Michael Snyder

PEMer: a computational framework with simulation-based error models for inferring genomic structural variants from massive paired-end sequencing data (2009)

Korbel, Jan O, Abyzov, Alexej, Mu, Xinmeng, Carriero, Nicholas, Cayting, Philip, Zhang, Zhengdong, ...

Abstract Personal-genomics endeavors, such as the 1000 Genomes project, are generating maps of genomic structural variants by analyzing ends of massively sequenced genome fragments. To process these...

Efficient yeast ChIP-Seq using multiplex short-read DNA sequencing (2009)

Lefrançois, Philippe, Euskirchen, Ghia M, Auerbach, Raymond K, Rozowsky, Joel, Gibson, Theodore, Yellman, Christopher M, ...

Abstract Background Short-read high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies provide new tools to answer biological questions. However, high cost and low throughput limit their widespread use,...

Dynamic and complex transcription factor binding during an inducible response in yeast (2009)

Ni, Li, Bruce, Can, Hart, Christopher, Leigh-Bell, Justine, Gelperin, Daniel, Umansky, Lara, ...

Complex biological processes are often regulated, at least in part, by the binding of transcription factors to their targets. Recently, considerable effort has been made to analyze the binding of...

A high throughput embryonic stem cell screen identifies Oct-2 as a bifunctional regulator of neuronal differentiation (2009)

Theodorou, Elias, Dalembert, George, Heffelfinger, Christopher, White, Eric, Weissman, Sherman, Corcoran, Lynn, ...

Neuronal differentiation is a complex process that involves a plethora of regulatory steps. To identify transcription factors that influence neuronal differentiation we developed a high throughput...

MAPK target networks in Arabidopsis thaliana revealed using functional protein microarrays (2009)

Popescu, Sorina C., Popescu, George V., Bachan, Shawn, Zhang, Zimei, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael, ...

Signaling through mitogen-activated protein kinases (MPKs) cascades is a complex and fundamental process in eukaryotes, requiring MPK-activating kinases (MKKs) and MKK-activating kinases (MKKKs)....

MSB: A mean-shift-based approach for the analysis of structural variation in the genome (2009)

Wang, Lu-yong, Abyzov, Alexej, Korbel, Jan O., Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Genome structural variation includes segmental duplications, deletions, and other rearrangements, and array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) is a popular technology for determining...

Mismatch oligonucleotides in human and yeast: guidelines for probe design on tiling microarrays (2008)

Seringhaus, Michael, Rozowsky, Joel, Royce, Thomas, Nagalakshmi, Ugrappa, Jee, Justin, Snyder, Michael, ...

Abstract Background Mismatched oligonucleotides are widely used on microarrays to differentiate specific from nonspecific hybridization. While many experiments rely on such oligos, the hybridization...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER (2008)

Gene Expression, Jiang Du, Joel S. Rozowsky, Jan O. Korbel, Zhengdong D. Zhang, Thomas E. Royce, ...

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl515 A supervised hidden markov model framework for efficiently segmenting tiling array data in transcriptional and chIP-chip experiments: systematically incorporating...

BIOINFORMATICS A Supervised Hidden Markov Model Framework for Efficiently Segmenting Tiling Array Data in Transcriptional and ChIP-chip Experiments: Systematically Incorporating Validated Biological Knowledge (2008)

Jiang Du, Joel S. Rozowsky, Jan O. Korbel, Zhengdong D. Zhang, Thomas E. Royce, Martin H. Schultz, ...

Motivation: Large-scale tiling array experiments are becoming increasingly common in genomics. In particular, the ENCODE project requires the consistent segmentation of many different tiling array...

Photonic Dipole Contours of Ferrofluid Hele-Shaw Cell (2008)

Snyder, Michael, Frederick, Jonathan

This investigation describes and demonstrates a novel technique for the visualization of magnetic fields. Two ferrofluid Hele-Shaw cells have been constructed to facilitate the imaging of magnetic...

RNA polymerase II stalling: loading at the start prepares genes for a sprint (2008)

Wu, Jia, Snyder, Michael

Abstract Stalling of RNA polymerase II near the promoter has recently been found to be much more common than previously thought. Genome-wide surveys of the phenomenon suggest that it is likely to be...

DRAFT 2 Functions of the Arabidopsis microRNA and siRNA Systems (2008)

Michael Snyder, Heng Zhu, Christine Horak, Anuj Kumar, Ghia Euskirchen, Rebecca Goetsch, ...

The genomes of a wide variety of organisms have now been sequenced; a major challenge ahead is to identify genes and their encoded projects and to understand their function and regulation. For the...

The FASEB Journal express article 10.1096/fj.04-2098fje. Published online June 6, 2005. (2008)

Jaebum Park, Moon Hi Han, Michael Snyder, Eui Yul Choi

Calixarene derivative as a tool for highly sensitive detection and oriented immobilization of proteins in a microarray format through noncovalent molecular interaction

Systematic analysis of transcribed loci in ENCODE regions using RACE sequencing reveals extensive transcription in the human genome (2008)

Wu, Jia, Du, Jiang, Rozowsky, Joel, Zhang, Zhengdong, Urban, Alexander E, Euskirchen, Ghia, ...

Abstract Background Recent studies of the mammalian transcriptome have revealed a large number of additional transcribed regions and extraordinary complexity in transcript diversity. However, there...

Systematic evaluation of variability in ChIP-chip experiments using predefined DNA targets. (2008)

Johnson, David S., Li, Wei, Gordon, D. Benjamin, Bhattacharjee, Arindam, Curry, Bo, Ghosh, Jayati, ...

The most widely used method for detecting genome-wide protein-DNA interactions is chromatin immunoprecipitation on tiling microarrays, commonly known as ChIP-chip. Here, we conducted the first...

The Development of Protein Microarrays and Their Applications in DNA Protein and Protein Protein Interaction Analyses of Arabidopsis Transcription Factors (2008)

Gong, Wei, He, Kun, Covington, Mike, Dinesh-Kumar, S. P., Snyder, Michael, Harmer, Stacey L., ...

We used our collection of Arabidopsis transcription factor (TF) ORFeome clones to construct protein microarrays containing as many as 802 TF proteins. These protein microarrays were used for both...

Systematic evaluation of variability in ChIP-chip experiments using predefined DNA targets (2008)

Johnson, David S., Li, Wei, Gordon, D. Benjamin, Bhattacharjee, Arindam, Curry, Bo, Ghosh, Jayati, ...

The most widely used method for detecting genome-wide protein–DNA interactions is chromatin immunoprecipitation on tiling microarrays, commonly known as ChIP-chip. Here, we conducted the first...

A genomic analysis of RNA polymerase II modification and chromatin architecture related to 3' end RNA polyadenylation (2008)

Lian, Zheng, Karpikov, Alexander, Lian, Jin, Mahajan, Milind C., Hartman, Stephen, Gerstein, Mark, ...

Genomic analyses have been applied extensively to analyze the process of transcription initiation in mammalian cells, but less to transcript 3′ end formation and transcription termination. We used...

Analysis of copy number variants and segmental duplications in the human genome: Evidence for a change in the process of formation in recent evolutionary history (2008)

Kim, Philip M., Lam, Hugo Y.K., Urban, Alexander E., Korbel, Jan O., Affourtit, Jason, Grubert, Fabian, ...

Segmental duplications (SDs) are operationally defined as >1 kb stretches of duplicated DNA with high sequence identity. They arise from copy number variants (CNVs) fixed in the population. To...

Genome-wide relationship between histone H3 lysine 4 mono- and tri-methylation and transcription factor binding (2008)

Robertson, A. Gordon, Bilenky, Mikhail, Tam, Angela, Zhao, Yongjun, Zeng, Thomas, Thiessen, Nina, ...

We characterized the relationship of H3K4me1 and H3K4me3 at distal and proximal regulatory elements by comparing ChIP-seq profiles for these histone modifications and for two functionally different...

Myo2p, a class V myosin in budding yeast, associates with a large ribonucleic acid-protein complex that contains mRNAs and subunits of the RNA-processing body (2008)

Chang, Wakam, Zaarour, Rania F., Reck-Peterson, Samara, Rinn, John, Singer, Robert H., Snyder, Michael, ...

