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  1. Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinases (MAPKKKs) are the important components of MAPK cascades, which play the crucial role in plant growth and development as well as in response to diverse stresses. ...

    Authors: Meng Wang, Hong Yue, Kewei Feng, Pingchuan Deng, Weining Song and Xiaojun Nie
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:668
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  2. Rust fungi are an important group of plant pathogens that cause devastating losses in agricultural, silvicultural and natural ecosystems. Plants can be protected from rust disease by resistance genes encoding ...

    Authors: Claire Anderson, Muhammad Adil Khan, Ann-Maree Catanzariti, Cameron A. Jack, Adnane Nemri, Gregory J. Lawrence, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Adrienne R. Hardham, Jeffrey G. Ellis, Peter N. Dodds and David A. Jones
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:667
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  3. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been studied extensively over the past few years. Large numbers of lncRNAs have been identified in mouse, rat, and human, and some of them have been shown to play important ...

    Authors: Siyuan Zhan, Yao Dong, Wei Zhao, Jiazhong Guo, Tao Zhong, Linjie Wang, Li Li and Hongping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:666
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  4. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes progressive muscle degeneration, cardiomyopathy and respiratory failure in approximately 1/5,000 boys. Golden Retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD) resembles DMD both cli...

    Authors: Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Cynthia Balog-Alvarez, James J. Cai, Brian W. Davis and Joe N. Kornegay
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:665
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  6. We considered the prediction of cancer classes (e.g. subtypes) using patient gene expression profiles that contain both systematic and condition-specific biases when compared with the training reference datase...

    Authors: Chifeng Ma, Konduru S. Sastry, Mario Flore, Salah Gehani, Issam Al-Bozom, Yusheng Feng, Erchin Serpedin, Lotfi Chouchane, Yidong Chen and Yufei Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):549
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  7. Tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) encode the guardian molecules to control cell growth. The genomic alteration of TSGs may cause tumorigenesis and promote cancer progression. So far, investigators have mainly stud...

    Authors: Min Zhao and Zhongming Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):532
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  8. Proper cell models for breast cancer primary tumors have long been the focal point in the cancer’s research. The genomic comparison between cell lines and tumors can investigate the similarity and dissimilarit...

    Authors: Guanglong Jiang, Shijun Zhang, Aida Yazdanparast, Meng Li, Aniruddha Vikram Pawar, Yunlong Liu, Sai Mounika Inavolu and Lijun Cheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):525
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  9. We summarize the 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2015) and the editorial report of the supplement to BMC Genomics. The supplement includes 20 research articles selected...

    Authors: Kun Huang, Yunlong Liu, Yufei Huang, Lang Li, Lee Cooper, Jianhua Ruan and Zhongming Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):524
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  10. Clinical proteomics application aims at solving a specific clinical problem within the context of a clinical study. It has been growing rapidly in the field of biomarker discovery, especially in the area of ca...

    Authors: Fan Zhang and Jake Y. Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):522
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  11. Ion Torrent and Ion Proton are semiconductor-based sequencing technologies that feature rapid sequencing speed and low upfront and operating costs, thanks to the avoidance of modified nucleotides and optical m...

    Authors: Weixing Feng, Sen Zhao, Dingkai Xue, Fengfei Song, Ziwei Li, Duojiao Chen, Bo He, Yangyang Hao, Yadong Wang and Yunlong Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):521
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  12. The recent advent of the state-of-art high throughput sequencing technology, known as Methylated RNA Immunoprecipitation combined with RNA sequencing (MeRIP-seq) revolutionizes the area of mRNA epigenetics and...

    Authors: Xiaodong Cui, Jia Meng, Shaowu Zhang, Manjeet K. Rao, Yidong Chen and Yufei Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):520
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  13.  Gene co-expression network analysis (GCNA) is widely adopted in bioinformatics and biomedical research with applications such as gene function prediction, protein-protein interaction inference, disease marker...

    Authors: Zhi Han, Jie Zhang, Guoyuan Sun, Gang Liu and Kun Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):519
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  14. In combination with gene expression profiles, the protein interaction network (PIN) constructs a dynamic network that includes multiple functional modules. Previous studies have demonstrated that rifampin can ...

    Authors: Jin Li, Ying Wang, Lei Wang, Xuefeng Dai, Wang Cong, Weixing Feng, Chengzhen Xu, Yulin Deng, Yue Wang, Todd C. Skaar, Hong Liang and Yunlong Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):517
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  15. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive brain tumors. It has poor prognosis even with optimal radio- and chemo-therapies. Since GBM is highly heterogeneous, drugs that target on specific molecular...

    Authors: Yang Chen, Zhen Gao, Bingcheng Wang and Rong Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):516
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  16. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer. Recent large-scale next-generation sequencing analyses reveal that PBRM1 is the second most frequently mutated gene harboring many...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Wang, Xingyi Guo, Michael J. Bray, Zhiyong Ding and Zhongming Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):515
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2016 17:821

  17. Sensitive detection of low-frequency single nucleotide variants carries great significance in many applications. In cancer genetics research, tumor biopsies are a mixture of normal and tumor cells from various...

