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Functional Aspects and Genomic Analysis
Discussion IV./ Discussion IV.1. The discovery of UEV protein and its role in different cellular processes In our studies of cell differentiation and cell cycle control, we have isolated a new gene that is downregulated upon cell differentiation. We have demonstrated that this gene, previously called CROC1 and considered a transcriptional activator of c-fos (Rothofsky and Lin, 1997), is highly conserved in phylogeny, and constitutes, by sequence relationship, a novel subfamily of the ubiquitin-conjugating, or E2, enzymes. We have demonstrated that these proteins are very conserved in all eukaryotic organisms and that they are very similar to the E2 enzymes in sequence and structure, but these proteins lack a conserved cysteine residue responsible for the catalytic activity of the E2 enzymes (Chen et al., 1993; Jentsch, 1992a). We have given these proteins the name UEV (ubiquitin-conjugating E2 enzyme variant). Work by other laboratories has shown that experimental mutagenesis of this cysteine in the catalytic center leads to the inactivation of the E2 enzyme activity, and the mutated protein can behave as a dominant negative variant (Banerjee et al., 1995; Sung et al., 1990; Madura et al., 1993). However, in our initial experiments with recombinant proteins, UEV did not behave as a negative regulator of ubiquitination (Sancho et al., 1998). We have demonstrated also the existence of at least two different human UEV genes, one coding for UEV1/CROC-1, and the other coding for UEV2. The second protein has also been given different names by others, DDVit-1 (Fritsche et al., 1997). 30 Discussion The transcripts from the two human UEV genes differ in their 3’untranslated regions, and produce almost identical proteins. -
CV Page 1 THOMAS JEFFERSON SHARPTON Rank
THOMAS JEFFERSON SHARPTON Rank: Associate Professor Department: Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University Department of Statistics, Oregon State University Date Hired: October 15, 2013 Address: 226 Nash Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331 Phone: (541) 737-8623 Email: [email protected] Web: lab.sharpton.org A. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION Education 2009 Ph.D. Microbiology, Designated Emphasis in Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Dissertation: “Investigations of Natural Genomic Variation in the Fungi” Advisors: John W. Taylor & Sandrine Dudoit 2003 B.S. (Cum Laude) Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA Employment history 2019- Associate Professor Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University Department of Statistics, Oregon State University 2016- Founding Director Oregon State University Microbiome Initiative 2013-2019 Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University Department of Statistics, Oregon State University 2013- Center Investigator Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University 2009-2013 Bioinformatics Fellow Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes Advisors: Katherine Pollard & Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis) 2003-2009 Graduate Student Researcher Department of Microbiology, University of California, Berkeley Advisors: John Taylor & Sandrine Dudoit 2005 Bioinformatics Research Intern The Broad Institute Advisor: James Galagan Additional Affiliations 2017-2018 Scientific Advisory Board Member Thomas J. Sharpton – CV Page 1 Resilient Biotics, Inc. B. AWARDS 2019 Phi Kappa Phi Emerging Scholar Award 2018 OSU College of Science Research and Innovation Seed Program Award 2017 OSU College of Science Early Career Impact Award 2014 Finalist: Carter Award in Outstanding & Inspirational Teaching in Science 2013 Gladstone Scientific Leadership Award 2007 Dean’s Council Student Research Representative 2007 Effectiveness in Teaching Award, UC Berkeley 2006-2008 Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Research Fellowship C. -
Gene Prediction Using Deep Learning
FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO Gene prediction using Deep Learning Pedro Vieira Lamares Martins Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação Supervisor: Rui Camacho (FEUP) Second Supervisor: Nuno Fonseca (EBI-Cambridge, UK) July 22, 2018 Gene prediction using Deep Learning Pedro Vieira Lamares Martins Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação Approved in oral examination by the committee: Chair: Doctor Jorge Alves da Silva External Examiner: Doctor Carlos Manuel Abreu Gomes Ferreira Supervisor: Doctor Rui Carlos Camacho de Sousa Ferreira da Silva July 22, 2018 Abstract Every living being has in their cells complex molecules called Deoxyribonucleic Acid (or DNA) which are responsible for all their biological features. This DNA molecule is condensed into larger structures called chromosomes, which all together compose the individual’s genome. Genes are size varying DNA sequences which contain a code that are often used to synthesize proteins. Proteins are very large molecules which have a multitude of purposes within the individual’s body. Only a very small portion of the DNA has gene sequences. There is no accurate number on the total number of genes that exist in the human genome, but current estimations place that number between 20000 and 25000. Ever since the entire human genome has been sequenced, there has been an effort to consistently try to identify the gene sequences. The number was initially thought to be much higher, but it has since been furthered down following improvements in gene finding techniques. Computational prediction of genes is among these improvements, and is nowadays an area of deep interest in bioinformatics as new tools focused on the theme are developed. -