Myo2p is an essential class V myosin in budding yeast with several identified functions in organelle trafficking and spindle orientation. The present study demonstrates that Myo2p is a component of a...

Human Factors Design Guide (2007)

Faa Technical Center, Dan Wagner Act, Joseph A. Birt, Michael Snyder, James P. Duncanson

The Human Factors Design Guide (HFDG) provides reference information to assist in the selection, analysis, design, development, and evaluation of new and modified Federal Aviation Administration...

by Piotr Berman (2007)

Paul Bertone, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Mark Gerstein, Ming-yang Kao, Michael Snyder

A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the 2 nd Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics,

Fast Optimal Genome Tiling with Applications to Microarray Design and Homology Search (2007)

Piotr Berman, Paul Bertone, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Mark Gerstein, Ming-yang Kao, Michael Snyder

In this paper we consider several variations of the following basic tiling problem: given a sequence of real numbers with two size bound parameters, we want to find a set of tiles such that they...

What is a gene, post-ENCODE? History and updated definition (2007)

Gerstein, Mark B., Bruce, Can, Rozowsky, Joel S., Zheng, Deyou, Du, Jiang, Korbel, Jan O., ...

While sequencing of the human genome surprised us with how many protein-coding genes there are, it did not fundamentally change our perspective on what a gene is. In contrast, the complex patterns of...

Integrated analysis of experimental data sets reveals many novel promoters in 1% of the human genome (2007)

Trinklein, Nathan D., Karaöz, Ulas, Wu, Jiaqian, Halees, Anason, Force Aldred, Shelley, Collins, Patrick J., ...

The regulation of transcriptional initiation in the human genome is a critical component of global gene regulation, but a complete catalog of human promoters currently does not exist. In order to...

The DART classification of unannotated transcription within the ENCODE regions: Associating transcription with known and novel loci (2007)

Rozowsky, Joel S., Newburger, Daniel, Sayward, Fred, Wu, Jiaqian, Jordan, Greg, Korbel, Jan O., ...

For the ∼1% of the human genome in the ENCODE regions, only about half of the transcriptionally active regions (TARs) identified with tiling microarrays correspond to annotated exons. Here we...

Statistical analysis of the genomic distribution and correlation of regulatory elements in the ENCODE regions (2007)

Zhang, Zhengdong D., Paccanaro, Alberto, Fu, Yutao, Weissman, Sherman, Weng, Zhiping, Chang, Joseph, ...

The comprehensive inventory of functional elements in 44 human genomic regions carried out by the ENCODE Project Consortium enables for the first time a global analysis of the genomic distribution of...

Pseudogenes in the ENCODE regions: Consensus annotation, analysis of transcription, and evolution (2007)

Zheng, Deyou, Frankish, Adam, Baertsch, Robert, Kapranov, Philipp, Reymond, Alexandre, Choo, Siew Woh, ...

Arising from either retrotransposition or genomic duplication of functional genes, pseudogenes are “genomic fossils” valuable for exploring the dynamics and evolution of genes and genomes....

Structured RNAs in the ENCODE selected regions of the human genome (2007)

Washietl, Stefan, Pedersen, Jakob S., Korbel, Jan O., Stocsits, Claudia, Gruber, Andreas R., Hackermüller, Jörg, ...

Functional RNA structures play an important role both in the context of noncoding RNA transcripts as well as regulatory elements in mRNAs. Here we present a computational study to detect functional...

Assessing the performance of different high-density tiling microarray strategies for mapping transcribed regions of the human genome (2007)

Emanuelsson, Olof, Nagalakshmi, Ugrappa, Zheng, Deyou, Rozowsky, Joel S., Urban, Alexander E., Du, Jiang, ...

Genomic tiling microarrays have become a popular tool for interrogating the transcriptional activity of large regions of the genome in an unbiased fashion. There are several key parameters associated...

Mapping of transcription factor binding regions in mammalian cells by ChIP: Comparison of array- and sequencing-based technologies (2007)

Euskirchen, Ghia M., Rozowsky, Joel S., Wei, Chia-Lin, Lee, Wah Heng, Zhang, Zhengdong D., Hartman, Stephen, ...

Recent progress in mapping transcription factor (TF) binding regions can largely be credited to chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) technologies. We compared strategies for mapping TF binding...

Mapping the chromosomal targets of STAT1 by Sequence Tag Analysis of Genomic Enrichment (STAGE) (2007)

Bhinge, Akshay A., Kim, Jonghwan, Euskirchen, Ghia M., Snyder, Michael, Iyer, Vishwanath R.

Identifying the genome-wide binding sites of transcription factors is important in deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks. ChIP-chip (Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with microarrays)...

Tilescope: online analysis pipeline for high-density tiling microarray data (2007)

Zhang, Zhengdong D, Rozowsky, Joel, Lam, Hugo YK, Du, Jiang, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Abstract We developed Tilescope, a fully integrated data processing pipeline for analyzing high-density tiling-array data http://tilescope.gersteinlab.org . In a completely automated fashion,...

Getting connected: analysis and principles of biological networks (2007)

Zhu, Xiaowei, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

The execution of complex biological processes requires the precise interaction and regulation of thousands of molecules. Systematic approaches to study large numbers of proteins, metabolites, and...

Tilescope: online analysis pipeline for high-density tiling microarray data (2007)

Zhengdong D. Zhang, Joel Rozowsky, Jiang Du, Michael Snyder, Mark Gerstein

Running title: microarray data analysis pipeline Key words: high-density tiling microarray, high-density oligonucleotide microarray, microarray data analysis For test data sets, sample result web...

New insights into Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis revealed by high-density pyrosequencing and transposon mutagenesis (2007)

Smith, Michael G., Gianoulis, Tara A., Pukatzki, Stefan, Mekalanos, John J., Ornston, L. Nicholas, Gerstein, Mark, ...

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important and problematic human pathogen as it is the causative agent of several types of infections including pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia, and urinary...

Positional artifacts in microarrays: experimental verification and construction of COP, an automated detection tool (2007)

Yu, Haiyuan, Nguyen, Katherine, Royce, Tom, Qian, Jiang, Nelson, Kenneth, Snyder, Michael, ...

Microarray technology is currently one of the most widely-used technologies in biology. Many studies focus on inferring the function of an unknown gene from its co-expressed genes. Here, we are able...

ProCAT: a data analysis approach for protein microarrays (2006)

Zhu, Xiaowei, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

Abstract Protein microarrays provide a versatile method for the analysis of many protein biochemical activities. Existing DNA microarray analytical methods do not translate to protein microarrays due...

BoCaTFBS: a boosted cascade learner to refine the binding sites suggested by ChIP-chip experiments (2006)

Wang, Lu-yong, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Abstract Comprehensive mapping of transcription factor binding sites is essential in postgenomic biology. For this, we propose a mining approach combining noisy data from ChIP (chromatin...

Design optimization methods for genomic DNA tiling arrays (2006)

Paul Bertone, Valery Trifonov, Joel S. Rozowsky, Falk Schubert, Olof Emanuelsson, John Karro, ...

A recent development in microarray construction entails the unbiased coverage, or tiling, of non-repetitive genomic DNA for the experimental identification of unannotated transcribed sequences and...

Predicting essential genes in fungal genomes (2006)

Seringhaus, Michael, Paccanaro, Alberto, Borneman, Anthony, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Essential genes are required for an organism's viability, and the ability to identify these genes in pathogens is crucial to directed drug development. Predicting essential genes through...

Positional artifacts in microarrays: experimental verification and construction of COP, an automated detection tool (2006)

Yu, Haiyuan, Nguyen, Katherine, Royce, Tom, Qian, Jiang, Nelson, Kenneth, Snyder, Michael, ...

Microarray technology is currently one of the most widely-used technologies in biology. Many studies focus on inferring the function of an unknown gene from its co-expressed genes. Here, we are able...

Target hub proteins serve as master regulators of development in yeast (2006)

Borneman, Anthony R., Leigh-Bell, Justine A., Yu, Haiyuan, Bertone, Paul, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

To understand the organization of the transcriptional networks that govern cell differentiation, we have investigated the transcriptional circuitry controlling pseudohyphal development in...

