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    The pancancer overexpressed NFYC Antisense 1 controls cell cycle mitotic progression through in cis and in trans modes of action

    Antisense RNAs (asRNAs) represent an underappreciated yet crucial layer of gene expression regulation. Generally thought to modulate their sense genes in cis through sequence complementarity or their act of trans...

    Cecilia Pandini, Giulia Pagani, Martina Tassinari, Emanuele Vitale in Cell Death & Disease (2024)

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    HaploCoV: unsupervised classification and rapid detection of novel emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2

    Accurate and timely monitoring of the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is crucial for identifying and tracking potentially more transmissible/virulent viral variants, and implement mitigation strategies to limit their ...

    Matteo Chiara, David S. Horner, Erika Ferrandi, Carmela Gissi in Communications Biology (2023)

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    Laniakea@ReCaS: exploring the potential of customisable Galaxy on-demand instances as a cloud-based service

    Improving the availability and usability of data and analytical tools is a critical precondition for further advancing modern biological and biomedical research. For instance, one of the many ramifications of ...

    Marco Antonio Tangaro, Pietro Mandreoli, Matteo Chiara in BMC Bioinformatics (2021)

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    Accurate detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic mRNAs by ddPCR and meta-transcriptomics analysis

    SARS-CoV-2 replication requires the synthesis of a set of structural proteins expressed through discontinuous transcription of ten subgenomic mRNAs (sgmRNAs). Here, we have fine-tuned droplet digital PCR (ddPC...

    Annarita Oranger, Caterina Manzari, Matteo Chiara in Communications Biology (2021)

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    Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications

    Modern sequencing technologies should make the assembly of the relatively small mitochondrial genomes an easy undertaking. However, few tools exist that address mitochondrial assembly directly.

    Giulio Formenti, Arang Rhie, Jennifer Balacco, Bettina Haase in Genome Biology (2021)

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    ELIXIR-IT HPC@CINECA: high performance computing resources for the bioinformatics community

    The advent of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies and the concomitant reduction in sequencing costs allows unprecedented high throughput profiling of biological systems in a cost-efficient manner. Mo...

    Tiziana Castrignanò, Silvia Gioiosa, Tiziano Flati, Mirko Cestari in BMC Bioinformatics (2020)

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    CoVaCS: a consensus variant calling system

    The advent and ongoing development of next generation sequencing technologies (NGS) has led to a rapid increase in the rate of human genome re-sequencing data, paving the way for personalized genomics and prec...

    Matteo Chiara, Silvia Gioiosa, Giovanni Chillemi, Mattia D’Antonio in BMC Genomics (2018)

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    A-GAME: improving the assembly of pooled functional metagenomics sequence data

    Expression screening of environmental DNA (eDNA) libraries is a popular approach for the identification and characterization of novel microbial enzymes with promising biotechnological properties. In such “func...

    Matteo Chiara, Antonio Placido, Ernesto Picardi, Luigi Ruggiero Ceci in BMC Genomics (2018)