Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Charlotte C. Koster, Eline D. Postma, Ewout Knibbe, Celine Cleij, Pascale Daran-Lapujade
Summary: Synthetic Genomics focuses on designing chromosomes and genomes, and offers new methods for studying biology and constructing synthetic cell factories. The current limitation in Synthetic Genomics is the inability to synthesize DNA molecules longer than a few hundred base pairs, while the smallest self-replicating cell genome is several hundred thousand base pairs. This calls for the development of methods to assemble small DNA fragments into large molecules. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a unicellular eukaryote, has been instrumental in DNA assembly and has a crucial role in the future development of Synthetic Genomics.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Peter Majek, Lukas Lueftinger, Stephan Beisken, Thomas Rattei, Arne Materna
Summary: Predicting antimicrobial resistance based on genomic information can improve patient outcomes. Machine learning has been successfully applied to translate genetic mechanisms into phenotypic AMR. The addition of new features significantly improved predictive performance of trained AMR models for certain pathogens.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samin Rahman Khan, Sadman Sakib, M. Sohel Rahman, Md. Abul Hassan Samee
Summary: The bendability of genomic DNA is important for chromatin packaging and protein-DNA binding. However, the motifs influencing DNA bendability are not fully understood. The DeepBend model, a convolutional neural network, captures the underlying motifs and their periodic occurrences that modulate bendability. It performs well and provides mechanistic interpretations, discovering both known and novel motifs that influence bendability. It also predicts genome-wide bendability and reveals the motifs controlling bendability of topologically associated domains and boundaries.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Inaki Amatria-Barral, Jorge Gonzalez-Dominguez, Juan Tourino
Summary: lncRNA plays a key role in biological processes, and the detection and evaluation of lncRNA-DNA triple helices have been relatively underdeveloped. This study presents PATO, an efficient tool for accurately predicting triple helices at the genome scale in a short time. Compared to existing tools, PATO achieves higher levels of prediction accuracy in a shorter time.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Christopher T. Coey, David J. Clark
Summary: Sequence-specific DNA-binding transcription factors, such as Gcn4, play a central role in gene regulation. Gcn4 has a strong binding affinity to an AP-1-like sequence and a weaker affinity to half-sites. However, only a fraction of the exact matches to this sequence are bound by Gcn4, even in vitro. The binding of Gcn4 is independent of chromatin structure and is determined by the presence of nucleosome-depleted regulatory regions.
Article
Biology
Jackson Peter, Anne Friedrich, Gianni Liti, Joseph Schacherer
Summary: With the development of high throughput sequencing technologies, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a powerful tool for analyzing the genetic origins of phenotypic variation. This study evaluated the feasibility and limitations of GWAS by sequencing the genomes of 1011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates. The results showed that population structure is not a major issue when the sample size is large enough. While the genetic determinant of Mendelian traits is easily mapped, there are discrepancies in GWAS for complex traits in terms of detection, false positive, and false negative rates.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Ziga Avsec, Vikram Agarwal, Daniel Visentin, Joseph R. Ledsam, Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, Kyle R. Taylor, Yannis Assael, John Jumper, Pushmeet Kohli, David R. Kelley
Summary: Enformer leverages a new deep learning architecture to improve gene expression prediction accuracy based on DNA sequences, integrating information from long-range interactions in the genome and accurately predicting the impact of genetic variants on gene expression. Additionally, Enformer has learned to predict enhancer-promoter interactions directly from DNA sequences.
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Jeremy Barbier, Cedric Vaillant, Jean-Nicolas Volff, Frederic G. Brunet, Benjamin Audit
Summary: The nucleosome plays a critical role in regulating DNA accessibility and cell processes. DNA sequence and factors like ATP-dependent remodelers affect nucleosome positioning on genomes and influence accessibility. Sequence-encoded nucleosome positioning has functional impacts on cell processes and can be selected or counter-selected during evolution.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Kun Wu, Zhou-Hua Cheng, Emily Williams, Nathan T. Turner, Dapeng Ran, Haichao Li, Xia Zhou, Huilin Guo, Way Sung, Dong-Feng Liu, Michael Lynch, Hongan Long
Summary: This study found that the widely used strain Shewanella putrefaciens ATCC-8071 is a hypermutator with a high mutation rate of 2.42 x 10(-8) per nucleotide site, mainly due to mutL dysfunction. The discovery highlights the importance of screening the mutation rate of bacterial strains before any quality control or experiments.