    Authors: Yangyang Hao, Pengyue Zhang, Xiaoling Xuei, Harikrishna Nakshatri, Howard J. Edenberg, Lang Li and Yunlong Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):514
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  18. Somatic mutations can be used as potential biomarkers for subtyping and predicting outcomes for cancer patients. However, cancer patients often carry many somatic mutations, which do not always concentrate on ...

    Authors: Jie Zhang, Zachary Abrams, Jeffrey D. Parvin and Kun Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):513
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  19. The objective of this research was to investigate the variation of gene expression in the blood transcriptome profile of Chinese Holstein cows associated to the milk yield traits.

    Authors: Xue Bai, Zhuqing Zheng, Bin Liu, Xiaoyang Ji, Yongsheng Bai and Wenguang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):512
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  20. We recently reported the identification of Bacillus sp. NRRL B-14911 that induces heart autoimmunity by generating cardiac-reactive T cells through molecular mimicry. This marine bacterium was originally isolated...

    Authors: Chandirasegaran Massilamany, Akram Mohammed, John Dustin Loy, Tanya Purvis, Bharathi Krishnan, Rakesh H. Basavalingappa, Christy M. Kelley, Chittibabu Guda, Raúl G. Barletta, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Timothy P. L. Smith and Jay Reddy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):511
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  21. Streptomycetes are soil-dwelling Gram-positive bacteria that are best known as the major producers of antibiotics used in the pharmaceutical industry. The evolution of exceptionally powerful transporter system...

    Authors: Zhan Zhou, Ning Sun, Shanshan Wu, Yong-Quan Li and Yufeng Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):510
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  22. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a gram-negative bacterial antigen that triggers a series of cellular responses. LPS pre-conditioning was previously shown to improve the therapeutic efficacy of bone marrow stromal ...

    Authors: Ao Zhou, Meng Li, Bo He, Weixing Feng, Fei Huang, Bing Xu, A. Keith Dunker, Curt Balch, Baiyan Li, Yunlong Liu and Yue Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):509
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  23. The advancement of the next-generation sequencing technology enables mapping gene expression at the single-cell level, capable of tracking cell heterogeneity and determination of cell subpopulations using sing...

    Authors: Hung-I Harry Chen, Yufang Jin, Yufei Huang and Yidong Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):508
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  24. Improved DNA sequencing methods have transformed the field of genomics over the last decade. This has become possible due to the development of inexpensive short read sequencing technologies which have now res...

    Authors: Yesesri Cherukuri and Sarath Chandra Janga
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):507
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  25. Most existing tools for detecting next-generation sequencing-based splicing events focus on generic splicing events. Consequently, special types of non-canonical splicing events of short mRNA regions (IRE1α ta...

    Authors: Yongsheng Bai, Jeff Kinne, Brandon Donham, Feng Jiang, Lizhong Ding, Justin R. Hassler and Randal J. Kaufman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 7):503
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  26. Starch and protein are two major components of polished rice, and the amylose and protein contents affect eating and cooking qualities (ECQs). In the present study, genome-wide association study with high-qual...

    Authors: Feifei Xu, Jinsong Bao, Qiang He and Yong-Jin Park
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:663
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  27. Exposure of the budding Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an alkaline environment produces a robust transcriptional response involving hundreds of genes. Part of this response is triggered by an almost immediate burst ...

    Authors: Alicia Roque, Silvia Petrezsélyová, Albert Serra-Cardona and Joaquín Ariño
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:662
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  28. Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain P4 is atypical, as the strain is not pathogenic and produces a for this species unusual quorum sensing signal, identified as N-(3-hydroxy-octanoyl)-hom...

    Authors: Nadia Mhedbi-Hajri, Noura Yahiaoui, Samuel Mondy, Nathalie Hue, Franck Pélissier, Denis Faure and Yves Dessaux
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:661
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  29. Cichlid fishes have evolved remarkably diverse reproductive, social, and feeding behaviors. Cell-to-cell signaling molecules, notably neuropeptides and peptide hormones, are known to regulate these behaviors a...

    Authors: Caroline K. Hu, Bruce R. Southey, Elena V. Romanova, Karen P. Maruska, Jonathan V. Sweedler and Russell D. Fernald
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:660
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  30. The program RepeatMasker and the database Repbase-ISB are part of the most widely used strategy for annotating repeats in animal genomes. They have been used to show that avian genomes have a lower repeat cont...

    Authors: Sébastien Guizard, Benoît Piégu, Peter Arensburger, Florian Guillou and Yves Bigot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:659
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  31. Medicago sativa (alfalfa) is a low-input forage and potential bioenergy crop, and improving its yield and quality has always been a focus of the alfalfa breeding industry. Transgenic a...

    Authors: Ruimin Gao, Ryan S. Austin, Lisa Amyot and Abdelali Hannoufa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:658
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  32. Soil salinity affects growth and yield of crop plants. Plants respond to salinity by physiological and biochemical adjustments through a coordinated regulation and expression of a cascade of genes. Recently, h...