Assessing the performance of different high-density tiling microarray strategies for mapping transcribed regions of the human genome (2006)

Emanuelsson, Olof, Nagalakshmi, Ugrappa, Zheng, Deyou, Rozowsky, Joel S., Urban, Alexander E., Du, Jiang, ...

Genomic tiling microarrays have become a popular tool for interrogating the transcriptional activity of large regions of the genome in an unbiased fashion. There are several key parameters associated...

Predicting essential genes in fungal genomes (2006)

Seringhaus, Michael, Paccanaro, Alberto, Borneman, Anthony, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Essential genes are required for an organism’s viability, and the ability to identify these genes in pathogens is crucial to directed drug development. Predicting essential genes through...

Target hub proteins serve as master regulators of development in yeast (2006)

Borneman, Anthony R., Leigh-Bell, Justine A., Yu, Haiyuan, Bertone, Paul, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

To understand the organization of the transcriptional networks that govern cell differentiation, we have investigated the transcriptional circuitry controlling pseudohyphal development in...

Positional artifacts in microarrays: experimental verification and construction of COP, an automated detection tool (2006)

Yu, Haiyuan, Nguyen, Katherine, Royce, Tom, Qian, Jiang, Nelson, Kenneth, Snyder, Michael, ...

Microarray technology is currently one of the most widely-used technologies in biology. Many studies focus on inferring the function of an unknown gene from its co-expressed genes. Here, we are able...

Substrate specificity analysis of protein kinase complex Dbf2-Mob1 by peptide library and proteome array screening (2005)

Mah, Angie S., Elia, Andrew E. H., Devgan, Geeta, Ptacek, Jason, Schutkowski, Mike, Snyder, Michael, ...

Background: The mitotic exit network (MEN) is a group of proteins that form a signaling cascade that is essential for cells to exit mitosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The MEN has also been...

Substrate specificity analysis of protein kinase complex Dbf2-Mob1 by peptide library and proteome array screening (2005)

Mah, Angie S, Elia, Andrew EH, Devgan, Geeta, Ptacek, Jason, Schutkowski, Mike, Snyder, Michael, ...

Abstract Background The mitotic exit network (MEN) is a group of proteins that form a signaling cascade that is essential for cells to exit mitosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . The MEN has also been...

Global changes in STAT target selection and transcription regulation upon interferon treatments (2005)

Hartman, Stephen E., Bertone, Paul, Nath, Anjali K., Royce, Thomas E., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman, ...

The STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression, but their targets and the manner in which they select them remain...

Global changes in STAT target selection and transcription regulation upon interferon treatments (2005)

Hartman, Stephen E., Bertone, Paul, Nath, Anjali K., Royce, Thomas E., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman, ...

The STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression, but their targets and the manner in which they select them remain...

Biochemical and genetic analysis of the yeast proteome with a movable ORF collection (2005)

Gelperin, Daniel M., White, Michael A., Wilkinson, Martha L., Kon, Yoshiko, Kung, Li A., Wise, Kevin J., ...

Functional analysis of the proteome is an essential part of genomic research. To facilitate different proteomic approaches, a MORF (moveable ORF) library of 5854 yeast expression plasmids was...

Design optimization methods for genomic DNA tiling arrays (2005)

Bertone, Paul, Trifonov, Valery, Rozowsky, Joel S., Schubert, Falk, Emanuelsson, Olof, Karro, John, ...

A recent development in microarray research entails the unbiased coverage, or tiling, of genomic DNA for the large-scale identification of transcribed sequences and regulatory elements. A central...

Global changes in STAT target selection and transcription regulation upon interferon treatments (2005)

Hartman, Stephen E., Bertone, Paul, Nath, Anjali K., Royce, Thomas E., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman, ...

The STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression, but their targets and the manner in which they select them remain...

Large-Scale Mutagenesis of the Yeast Genome Using a Tn7-Derived Multipurpose Transposon (2004)

Kumar, Anuj, Seringhaus, Michael, Biery, Matthew C., Sarnovsky, Robert J., Umansky, Lara, Piccirillo, Stacy, ...

We present here an unbiased and extremely versatile insertional library of yeast genomic DNA generated by in vitro mutagenesis with a multipurpose element derived from the bacterial transposon Tn7....

Memories of Travel Page 1 of 46 Memories of Travel: Dead Reckoning Within the Cognitive Map (2003)

Edward H. Cornell, C. Donald Heth, Michael Snyder

When Herman Melville reveals the dark obsessions of Captain Ahab’s soul, he does so by having Ahab destroy the ship’s quadrant and revert to a more elemental form of navigation: “…Curse thee,...

ExpressYourself: a modular platform for processing and visualizing microarray data (2003)

Luscombe, Nicholas M., Royce, Thomas E., Bertone, Paul, Echols, Nathaniel, Horak, Christine E., Chang, Joseph T., ...

DNA microarrays are widely used in biological research; by analyzing differential hybridization on a single microarray slide, one can detect changes in mRNA expression levels, increases in DNA copy...

Negative regulation of calcineurin signaling by Hrr25p, a yeast homolog of casein kinase I (2003)

Kafadar, Kimberly A., Zhu, Heng, Snyder, Michael, Cyert, Martha S.

Calcineurin is a Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphatase required for Saccharomyces cerevisiae to respond to a variety of environmental stresses. Calcineurin promotes cell survival during...

Concept Definition Study for In-Space (2002)

Structural Characterization Of, Thomas W. Jones, Regina Spellman, Willis Scott, Eric M. Mockensturm, ...

A Concept Definition Study (CDS) was conducted to develop a proposed "Lightweight High-Voltage Stretched-Lens Concentrator Solar Array Experiment" under NASA's New Millennium Program...

Fast optimal genome tiling with applications to microarray design and homology search (2002)

Piotr Berman, Paul Bertone, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Mark Gerstein, Ming-yang Kao, Michael Snyder

In this paper we consider several variations of the following basic tiling problem: given a sequence of real numbers with two size bound parameters, we want to find a set of tiles of maximum total...

Fast optimal genome tiling with applications to microarray design and homology search (2002)

Piotr Berman, Paul Bertone, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Mark Gerstein, Ming-yang Kao, Michael Snyder, ...

Abstract. In this paper we consider several variations of the following basic tiling problem: given a sequence of real numbers with two size bound parameters, we want to nd a set of tiles such that...

The TRIPLES database: a community resource for yeast molecular biology (2002)

Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Tosches, Nick, Masiar, Peter, Liu, Yang, Miller, Perry, ...

TRIPLES is a web-accessible database of TRansposon-Insertion Phenotypes, Localization and Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae—a relational database housing nearly half a million data points...

A question of size: the eukaryotic proteome and the problems in defining it (2002)

Harrison, Paul M., Kumar, Anuj, Lang, Ning, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

We discuss the problems in defining the extent of the proteomes for completely sequenced eukaryotic organisms (i.e. the total number of protein-coding sequences), focusing on yeast, worm, fly and...

TRIPLES: a database of gene function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2000)

Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Ross-Macdonald, Petra, Coelho, Paulo S. R., Miller, Perry, Snyder, Michael

Using a novel multipurpose mini-transposon, we have generated a collection of defined mutant alleles for the analysis of disruption phenotypes, protein localization, and gene expression in...

Symbol Development Guidelines for Airway Facilities. (1997)

Wagner, Dan, Snyder, Michael, Dutra, Lisa, Dolan, Nancy

This document presents a general methodology for developing Airway Facilities (AF) symbols and provides guidelines for the coding of visual symbols and auditory signals. Coding refers to the...

Sbe2p and Sbe22p, Two Homologous Golgi Proteins Involved in Yeast Cell Wall Formation

Santos, Beatriz, Snyder, Michael

The cell wall of fungal cells is important for cell integrity and cell morphogenesis and protects against harmful environmental conditions. The yeast cell wall is a complex structure consisting...

The Kar3p Kinesin-related Protein Forms a Novel Heterodimeric Structure with Its Associated Protein Cik1p

Barrett, Jennifer G., Manning, Brendan D., Snyder, Michael

Proteins that physically associate with members of the kinesin superfamily are critical for the functional diversity observed for these microtubule motor proteins. However, quaternary structures of...

