analysis (2004)

Ghedin, Elodie, Pumfery, Anne, De La Fuente, Cynthia, Yao, Karen, Miller, Naomi, Lacoste, Vincent, ...

Abstract Background Since the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) twenty years ago, AIDS has become one of the most studied diseases. A number of viruses have subsequently been...

Orthologous gene-expression profiling in multi-species models: search for candidate genes (2004)

Grigoryev, Dmitry N, Ma, Shwu-Fan, Irizarry, Rafael A, Ye, Shui, Quackenbush, John, Garcia, Joe GN

Abstract Microarray-driven gene-expression profiles are generally produced and analyzed for a single specific experimental model. We have assessed an analytical approach that simultaneously evaluates...

The limits of log-ratios (2004)

Sharov, Vasily, Kwong, Ka, Frank, Bryan, Chen, Emily, Hasseman, Jeremy, Gaspard, Renee, ...

Abstract Background DNA microarray assays typically compare two biological samples and present the results of those comparisons gene-by-gene as the logarithm base two of the ratio of the measured...

A workshop entitled “Metrology and Standards Needs for Gene Expression Technologies: Universal RNA (2004)

Maureen Cronin, Krishna Ghosh, Frank Sistare, John Quackenbush, Vincent Vilker

Standards ” was held in March of this year to define the requirements for standardizing RNA-based molecular assays, specifically microarray and quantitative reversetranscriptase-PCR technologies....

Open-source software accelerates bioinformatics (2003)

Quackenbush, John

Abstract A report on the Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor Genome Informatics meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, USA, 7-11 May 2003.

THE SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI GENE INDEX: GENE DISCOVERY AND BIOLOGY BY RECONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSED GENE SEQUENCES (2003)

Joseph M. Merrick, Ahmed Osman, Jennifer Tsai, John Quackenbush, Philip T. LoVerde, Norman H. Lee

Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing and analysis is a primary research tool to identify and characterize the Schistosoma mansoni transcriptome. As part of our gene discovery effort, a total of...

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...

Assessing unmodified 70-mer oligonucleotide probe performance on glass-slide microarrays (2003)

Wang, Hong-Ying, Malek, Renae L, Kwitek, Anne E, Greene, Andrew S, Luu, Truong V, Behbahani, Babak, ...

Abstract Background Long oligonucleotide microarrays are potentially more cost- and management-efficient than cDNA microarrays, but there is little information on the relative performance of these...

Continued Discovery of Transcriptional Units Expressed in Cells of the Mouse Mononuclear Phagocyte Lineage (2003)

Wells, Christine, Ravasi, Timothy, Sultana, Razvan, Yagi, Ken, Carninci, Piero, Bono, Hidemasa, ...

The current RIKEN transcript set represents a significant proportion of the mouse transcriptome but transcripts expressed in the innate and acquired immune systems are poorly represented. In the...

Continued Discovery of Transcriptional Units Expressed in Cells of the Mouse Mononuclear Phagocyte Lineage (2003)

Wells, Christine, Ravasi, Timothy, Sultana, Razvan, Yagi, Ken, Carninci, Piero, Bono, Hidemasa, ...

The current RIKEN transcript set represents a significant proportion of the mouse transcriptome but transcripts expressed in the innate and acquired immune systems are poorly represented. In the...

Continued Discovery of Transcriptional Units Expressed in Cells of the Mouse Mononuclear Phagocyte Lineage (2003)

Wells, Christine, Ravasi, Timothy, Sultana, Razvan, Yagi, Ken, Carninci, Piero, Bono, Hidemasa, ...

The current RIKEN transcript set represents a significant proportion of the mouse transcriptome but transcripts expressed in the innate and acquired immune systems are poorly represented. In the...

Continued Discovery of Transcriptional Units Expressed in Cells of the Mouse Mononuclear Phagocyte Lineage (2003)

Wells, Christine A., Ravasi, Timothy, Sultana, Razvan, Yagi, Ken, Carninci, Piero, Bono, Hidemasa, ...

The current RIKEN transcript set represents a significant proportion of the mouse transcriptome but transcripts expressed in the innate and acquired immune systems are poorly represented. In the...

Development and Evaluation of an Automated Annotation Pipeline and cDNA Annotation System (2003)

Kasukawa, Takeya, Furuno, Masaaki, Nikaido, Itoshi, Bono, Hidemasa, Hume, David A., Bult, Carol, ...

