Published in Nature
The sequence of the mouse genome is a key informational tool for understanding the contents of the human genome and a key experimental tool for biomedical research. Here, we report the results of an international collaboration to produce a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome. We also present an initial comparative analysis of the mouse ...
Published in Journal of Visualized Experiments
The efficient generation of genetic diversity represents an invaluable molecular tool that can be used to label DNA synthesis, to create unique molecular signatures, or to evolve proteins in the laboratory. Here, we present a protocol that allows the generation of large (>10(11)) mutant libraries for a given target sequence. This method is based on...
Published in International Journal for Parasitology
The protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, interconverts between fast-growing tachyzoites and slow-growing bradyzoites within intermediate hosts. The surface of T. gondii is covered by the SAG1-related sequence (SRS) superfamily of glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol-anchored proteins, many of which are stage-specific. Previous transient transfection of...
Published in Communicable disease and public health / PHLS
Enhanced surveillance of meningococcal disease (ESMD) began in five English regions on 1st January 1998. The aims of the scheme were to obtain accurate incidence data and develop a robust surveillance system with which to monitor the impact of a new meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine. During 1998, 2,314 suspected cases of meningococcal dis...
Published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Published in Nucleic Acids Research
Knowledge of all binding sites for transcriptional activators and repressors is essential for computationally aided identification of transcriptional networks. The techniques developed for defining the binding sites of transcription factors tend to be cumbersome and not adaptable to high throughput. We refined a versatile yeast strategy to rapidly ...
Published in PLoS Computational Biology
Understanding how novel functions evolve (genetic adaptation) is a critical goal of evolutionary biology. Among asexual organisms, genetic adaptation involves multiple mutations that frequently interact in a non-linear fashion (epistasis). Non-linear interactions pose a formidable challenge for the computational prediction of mutation effects. Here...
Published in PLoS Computational Biology
Complex phenotypes such as the transformation of a normal population of cells into cancerous tissue result from a series of molecular triggers gone awry. We describe a method that searches for a genetic network consistent with expression changes observed under the knock-down of a set of genes that share a common role in the cell, such as a disease ...
Published in International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
We present a statistical model of genes in DNA. A Generalized Hidden Markov Model (GHMM) provides the framework for describing the grammar of a legal parse of a DNA sequence (Stormo & Haussler 1994). Probabilities are assigned to transitions between states in the GHMM and to the generation of each nucleotide base given a particular state. Machine l...
Published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Developmental Biology
The mammary gland develops through several distinct stages. The first transpires in the embryo as the ectoderm forms a mammary line that resolves into placodes. Regulated by epithelial–mesenchymal interactions, the placodes descend into the underlying mesenchyme and produce the rudimentary ductal structure of the gland present at birth. Subsequent ...