    Authors: Renesh Bedre, Venkata Ramanarao Mangu, Subodh Srivastava, Luis Eduardo Sanchez and Niranjan Baisakh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:657
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  33. Restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq), a next-generation sequencing technology, has greatly facilitated genetic linkage mapping studies in outbred species. RAD-seq is capable of discovering thou...

    Authors: Mohaddeseh Mousavi, Chunfa Tong, Fenxiang Liu, Shentong Tao, Jiyan Wu, Huogen Li and Jisen Shi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:656
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  34. Previously, several long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) were characterized as regulators in phosphate (Pi) starvation responses. However, systematic studies of novel lncRNAs involved in the Pi starvation signaling ...

    Authors: Jiapei Yuan, Ye Zhang, Jinsong Dong, Yuzhe Sun, Boon L. Lim, Dong Liu and Zhi John Lu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:655
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  36. Marine and freshwater zooplankton exhibit daily rhythmic patterns of behavior and physiology which may be regulated directly by the light:dark (LD) cycle and/or a molecular circadian clock. One of the best-stu...

    Authors: Samuel S. C. Rund, Boyoung Yoo, Camille Alam, Taryn Green, Melissa T. Stephens, Erliang Zeng, Gary F. George, Aaron D. Sheppard, Giles E. Duffield, Tijana Milenković and Michael E. Pfrender
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:653
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  37. Understanding the regulation mechanism of var gene expression is crucial for explaining antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum. Recent work observed that while all var genes produce transcripts, only a few

    Authors: Chengqi Wang, Swamy R. Adapa, Justin Gibbons, Stephen Sutton and Rays H. Y. Jiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:652
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  38. Eogystia hippophaecolus (Hua et al.) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) is the major threat to seabuckthorn plantations in China. Specific and highly efficient artificial sex pheromone traps was ...

    Authors: Ping Hu, Jing Tao, Mingming Cui, Chenglong Gao, Pengfei Lu and Youqing Luo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:651
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  39. Structural excursions of a protein at equilibrium are key to biomolecular recognition and function modulation. Protein modeling research is driven by the need to aid wet laboratories in characterizing equilibr...

    Authors: Emmanuel Sapin, Daniel B. Carr, Kenneth A. De Jong and Amarda Shehu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):546
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 4

  40. A fundamental challenge in quantitation of biomolecules for cancer biomarker discovery is owing to the heterogeneous nature of human biospecimens. Although this issue has been a subject of discussion in cancer...

    Authors: Minkun Wang, Tsung-Heng Tsai, Cristina Di Poto, Alessia Ferrarini, Guoqiang Yu and Habtom W. Ressom
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):545
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  41. The longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is a classical problem in computer science, and forms the basis of the current best-performing reference-based compression schemes for genome resequencing data.

    Authors: Richard Beal, Tazin Afrin, Aliya Farheen and Donald Adjeroh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):544
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  42. In biological systems, diseases are caused by small perturbations in a complex network of interactions between proteins. Perturbations typically affect only a small number of proteins, which go on to disturb a...

    Authors: Narmada Sambaturu, Madhulika Mishra and Nagasuma Chandra
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):543
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  43. Motif search is an important step in extracting meaningful patterns from biological data. The general problem of motif search is intractable and there is a pressing need to develop efficient, exact and approxi...

    Authors: Soumitra Pal, Peng Xiao and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):465
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  44. High throughput molecular sequencing and increased biospecimen variety have introduced significant informatics challenges for research biorepository infrastructures. We applied a modular system integration app...

    Authors: Alex S. Felmeister, Aaron J. Masino, Tyler J. Rivera, Adam C. Resnick and Jeffrey W. Pennington
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):434
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  45. Diabetes mellitus characterized by hyperglycemia as a result of insufficient production of or reduced sensitivity to insulin poses a growing threat to the health of people. It is a heterogeneous disorder with ...

    Authors: Xiwei Tang, Xiaohua Hu, Xuejun Yang, Yetian Fan, Yongfan Li, Wei Hu, Yongzhong Liao, Ming cai Zheng, Wei Peng and Li Gao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):433
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  46. Since its initial discovery in 1975, DNA methylation has been intensively studied and shown to be involved in various biological processes, such as development, aging and tumor progression. Many experimental t...

    Authors: Yuanhang Liu, Desiree Wilson, Robin J. Leach and Yidong Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):432
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  47. The human kinome contains many important drug targets. It is well-known that inhibitors of protein kinases bind with very different selectivity profiles. This is also the case for inhibitors of many other prot...

    Authors: Mark Moll, Paul W. Finn and Lydia E. Kavraki
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):431
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  48. Accurately identifying gene regulatory network is an important task in understanding in vivo biological activities. The inference of such networks is often accomplished through the use of gene expression data....

    Authors: Lu Zhang, Xi Kang Feng, Yen Kaow Ng and Shuai Cheng Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 4):430
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  49. Drosophila suzukii differs from other melanogaster group members in their proclivity for laying eggs in fresh fruit rather than in fermenting fruits. Olfaction and gustation play a cri...

    Authors: Paul V. Hickner, Chissa L. Rivaldi, Cole M. Johnson, Madhura Siddappaji, Gregory J. Raster and Zainulabeuddin Syed
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:648
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