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2013-12-28 New articles we read this week

Neuroscience

  1. Widmann A, Schröger E. Filter effects and filter artifacts in the analysis of  electrophysiological data. Front Psychol. 2012 Jul 9;3:233. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00233. eCollection 2012. PubMed PMID: 22787453; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3391960.
  2. Hsiao EY, McBride SW, Hsien S, Sharon G, Hyde ER, McCue T, Codelli JA, Chow J, Reisman SE, Petrosino JF, Patterson PH, Mazmanian SK. Microbiota modulate behavioral and physiological abnormalities associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. Cell. 2013 Dec 19;155(7):1451-63. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.024. Epub 2013 Dec 5. PubMed PMID: 24315484.
  3. Stern P. The heavily connected brain. Connection, connection, connection… Introduction. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):577. doi: 10.1126/science.342.6158.577. PubMed PMID: 24179217.
  4. Zatorre RJ. Predispositions and plasticity in music and speech learning: neural correlates and implications. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):585-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1238414. Review. PubMed PMID: 24179219.
  5. Turk-Browne NB. Functional interactions as big data in the human brain.Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):580-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1238409. Review. PubMed PMID: 24179218.
  6. DeCaen PG, Delling M, Vien TN, Clapham DE. Direct recording and molecular identification of the calcium channel of primary cilia. Nature. 2013 Dec 12;504(7479):315-8. doi: 10.1038/nature12832. PubMed PMID: 24336289.
  7. Delling M, DeCaen PG, Doerner JF, Febvay S, Clapham DE. Primary cilia are specialized calcium signalling organelles. Nature. 2013 Dec 12;504(7479):311-4. doi: 10.1038/nature12833. PubMed PMID: 24336288.

Genetics

  1. Korf I. Genomics: the state of the art in RNA-seq analysis. Nat Methods. 2013 Nov 26;10(12):1165-6. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2735. PubMed PMID: 24296473.
  2. Steijger T, Abril JF, Engström PG, Kokocinski F; RGASP Consortium, Abril JF, Akerman M, Alioto T, Ambrosini G, Antonarakis SE, Behr J, Bertone P, Bohnert R, Bucher P, Cloonan N, Derrien T, Djebali S, Du J, Dudoit S, Engström PG, Gerstein M, Gingeras TR, Gonzalez D, Grimmond SM, Guigó R, Habegger L, Harrow J, Hubbard TJ, Iseli C, Jean G, Kahles A, Kokocinski F, Lagarde J, Leng J, Lefebvre G, Lewis S, Mortazavi A, Niermann P, Rätsch G, Reymond A, Ribeca P, Richard H, Rougemont J, Rozowsky J, Sammeth M, Sboner A, Schulz MH, Searle SM, Solorzano ND, Solovyev V, Stanke M, Steijger T, Stevenson BJ, Stockinger H, Valsesia A, Weese D, White S, Wold BJ, Wu J, Wu TD, Zeller G, Zerbino D, Zhang MQ, Hubbard TJ, Guigó R, Harrow J, Bertone P. Assessment of transcript reconstruction methods for RNA-seq. Nat Methods. 2013 Dec;10(12):1177-84. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2714. Epub 2013 Nov 3. PubMed PMID: 24185837; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3851240.
  3. Engström PG, Steijger T, Sipos B, Grant GR, Kahles A; RGASP Consortium, Alioto T, Behr J, Bertone P, Bohnert R, Campagna D, Davis CA, Dobin A, Engström PG, Gingeras TR, Goldman N, Grant GR, Guigó R, Harrow J, Hubbard TJ, Jean G, Kahles A, Kosarev P, Li S, Liu J, Mason CE, Molodtsov V, Ning Z, Ponstingl H, Prins JF, Rätsch G, Ribeca P, Seledtsov I, Sipos B, Solovyev V, Steijger T, Valle G, Vitulo N, Wang K, Wu TD, Zeller G, Rätsch G, Goldman N, Hubbard TJ, Harrow J, Guigó R, Bertone P. Systematic evaluation of spliced alignment programs for RNA-seq data.  Nat Methods. 2013 Dec;10(12):1185-91. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2722. Epub 2013 Nov 3. PubMed PMID: 24185836.
  4. Hnisz D, Abraham BJ, Lee TI, Lau A, Saint-André V, Sigova AA, Hoke HA, Young RA. Super-enhancers in the control of cell identity and disease. Cell. 2013 Nov 7;155(4):934-47. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.09.053. Epub 2013 Oct 10. PubMed PMID: 24119843; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3841062.
  5. Collins FS, Hamburg MA. First FDA authorization for next-generation sequencer. N Engl J Med. 2013 Dec 19;369(25):2369-71. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1314561. Epub 2013 Nov 19. PubMed PMID: 24251383.