UC Irvine UC Irvine Previously Published Works
UC Irvine UC Irvine Previously Published Works Title The capacity of feedforward neural networks. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29h5t0hf Authors Baldi, Pierre Vershynin, Roman Publication Date 2019-08-01 DOI 10.1016/j.neunet.2019.04.009 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 4.0 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California THE CAPACITY OF FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS PIERRE BALDI AND ROMAN VERSHYNIN Abstract. A long standing open problem in the theory of neural networks is the devel- opment of quantitative methods to estimate and compare the capabilities of different ar- chitectures. Here we define the capacity of an architecture by the binary logarithm of the number of functions it can compute, as the synaptic weights are varied. The capacity provides an upperbound on the number of bits that can be extracted from the training data and stored in the architecture during learning. We study the capacity of layered, fully-connected, architectures of linear threshold neurons with L layers of size n1, n2,...,nL and show that in essence the capacity is given by a cubic polynomial in the layer sizes: L−1 C(n1,...,nL) = Pk=1 min(n1,...,nk)nknk+1, where layers that are smaller than all pre- vious layers act as bottlenecks. In proving the main result, we also develop new techniques (multiplexing, enrichment, and stacking) as well as new bounds on the capacity of finite sets. We use the main result to identify architectures with maximal or minimal capacity under a number of natural constraints. -
Complete Genome Sequence of the Hyperthermophilic Bacteria- Thermotoga Sp
COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE OF THE HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIA- THERMOTOGA SP. STRAIN RQ7 Rutika Puranik A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE May 2015 Committee: Zhaohui Xu, Advisor Scott Rogers George Bullerjahn © 2015 Rutika Puranik All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Zhaohui Xu, Advisor The genus Thermotoga is one of the deep-rooted genus in the phylogenetic tree of life and has been studied for its thermostable enzymes and the property of hydrogen production at higher temperatures. The current study focuses on the complete genome sequencing of T. sp. strain RQ7 to understand and identify the conserved as well as variable properties between the strains and its genus with the approach of comparative genomics. A pipeline was developed to assemble the complete genome based on the next generation sequencing (NGS) data. The pipeline successfully combined computational approaches with wet lab experiments to deliver a completed genome of T. sp. strain RQ7 that has the genome size of 1,851,618 bp with a GC content of 47.1%. The genome is submitted to Genbank with accession CP07633. Comparative genomic analysis of this genome with three other strains of Thermotoga, helped identifying putative natural transformation and competence protein coding genes in addition to the absence of TneDI restriction- modification system in T. sp. strain RQ7. Genome analysis also assisted in recognizing the unique genes in T. sp. strain RQ7 and CRISPR/Cas system. This strain has 8 CRISPR loci and an array of Cas coding genes in the entire genome. -
Nandita R. Garud
NANDITA R. GARUD Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Los Angeles 621 Charles E. Young Drive South Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606 [email protected] Curriculum Vitae January 2020 EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D. in Genetics Stanford University, Stanford, CA Focus on adaptation in natural populations 2012 MS in Statistics Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2008 BS in Biometry & Statistics and Biological Sciences, (Magna Cum Laude) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY EMPLOYMENT 2019- current Assistant Professor University of California, Los Angeles, CA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of Human Genetics Member, Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics Member, Genetics & Genomics Home Area 2015-2019 Bioinformatics Fellow Postdoctoral Position The Gladstone Institutes at the University of California, San Francisco, CA Advisor: Katherine Pollard 2015 summer Data Scientist Intern Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA PREVIOUS RESEARCH 2010-2015 Ph.D. Candidate Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Advisor: Dmitri Petrov 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholar The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Advisor: Jakob Pedersen 2006-2008 Undergraduate Honors Researcher Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Advisor: Andrew Clark 2006 Cold Spring Harbor Summer Undergraduate Research Intern Cold Spring Harbor, NY Advisor: Doreen Ware AWARDS AND HONORS 2014-2015 Stanford Center for Evolution and Human Genomics Fellow 2013 Walter Fitch Finalist, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Chicago. 2010-2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholar, Denmark 2009-2010 Stanford Genome Training Program Grant 2007-2008 Cornell Hughes Scholar 2007-2008 CALS Charitable Trust Grant and Morley Grant for Undergraduate Research 2004-2008 Dean’s List, Cornell University 2004-2008 Byrd Undergraduate Scholarship 2004-2008 New York Lottery Undergraduate Scholarship PUBLICATIONS 1. -
MSTATNEWS Athe Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association What Makes Y O U R V O T E Matter?
