In the March Nature Genetics, Gopal et al. describe a two-step approach to identify novel genes by combining stringent annotation with broad gene-prediction techniques (Nature Genetics 2001, ...

Researchers in Japan have generated a high-quality genome assembly of red perilla (Perilla frutescens), a plant most often found in Asia and commonly known in Japan as Aka-Shiso and in Great Britain ...

ANNOVAR® (1) provides flexibility to handle and analyze variant datasets of genomic scale. Here we make use of ANNOVAR®’s capabilities to understand a breast cancer variant dataset by applying its ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, PhD, and Jill Moore, PhD’18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the known number of potential regulatory elements in the genome to 2.37 million, ...