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Max Highsmith, Jianlin Cheng
Summary: 4DMax is a novel method that predicts dynamic chromosome conformation using time-series Hi-C data, effectively interpolating chromatin position, recovering higher order features, and predicting contact maps even at time points where Hi-C data is unavailable.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Biology
Satyaprakash Pandey, Mona Hajikazemi, Theresa Zacheja, Stephanie Schalbetter, Jonathan Baxter, Victor Guryev, Andreas Hofmann, Dieter W. Heermann, Stefan A. Juranek, Katrin Paeschke
Summary: The study found that the catalytic subunit of telomerase (Est2) in budding yeast binds to multiple guanine-rich genomic loci, known as non-telomeric binding sites (NTBS). Est2 binds to NTBS in G1 and G2 phase independently of Est1 and Est3. The absence of Est1 and Est3 renders telomerase inactive at NTBS.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sijie Zhou, Yi Wu, Yu Zhao, Zhen Zhang, Limin Jiang, Lin Liu, Yan Zhang, Jijun Tang, Ying-Jin Yuan
Summary: Synthetic genome evolution is a systematic and straightforward approach to explore evolutionary processes. The SCRaMbLE system can drive structural variations rapidly and uncover over 260,000 rearrangement events in SCRaMbLEd yeast with 5.5 synthetic chromosomes. These rearrangements exhibit a specific landscape determined by the combinatorial effects of chromatin accessibility and 3D spatial contact probability. The extensive rearrangements mediated by SCRaMbLE provide a driving force for directed genome evolution, and the investigation of rearrangement landscape offers mechanistic insights into genome dynamics.
NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Biology
Leila Fattel, Dennis Psaroudakis, Colleen F. Yanarella, Kevin O. Chiteri, Haley A. Dostalik, Parnal Joshi, Dollye C. Starr, Ha Vu, Kokulapalan Wimalanathan, Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill
Summary: Genome-wide functional annotations are crucial for studying gene function and traits in plants. By comparing functional annotation data from different species, similarities and differences can be identified, leading to the generation of novel hypotheses about gene function and evolutionary relationships.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Dan Wang, Fei-Liao Lai, Feng Gao
Summary: A novel pipeline, Ori-Finder 3, based on the Z-curve methodology is presented for computational prediction of replication origins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The pipeline can predict ARS at the single-nucleotide level with 83% and 60% of the top 100 and top 300 predictions matching known ARS records.
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
L. Q. Choo, G. Spagliardi, M. Malinsky, M. Choquet, E. Goetze, G. Hoarau, K. T. C. A. Peijnenburg
Summary: This study analyzed the genetic and morphological data of the shelled pteropod Limacina bulimoides and identified three major genetic lineages that diverged about 1 million years ago. The lineages remained reproductively isolated but had similar morphologies. The study indicates that many planktonic species in the open ocean have underestimated species diversity.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
L. Carron, J. B. Morlot, V Matthys, A. Lesne, J. Mozziconacci
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Julien Mozziconacci, Melody Merle, Annick Lesne
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
C. Abel, S. Afach, N. J. Ayres, C. A. Baker, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V. Bondar, M. Burghoff, E. Chanel, Z. Chowdhuri, P. -J. Chiu, B. Clement, C. B. Crawford, M. Daum, S. Emmenegger, L. Ferraris-Bouchez, M. Fertl, P. Flaux, B. Franke, A. Fratangelo, P. Geltenbort, K. Green, W. C. Griffith, M. van der Grinten, Z. D. Grujic, P. G. Harris, L. Hayen, W. Heil, R. Henneck, V. Helaine, N. Hild, Z. Hodge, M. Horras, P. Iaydjiev, S. N. Ivanov, M. Kasprzak, Y. Kermaidic, K. Kirch, A. Knecht, P. Knowles, H. -C. Koch, P. A. Koss, S. Komposch, A. Kozela, A. Kraft, J. Krempel, M. Kuzniak, B. Lauss, T. Lefort, Y. Lemiere, A. Leredde, P. Mohanmurthy, A. Mtchedlishvili, M. Musgrave, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, D. Pais, F. M. Piegsa, E. Pierre, G. Pignol, C. Plonka-Spehr, P. N. Prashanth, G. Quemener, M. Rawlik, D. Rebreyend, I. Rienacker, D. Ries, S. Roccia, G. Rogel, D. Rozpedzik, A. Schnabel, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, N. Severijns, D. Shiers, R. Tavakoli Dinani, J. A. Thorne, R. Virot, J. Voigt, A. Weis, E. Wursten, G. Wyszynski, J. Zejma, J. Zenner, G. Zsigmond
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2020)
Article
Oncology
A. Collignon, M. A. Hospital, C. Montersino, F. Courtier, A. Charbonnier, C. Saillard, E. D'Incan, B. Mohty, A. Guille, J. Adelaide, N. Carbuccia, S. Garnier, M. J. Mozziconacci, C. Zemmour, J. Pakradouni, A. Restouin, R. Castellano, M. Chaffanet, D. Birnbaum, Y. Collette, N. Vey
BLOOD CANCER JOURNAL
(2020)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Ghazaleh Khodabandelou, Etienne Routhier, Julien Mozziconacci
PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Thomas Haschka, Loic Ponger, Christophe Escude, Julien Mozziconacci
Summary: Genomic sequences are commonly used to infer evolutionary history, with MNHN-Tree-Tools being a high-performance algorithm set for clustering and tree building. It does not rely on multiple sequence alignment, making it suitable for large datasets and various applications such as human alpha-satellite repeats classification and tree of life derivation from 16S/18S rDNA sequences.
