Simon Minovitsky

Multiple Whole Genome Alignments and Novel Biomedical Applications at the VISTA Portal (2008)

Brudno, Michael, Poliakov, Alexander, Minovitsky, Simon, Ratnere, Igor, Dubchak, Inna

The VISTA portal for comparative genomics is designed to give biomedical scientists a unified set of tools to lead them from the raw DNA sequences through the alignment and annotation to the...

Applications Note TreeQ-VISTA: An Interactive Tree Visualization Tool with Functional Annotation Query Capabilities (2008)

Shengyin Gu, Iain Anderson, Victor Kunin, Michael Cipriano, Simon Minovitsky, Nina Amenta, ...

Summary: We describe a general multiplatform exploratory tool called TreeQ-Vista, designed for presenting functional annotations in a phylogenetic context. Traits, such as phenotypic and genomic...

Applications Note TreeQ-VISTA: An Interactive Tree Visualization Tool with Functional Annotation Query Capabilities (2008)

Shengyin Gu, Iain Anderson, Victor Kunin, Michael Cipriano, Simon Minovitsky, Nina Amenta, ...

Summary: We describe a general multiplatform exploratory tool called TreeQ-Vista, designed for presenting functional annotations in a phylogenetic context. Traits, such as phenotypic and genomic...

§ To whom correspondence should be addressed (2008)

Nameeta Shah, Michael V. Teplitsky, Simon Minovitsky, Len A. Pennacchio, Philip Hugenholtz, Bernd Hamann, ...

Background Recent advances in sequencing technologies promise to provide a better understanding of the genetics of human disease as well as the evolution of microbial populations. Single Nucleotide...

Short sequence motifs, overrepresented in mammalian conserved non-coding sequences (2007)

Minovitsky, Simon, Stegmaier, Philip, Kel, Alexander, Kondrashov, Alexey S, Dubchak, Inna

Abstract Background A substantial fraction of non-coding DNA sequences of multicellular eukaryotes is under selective constraint. In particular, ~5% of the human genome consists of conserved...

A correlation with exon expression approach to identify cis-regulatory elements for tissue-specific alternative splicing (2007)

Das, Debopriya, Clark, Tyson A., Schweitzer, Anthony, Yamamoto, Miki, Marr, Henry, Arribere, Josh, ...

Correlation of motif occurrences with gene expression intensity is an effective strategy for elucidating transcriptional cis-regulatory logic. Here we demonstrate that this approach can also identify...

Multiple whole genome alignments and novel biomedical applications at the VISTA portal (2007)

Brudno, Michael, Poliakov, Alexander, Minovitsky, Simon, Ratnere, Igor, Dubchak, Inna

The VISTA portal for comparative genomics is designed to give biomedical scientists a unified set of tools to lead them from the raw DNA sequences through the alignment and annotation to the...

TreeQ-VISTA: An Interactive Tree Visualization Tool with Functional Annotation Query Capabilities (2007)

Gu, Shengyin, Anderson, Iain, Kunin, Victor, Cipriano, Michael, Minovitsky, Simon, Weber, Gunther, ...

Summary: We describe a general multiplatform exploratory tool called TreeQ-Vista, designed for presenting functional annotations in a phylogenetic context. Traits, such as phenotypic and genomic...

TreeQ-VISTA: an interactive tree visualization tool with functional annotation query capabilities (2007)

Gu, Shengyin, Anderson, Iain, Kunin, Victor, Cipriano, Michael, Minovitsky, Simon, Weber, Gunther, ...

Summary: We describe a general multiplatform exploratory tool called TreeQ-Vista, designed for presenting functional annotations in a phylogenetic context. Traits, such as phenotypic and genomic...

Short sequence motifs, overrepresented in mammalian conserved non-coding sequences (2007)

Minovitsky, Simon, Stegmaier, Philip, Kel, Alexander, Kondrashov, Alexey S., Dubchak, Inna

Background: A substantial fraction of non-coding DNA sequences of multicellular eukaryotes is under selective constraint. In particular, ~;5 percent of the human genome consists of conserved...

RegTransBase--a database of regulatory sequences and interactions in a wide range of prokaryotic genomes (2007)

Kazakov, Alexei E., Cipriano, Michael J., Novichkov, Pavel S., Minovitsky, Simon, Vinogradov, Dmitry V., Arkin, Adam, ...

RegTransBase is a manually curated database of regulatory interactions in prokaryotes that captures the knowledge in public scientific literature using a controlled vocabulary. Although several...

VISTA Enhancer Browser--a database of tissue-specific human enhancers (2007)

Visel, Axel, Minovitsky, Simon, Dubchak, Inna, Pennacchio, Len A.

Despite the known existence of distant-acting cis-regulatory elements in the human genome, only a small fraction of these elements has been identified and experimentally characterized in vivo. This...

VISTA Enhancer Browser--A Database of Tissue-Specific Human Enhancers (2006)

Visel, Axel, Minovitsky, Simon, Dubchak, Inna, Pennacchio, Len A.

Despite the known existence of distant-acting cis-regulatory elements in the human genome, only a small fraction of these elements has been identified and experimentally characterized in vivo. This...