Manual curation has long been held to be the “gold standard” for functional annotation of DNA sequence. Our experience with the annotation of more than 20,000 full-length cDNA sequences revealed...

TIGR Gene Indices clustering tools (TGICL): a software system for fast clustering of large EST datasets (2003)

Pertea, Geo, Huang, Xiaoqiu, Liang, Feng, Antonescu, Valentin, Sultana, Razvan, Karamycheva, Svetlana, ...

TGICL is a pipeline for analysis of large Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) and mRNA databases in which the sequences are first clustered based on pairwise sequence similarity, and then assembled by...

The TIGR rice genome annotation resource: annotating the rice genome and creating resources for plant biologists (2003)

Yuan, Qiaoping, Ouyang, Shu, Liu, Jia, Suh, Bernard, Cheung, Foo, Sultana, Razvan, ...

Rice is not only a major food staple for the world's population but it also is a model species for a major group of flowering plants, the monocotyledonous plants. Draft genomic sequence of two...

Gene Expression Analyses of Arabidopsis Chromosome 2 Using a Genomic DNA Amplicon Microarray (2003)

Kim, Heenam, Snesrud, Erik C., Haas, Brian, Cheung, Foo, Town, Christopher D., Quackenbush, John

The gene predictions and accompanying functional assignments resulting from the sequencing and annotation of a genome represent hypotheses that can be tested and used to develop a more complete...

Within the fold: assessing differential expression measures and reproducibility in microarray assays (2002)

Yang, Ivana V, Chen, Emily, Hasseman, Jeremy P, Liang, Wei, Frank, Bryan C, Wang, Shuibang, ...

Abstract Background 'Fold-change' cutoffs have been widely used in microarray assays to identify genes that are differentially expressed between query and reference samples. More accurate measures of...

Osteopontin identified as lead marker of colon cancer progression, using pooled sample expression profiling (2002)

Deepak Agrawal, Tingan Chen, Rosalyn Irby, John Quackenbush, Ann F. Chambers, Marianna Szabo, ...

Background: New tumor markers and markers of tumor progression are needed for improved staging and for better assessment of treatment of many cancers. Gene expression profiling techniques offer the...

Genesis: cluster analysis of microarray data (2002)

Sturn, Alexander, Quackenbush, John, Trajanoski, Zlatko

Summary: A versatile, platform independent and easy to use Java suite for large-scale gene expression analysis was developed. Genesis integrates various tools for microarray data analysis such as...

Osteopontin Identified as Lead Marker of Colon Cancer Progression, Using Pooled Sample Expression Profiling (2002)

Agrawal, Deepak, Chen, Tingan, Irby, Rosalyn, Quackenbush, John, Chambers, Ann F., Szabo, Marianna, ...

Background: New tumor markers and markers of tumor progression are needed for improved staging and for better assessment of treatment of many cancers. Gene expression profiling techniques offer the...

RESOURCERER: a database for annotating and linking microarray resources within and across species (2001)

Tsai, Jennifer, Sultana, Razvan, Lee, Yudan, Pertea, Geo, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Antonescu, Valentin, ...

Abstract Microarray expression analysis is providing unprecedented data on gene expression in humans and mammalian model systems. Although such studies provide a tremendous resource for understanding...

The TIGR Gene Indices: analysis of gene transcript sequences in highly sampled eukaryotic species (2001)

Quackenbush, John, Cho, Jennifer, Lee, Daniel, Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Karamycheva, Svetlana, ...

While genome sequencing projects are advancing rapidly, EST sequencing and analysis remains a primary research tool for the identification and categorization of gene sequences in a wide variety of...

A concise guide to cDNA microarray analysis (2000)

Priti Hegde, Rong Qi, Kristie Abernathy, Cheryl Gay, Sonia Dharap, Renee Gaspard, ...

Microarray expression analysis has become one of the most widely used functional genomics tools. Efficient application of this technique requires the development of robust and reproducible protocols....

An optimized protocol for analysis of est sequences (2000)

Feng Liang, Ingeborg Holt, Geo Pertea, Svetlana Karamycheva, Steven L. Salzberg, John Quackenbush

The vast body of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data in the public databases provide an important resource for comparative and functional genomics studies and an invaluable tool for the annotation of...