Imaging

  1. Chen B, Gilbert LA, Cimini BA, Schnitzbauer J, Zhang W, Li GW, Park J, Blackburn EH, Weissman JS, Qi LS, Huang B. Dynamic Imaging of Genomic Loci in Living Human Cells by an Optimized CRISPR/Cas System. Cell. 2013 Dec 19;155(7):1479-91. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.001. PubMed PMID: 24360272.
  2. Ma H, Reyes-Gutierrez P, Pederson T. Visualization of repetitive DNA sequences in human chromosomes with transcription activator-like effectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24324157.
  3. Elia N, Ott C, Lippincott-Schwartz J. Incisive imaging and computation for cellular mysteries: lessons from abscission. Cell. 2013 Dec 5;155(6):1220-31. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.011. PubMed PMID: 24315094.
  4. Marx V. Is super-resolution microscopy right for you? Nat Methods. 2013 Nov 26;10(12):1157-63. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2756. PubMed PMID: 24296472.

Genome editing

  1. Auer TO, Duroure K, De Cian A, Concordet JP, Del Bene F. Highly efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in in zebrafish by homology-independent DNA repair. Genome Res. 2013 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24179142.
  2. Ran FA, Hsu PD, Wright J, Agarwala V, Scott DA, Zhang F. Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Nat Protoc. 2013 Nov;8(11):2281-308. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2013.143. Epub 2013 Oct 24. PubMed PMID: 24157548.
  3. Cradick TJ, Fine EJ, Antico CJ, Bao G. CRISPR/Cas9 systems targeting ß-globin and CCR5 genes have substantial off-target activity. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Nov 1;41(20):9584-92. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt714. Epub 2013 Aug 11. PubMed PMID: 23939622; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3814385.
  4. Zu Y, Tong X, Wang Z, Liu D, Pan R, Li Z, Hu Y, Luo Z, Huang P, Wu Q, Zhu Z, Zhang B, Lin S. TALEN-mediated precise genome modification by homologous recombination in zebrafish. Nat Methods. 2013 Apr;10(4):329-31. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2374. Epub 2013 Feb 24. PubMed PMID: 23435258.

Gene regulatory network

  1. Fuxman Bass JI, Diallo A, Nelson J, Soto JM, Myers CL, Walhout AJ. Using networks to measure similarity between genes: association index selection. Nat Methods. 2013 Nov 26;10(12):1169-76. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2728. PubMed PMID:24296474.

Genomics/Systems biology

  1. Monk JM, Charusanti P, Aziz RK, Lerman JA, Premyodhin N, Orth JD, Feist AM, Palsson BØ. Genome-scale metabolic reconstructions of multiple Escherichia coli strains highlight strain-specific adaptations to nutritional environments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 10;110(50):20338-43. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1307797110. Epub 2013 Nov 25. PubMed PMID: 24277855.
  2. Zhang Y, Wong CH, Birnbaum RY, Li G, Favaro R, Ngan CY, Lim J, Tai E, Poh HM, Wong E, Mulawadi FH, Sung WK, Nicolis S, Ahituv N, Ruan Y, Wei CL. Chromatin connectivity maps reveal dynamic promoter-enhancer long-range associations. Nature. 2013 Dec 12;504(7479):306-10. doi: 10.1038/nature12716. Epub 2013 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 24213634.
  3. Markson JS, Piechura JR, Puszynska AM, O’Shea EK. Circadian Control of Global Gene Expression by the Cyanobacterial Master Regulator RpaA. Cell. 2013 Dec 5;155(6):1396-408. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.005. PubMed PMID: 24315105.