RegTransBase - A Database Of Regulatory Sequences and Interactions in a Wide Range of Prokaryotic Genomes (2006)

Kazakov, Alexei E., Cipriano, Michael J., Novichkov, Pavel S., Minovitsky, Simon, Vinogradov, Dmitry V., Arkin, Adam, ...

RegTransBase, a manually curated database of regulatory interactions in prokaryotes, captures the knowledge in published scientific literature using a controlled vocabulary. Although a number of...

In Vivo Enhancer Analysis Chromosome 16 Conserved Noncoding Sequences (2006)

Pennacchio, Len A., Ahituv, Nadav, Moses, Alan M., Nobrega, Marcelo, Prabhakar, Shyam, Shoukry, Malak, ...

The identification of enhancers with predicted specificities in vertebrate genomes remains a significant challenge that is hampered by a lack of experimentally validated training sets. In this study,...

SNP-VISTA: An interactive SNP visualization tool (2005)

Shah, Nameeta, Teplitsky, Michael V, Minovitsky, Simon, Pennacchio, Len A, Hugenholtz, Philip, Hamann, Bernd, ...

Abstract Background Recent advances in sequencing technologies promise to provide a better understanding of the genetics of human disease as well as the evolution of microbial populations. Single...

SNP-VISTA: An interactive SNP visualization tool (2005)

Shah, Nameeta, Teplitsky, Michael V, Minovitsky, Simon, Pennacchio, Len A, Hugenholtz, Philip, Hamann, Bernd, ...

Background: Recent advances in sequencing technologies promise to provide a better understanding of the genetics of human disease as well as the evolution of microbial populations. Single Nucleotide...

The splicing regulatory element, UGCAUG, is phylogenetically and spatially conserved in introns that flank tissue-specific alternative exons (2005)

Minovitsky, Simon, Gee, Sherry L., Schokrpur, Shiruyeh, Dubchak, Inna, Conboy, John G.

Previous studies have identified UGCAUG as an intron splicing enhancer that is frequently located adjacent to tissue-specific alternative exons in the human genome. Here, we show that UGCAUG is...

The splicing regulatory element, UGCAUG, is phylogenetically and spatially conserved in introns that flank tissue-specific alternative exons

Minovitsky, Simon, Gee, Sherry L., Schokrpur, Shiruyeh, Dubchak, Inna, Conboy, John G.

Previous studies have identified UGCAUG as an intron splicing enhancer that is frequently located adjacent to tissue-specific alternative exons in the human genome. Here, we show that UGCAUG is...

Gene expression patterns define key transcriptional events in cell-cycle regulation by cAMP and protein kinase A

Zambon, Alexander C., Zhang, Lingzhi, Minovitsky, Simon, Kanter, Joan R., Prabhakar, Shyam, Salomonis, Nathan, ...

Although a substantial number of hormones and drugs increase cellular cAMP levels, the global impact of cAMP and its major effector mechanism, protein kinase A (PKA), on gene expression is not known....

The splicing regulatory element, UGCAUG, is phylogenetically and spatially conserved in introns that flank tissue-specific alternative exons

Minovitsky, Simon, Gee, Sherry L., Schokrpur, Shiruyeh, Dubchak, Inna, Conboy, John G.

Previous studies have identified UGCAUG as an intron splicing enhancer that is frequently located adjacent to tissue-specific alternative exons in the human genome. Here, we show that UGCAUG is...

Gene expression patterns define key transcriptional events in cell-cycle regulation by cAMP and protein kinase A

Zambon, Alexander C., Zhang, Lingzhi, Minovitsky, Simon, Kanter, Joan R., Prabhakar, Shyam, Salomonis, Nathan, ...

Although a substantial number of hormones and drugs increase cellular cAMP levels, the global impact of cAMP and its major effector mechanism, protein kinase A (PKA), on gene expression is not known....

RegTransBase—a database of regulatory sequences and interactions in a wide range of prokaryotic genomes

Kazakov, Alexei E., Cipriano, Michael J., Novichkov, Pavel S., Minovitsky, Simon, Vinogradov, Dmitry V., Arkin, Adam, ...

RegTransBase is a manually curated database of regulatory interactions in prokaryotes that captures the knowledge in public scientific literature using a controlled vocabulary. Although several...

VISTA Enhancer Browser—a database of tissue-specific human enhancers

Visel, Axel, Minovitsky, Simon, Dubchak, Inna, Pennacchio, Len A.

Despite the known existence of distant-acting cis-regulatory elements in the human genome, only a small fraction of these elements has been identified and experimentally characterized in vivo. This...

Multiple whole genome alignments and novel biomedical applications at the VISTA portal

Brudno, Michael, Poliakov, Alexander, Minovitsky, Simon, Ratnere, Igor, Dubchak, Inna

The VISTA portal for comparative genomics is designed to give biomedical scientists a unified set of tools to lead them from the raw DNA sequences through the alignment and annotation to the...

A correlation with exon expression approach to identify cis-regulatory elements for tissue-specific alternative splicing

Das, Debopriya, Clark, Tyson A., Schweitzer, Anthony, Yamamoto, Miki, Marr, Henry, Arribere, Josh, ...

Correlation of motif occurrences with gene expression intensity is an effective strategy for elucidating transcriptional cis-regulatory logic. Here we demonstrate that this approach can also identify...