Anchoring of rice BAC clones to the rice genetic map in silico (2000)

Yuan, Qiaoping, Liang, Feng, Hsiao, Joseph, Zismann, Victoria, Benito, Maria-Ines, Quackenbush, John, ...

A wealth of molecular resources have been developed for rice genomics, including dense genetic maps, expressed sequence tags (ESTs), yeast artificial chromosome maps, bacterial artificial chromosome...

An optimized protocol for analysis of EST sequences (2000)

Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Pertea, Geo, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Salzberg, Steven L., Quackenbush, John

The vast body of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data in the public databases provide an important resource for comparative and functional genomics studies and an invaluable tool for the annotation of...

The TIGR Gene Indices: reconstruction and representation of expressed gene sequences (2000)

Quackenbush, John, Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Pertea, Geo, Upton, Jonathan

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have provided a first glimpse of the collection of transcribed sequences in a variety of organisms. However, a careful analysis of this sequence data can provide...

Purification and characterization of carboxypeptidase 1, the major carboxypeptidase of the mung bean /--by John Quackenbush. (1991)

Quackenbush, John.

Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Biological Sciences, 1991.

The TIGR Gene Indices: analysis of gene transcript sequences in highly sampled eukaryotic species

Quackenbush, John, Cho, Jennifer, Lee, Daniel, Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Karamycheva, Svetlana, ...

While genome sequencing projects are advancing rapidly, EST sequencing and analysis remains a primary research tool for the identification and categorization of gene sequences in a wide variety of...

Exploring the transcriptome of the malaria sporozoite stage

Kappe, Stefan H. I., Gardner, Malcolm J., Brown, Stuart M., Ross, Jessica, Matuschewski, Kai, Ribeiro, Jose M., ...

Most studies of gene expression in Plasmodium have been concerned with asexual and/or sexual erythrocytic stages. Identification and cloning of genes expressed in the preerythrocytic stages lag far...

The TIGR Gene Indices: reconstruction and representation of expressed gene sequences

Quackenbush, John, Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Pertea, Geo, Upton, Jonathan

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have provided a first glimpse of the collection of transcribed sequences in a variety of organisms. However, a careful analysis of this sequence data can provide...

An optimized protocol for analysis of EST sequences

Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Pertea, Geo, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Salzberg, Steven L., Quackenbush, John

The vast body of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data in the public databases provide an important resource for comparative and functional genomics studies and an invaluable tool for the annotation of...

Anchoring of rice BAC clones to the rice genetic map in silico

Yuan, Qiaoping, Liang, Feng, Hsiao, Joseph, Zismann, Victoria, Benito, Maria-Ines, Quackenbush, John, ...

A wealth of molecular resources have been developed for rice genomics, including dense genetic maps, expressed sequence tags (ESTs), yeast artificial chromosome maps, bacterial artificial chromosome...

Within the fold: assessing differential expression measures and reproducibility in microarray assays

Yang, Ivana V, Chen, Emily, Hasseman, Jeremy P, Liang, Wei, Frank, Bryan C, Wang, Shuibang, ...

Fold-change' cutoffs have been widely used in microarray assays to identify genes that are differentially expressed. More accurate measures are required to identify high-confidence sets of genes with...

RESOURCERER: a database for annotating and linking microarray resources within and across species

Tsai, Jennifer, Sultana, Razvan, Lee, Yudan, Pertea, Geo, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Antonescu, Valentin, ...

Microarray expression analysis is providing unprecedented data on gene expression in humans and mammalian model systems. Although such studies provide a tremendous resource for understanding human...

Assessing unmodified 70-mer oligonucleotide probe performance on glass-slide microarrays

Wang, Hong-Ying, Malek, Renae L, Kwitek, Anne E, Greene, Andrew S, Luu, Truong V, Behbahani, Babak, ...

Long oligonucleotide microarrays are potentially more cost- and management efficient than cDNA microarrays. Unmodified sense and antisense 70-mer oligonucleotides were synthesized and compared with...

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...

The TIGR rice genome annotation resource: annotating the rice genome and creating resources for plant biologists

Yuan, Qiaoping, Ouyang, Shu, Liu, Jia, Suh, Bernard, Cheung, Foo, Sultana, Razvan, ...