Zebrafish

  1. Xu C, Tabebordbar M, Iovino S, Ciarlo C, Liu J, Castiglioni A, Price E, Liu M, Barton ER, Kahn CR, Wagers AJ, Zon LI. A Zebrafish Embryo Culture System Defines Factors that Promote Vertebrate Myogenesis across Species. Cell. 2013 Nov 7;155(4):909-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.10.023. PubMed PMID: 24209627.
  2. Wilkinson RN, Elworthy S, Ingham PW, van Eeden FJ. A method for high-throughput PCR-based genotyping of larval zebrafish tail biopsies. Biotechniques. 2013 Dec;55(6):314-6. doi: 10.2144/000114116. PubMed PMID: 24344681.
  3. Maaswinkel H, Zhu L, Weng W. Using an Automated 3D-tracking System to Record Individual and Shoals of Adult Zebrafish. J Vis Exp. 2013 Dec 5;(82). doi: 10.3791/50681. PubMed PMID: 24336189.

Evolution

  1. Williams TA, Foster PG, Cox CJ, Embley TM. An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life. Nature. 2013 Dec 12;504(7479):231-6. doi: 10.1038/nature12779. PubMed PMID: 24336283.

Development

  1. Kearns NA, Genga RM, Enuameh MS, Garber M, Wolfe SA, Maehr R. Cas9 effector-mediated regulation of transcription and differentiation in human pluripotent stem cells. Development. 2014 Jan;141(1):219-23. doi: 10.1242/dev.103341. PubMed PMID: 24346702.
  2. Koyanagi-Aoi M, Ohnuki M, Takahashi K, Okita K, Noma H, Sawamura Y, Teramoto I, Narita M, Sato Y, Ichisaka T, Amano N, Watanabe A, Morizane A, Yamada Y, Sato T, Takahashi J, Yamanaka S. Differentiation-defective phenotypes revealed by large-scale analyses of human pluripotent stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 20. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24259714.
  3. Plouhinec JL, Zakin L, Moriyama Y, De Robertis EM. Chordin forms a self-organizing morphogen gradient in the extracellular space between ectoderm and mesoderm in the Xenopus embryo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 27. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24284174.
  4. Tan L, Zong C, Xie XS. Rare event of histone demethylation can initiate singular gene expression of olfactory receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24344257.

Retina

  1. Weber A, Hochmann S, Cimalla P, Gärtner M, Kuscha V, Hans S, Geffarth M, Kaslin J, Koch E, Brand M. Characterization of light lesion paradigms and optical coherence tomography as tools to study adult retina regeneration in zebrafish. PLoS One. 2013 Nov 26;8(11):e80483. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080483. PubMed PMID: 24303018; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3841302.

Funding

  1. Mervis J, Malakoff D. Science funding. U.S. budget deal offers researchers some sequester relief. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1426-7. doi: 10.1126/science.342.6165.1426. PubMed PMID: 24357280.

Medicine

  1. Johnson SC, Yanos ME, Kayser EB, Quintana A, Sangesland M, Castanza A, Uhde L, Hui J, Wall VZ, Gagnidze A, Oh K, Wasko BM, Ramos FJ, Palmiter RD, Rabinovitch PS, Morgan PG, Sedensky MM, Kaeberlein M. mTOR inhibition alleviates mitochondrial disease in a mouse model of Leigh syndrome. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1524-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1244360. Epub 2013 Nov 14. PubMed PMID: 24231806.
    • Vafai SB, Mootha VK. Medicine. A common pathway for a rare disease? Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1453-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1248449. PubMed PMID: 24357304.

Biochemistry

  1. Xie XS. Biochemistry. Enzyme kinetics, past and present. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1457-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1248859. PubMed PMID: 24357307.
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