A multipurpose transposon system for analyzing protein production, localization, and function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Ross-Macdonald, Petra, Sheehan, Amy, Roeder, G. Shirleen, Snyder, Michael

Analysis of the function of a particular gene product typically involves determining the expression profile of the gene, the subcellular location of the protein, and the phenotype of a null strain...

The Rho-GEF Rom2p Localizes to Sites of Polarized Cell Growth and Participates in Cytoskeletal Functions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Manning, Brendan D., Padmanabha, Ramesh, Snyder, Michael

Rom2p is a GDP/GTP exchange factor for Rho1p and Rho2p GTPases; Rho proteins have been implicated in control of actin cytoskeletal rearrangements. ROM2 and RHO2 were identified in a screen for...

A Genomic Study of the Bipolar Bud Site Selection Pattern in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Ni, Li, Snyder, Michael

A genome-wide screen of 4168 homozygous diploid yeast deletion strains has been performed to identify nonessential genes that participate in the bipolar budding pattern. By examining bud scar...

Polarized Growth Controls Cell Shape and Bipolar Bud Site Selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Sheu, Yi-Jun, Barral, Yves, Snyder, Michael

We examined the relationship between polarized growth and division site selection, two fundamental processes important for proper development of eukaryotes. Diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells...

The Cbk1p Pathway Is Important for Polarized Cell Growth and Cell Separation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Bidlingmaier, Scott, Weiss, Eric L., Seidel, Chris, Drubin, David G., Snyder, Michael

During the early stages of budding, cell wall remodeling and polarized secretion are concentrated at the bud tip (apical growth). The CBK1 gene, encoding a putative serine/threonine protein kinase,...

The TRIPLES database: a community resource for yeast molecular biology

Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Tosches, Nick, Masiar, Peter, Liu, Yang, Miller, Perry, ...

TRIPLES is a web-accessible database of TRansposon-Insertion Phenotypes, Localization and Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae—a relational database housing nearly half a million data points...

A question of size: the eukaryotic proteome and the problems in defining it

Harrison, Paul M., Kumar, Anuj, Lang, Ning, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

We discuss the problems in defining the extent of the proteomes for completely sequenced eukaryotic organisms (i.e. the total number of protein-coding sequences), focusing on yeast, worm, fly and...

TRIPLES: a database of gene function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Ross-Macdonald, Petra, Coelho, Paulo S. R., Miller, Perry, Snyder, Michael

Using a novel multipurpose mini-transposon, we have generated a collection of defined mutant alleles for the analysis of disruption phenotypes, protein localization, and gene expression in...

Spa2p Interacts with Cell Polarity Proteins and Signaling Components Involved in Yeast Cell Morphogenesis

Sheu, Yi-Jun, Santos, Beatriz, Fortin, Nathalie, Costigan, Christine, Snyder, Michael

The yeast protein Spa2p localizes to growth sites and is important for polarized morphogenesis during budding, mating, and pseudohyphal growth. To better understand the role of Spa2p in polarized...

GATA-1 binding sites mapped in the β-globin locus by using mammalian chIp-chip analysis

Horak, Christine E., Mahajan, Milind C., Luscombe, Nicholas M., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman M., Snyder, Michael

The expression of the β-like globin genes is intricately regulated by a series of both general and tissue-restricted transcription factors. The hemapoietic lineage-specific transcription factor...

Molecular Dissection of a Yeast Septin: Distinct Domains Are Required for Septin Interaction, Localization, and Function

Casamayor, Antonio, Snyder, Michael

The septins are a family of cytoskeletal proteins present in animal and fungal cells. They were first identified for their essential role in cytokinesis, but more recently, they have been found to...

ExpressYourself: a modular platform for processing and visualizing microarray data

Luscombe, Nicholas M., Royce, Thomas E., Bertone, Paul, Echols, Nathaniel, Horak, Christine E., Chang, Joseph T., ...

DNA microarrays are widely used in biological research; by analyzing differential hybridization on a single microarray slide, one can detect changes in mRNA expression levels, increases in DNA copy...

Specific Protein Targeting during Cell Differentiation: Polarized Localization of Fus1p during Mating Depends on Chs5p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Santos, Beatriz, Snyder, Michael

In budding yeast, chs5 mutants are defective in chitin synthesis and cell fusion during mating. Chs5p is a late-Golgi protein required for the polarized transport of the chitin synthase Chs3p to the...

A novel mitochondrial protein, Tar1p, is encoded on the antisense strand of the nuclear 25S rDNA

Coelho, Paulo S.R., Bryan, Anthony C., Kumar, Anuj, Shadel, Gerald S., Snyder, Michael

In eukaryotes, it is widely assumed that genes coding for proteins and structural RNAs do not overlap. Using a transposon-tagging strategy to globally analyze the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome for...

Complex transcriptional circuitry at the G1/S transition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Horak, Christine E., Luscombe, Nicholas M., Qian, Jiang, Bertone, Paul, Piccirrillo, Stacy, Gerstein, Mark, ...

In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, SBF (Swi4–Swi6 cell cycle box binding factor) and MBF (MluI binding factor) are the major transcription factors regulating the START of the cell cycle, a time...

The transcriptional activity of human Chromosome 22

Rinn, John L., Euskirchen, Ghia, Bertone, Paul, Martone, Rebecca, Luscombe, Nicholas M., Hartman, Stephen, ...

A DNA microarray representing nearly all of the unique sequences of human Chromosome 22 was constructed and used to measure global-transcriptional activity in placental poly(A)+ RNA. We found that...

Distribution of NF-κB-binding sites across human chromosome 22

Martone, Rebecca, Euskirchen, Ghia, Bertone, Paul, Hartman, Stephen, Royce, Thomas E., Luscombe, Nicholas M., ...

We have mapped the chromosomal binding site distribution of a transcription factor in human cells. The NF-κB family of transcription factors plays an essential role in regulating the induction of...

Negative regulation of calcineurin signaling by Hrr25p, a yeast homolog of casein kinase I

Kafadar, Kimberly A., Zhu, Heng, Snyder, Michael, Cyert, Martha S.

Calcineurin is a Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphatase required for Saccharomyces cerevisiae to respond to a variety of environmental stresses. Calcineurin promotes cell survival during...

Nim1-related kinases coordinate cell cycle progression with the organization of the peripheral cytoskeleton in yeast

Barral, Yves, Parra, Macarena, Bidlingmaier, Scott, Snyder, Michael

The mechanisms that couple cell cycle progression with the organization of the peripheral cytoskeleton are poorly understood. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the Swe1 protein has been shown previously...

Microbial Synergy via an Ethanol-Triggered Pathway

Smith, Michael G., Des Etages, Shelley G., Snyder, Michael

We have discovered a microbial interaction between yeast, bacteria, and nematodes. Upon coculturing, Saccharomyces cerevisiae stimulated the growth of several species of Acinetobacter, including, A....

CREB Binds to Multiple Loci on Human Chromosome 22

Euskirchen, Ghia, Royce, Thomas E., Bertone, Paul, Martone, Rebecca, Rinn, John L., Nelson, F. Kenneth, ...

The cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB) is an important transcription factor that can be activated by hormonal stimulation and regulates neuronal function and development. An...

Large-Scale Mutagenesis of the Yeast Genome Using a Tn7-Derived Multipurpose Transposon

Kumar, Anuj, Seringhaus, Michael, Biery, Matthew C., Sarnovsky, Robert J., Umansky, Lara, Piccirillo, Stacy, ...

We present here an unbiased and extremely versatile insertional library of yeast genomic DNA generated by in vitro mutagenesis with a multipurpose element derived from the bacterial transposon Tn7....

Finding new components of the target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling network through chemical genetics and proteome chips

Huang, Jing, Zhu, Heng, Haggarty, Stephen J., Spring, David R., Hwang, Heejun, Jin, Fulai, ...

The TOR (target of rapamycin) proteins play important roles in nutrient signaling in eukaryotic cells. Rapamycin treatment induces a state reminiscent of the nutrient starvation response, often...