Rice is not only a major food staple for the world's population but it also is a model species for a major group of flowering plants, the monocotyledonous plants. Draft genomic sequence of two...

Comparative Analyses of Potato Expressed Sequence Tag Libraries1

Ronning, Catherine M., Stegalkina, Svetlana S., Ascenzi, Robert A., Bougri, Oleg, Hart, Amy L., Utterbach, Teresa R., ...

The cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) shares similar biology with other members of the Solanaceae, yet has features unique within the family, such as modified stems (stolons) that develop into...

Open-source software accelerates bioinformatics

Quackenbush, John

A report on the Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor Genome Informatics meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, USA, 7-11 May 2003.

Sequence Evaluation of Four Pooled-Tissue Normalized Bovine cDNA Libraries and Construction of a Gene Index for Cattle

Smith, Timothy P.L., Grosse, William M., Freking, Brad A., Roberts, Andrew J., Stone, Roger T., Casas, Eduardo, ...

An essential component of functional genomics studies is the sequence of DNA expressed in tissues of interest. To provide a resource of bovine-specific expressed sequence data and facilitate this...

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

Imanishi, Tadashi, Itoh, Takeshi, Suzuki, Yutaka, O'Donovan, Claire, Fukuchi, Satoshi, Koyanagi, Kanako O, ...

The human genome sequence defines our inherent biological potential; the realization of the biology encoded therein requires knowledge of the function of each gene. Currently, our knowledge in this...

Continued Discovery of Transcriptional Units Expressed in Cells of the Mouse Mononuclear Phagocyte Lineage

Wells, Christine A., Ravasi, Timothy, Sultana, Razvan, Yagi, Ken, Carninci, Piero, Bono, Hidemasa, ...

The current RIKEN transcript set represents a significant proportion of the mouse transcriptome but transcripts expressed in the innate and acquired immune systems are poorly represented. In the...

Development and Evaluation of an Automated Annotation Pipeline and cDNA Annotation System

Kasukawa, Takeya, Furuno, Masaaki, Nikaido, Itoshi, Bono, Hidemasa, Hume, David A., Bult, Carol, ...

Manual curation has long been held to be the “gold standard” for functional annotation of DNA sequence. Our experience with the annotation of more than 20,000 full-length cDNA sequences revealed...

Orthologous gene-expression profiling in multi-species models: search for candidate genes

Grigoryev, Dmitry N, Ma, Shwu-Fan, Irizarry, Rafael A, Ye, Shui Qing, Quackenbush, John, Garcia, Joe GN

An analytical approach that simultaneously evaluates multi-species experimental models is presented. This approach may be a useful tool in the selection of process-related candidate genes.

Gene Expression Analyses of Arabidopsis Chromosome 2 Using a Genomic DNA Amplicon Microarray

Kim, Heenam, Snesrud, Erik C., Haas, Brian, Cheung, Foo, Town, Christopher D., Quackenbush, John

The gene predictions and accompanying functional assignments resulting from the sequencing and annotation of a genome represent hypotheses that can be tested and used to develop a more complete...

Submission of Microarray Data to Public Repositories

Ball, Catherine A, Brazma, Alvis, Causton, Helen, Chervitz, Steve, Edgar, Ron, Hingamp, Pascal, ...

The Microarray Gene Expression Data Society believe that the time is right for journals to require that microarray data be deposited in public repositories, as a condition for publication

Murine Macrophage Transcriptional Responses to Bacillus anthracis Infection and Intoxication

Bergman, Nicholas H., Passalacqua, Karla D., Gaspard, Renee, Shetron-Rama, Lynne M., Quackenbush, John, Hanna, Philip C.

Interactions between Bacillus anthracis and host macrophages represent critical early events in anthrax pathogenesis, but their details are not clearly understood. Here we report the first genomewide...

Global Transcription Profiling Reveals Comprehensive Insights into Hypoxic Response in Arabidopsis1[w]

Liu, Fenglong, VanToai, Tara, Moy, Linda P., Bock, Geoffrey, Linford, Lara D., Quackenbush, John

Plants have evolved adaptation mechanisms to sense oxygen deficiency in their environments and make coordinated physiological and structural adjustments to enhance their hypoxic tolerance. To gain...

