Improved duplex sequencing identifies spontaneous mutations in bacteria without long-term culturing. Spontaneous mutations are the driving force of evolution, yet, our ability to detect and...
BacteriaBioinformaticsData & DatabasesEvolutionGenetics JournalGenomicsSequencing
Machine learning and access to ever-expanding databases improves genomic prediction of human traits. In theory, a scientist could predict your height using just your genome...
BioinformaticsComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsData & DatabasesGenetics JournalGenomicsHeredityHuman Evolution and Variation
Programmed ribosomal frameshifting has translational costs that may influence codon usage bias. The genetic code has some redundancy—the same amino acid is often encoded by...
Low-cost sequencing closes gaps in fly genomes. Genetic sequencing technologies have revolutionized biological science, and regular advances in these tools continue to deliver better genomic...
BioinformaticsData & DatabasesDrosophilaG3 JournalSequencing
GC content alone is associated with distinct functional classes of human enhancers. Because enhancers can be located hundreds of kilobases away from their target genes,...
BioinformaticsCell BiologyData & DatabasesGenetics JournalImmune System
For the first time in nearly 15 years, the rat genetic map has been updated. Genetic maps help us navigate uncharted data, but to successfully...
Offshoot of the modENCODE project provides crucial data and strains for understanding gene regulation. Following a multidisciplinary effort spanning six institutions, researchers working on the modERN...
C. elegansData & DatabasesDrosophilaGene ExpressionGenetics JournalModel Organism DatabasesModel Organisms
Sequencing a genome is not as simple as reading a book. All those neatly lined up letters are the final product of a complex process...
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that Philip Hieter is the recipient of the 2018 George W. Beadle Award, bestowed in...
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Every scientist is familiar with the p-value: it’s one of the most commonly used metrics in statistics to evaluate the likeliness that an observed relationship...
