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A New Rhesus Macaque Assembly And Annotation For Next-Generation Sequencing Analyses, Aleksey V. Zimin, Adam S. Cornish, Mnirnal D. Maudhoo, Robert M. Gibbs, Xiongfei Zhang, Sanjit Pandey, Daniel T. Meehan, Kristin Wipfler, Steven E. Bosinger, Zachary P. Johnson, Gregory K. Tharp, Guillaume Marçais, Michael Roberts, Betsy Ferguson, Howard S. Fox, Todd Treangen, Steven L. Salzberg, James A. Yorke, Robert B. Norgren Jr. Jan 2014

A New Rhesus Macaque Assembly And Annotation For Next-Generation Sequencing Analyses, Aleksey V. Zimin, Adam S. Cornish, Mnirnal D. Maudhoo, Robert M. Gibbs, Xiongfei Zhang, Sanjit Pandey, Daniel T. Meehan, Kristin Wipfler, Steven E. Bosinger, Zachary P. Johnson, Gregory K. Tharp, Guillaume Marçais, Michael Roberts, Betsy Ferguson, Howard S. Fox, Todd Treangen, Steven L. Salzberg, James A. Yorke, Robert B. Norgren Jr.

Journal Articles: Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy

BACKGROUND: The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is a key species for advancing biomedical research. Like all draft mammalian genomes, the draft rhesus assembly (rheMac2) has gaps, sequencing errors and misassemblies that have prevented automated annotation pipelines from functioning correctly. Another rhesus macaque assembly, CR_1.0, is also available but is substantially more fragmented than rheMac2 with smaller contigs and scaffolds. Annotations for these two assemblies are limited in completeness and accuracy. High quality assembly and annotation files are required for a wide range of studies including expression, genetic and evolutionary analyses.

RESULTS: We report a new de novo assembly of the …


Computational Analysis Of Transcriptional Circuitries In Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals Multiple And Independent Networks, Xiaosheng Wang, Chittibabu Guda Jan 2014

Computational Analysis Of Transcriptional Circuitries In Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals Multiple And Independent Networks, Xiaosheng Wang, Chittibabu Guda

Journal Articles: Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy

It has been known that three core transcription factors (TFs), NANOG, OCT4, and SOX2, collaborate to form a transcriptional circuitry to regulate pluripotency and self-renewal of human embryonic stem (ES) cells. Similarly, MYC also plays an important role in regulating pluripotency and self-renewal of human ES cells. However, the precise mechanism by which the transcriptional regulatory networks control the activity of ES cells remains unclear. In this study, we reanalyzed an extended core network, which includes the set of genes that are cobound by the three core TFs and additional TFs that also bind to these cobound genes. Our results …