The TIGR Maize Database

Chan, Agnes P., Pertea, Geo, Cheung, Foo, Lee, Dan, Zheng, Li, Whitelaw, Cathy, ...

Maize is a staple crop of the grass family and also an excellent model for plant genetics. Owing to the large size and repetitiveness of its genome, we previously investigated two approaches to...

Molecular processes during fat cell development revealed by gene expression profiling and functional annotation

Hackl, Hubert, Burkard, Thomas Rainer, Sturn, Alexander, Rubio, Renee, Schleiffer, Alexander, Tian, Sun, ...

In-depth bioinformatics analyses of expressed sequence tags found to be differentially expressed during differentiation of 3T3-L1 pre-adipocyte cells were combined with de novo functional annotation...

Cross-Referencing Eukaryotic Genomes: TIGR Orthologous Gene Alignments (TOGA)

Lee, Yuandan, Sultana, Razvan, Pertea, Geo, Cho, Jennifer, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Tsai, Jennifer, ...

Comparative genomics promises to rapidly accelerate the identification and functional classification of biologically important human genes. We developed the TIGR Orthologous Gene Alignment (TOGA;...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engström, Pär G, ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

The TIGR Gene Indices: analysis of gene transcript sequences in highly sampled eukaryotic species

Quackenbush, John, Cho, Jennifer, Lee, Daniel, Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Karamycheva, Svetlana, ...

While genome sequencing projects are advancing rapidly, EST sequencing and analysis remains a primary research tool for the identification and categorization of gene sequences in a wide variety of...

Exploring the transcriptome of the malaria sporozoite stage

Kappe, Stefan H. I., Gardner, Malcolm J., Brown, Stuart M., Ross, Jessica, Matuschewski, Kai, Ribeiro, Jose M., ...

Most studies of gene expression in Plasmodium have been concerned with asexual and/or sexual erythrocytic stages. Identification and cloning of genes expressed in the preerythrocytic stages lag far...

The TIGR Gene Indices: reconstruction and representation of expressed gene sequences

Quackenbush, John, Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Pertea, Geo, Upton, Jonathan

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have provided a first glimpse of the collection of transcribed sequences in a variety of organisms. However, a careful analysis of this sequence data can provide...

An optimized protocol for analysis of EST sequences

Liang, Feng, Holt, Ingeborg, Pertea, Geo, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Salzberg, Steven L., Quackenbush, John

The vast body of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data in the public databases provide an important resource for comparative and functional genomics studies and an invaluable tool for the annotation of...

Anchoring of rice BAC clones to the rice genetic map in silico

Yuan, Qiaoping, Liang, Feng, Hsiao, Joseph, Zismann, Victoria, Benito, Maria-Ines, Quackenbush, John, ...

A wealth of molecular resources have been developed for rice genomics, including dense genetic maps, expressed sequence tags (ESTs), yeast artificial chromosome maps, bacterial artificial chromosome...

Within the fold: assessing differential expression measures and reproducibility in microarray assays

Yang, Ivana V, Chen, Emily, Hasseman, Jeremy P, Liang, Wei, Frank, Bryan C, Wang, Shuibang, ...

Fold-change' cutoffs have been widely used in microarray assays to identify genes that are differentially expressed. More accurate measures are required to identify high-confidence sets of genes with...

RESOURCERER: a database for annotating and linking microarray resources within and across species

Tsai, Jennifer, Sultana, Razvan, Lee, Yudan, Pertea, Geo, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Antonescu, Valentin, ...

Microarray expression analysis is providing unprecedented data on gene expression in humans and mammalian model systems. Although such studies provide a tremendous resource for understanding human...

Assessing unmodified 70-mer oligonucleotide probe performance on glass-slide microarrays

Wang, Hong-Ying, Malek, Renae L, Kwitek, Anne E, Greene, Andrew S, Luu, Truong V, Behbahani, Babak, ...

Long oligonucleotide microarrays are potentially more cost- and management efficient than cDNA microarrays. Unmodified sense and antisense 70-mer oligonucleotides were synthesized and compared with...

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...

Cross-Referencing Eukaryotic Genomes: TIGR Orthologous Gene Alignments (TOGA)

Lee, Yuandan, Sultana, Razvan, Pertea, Geo, Cho, Jennifer, Karamycheva, Svetlana, Tsai, Jennifer, ...

