122 Result(s)

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LongSAGE profiling of nine human embryonic stem cell lines

To facilitate discovery of novel human embryonic stem cell (ESC) transcripts, we generated 2.5 million LongSAGE tags from 9 human ESC lines. Analysis of this data revealed that ESCs express proportionately mor...

Martin Hirst, Allen Delaney, Sean A Rogers, Angelique Schnerch… in Genome Biology (2007)

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A systematic screen for genes expressed in definitive endoderm by Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)

The embryonic definitive endoderm (DE) gives rise to organs of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tract including the liver, pancreas and epithelia of the lung and colon. Understanding how DE progenitor cell...

Juan Hou, Anita M Charters, Sam C Lee, Yongjun Zhao, Mona K Wu… in BMC Developmental Biology (2007)

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Identification of a set of genes showing regionally enriched expression in the mouse brain

The Pleiades Promoter Project aims to improve gene therapy by designing human mini-promoters (< 4 kb) that drive gene expression in specific brain regions or cell-types of therapeutic interest. Our goal was to...

Cletus A D'Souza, Vikramjit Chopra, Richard Varhol, Yuan-Yun **e… in BMC Neuroscience (2008)

Chapter and Conference Paper

An Asynchronous Parallelized and Scalable Image Resampling Algorithm with Parallel I/O

Image resampling which is frequently used in remote sensing processing procedure is a time-consuming task. Parallel computing is an effective way to speed up. However, recent parallel image resampling algorith...

Yan Ma, Lingjun Zhao, Dingsheng Liu in Computational Science – ICCS 2009 (2009)

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Identification of genes expressed in the hermaphrodite germ line of C. elegans using SAGE

Germ cells must progress through elaborate developmental stages from an undifferentiated germ cell to a fully differentiated gamete. Some of these stages include exiting mitosis and entering meiosis, progressi...

**n Wang, Yongjun Zhao, Kim Wong, Peter Ehlers, Yuji Kohara, Steven J Jones… in BMC Genomics (2009)

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Mutational evolution in a lobular breast tumour profiled at single nucleotide resolution

Next-generation sequencing approaches have been used to investigate the genomes and transcriptomes of an oestrogen-receptor-α-positive metastatic lobular breast cancer from a patient — rather than from a cell ...

Sohrab P. Shah, Ryan D. Morin, Jaswinder Khattra, Leah Prentice, Trevor Pugh… in Nature (2009)

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Control of neotectonic movement on hydrocarbon accumulation in the Kuqa Foreland Basin, west China

Neotectonic movement refers to the tectonic movement that has happened since the Cenozoic, which is the latest movement. It has the most important influence on the basins in west China, especially on the hydro...

Zhenxue Jiang, Lianxia Li, Yan Song, Fenghua Tian, Mengjun Zhao… in Petroleum Science (2010)

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Isolation and Identification of Black Yeasts by Enrichment on Atmospheres of Monoaromatic Hydrocarbons

Black yeast members of the Herpotrichiellaceae present a complex ecological behavior: They are often isolated from rather extreme environments polluted with aromatic hydrocarbons, while they are also regularly in...

**gjun Zhao, **gsi Zeng, G. Sybren de Hoog, Derlene Attili-Angelis… in Microbial Ecology (2010)

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Genomic analysis of a rare human tumor

Steven JM Jones, Janessa Laskin, Yvonne Y Li, Obi L Griffith… in BMC Bioinformatics (2010)

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Evolution of an adenocarcinoma in response to selection by targeted kinase inhibitors

Adenocarcinomas of the tongue are rare and represent the minority (20 to 25%) of salivary gland tumors affecting the tongue. We investigated the utility of massively parallel sequencing to characterize an aden...

Steven JM Jones, Janessa Laskin, Yvonne Y Li, Obi L Griffith… in Genome Biology (2010)

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Sensitivity analysis of CO₂ sequestration in saline aquifers

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been considered as an important method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and for mitigating global climate change. Three primary options are being considered...

Hongjun Zhao, **nwei Liao, Yanfang Chen, **aoliang Zhao in Petroleum Science (2010)

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Personalized oncogenomics

Steven JM Jones, Janessa Laskin, Yvonne Y Li, Obi L Griffith… in Genome Biology (2010)

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Frequent mutation of histone-modifying genes in non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Follicular lymphoma (FL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are the two most common non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs). Here we sequenced tumour and matched normal DNA from 13 DLBCL cases and one FL case to i...

Ryan D. Morin, Maria Mendez-Lago, Andrew J. Mungall, Rodrigo Goya… in Nature (2011)

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iAssembler: a package for de novo assembly of Roche-454/Sanger transcriptome sequences

Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) have played significant roles in gene discovery and gene functional analysis, especially for non-model organisms. For organisms with no full genome sequences available, ESTs are ...

Yi Zheng, Liangjun Zhao, Jun** Gao, Zhangjun Fei in BMC Bioinformatics (2011)

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Sorting nexin 12 interacts with BACE1 and regulates BACE1-mediated APP processing

β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) cleaves β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) to initiate the production of β-amyloid (Aβ), the prime culprit in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Dysregulation of the intracellular tr...

Yonghao Zhao, Yunshu Wang, Jiaye Yang, **n Wang… in Molecular Neurodegeneration (2012)

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Coalbed methane genesis, occurrence and accumulation in China

Coalbed methane (CBM) is an important type of unconventional gas. Commercial development of CBM in America has been very successful since the 1980s. The CBM industry in Australia and Canada has developed rapid...

Yan Song, Shaobo Liu, Qun Zhang, Mingxin Tao, Mengjun Zhao, Feng Hong in Petroleum Science (2012)

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Building detection from urban SAR image using building characteristics and contextual information

With the urgent demand on urban synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image interpretation, this article deals with detecting buildings from a single high-resolution SAR image. Based on our previous work in building ...

Lingjun Zhao, **aoguang Zhou, Gangyao Kuang in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Proc… (2013)

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Draft genome of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, a major forest pest

The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, is the most serious insect pest of western North American pine forests. A recent outbreak destroyed more than 15 million hectares of pine forests, with m...

Christopher I Keeling, Macaire MS Yuen, Nancy Y Liao, T Roderick Docking… in Genome Biology (2013)

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Purifying synthetic high-strength wastewater by microalgae chlorella vulgaris under various light emitting diode wavelengths and intensities

The high-strength wastewater is now well known as a threat to the natural water since it is highly possible to arouse water eutrophication or algal blooms. The effects of various light emitting diode wavelengt...

Zhigang Ge, Hui Zhang, Yue** Zhang… in Journal of Environmental Health Science an… (2013)

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Barnacle: detecting and characterizing tandem duplications and fusions in transcriptome assemblies

Chimeric transcripts, including partial and internal tandem duplications (PTDs, ITDs) and gene fusions, are important in the detection, prognosis, and treatment of human cancers.

Lucas Swanson, Gordon Robertson, Karen L Mungall, Yaron S Butterfield… in BMC Genomics (2013)