Transposable elements in mammalian chromatin organization go.nature.com/4amBz7Q #Review by @lab_lawson, Yonghao Liang and Ting Wang @WUSTLdbbs WashU Medicine Genetics McDonnell Genome Institute, WashU Medicine WashU Center of Reg Med

OrthoBrowser: Gene Family Analysis and Visualization biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to be interviewed by Christie Wilcox for News from Science about our lab's research. Our study and other independent discoveries suggest that genome rearrangements in leeches and earthworms may have helped these worms transition from sea to land. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Elliot Hershberg 1st paper: This study reveals a new way that bacteria can defend themselves against phage infections, by using a reverse transcriptase to create a special kind of DNA that can express a toxic protein. This adds to our understanding of the diverse ways that bacteria have evolved

Excited to share the preprint of our research project on the Beta-Catenin functions in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🧬 SEBÉ-PEDRÓS LAB Arnau Sebé Pedrós We're exploring chromatin dynamics during Nematostella development using experimental and computational tools. Seeking a master's student with both dry and wet lab expertise in genomics or bioinformatics, with programming skills and a passion for

Researchers have used AI models to create regulatory DNA sequences that drive gene expression in specific cell types go.nature.com/3NAgWeR

I am so happy to see our biorxiv preprint now published in pnas PNASNews. Reverse development in a ctenophore. Joan J. Soto-Angel Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #ctenophores

The human #spliceosome: Decade-long study reveals first blueprint of the most complex molecular machine inside every cell Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Science Magazine phys.org/news/2024-10-h…

genomesizeR: An R package for genome size prediction biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #rstats 🧬🖥️ github.com/ScionResearch/…

TeloSearchLR: an algorithm to detect novel telomere repeat motifs using long sequencing reads biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A central mistake in biology was to name genes. This over-simplification made reconciling what is happening on the molecular level a mess - it's not rare to find reports of opposite mechanisms in different contexts, claimed involvement in dozens if not hundreds of different

Study reveals that comb jellies can fuse into a single entity post-injury, synchronizing their muscle contractions and even merging digestive tracts. Read more in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… Kei Jokura (Kei Jokura) & colleagues

📣Call for papers Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation go.nature.com/3Z8xdOQ Submission deadline: 1st March 2025 Guest editors Charikleia Karageorgiou @ellenleffler @meganydennis & Omer Gokcumen

🧵 Finally had a chance to dig into DeepSeek’s r1… Let me break down why DeepSeek's AI innovations are blowing people's minds (and possibly threatening Nvidia's $2T market cap) in simple terms...

9th Symposium on Fossil Decapod Crustaceans (9-13 June 2025 in Faxe, Denmark) collections.museums.ua.edu/9th-fossil-dec… DecaNet

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From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/41FhFDm

How accurate are 'gene regulatory networks' inferred from scRNA-seq data? This comprehensive analysis in Nature Methods concludes: 1. The areas under the precision-recall curve are moderate 2. Methods not using pseudotime-ordered cells are more accurate

An atlas of transcription factor-driven gene programs across human cells Teichlab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…