Comparative genomics promises to rapidly accelerate the identification and functional classification of biologically important human genes. We developed the TIGR Orthologous Gene Alignment (TOGA;...

The TIGR rice genome annotation resource: annotating the rice genome and creating resources for plant biologists

Yuan, Qiaoping, Ouyang, Shu, Liu, Jia, Suh, Bernard, Cheung, Foo, Sultana, Razvan, ...

Rice is not only a major food staple for the world's population but it also is a model species for a major group of flowering plants, the monocotyledonous plants. Draft genomic sequence of two...

Comparative Analyses of Potato Expressed Sequence Tag Libraries1

Ronning, Catherine M., Stegalkina, Svetlana S., Ascenzi, Robert A., Bougri, Oleg, Hart, Amy L., Utterbach, Teresa R., ...

The cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) shares similar biology with other members of the Solanaceae, yet has features unique within the family, such as modified stems (stolons) that develop into...

Open-source software accelerates bioinformatics

Quackenbush, John

A report on the Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor Genome Informatics meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, USA, 7-11 May 2003.

Sequence Evaluation of Four Pooled-Tissue Normalized Bovine cDNA Libraries and Construction of a Gene Index for Cattle

Smith, Timothy P.L., Grosse, William M., Freking, Brad A., Roberts, Andrew J., Stone, Roger T., Casas, Eduardo, ...

An essential component of functional genomics studies is the sequence of DNA expressed in tissues of interest. To provide a resource of bovine-specific expressed sequence data and facilitate this...

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

Imanishi, Tadashi, Itoh, Takeshi, Suzuki, Yutaka, O'Donovan, Claire, Fukuchi, Satoshi, Koyanagi, Kanako O, ...

The human genome sequence defines our inherent biological potential; the realization of the biology encoded therein requires knowledge of the function of each gene. Currently, our knowledge in this...

Continued Discovery of Transcriptional Units Expressed in Cells of the Mouse Mononuclear Phagocyte Lineage

Wells, Christine A., Ravasi, Timothy, Sultana, Razvan, Yagi, Ken, Carninci, Piero, Bono, Hidemasa, ...

The current RIKEN transcript set represents a significant proportion of the mouse transcriptome but transcripts expressed in the innate and acquired immune systems are poorly represented. In the...

Development and Evaluation of an Automated Annotation Pipeline and cDNA Annotation System

Kasukawa, Takeya, Furuno, Masaaki, Nikaido, Itoshi, Bono, Hidemasa, Hume, David A., Bult, Carol, ...

Manual curation has long been held to be the “gold standard” for functional annotation of DNA sequence. Our experience with the annotation of more than 20,000 full-length cDNA sequences revealed...

Orthologous gene-expression profiling in multi-species models: search for candidate genes

Grigoryev, Dmitry N, Ma, Shwu-Fan, Irizarry, Rafael A, Ye, Shui Qing, Quackenbush, John, Garcia, Joe GN

An analytical approach that simultaneously evaluates multi-species experimental models is presented. This approach may be a useful tool in the selection of process-related candidate genes.

Gene Expression Analyses of Arabidopsis Chromosome 2 Using a Genomic DNA Amplicon Microarray

Kim, Heenam, Snesrud, Erik C., Haas, Brian, Cheung, Foo, Town, Christopher D., Quackenbush, John

The gene predictions and accompanying functional assignments resulting from the sequencing and annotation of a genome represent hypotheses that can be tested and used to develop a more complete...

Submission of Microarray Data to Public Repositories

Ball, Catherine A, Brazma, Alvis, Causton, Helen, Chervitz, Steve, Edgar, Ron, Hingamp, Pascal, ...

The Microarray Gene Expression Data Society believe that the time is right for journals to require that microarray data be deposited in public repositories, as a condition for publication

Murine Macrophage Transcriptional Responses to Bacillus anthracis Infection and Intoxication

Bergman, Nicholas H., Passalacqua, Karla D., Gaspard, Renee, Shetron-Rama, Lynne M., Quackenbush, John, Hanna, Philip C.

Interactions between Bacillus anthracis and host macrophages represent critical early events in anthrax pathogenesis, but their details are not clearly understood. Here we report the first genomewide...