April 2008 • Issue #370 MSTATNEWS AThe Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association What Makes Y o u r V o t e Matter? Publications Agreement No. 41544521 Board of Directors Meeting Highlights Making Statistics Delicious, Not Just Palatable April 2008 • Issue #370 VISION STATEMENT To be a world leader in promoting statistical practice, applications, and research; publishing statistical journals; improving statistical education; FEATURES and advancing the statistics profession. Executive Director 2 Longtime Members Ron Wasserstein: [email protected] 10 President’s Invited Column Associate Executive Director and Director of Operations Stephen Porzio: [email protected] 11 Highlights of the March 2008 Board of Directors Meeting Director of Programs 12 ASA Board Calls for Audits To Increase Confidence in Martha Aliaga: [email protected] Electoral Outcomes Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson: [email protected] 12 ASA Position on Electoral Integrity Managing Editor Megan Murphy: [email protected] 13 Wise Elders Program Production Coordinators/Graphic Artists 14 What Makes Your Vote Matter? Colby Johnson: [email protected] Lidia Vigyázó: [email protected] 16 Canadian Model for Accrediting Professional Statisticians Publications Coordinator Valerie Snider: [email protected] 17 Proposals Sought for NSF-CBMS Conferences Advertising Manager 18 Making Statistics Delicious, Not Just Palatable Claudine Donovan: [email protected] Contributing Staff Members 20 Big Science and Little Statistics Keith Crank • Ron Wasserstein 21 Free Textbook Offered to Stats Teachers Amstat News welcomes news items and let- 22 Success of Statistical Service Leads to Expanded Network ters from readers on matters of interest to the asso- ciation and the profession. Address correspondence 22 NHIS Paradata Released to Public to Managing Editor, Amstat News, American Statistical Association, 732 North Washington Street, Alexandria VA 22314-1943 USA, or email amstat@ 23 Staff Spotlight amstat.org. -
Cvauc: Cross- Validated Area Under the ROC Curve Confidence Intervals
CURRICULUM VITAE and BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTACT INFORMATION Name: Mark Johannes van der Laan. Nationality: Dutch. Marital status: Married to Martine with children Laura, Lars, and Robin. University address: University of California Division of Biostatistics School of Public Health 108 Haviland Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 email: [email protected]. Telephone number: office: 510-643-9866 fax: 510-643-5163 Web address: www.stat.berkeley.edu/ laan Working Papers, Division of Biostatistics: www.bepress.com/ucbbiostat EDUCATION 1990-1993: Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University. Ph.D student of Prof. Dr. R.D. Gill. Position included 25% teaching, 75% research and education. Specialization in Estimation in Semiparametric and Censored Data Models. 1991-1992: University of California, Berkeley. Statistics Program at M.S.R.I.: \Semiparametric Models and Survival Analysis". Research with guidance by second Promotor Prof. Dr. P.J. Bickel. Subject: “Efficient Estimation in the Bivariate Censoring Model". December 13, 1993: Official Public Defense of Ph.D Thesis. 1985-1990: Masters degree in Mathematics at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Statistics Major. 1988-1989: One year study, Masters degree courses at the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. G.P.A 4.0, Dean's List. 1989-1990: Masters thesis under guidance of Prof. Dr. R.D. Gill. Subject: The Dabrowska Estimator and the Functional Delta method. Grade (from 1-10, 10=top): 9.5. Official Completion: May 1, 1990. 1 ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2006-present: Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Endowed Chair in Biostatistics. 2013-2018: Investigator and core leader of the methods workgroup of the Sustainable East African Research in Community Health (SEARCH). -
Downloaded from NCBI Genbank Or Sequence
Lind and Pollard Microbiome (2021) 9:58 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01015-y METHODOLOGY Open Access Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing Abigail L. Lind1 and Katherine S. Pollard1,2,3,4,5* Abstract Background: Microbial eukaryotes are found alongside bacteria and archaea in natural microbial systems, including host-associated microbiomes. While microbial eukaryotes are critical to these communities, they are challenging to study with shotgun sequencing techniques and are therefore often excluded. Results: Here, we present EukDetect, a bioinformatics method to identify eukaryotes in shotgun metagenomic sequencing data. Our approach uses a database of 521,824 universal marker genes from 241 conserved gene families, which we curated from 3713 fungal, protist, non-vertebrate metazoan, and non-streptophyte archaeplastida genomes and transcriptomes. EukDetect has a broad taxonomic coverage of microbial eukaryotes, performs well on low-abundance and closely related species, and is resilient against bacterial contamination in eukaryotic genomes. Using EukDetect, we describe the spatial distribution of eukaryotes along the human gastrointestinal tract, showing that fungi and protists are present in the lumen and mucosa throughout the large intestine. We discover that there is a succession of eukaryotes that colonize the human gut during the first years of life, mirroring patterns of developmental succession observed in gut bacteria. By comparing DNA and RNA sequencing of paired samples from human stool, we find that many eukaryotes continue active transcription after passage through the gut, though some do not, suggesting they are dormant or nonviable. We analyze metagenomic data from the Baltic Sea and find that eukaryotes differ across locations and salinity gradients. -