DNA replication-timing analysis of human chromosome 22 at high resolution and different developmental states

White, Eric J., Emanuelsson, Olof, Scalzo, David, Royce, Thomas, Kosak, Steven, Oakeley, Edward J., ...

Duplication of the genome during the S phase of the cell cycle does not occur simultaneously; rather, different sequences are replicated at different times. The replication timing of specific...

Subcellular localization of the yeast proteome

Kumar, Anuj, Agarwal, Seema, Heyman, John A., Matson, Sandra, Heidtman, Matthew, Piccirillo, Stacy, ...

Protein localization data are a valuable information resource helpful in elucidating eukaryotic protein function. Here, we report the first proteome-scale analysis of protein localization within any...

Genomic analysis of insertion behavior and target specificity of mini-Tn7 and Tn3 transposons in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Seringhaus, Michael, Kumar, Anuj, Hartigan, John, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Transposons are widely employed as tools for gene disruption. Ideally, they should display unbiased insertion behavior, and incorporate readily into any genomic DNA to which they are exposed....

Biochemical and genetic analysis of the yeast proteome with a movable ORF collection

Gelperin, Daniel M., White, Michael A., Wilkinson, Martha L., Kon, Yoshiko, Kung, Li A., Wise, Kevin J., ...

Functional analysis of the proteome is an essential part of genomic research. To facilitate different proteomic approaches, a MORF (moveable ORF) library of 5854 yeast expression plasmids was...

Global changes in STAT target selection and transcription regulation upon interferon treatments

Hartman, Stephen E., Bertone, Paul, Nath, Anjali K., Royce, Thomas E., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman, ...

The STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression, but their targets and the manner in which they select them remain...

Design optimization methods for genomic DNA tiling arrays

Bertone, Paul, Trifonov, Valery, Rozowsky, Joel S., Schubert, Falk, Emanuelsson, Olof, Karro, John, ...

A recent development in microarray research entails the unbiased coverage, or tiling, of genomic DNA for the large-scale identification of transcribed sequences and regulatory elements. A central...

Target hub proteins serve as master regulators of development in yeast

Borneman, Anthony R., Leigh-Bell, Justine A., Yu, Haiyuan, Bertone, Paul, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

To understand the organization of the transcriptional networks that govern cell differentiation, we have investigated the transcriptional circuitry controlling pseudohyphal development in...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome diagnostics using a coronavirus protein microarray

Zhu, Heng, Hu, Shaohui, Jona, Ghil, Zhu, Xiaowei, Kreiswirth, Nate, Willey, Barbara M., ...

To monitor severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infection, a coronavirus protein microarray that harbors proteins from SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and five additional coronaviruses was...

High-resolution mapping of DNA copy alterations in human chromosome 22 using high-density tiling oligonucleotide arrays

Urban, Alexander Eckehart, Korbel, Jan O., Selzer, Rebecca, Richmond, Todd, Hacker, April, Popescu, George V., ...

Deletions and amplifications of the human genomic sequence (copy number polymorphisms) are the cause of numerous diseases and a potential cause of phenotypic variation in the normal population....

Defined culture conditions of human embryonic stem cells

Lu, Jean, Hou, Runhua, Booth, Carmen Jane, Yang, Shih-Hung, Snyder, Michael

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are pluripotent cells that have the potential to differentiate into any tissue in the human body; therefore, they are a valuable resource for regenerative medicine,...

Sbe2p and Sbe22p, Two Homologous Golgi Proteins Involved in Yeast Cell Wall Formation

Santos, Beatriz, Snyder, Michael

The cell wall of fungal cells is important for cell integrity and cell morphogenesis and protects against harmful environmental conditions. The yeast cell wall is a complex structure consisting...

The Kar3p Kinesin-related Protein Forms a Novel Heterodimeric Structure with Its Associated Protein Cik1p

Barrett, Jennifer G., Manning, Brendan D., Snyder, Michael

Proteins that physically associate with members of the kinesin superfamily are critical for the functional diversity observed for these microtubule motor proteins. However, quaternary structures of...

A multipurpose transposon system for analyzing protein production, localization, and function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Ross-Macdonald, Petra, Sheehan, Amy, Roeder, G. Shirleen, Snyder, Michael

Analysis of the function of a particular gene product typically involves determining the expression profile of the gene, the subcellular location of the protein, and the phenotype of a null strain...

The Rho-GEF Rom2p Localizes to Sites of Polarized Cell Growth and Participates in Cytoskeletal Functions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Manning, Brendan D., Padmanabha, Ramesh, Snyder, Michael

Rom2p is a GDP/GTP exchange factor for Rho1p and Rho2p GTPases; Rho proteins have been implicated in control of actin cytoskeletal rearrangements. ROM2 and RHO2 were identified in a screen for...

A Genomic Study of the Bipolar Bud Site Selection Pattern in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Ni, Li, Snyder, Michael

A genome-wide screen of 4168 homozygous diploid yeast deletion strains has been performed to identify nonessential genes that participate in the bipolar budding pattern. By examining bud scar...

Polarized Growth Controls Cell Shape and Bipolar Bud Site Selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Sheu, Yi-Jun, Barral, Yves, Snyder, Michael

We examined the relationship between polarized growth and division site selection, two fundamental processes important for proper development of eukaryotes. Diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells...

The Cbk1p Pathway Is Important for Polarized Cell Growth and Cell Separation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Bidlingmaier, Scott, Weiss, Eric L., Seidel, Chris, Drubin, David G., Snyder, Michael

During the early stages of budding, cell wall remodeling and polarized secretion are concentrated at the bud tip (apical growth). The CBK1 gene, encoding a putative serine/threonine protein kinase,...

The TRIPLES database: a community resource for yeast molecular biology

Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Tosches, Nick, Masiar, Peter, Liu, Yang, Miller, Perry, ...

TRIPLES is a web-accessible database of TRansposon-Insertion Phenotypes, Localization and Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae—a relational database housing nearly half a million data points...

A question of size: the eukaryotic proteome and the problems in defining it

Harrison, Paul M., Kumar, Anuj, Lang, Ning, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

We discuss the problems in defining the extent of the proteomes for completely sequenced eukaryotic organisms (i.e. the total number of protein-coding sequences), focusing on yeast, worm, fly and...

TRIPLES: a database of gene function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Ross-Macdonald, Petra, Coelho, Paulo S. R., Miller, Perry, Snyder, Michael

Using a novel multipurpose mini-transposon, we have generated a collection of defined mutant alleles for the analysis of disruption phenotypes, protein localization, and gene expression in...

Spa2p Interacts with Cell Polarity Proteins and Signaling Components Involved in Yeast Cell Morphogenesis

Sheu, Yi-Jun, Santos, Beatriz, Fortin, Nathalie, Costigan, Christine, Snyder, Michael

The yeast protein Spa2p localizes to growth sites and is important for polarized morphogenesis during budding, mating, and pseudohyphal growth. To better understand the role of Spa2p in polarized...

GATA-1 binding sites mapped in the β-globin locus by using mammalian chIp-chip analysis

Horak, Christine E., Mahajan, Milind C., Luscombe, Nicholas M., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman M., Snyder, Michael

The expression of the β-like globin genes is intricately regulated by a series of both general and tissue-restricted transcription factors. The hemapoietic lineage-specific transcription factor...

Molecular Dissection of a Yeast Septin: Distinct Domains Are Required for Septin Interaction, Localization, and Function

Casamayor, Antonio, Snyder, Michael

The septins are a family of cytoskeletal proteins present in animal and fungal cells. They were first identified for their essential role in cytokinesis, but more recently, they have been found to...

Subcellular localization of the yeast proteome

Kumar, Anuj, Agarwal, Seema, Heyman, John A., Matson, Sandra, Heidtman, Matthew, Piccirillo, Stacy, ...

Protein localization data are a valuable information resource helpful in elucidating eukaryotic protein function. Here, we report the first proteome-scale analysis of protein localization within any...

ExpressYourself: a modular platform for processing and visualizing microarray data

Luscombe, Nicholas M., Royce, Thomas E., Bertone, Paul, Echols, Nathaniel, Horak, Christine E., Chang, Joseph T., ...