Global Transcription Profiling Reveals Comprehensive Insights into Hypoxic Response in Arabidopsis1[w]

Liu, Fenglong, VanToai, Tara, Moy, Linda P., Bock, Geoffrey, Linford, Lara D., Quackenbush, John

Plants have evolved adaptation mechanisms to sense oxygen deficiency in their environments and make coordinated physiological and structural adjustments to enhance their hypoxic tolerance. To gain...

The TIGR Maize Database

Chan, Agnes P., Pertea, Geo, Cheung, Foo, Lee, Dan, Zheng, Li, Whitelaw, Cathy, ...

Maize is a staple crop of the grass family and also an excellent model for plant genetics. Owing to the large size and repetitiveness of its genome, we previously investigated two approaches to...

Molecular processes during fat cell development revealed by gene expression profiling and functional annotation

Hackl, Hubert, Burkard, Thomas Rainer, Sturn, Alexander, Rubio, Renee, Schleiffer, Alexander, Tian, Sun, ...

In-depth bioinformatics analyses of expressed sequence tags found to be differentially expressed during differentiation of 3T3-L1 pre-adipocyte cells were combined with de novo functional annotation...

Transcript Annotation in FANTOM3: Mouse Gene Catalog Based on Physical cDNAs

Maeda, Norihiro, Kasukawa, Takeya, Oyama, Rieko, Gough, Julian, Frith, Martin, Engström, Pär G, ...

The international FANTOM consortium aims to produce a comprehensive picture of the mammalian transcriptome, based upon an extensive cDNA collection and functional annotation of full-length enriched...

Inferring steady state single-cell gene expression distributions from analysis of mesoscopic samples

Mar, Jessica C, Rubio, Renee, Quackenbush, John

A simple model for assessing transcript levels based on Poisson statistics is proposed and validated by estimating the variance on gene expression levels as a function of the number of cells surveyed.

Multi-Platform, Multi-Site, Microarray-Based Human Tumor Classification

Bloom, Greg, Yang, Ivana V., Boulware, David, Kwong, Ka Yin, Coppola, Domenico, Eschrich, Steven, ...

The introduction of gene expression profiling has resulted in the production of rich human data sets with potential for deciphering tumor diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy. Here we demonstrate how...

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...

Identification of conserved gene expression features between murine mammary carcinoma models and human breast tumors

Herschkowitz, Jason I, Simin, Karl, Weigman, Victor J, Mikaelian, Igor, Usary, Jerry, Hu, Zhiyuan, ...

Comparison of mammary tumor gene-expression profiles from thirteen murine models using microarrays and with that of human breast tumors showed that many of the defining characteristics of human...

TNF receptor I sensitizes neurons to erythropoietin- and VEGF-mediated neuroprotection after ischemic and excitotoxic injury

Taoufik, Era, Petit, Edwige, Divoux, Didier, Tseveleki, Vivian, Mengozzi, Manuela, Roberts, Michael L., ...

CNS neurons use robust cytoprotective mechanisms to ensure survival and functioning under conditions of injury. These involve pathways induced by endogenous neuroprotective cytokines such as...

Multistrain Genetic Comparisons Reveal CCR5 as a Receptor Involved in Airway Hyperresponsiveness

Walker, Julia K. L., Ahumada, Adriana, Frank, Bryan, Gaspard, Renee, Berman, Katherine, Quackenbush, John, ...

Asthma is a ubiquitous disease with a broad range of clinical phenotypes. To better understand the complex genetic and environmental interactions underlying asthma, we compared the gene–gene...

Gene-environment interactions reveal a homeostatic role for cholesterol metabolism during dietary folate perturbation in mice

Kitami, Toshimori, Rubio, Renee, O'Brien, William, Quackenbush, John, Nadeau, Joseph H.

Dietary folate supplementation can dramatically reduce the severity and incidence of several common birth defects and adult diseases that are associated with anomalies in homocysteine and folate...

Eμ-TCL1 mice represent a model for immunotherapeutic reversal of chronic lymphocytic leukemia-induced T-cell dysfunction

Gorgun, Gullu, Ramsay, Alan G., Holderried, Tobias A. W., Zahrieh, David, Le Dieu, Rifca, Liu, Fenglong, ...

Preclinical animal models have largely ignored the immune-suppressive mechanisms that are important in human cancers. The identification and use of such models should allow better predictions of...