Ten things you should know about transposable elements

G Bourque, KH Burns, M Gehring, V Gorbunova… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of eukaryotic genomes. However, the
extent of their impact on genome evolution, function, and disease remain a matter of intense …

Computational tools to unmask transposable elements

P Goerner-Potvin, G Bourque - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of the genome of many species is derived from transposable
elements (TEs). Moreover, through various self-copying mechanisms, TEs continue to …

Is it time to change the reference genome?

S Ballouz, A Dobin, JA Gillis - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
The use of the human reference genome has shaped methods and data across modern
genomics. This has offered many benefits while creating a few constraints. In the following …

Demystifying emerging bulk RNA-Seq applications: the application and utility of bioinformatic methodology

AS Thind, I Monga, PK Thakur, P Kumari… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Significant innovations in next-generation sequencing techniques and bioinformatics tools
have impacted our appreciation and understanding of RNA. Practical RNA sequencing …

Predicting RNA splicing from DNA sequence using Pangolin

T Zeng, YI Li - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Recent progress in deep learning has greatly improved the prediction of RNA splicing from
DNA sequence. Here, we present Pangolin, a deep learning model to predict splice site …

Telescope: Characterization of the retrotranscriptome by accurate estimation of transposable element expression

ML Bendall, M De Mulder, LP Iñiguez… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Characterization of Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) expression within the
transcriptomic landscape using RNA-seq is complicated by uncertainty in fragment …

Beyond read-counts: Ribo-seq data analysis to understand the functions of the transcriptome

L Calviello, U Ohler - Trends in Genetics, 2017 - cell.com
By map** the positions of millions of translating ribosomes in the cell, ribosome profiling
(Ribo-seq) has established its role as a powerful tool to study gene expression. Several …

[HTML][HTML] Handling multi-mapped reads in RNA-seq

G Deschamps-Francoeur, J Simoneau… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many eukaryotic genomes harbour large numbers of duplicated sequences, of diverse
biotypes, resulting from several mechanisms including recombination, whole genome …

Production of protein-complex components is stoichiometric and lacks general feedback regulation in eukaryotes

JC Taggart, GW Li - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Constituents of multiprotein complexes are required at well-defined levels relative to each
other. However, it remains unknown whether eukaryotic cells typically produce precise …

Linker histones are fine-scale chromatin architects modulating developmental decisions in Arabidopsis

K Rutowicz, M Lirski, B Mermaz, G Teano, J Schubert… - Genome Biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Chromatin provides a tunable platform for gene expression control. Besides the
well-studied core nucleosome, H1 linker histones are abundant chromatin components with …