It was the best of times, it was the worst of times-one parental allele was transcribing like gangbusters and the other was permanently stalled. Each of us carries a set of genetically distinct chromosomes from mom and dad, and increasing evidence indicates that the two parental genomes also have widespread epigenetic differences. But how can […]
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Can Batman Save Whole Methylome Analysis?
With all the hype around Batman-The Dark Knight, we missed one of the most recent heroic efforts to facilitate global methylation studies. The unveiling of a Bayesian tool for methylation analysis (Batman) enables researchers to estimate absolute methylation levels across a range of CpG dense regions using methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) approaches combined with either […]
PatMAn and the Magnificent Seven Methylation Classifiers
It seems pattern recognition and supervised learning techniques are being applied to epigenetics research a lot nowadays. These advanced computational techniques that have proven useful in everything from homeland security to financial modeling are lending a hand to some of the challenges in epigenetics research. Recently we’ve seen them applied to miRNA discovery and target […]
Pursuit of the Moving miRNA Target
Since 3’ UTRs were found to contain docking sites for miRNAs, labs with computational muscle around the world have been chipping away the target predication dilemma, but like any game, it’s hard to win when you don’t know the rules. It’s even harder when the rules are being rewritten weekly which is why we have […]
RIP it Good: The Rise of Ribonucleicprotein IP
For years, transcriptional regulation took center stage in studies of gene expression, and the nuances of which transcription factor binds to which DNA sequence under which circumstances dominated the dialogue of molecular biologists. In recent years, a supporting actor has threatened to steal the show: enter, post-transcriptional regulation. The idea that messenger RNA utilization could […]