Cep-2020-00633.Pdf
Clin Exp Pediatr Vol. 64, No. 5, 208–222, 2021 Review article CEP https://doi.org/10.3345/cep.2020.00633 Understanding the genetics of systemic lupus erythematosus using Bayesian statistics and gene network analysis Seoung Wan Nam, MD, PhD1,*, Kwang Seob Lee, MD2,*, Jae Won Yang, MD, PhD3,*, Younhee Ko, PhD4, Michael Eisenhut, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, DTM&H5, Keum Hwa Lee, MD, MS6,7,8, Jae Il Shin, MD, PhD6,7,8, Andreas Kronbichler, MD, PhD9 1Department of Rheumatology, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea; 2Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 3Department of Nephrology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea; 4Division of Biomedical Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Korea; 5Department of Pediatrics, Luton & Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton, UK; 6Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 7Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Severance Children’s Hospital, Seoul, Korea; 8Institute of Kidney Disease Research, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 9Department of Internal Medicine IV (Nephrology and Hypertension), Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 1,3) The publication of genetic epidemiology meta-analyses has analyses have redundant duplicate topics and many errors. increased rapidly, but it has been suggested that many of the Although there has been an impressive increase in meta-analyses statistically significant results are false positive. In addition, from China, particularly those on genetic associa tions, most most such meta-analyses have been redundant, duplicate, and claimed candidate gene associations are likely false-positives, erroneous, leading to research waste. In addition, since most suggesting an urgent global need to incorporate genome-wide claimed candidate gene associations were false-positives, cor- data and state-of-the art statistical inferences to avoid a flood of rectly interpreting the published results is important. -
Bioinformatics: a Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins, Second Edition Andreas D
BIOINFORMATICS A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins SECOND EDITION Andreas D. Baxevanis Genome Technology Branch National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland USA B. F. Francis Ouellette Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia Canada A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION New York • Chichester • Weinheim • Brisbane • Singapore • Toronto BIOINFORMATICS SECOND EDITION METHODS OF BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS Volume 43 BIOINFORMATICS A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins SECOND EDITION Andreas D. Baxevanis Genome Technology Branch National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland USA B. F. Francis Ouellette Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia Canada A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION New York • Chichester • Weinheim • Brisbane • Singapore • Toronto Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. In all instances where John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is aware of a claim, the product names appear in initial capital or ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Readers, however, should contact the appropriate companies for more complete information regarding trademarks and registration. Copyright ᭧ 2001 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including uploading, downloading, printing, decompiling, recording or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. -
Patrick J. H. Bradley
(415) 734-2745 Patrick J. H. Bradley Gladstone Institutes, GIDB [email protected] 1650 Owens Street Pronouns: he/him/his Bioinformatics Fellow San Francisco, CA 94158 Current Position ······················································································· 2013— J. David Gladstone Institutes at UCSF Bioinformatics Fellow, Prof. Katherine S. Pollard Lab Academic History ····················································································· 2012—13 Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Olga G. Troyanskaya Lab 2005—12 Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Specialization in Quantitative and Computational Biology Thesis: Inferring Metabolic Regulation from High-Throughput Data Advisors: Prof. Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Prof. Olga G. Troyanskaya Committee: Prof. Ned S. Wingreen, Prof. David Botstein 2005 Dept. of Biology, Harvard College A.B. in Biology Peer-Reviewed Publications ·········································································· 1. Patrick H. Bradley, Katherine S. Pollard. “phylogenize: correcting for phylogeny reveals genes associated with microbial distributions.” Bioinformatics, 2019; btz722.∗;z 2. Patrick H. Bradley, Patrick A. Gibney, David Botstein, Olga G. Troyanskaya, Joshua D. Rabinowitz. “Minor isozymes tailor yeast metabolism to carbon availability.” mSystems, 2019; 4:e00170-18.∗;y 3. Patrick H. Bradley, Stephen Nayfach, Katherine S. Pollard. “Phylogeny-corrected identification