DNA microarrays are widely used in biological research; by analyzing differential hybridization on a single microarray slide, one can detect changes in mRNA expression levels, increases in DNA copy...

Specific Protein Targeting during Cell Differentiation: Polarized Localization of Fus1p during Mating Depends on Chs5p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Santos, Beatriz, Snyder, Michael

In budding yeast, chs5 mutants are defective in chitin synthesis and cell fusion during mating. Chs5p is a late-Golgi protein required for the polarized transport of the chitin synthase Chs3p to the...

A novel mitochondrial protein, Tar1p, is encoded on the antisense strand of the nuclear 25S rDNA

Coelho, Paulo S.R., Bryan, Anthony C., Kumar, Anuj, Shadel, Gerald S., Snyder, Michael

In eukaryotes, it is widely assumed that genes coding for proteins and structural RNAs do not overlap. Using a transposon-tagging strategy to globally analyze the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome for...

Complex transcriptional circuitry at the G1/S transition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Horak, Christine E., Luscombe, Nicholas M., Qian, Jiang, Bertone, Paul, Piccirrillo, Stacy, Gerstein, Mark, ...

In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, SBF (Swi4–Swi6 cell cycle box binding factor) and MBF (MluI binding factor) are the major transcription factors regulating the START of the cell cycle, a time...

The transcriptional activity of human Chromosome 22

Rinn, John L., Euskirchen, Ghia, Bertone, Paul, Martone, Rebecca, Luscombe, Nicholas M., Hartman, Stephen, ...

A DNA microarray representing nearly all of the unique sequences of human Chromosome 22 was constructed and used to measure global-transcriptional activity in placental poly(A)+ RNA. We found that...

Distribution of NF-κB-binding sites across human chromosome 22

Martone, Rebecca, Euskirchen, Ghia, Bertone, Paul, Hartman, Stephen, Royce, Thomas E., Luscombe, Nicholas M., ...

We have mapped the chromosomal binding site distribution of a transcription factor in human cells. The NF-κB family of transcription factors plays an essential role in regulating the induction of...

Negative regulation of calcineurin signaling by Hrr25p, a yeast homolog of casein kinase I

Kafadar, Kimberly A., Zhu, Heng, Snyder, Michael, Cyert, Martha S.

Calcineurin is a Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphatase required for Saccharomyces cerevisiae to respond to a variety of environmental stresses. Calcineurin promotes cell survival during...

Nim1-related kinases coordinate cell cycle progression with the organization of the peripheral cytoskeleton in yeast

Barral, Yves, Parra, Macarena, Bidlingmaier, Scott, Snyder, Michael

The mechanisms that couple cell cycle progression with the organization of the peripheral cytoskeleton are poorly understood. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the Swe1 protein has been shown previously...

Microbial Synergy via an Ethanol-Triggered Pathway

Smith, Michael G., Des Etages, Shelley G., Snyder, Michael

We have discovered a microbial interaction between yeast, bacteria, and nematodes. Upon coculturing, Saccharomyces cerevisiae stimulated the growth of several species of Acinetobacter, including, A....

CREB Binds to Multiple Loci on Human Chromosome 22

Euskirchen, Ghia, Royce, Thomas E., Bertone, Paul, Martone, Rebecca, Rinn, John L., Nelson, F. Kenneth, ...

The cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB) is an important transcription factor that can be activated by hormonal stimulation and regulates neuronal function and development. An...

Large-Scale Mutagenesis of the Yeast Genome Using a Tn7-Derived Multipurpose Transposon

Kumar, Anuj, Seringhaus, Michael, Biery, Matthew C., Sarnovsky, Robert J., Umansky, Lara, Piccirillo, Stacy, ...

We present here an unbiased and extremely versatile insertional library of yeast genomic DNA generated by in vitro mutagenesis with a multipurpose element derived from the bacterial transposon Tn7....

Finding new components of the target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling network through chemical genetics and proteome chips

Huang, Jing, Zhu, Heng, Haggarty, Stephen J., Spring, David R., Hwang, Heejun, Jin, Fulai, ...

The TOR (target of rapamycin) proteins play important roles in nutrient signaling in eukaryotic cells. Rapamycin treatment induces a state reminiscent of the nutrient starvation response, often...

DNA replication-timing analysis of human chromosome 22 at high resolution and different developmental states

White, Eric J., Emanuelsson, Olof, Scalzo, David, Royce, Thomas, Kosak, Steven, Oakeley, Edward J., ...

Duplication of the genome during the S phase of the cell cycle does not occur simultaneously; rather, different sequences are replicated at different times. The replication timing of specific...

Biochemical and genetic analysis of the yeast proteome with a movable ORF collection

Gelperin, Daniel M., White, Michael A., Wilkinson, Martha L., Kon, Yoshiko, Kung, Li A., Wise, Kevin J., ...

Functional analysis of the proteome is an essential part of genomic research. To facilitate different proteomic approaches, a MORF (moveable ORF) library of 5854 yeast expression plasmids was...

Global changes in STAT target selection and transcription regulation upon interferon treatments

Hartman, Stephen E., Bertone, Paul, Nath, Anjali K., Royce, Thomas E., Gerstein, Mark, Weissman, Sherman, ...

The STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression, but their targets and the manner in which they select them remain...

Design optimization methods for genomic DNA tiling arrays

Bertone, Paul, Trifonov, Valery, Rozowsky, Joel S., Schubert, Falk, Emanuelsson, Olof, Karro, John, ...

A recent development in microarray research entails the unbiased coverage, or tiling, of genomic DNA for the large-scale identification of transcribed sequences and regulatory elements. A central...

Target hub proteins serve as master regulators of development in yeast

Borneman, Anthony R., Leigh-Bell, Justine A., Yu, Haiyuan, Bertone, Paul, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

To understand the organization of the transcriptional networks that govern cell differentiation, we have investigated the transcriptional circuitry controlling pseudohyphal development in...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome diagnostics using a coronavirus protein microarray

Zhu, Heng, Hu, Shaohui, Jona, Ghil, Zhu, Xiaowei, Kreiswirth, Nate, Willey, Barbara M., ...

To monitor severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infection, a coronavirus protein microarray that harbors proteins from SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and five additional coronaviruses was...

High-resolution mapping of DNA copy alterations in human chromosome 22 using high-density tiling oligonucleotide arrays

Urban, Alexander Eckehart, Korbel, Jan O., Selzer, Rebecca, Richmond, Todd, Hacker, April, Popescu, George V., ...

Deletions and amplifications of the human genomic sequence (copy number polymorphisms) are the cause of numerous diseases and a potential cause of phenotypic variation in the normal population....

Genomic analysis of insertion behavior and target specificity of mini-Tn7 and Tn3 transposons in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Seringhaus, Michael, Kumar, Anuj, Hartigan, John, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Transposons are widely employed as tools for gene disruption. Ideally, they should display unbiased insertion behavior, and incorporate readily into any genomic DNA to which they are exposed....

Defined culture conditions of human embryonic stem cells

Lu, Jean, Hou, Runhua, Booth, Carmen Jane, Yang, Shih-Hung, Snyder, Michael

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are pluripotent cells that have the potential to differentiate into any tissue in the human body; therefore, they are a valuable resource for regenerative medicine,...

Linking DNA-binding proteins to their recognition sequences by using protein microarrays

Ho, Su-Wen, Jona, Ghil, Chen, Christina T. L., Johnston, Mark, Snyder, Michael

Analyses of whole-genome sequences and experimental data sets have revealed a large number of DNA sequence motifs that are conserved in many species and may be functional. However, methods of...

TOS9 Regulates White-Opaque Switching in Candida albicans▿ †

Srikantha, Thyagarajan, Borneman, Anthony R., Daniels, Karla J., Pujol, Claude, Wu, Wei, Seringhaus, Michael R., ...

In Candida albicans, the a1-α2 complex represses white-opaque switching, as well as mating. Based upon the assumption that the a1-α2 corepressor complex binds to the gene that regulates...

ProCAT: a data analysis approach for protein microarrays

Zhu, Xiaowei, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael

ProCAT, a powerful and flexible new approach for analyzing many types of protein microarrays, is described.

