DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

The PRMT5 arginine methyltransferase: many roles in development, cancer and beyond

N Stopa, JE Krebs, D Shechter - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Post-translational arginine methylation is responsible for regulation of many biological
processes. The protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5, also known as Hsl7, Jbp1 …

An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse

D De Rie, I Abugessaisa, T Alam, E Arner, P Arner… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs with key roles in cellular regulation. As
part of the fifth edition of the Functional Annotation of Mammalian Genome (FANTOM5) …

The Ensembl gene annotation system

BL Aken, S Ayling, D Barrell, L Clarke, V Curwen… - Database, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The Ensembl gene annotation system has been used to annotate over 70 different
vertebrate species across a wide range of genome projects. Furthermore, it generates the …

Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

V Agarwal, GW Bell, JW Nam, DP Bartel - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
MicroRNA targets are often recognized through pairing between the miRNA seed region
and complementary sites within target mRNAs, but not all of these canonical sites are …

Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model

J Zhou, OG Troyanskaya - Nature methods, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying functional effects of noncoding variants is a major challenge in human genetics.
To predict the noncoding-variant effects de novo from sequence, we developed a deep …

Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2

V Pejaver, J Urresti, J Lugo-Martinez, KA Pagel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying pathogenic variants and underlying functional alterations is challenging. To this
end, we introduce MutPred2, a tool that improves the prioritization of pathogenic amino acid …

StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads

M Pertea, GM Pertea, CM Antonescu, TC Chang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Methods used to sequence the transcriptome often produce more than 200 million short
sequences. We introduce StringTie, a computational method that applies a network flow …

The human transcriptome across tissues and individuals

M Melé, PG Ferreira, F Reverter, DS DeLuca… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Transcriptional regulation and posttranscriptional processing underlie many cellular and
organismal phenotypes. We used RNA sequence data generated by Genotype-Tissue …

Genomic variant annotation and prioritization with ANNOVAR and wANNOVAR

H Yang, K Wang - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
Recent developments in sequencing techniques have enabled rapid and high-throughput
generation of sequence data, democratizing the ability to compile information on large …