Review
Biochemical Research Methods
Thomas Haschka, Jean Baptiste Morlot, Leopold Carron, Julien Mozziconacci
Summary: This article discusses how enhancement methods improve the performance of common distance measures, presents a systematic approach to evaluate the separability of experimental replicates, and shows that the application of the "contrast increasing mutual proximity" significantly enhances performance across various distance measures. Depending on the type of epigenetic experiment, the MP coupled with Pearson, Cosine, or other distances proves to be highly efficient in discriminating epigenomic profiles.
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Sheldon Decombe, Francois Loll, Laura Caccianini, Kevin Affannoukoue, Ignacio Izeddin, Julien Mozziconacci, Christophe Escude, Judith Lopes
Summary: The centromeres of human chromosomes are rich in tandemly repeated alpha-satellite sequences covered with constitutive heterochromatin marked by trimethylation of histone H3 on lysine 9 (H3K9me3). By using TALEs fused to a histone lysine demethylase (KDM4B), researchers were able to decrease the level of H3K9me3 on alpha-satellite repeats of chromosome 7, affecting chromatin structure, recruitment of HP1 alpha and CPC proteins, and the stability of chromosome 7 during mitosis. This study highlights the importance of H3K9me3 in centromere integrity and chromosome stability in a natural context.
EPIGENETICS & CHROMATIN
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Astrid Lancrey, Alexandra Joubert, Evelyne Duvernois-Berthet, Etienne Routhier, Saurabh Raj, Agnes Thierry, Marta Sigarteu, Loic Ponger, Vincent Croquette, Julien Mozziconacci, Jean-Baptiste Boule
Summary: The artificial 601 DNA sequence is effective in positioning nucleosomes in vitro, but its application in vivo is limited and depends on the chromosomal context.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Kim Philipp Jablonski, Leopold Carron, Julien Mozziconacci, Thierry Forne, Marc-Thorsten Huett, Annick Lesne
Summary: In this study, the researchers investigated the distribution of disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in relation to topologically associating domains (TADs) and their borders. They found that a fraction of diseases, especially cancers, showed a preferential localization of risk loci in these genomic regions. The results suggest that genetic variations affecting the genome partitioning within TADs may contribute to the genetic risk of certain diseases, particularly cancers.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Etienne Routhier, Ayman Bin Kamruddin, Julien Mozziconacci
Summary: Predicting genomic annotations from DNA sequences using deep learning is a flourishing field with challenges in data handling. keras_dna is designed for easy implementation of Keras models for genomics, handling various bioinformatic file formats and facilitating the development of new models with single or multiple targets/inputs.
Article
Optics
C. Abel, S. Afach, N. J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V Bondar, E. Chanel, P-J Chiu, C. B. Crawford, Z. Chowdhuri, M. Daum, S. Emmenegger, L. Ferraris-Bouchez, M. Fertl, B. Franke, W. C. Griffith, Z. D. Grujic, L. Hayen, V Helaine, N. Hild, M. Kasprzak, Y. Kermaidic, K. Kirch, P. Knowles, H-C Koch, S. Komposch, P. A. Koss, A. Kozela, J. Krempel, B. Lauss, T. Lefort, Y. Lemiere, A. Leredde, A. Mtchedlishvili, P. Mohanmurthy, M. Musgrave, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, D. Pais, A. Pazgalev, F. M. Piegsa, E. Pierre, G. Pignol, P. N. Prashanth, G. Quemener, M. Rawlik, D. Rebreyend, D. Ries, S. Roccia, D. Rozpedzik, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, A. Schnabel, N. Severijns, R. Tavakoli Dinani, J. Thorne, A. Weis, E. Wursten, G. Wyszynski, J. Zejma, G. Zsigmond
Article
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Melody Merle, Laura Messio, Julien Mozziconacci