BoCaTFBS: a boosted cascade learner to refine the binding sites suggested by ChIP-chip experiments

Wang, Lu-yong, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

BoCaTFBS, a new method that combines noisy data from ChIP-chip experiments with known binding-site patterns, is described and applied to the ENCODE project.

Predicting essential genes in fungal genomes

Seringhaus, Michael, Paccanaro, Alberto, Borneman, Anthony, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Essential genes are required for an organism's viability, and the ability to identify these genes in pathogens is crucial to directed drug development. Predicting essential genes through...

Positional artifacts in microarrays: experimental verification and construction of COP, an automated detection tool

Yu, Haiyuan, Nguyen, Katherine, Royce, Tom, Qian, Jiang, Nelson, Kenneth, Snyder, Michael, ...

Microarray technology is currently one of the most widely-used technologies in biology. Many studies focus on inferring the function of an unknown gene from its co-expressed genes. Here, we are able...

Tilescope: online analysis pipeline for high-density tiling microarray data

Zhang, Zhengdong D, Rozowsky, Joel, Lam, Hugo YK, Du, Jiang, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Tilescope is a fully integrated and automated new data-processing pipeline for analyzing high-density tiling-array data.

New insights into Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis revealed by high-density pyrosequencing and transposon mutagenesis

Smith, Michael G., Gianoulis, Tara A., Pukatzki, Stefan, Mekalanos, John J., Ornston, L. Nicholas, Gerstein, Mark, ...

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important and problematic human pathogen as it is the causative agent of several types of infections including pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia, and urinary...

Differential binding of calmodulin-related proteins to their targets revealed through high-density Arabidopsis protein microarrays

Popescu, Sorina C., Popescu, George V., Bachan, Shawn, Zhang, Zimei, Seay, Montrell, Gerstein, Mark, ...

Calmodulins (CaMs) are the most ubiquitous calcium sensors in eukaryotes. A number of CaM-binding proteins have been identified through classical methods, and many proteins have been predicted to...

Integrated analysis of experimental data sets reveals many novel promoters in 1% of the human genome

Trinklein, Nathan D., Karaöz, Ulaş, Wu, Jiaqian, Halees, Anason, Force Aldred, Shelley, Collins, Patrick J., ...

The regulation of transcriptional initiation in the human genome is a critical component of global gene regulation, but a complete catalog of human promoters currently does not exist. In order to...

The DART classification of unannotated transcription within the ENCODE regions: Associating transcription with known and novel loci

Rozowsky, Joel S., Newburger, Daniel, Sayward, Fred, Wu, Jiaqian, Jordan, Greg, Korbel, Jan O., ...

For the ∼1% of the human genome in the ENCODE regions, only about half of the transcriptionally active regions (TARs) identified with tiling microarrays correspond to annotated exons. Here we...

Statistical analysis of the genomic distribution and correlation of regulatory elements in the ENCODE regions

Zhang, Zhengdong D., Paccanaro, Alberto, Fu, Yutao, Weissman, Sherman, Weng, Zhiping, Chang, Joseph, ...

The comprehensive inventory of functional elements in 44 human genomic regions carried out by the ENCODE Project Consortium enables for the first time a global analysis of the genomic distribution of...

Pseudogenes in the ENCODE regions: Consensus annotation, analysis of transcription, and evolution

Zheng, Deyou, Frankish, Adam, Baertsch, Robert, Kapranov, Philipp, Reymond, Alexandre, Choo, Siew Woh, ...

Arising from either retrotransposition or genomic duplication of functional genes, pseudogenes are “genomic fossils” valuable for exploring the dynamics and evolution of genes and genomes....

Structured RNAs in the ENCODE selected regions of the human genome

Washietl, Stefan, Pedersen, Jakob S., Korbel, Jan O., Stocsits, Claudia, Gruber, Andreas R., Hackermüller, Jörg, ...

Functional RNA structures play an important role both in the context of noncoding RNA transcripts as well as regulatory elements in mRNAs. Here we present a computational study to detect functional...

Assessing the performance of different high-density tiling microarray strategies for mapping transcribed regions of the human genome

Emanuelsson, Olof, Nagalakshmi, Ugrappa, Zheng, Deyou, Rozowsky, Joel S., Urban, Alexander E., Du, Jiang, ...

Genomic tiling microarrays have become a popular tool for interrogating the transcriptional activity of large regions of the genome in an unbiased fashion. There are several key parameters associated...

Mapping of transcription factor binding regions in mammalian cells by ChIP: Comparison of array- and sequencing-based technologies

Euskirchen, Ghia M., Rozowsky, Joel S., Wei, Chia-Lin, Lee, Wah Heng, Zhang, Zhengdong D., Hartman, Stephen, ...

Recent progress in mapping transcription factor (TF) binding regions can largely be credited to chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) technologies. We compared strategies for mapping TF binding...

Mapping the chromosomal targets of STAT1 by Sequence Tag Analysis of Genomic Enrichment (STAGE)

Bhinge, Akshay A., Kim, Jonghwan, Euskirchen, Ghia M., Snyder, Michael, Iyer, Vishwanath R.

Identifying the genome-wide binding sites of transcription factors is important in deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks. ChIP-chip (Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with microarrays)...

Systematic prediction and validation of breakpoints associated with copy-number variants in the human genome

Korbel, Jan O., Urban, Alexander Eckehart, Grubert, Fabian, Du, Jiang, Royce, Thomas E., Starr, Peter, ...

Copy-number variants (CNVs) are an abundant form of genetic variation in humans. However, approaches for determining exact CNV breakpoint sequences (physical deletion or duplication boundaries)...

Regulation of polarized growth initiation and termination cycles by the polarisome and Cdc42 regulators

Bidlingmaier, Scott, Snyder, Michael

The dynamic regulation of polarized cell growth allows cells to form structures of defined size and shape. We have studied the regulation of polarized growth using mating yeast as a model. Haploid...

Identification of differentially expressed proteins in ovarian cancer using high-density protein microarrays

Hudson, Michael E., Pozdnyakova, Irina, Haines, Kenneth, Mor, Gil, Snyder, Michael

Ovarian cancer is a leading cause of deaths, yet many aspects of the biology of the disease and a routine means of its detection are lacking. We have used protein microarrays and autoantibodies from...

Targeting of Chitin Synthase 3 to Polarized Growth Sites in Yeast Requires Chs5p and Myo2p

Santos, Beatriz, Snyder, Michael

Chitin is an essential structural component of the yeast cell wall whose deposition is regulated throughout the yeast life cycle. The temporal and spatial regulation of chitin synthesis was...

Pheromone-regulated Genes Required for Yeast Mating Differentiation

Erdman, Scott, Lin, Li, Malczynski, Michael, Snyder, Michael

Yeast cells mate by an inducible pathway that involves agglutination, mating projection formation, cell fusion, and nuclear fusion. To obtain insight into the mating differentiation of Saccharomyces...

A Nonerythroid Isoform of Protein 4.1R Interacts with the Nuclear Mitotic Apparatus (NuMA) Protein

Mattagajasingh, Subhendra N., Huang, Shu-Ching, Hartenstein, Julia S., Snyder, Michael, Marchesi, Vincent T., Benz, Edward J.

Red blood cell protein 4.1 (4.1R) is an 80- kD erythrocyte phosphoprotein that stabilizes the spectrin/actin cytoskeleton. In nonerythroid cells, multiple 4.1R isoforms arise from a single gene by...

Differential Regulation of the Kar3p Kinesin-related Protein by Two Associated Proteins, Cik1p and Vik1p

Manning, Brendan D., Barrett, Jennifer G., Wallace, Julie A., Granok, Howard, Snyder, Michael

The mechanisms by which kinesin-related proteins interact with other proteins to carry out specific cellular processes is poorly understood. The kinesin-related protein, Kar3p, has been implicated in...

RNA polymerase II stalling: loading at the start prepares genes for a sprint

Wu, Jia Qian, Snyder, Michael

Promoter-proximal polymerase II stalling prepares genes for prompt expression when signals are received.

Genome-Wide Occupancy of SREBP1 and Its Partners NFY and SP1 Reveals Novel Functional Roles and Combinatorial Regulation of Distinct Classes of Genes

Reed, Brian D., Charos, Alexandra E., Szekely, Anna M., Weissman, Sherman M., Snyder, Michael

The sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) family member SREBP1 is a critical transcriptional regulator of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism and has been implicated in insulin...

Modeling ChIP Sequencing In Silico with Applications

Zhang, Zhengdong D., Rozowsky, Joel, Snyder, Michael, Chang, Joseph, Gerstein, Mark

ChIP sequencing (ChIP-seq) is a new method for genomewide mapping of protein binding sites on DNA. It has generated much excitement in functional genomics. To score data and determine adequate...

Myo2p, a class V myosin in budding yeast, associates with a large ribonucleic acid–protein complex that contains mRNAs and subunits of the RNA-processing body

Chang, Wakam, Zaarour, Rania F., Reck-Peterson, Samara, Rinn, John, Singer, Robert H., Snyder, Michael, ...

Myo2p is an essential class V myosin in budding yeast with several identified functions in organelle trafficking and spindle orientation. The present study demonstrates that Myo2p is a component of a...

Systematic evaluation of variability in ChIP-chip experiments using predefined DNA targets

Johnson, David S., Li, Wei, Gordon, D. Benjamin, Bhattacharjee, Arindam, Curry, Bo, Ghosh, Jayati, ...

The most widely used method for detecting genome-wide protein–DNA interactions is chromatin immunoprecipitation on tiling microarrays, commonly known as ChIP-chip. Here, we conducted the first...

Leptin affects endocardial cushion formation by modulating EMT and migration via Akt signaling cascades

Nath, Anjali K., Brown, Rachel M., Michaud, Michael, Sierra-Honigmann, M. Rocio, Snyder, Michael, Madri, Joseph A.

Blood circulation is dependent on heart valves to direct blood flow through the heart and great vessels. Valve development relies on epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), a central feature of...

High-Resolution Copy-Number Variation Map Reflects Human Olfactory Receptor Diversity and Evolution

Hasin, Yehudit, Olender, Tsviya, Khen, Miriam, Gonzaga-Jauregui, Claudia, Kim, Philip M., Urban, Alexander Eckehart, ...

Olfactory receptors (ORs), which are involved in odorant recognition, form the largest mammalian protein superfamily. The genomic content of OR genes is considerably reduced in humans, as reflected...

YMD: a microarray database for large-scale gene expression analysis.

Cheung, Kei-Hoi, White, Kevin, Hager, Janet, Gerstein, Mark, Reinke, Valerie, Nelson, Kenneth, ...

The use of microarray technology to perform parallel analysis of the expression pattern of a large number of genes in a single experiment has created a new frontier of medical research. The vast...

A genomic analysis of RNA polymerase II modification and chromatin architecture related to 3′ end RNA polyadenylation

Lian, Zheng, Karpikov, Alexander, Lian, Jin, Mahajan, Milind C., Hartman, Stephen, Gerstein, Mark, ...

Genomic analyses have been applied extensively to analyze the process of transcription initiation in mammalian cells, but less to transcript 3′ end formation and transcription termination. We used...

A procedure for highly specific, sensitive, and unbiased whole-genome amplification

Pan, Xinghua, Urban, Alexander Eckehart, Palejev, Dean, Schulz, Vincent, Grubert, Fabian, Hu, Yiping, ...

Highly specific amplification of complex DNA pools without bias or template-independent products (TIPs) remains a challenge. We have developed a method using phi29 DNA polymerase and trehalose and...

PEMer: a computational framework with simulation-based error models for inferring genomic structural variants from massive paired-end sequencing data

Korbel, Jan O, Abyzov, Alexej, Mu, Xinmeng Jasmine, Carriero, Nicholas, Cayting, Philip, Zhang, Zhengdong, ...

Paired-End Mapper (PEMer) enables mapping of genomic structural variants at considerably enhanced sensitivity, specificity and resolution over previous approaches.

Analysis of copy number variants and segmental duplications in the human genome: Evidence for a change in the process of formation in recent evolutionary history

Kim, Philip M., Lam, Hugo Y.K., Urban, Alexander E., Korbel, Jan O., Affourtit, Jason, Grubert, Fabian, ...

Segmental duplications (SDs) are operationally defined as >1 kb stretches of duplicated DNA with high sequence identity. They arise from copy number variants (CNVs) fixed in the population. To...

Genome-wide relationship between histone H3 lysine 4 mono- and tri-methylation and transcription factor binding

Robertson, A. Gordon, Bilenky, Mikhail, Tam, Angela, Zhao, Yongjun, Zeng, Thomas, Thiessen, Nina, ...

We characterized the relationship of H3K4me1 and H3K4me3 at distal and proximal regulatory elements by comparing ChIP-seq profiles for these histone modifications and for two functionally different...

Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics

Gianoulis, Tara A., Raes, Jeroen, Patel, Prianka V., Bjornson, Robert, Korbel, Jan O., Letunic, Ivica, ...

Recently, approaches have been developed to sample the genetic content of heterogeneous environments (metagenomics). However, by what means these sequences link distinct environmental conditions with...

Arabidopsis Protein Microarrays for the High-Throughput Identification of Protein-Protein Interactions

Popescu, Sorina C, Snyder, Michael, Dinesh-Kumar, SP

Protein microarray technology has emerged as a powerful new approach for the study of thousands of proteins simultaneously. Protein microarrays have been used for a wide variety of applications for...

MSB: A mean-shift-based approach for the analysis of structural variation in the genome

Wang, Lu-yong, Abyzov, Alexej, Korbel, Jan O., Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark

Genome structural variation includes segmental duplications, deletions, and other rearrangements, and array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) is a popular technology for determining...

MAPK target networks in Arabidopsis thaliana revealed using functional protein microarrays

Popescu, Sorina C., Popescu, George V., Bachan, Shawn, Zhang, Zimei, Gerstein, Mark, Snyder, Michael, ...

Signaling through mitogen-activated protein kinases (MPKs) cascades is a complex and fundamental process in eukaryotes, requiring MPK-activating kinases (MKKs) and MKK-activating kinases (MKKKs)....

Integrating Sequencing Technologies in Personal Genomics: Optimal Low Cost Reconstruction of Structural Variants

Du, Jiang, Bjornson, Robert D., Zhang, Zhengdong D., Kong, Yong, Snyder, Michael, Gerstein, Mark B.

The goal of human genome re-sequencing is obtaining an accurate assembly of an individual's genome. Recently, there has been great excitement in the development of many technologies for this (e.g....

The genetic architecture of Down syndrome phenotypes revealed by high-resolution analysis of human segmental trisomies

Korbel, Jan O., Tirosh-Wagner, Tal, Urban, Alexander Eckehart, Chen, Xiao-Ning, Kasowski, Maya, Dai, Li, ...

Down syndrome (DS), or trisomy 21, is a common disorder associated with several complex clinical phenotypes. Although several hypotheses have been put forward, it is unclear as to whether particular...

Impact of Chromatin Structures on DNA Processing for Genomic Analyses

Teytelman, Leonid, Özaydın, Bilge, Zill, Oliver, Lefrançois, Philippe, Snyder, Michael, Rine, Jasper, ...

Chromatin has an impact on recombination, repair, replication, and evolution of DNA. Here we report that chromatin structure also affects laboratory DNA manipulation in ways that distort the results...

A high throughput embryonic stem cell screen identifies Oct-2 as a bifunctional regulator of neuronal differentiation

Theodorou, Elias, Dalembert, George, Heffelfinger, Christopher, White, Eric, Weissman, Sherman, Corcoran, Lynn, ...

Neuronal differentiation is a complex process that involves a plethora of regulatory steps. To identify transcription factors that influence neuronal differentiation we developed a high throughput...

Global analysis of the glycoproteome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals new roles for protein glycosylation in eukaryotes

Kung, Li A, Tao, Sheng-Ce, Qian, Jiang, Smith, Michael G, Snyder, Michael, Zhu, Heng

To further understand the roles of protein glycosylation in eukaryotes, we globally identified glycan-containing proteins in yeast. A fluorescent lectin binding assay was developed and used to screen...