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ArticleNature2012

Landscape of transcription in human cells.

Sarah Djebali, Carrie A Davis, Angelika Merkel, Alex Dobin, Timo Lassmann, Ali Mortazavi, Andrea Tanzer, Julien Lagarde, Wei Lin, Felix Schlesinger and 75 more

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Article in Nature, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3,106 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3,106 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

85 authors.

Sarah DjebaliCentre for Genomic Regulation and UPF, Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Catalonia, Spain.
Carrie A Davis
Angelika Merkel
Alex Dobin
Timo Lassmann
Ali Mortazavi
Andrea Tanzer
Julien Lagarde
Wei Lin
Felix Schlesinger
Chenghai Xue
Georgi K Marinov
Jainab Khatun
Brian A Williams
Chris Zaleski
Joel Rozowsky
Maik Röder
Felix Kokocinski
Rehab F Abdelhamid
Tyler Alioto
Igor Antoshechkin
Michael T Baer
Nadav S Bar
Philippe Batut
Kimberly Bell
Ian Bell
Sudipto Chakrabortty
Xian Chen
Jacqueline Chrast
Joao Curado
Thomas Derrien
Jorg Drenkow
Erica Dumais
Jacqueline Dumais
Radha Duttagupta
Emilie Falconnet
Meagan Fastuca
Kata Fejes-Toth
Pedro Ferreira
Sylvain Foissac
Melissa J Fullwood
Hui Gao
David Gonzalez
Assaf Gordon
Harsha Gunawardena
Cedric Howald
Sonali Jha
Rory Johnson
Philipp Kapranov
Brandon King
Colin Kingswood
Oscar J Luo
Eddie Park
Kimberly Persaud
Jonathan B Preall
Paolo Ribeca
Brian Risk
Daniel Robyr
Michael Sammeth
Lorian Schaffer
Lei-Hoon See
Atif Shahab
Jorgen Skancke
Ana Maria Suzuki
Hazuki Takahashi
Hagen Tilgner
Diane Trout
Nathalie Walters
Huaien Wang
John Wrobel
Yanbao Yu
Xiaoan Ruan
Yoshihide Hayashizaki
Jennifer Harrow
Mark Gerstein
Tim Hubbard
Alexandre Reymond
Stylianos E Antonarakis
Gregory Hannon
Morgan C Giddings
Yijun Ruan
Barbara Wold
Piero Carninci
Roderic Guigó
Thomas R Gingeras

Funding

Single-Cell Biology Shared ResourceP30CA045508 · NCI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI John Edward Moses · 1987 to 2026
$118.9M
Global Annotation of Regulatory Elements in the Human GenomeU54HG004576 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MYERS, RICHARD M · 2007 to 2011
$21.8M
GENCODE: comprehensive reference genome annotation for human and mouseU24HG007234 · NHGRI · EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · PI Fergal James Martin · 2021 to 2026
$16.1M
Production Center for Global Mapping of Regulatory ElementsU54HG004558 · NHGRI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SNYDER, MICHAEL P. · 2007 to 2011
$15.4M
Comprehensive Characterization and Classification of the Human TranscriptomeU54HG004557 · NHGRI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI GINGERAS, THOMAS RAYMOND · 2007 to 2011
$14.5M
Integrated human genome annotation: generation of a reference gene setU54HG004555 · NHGRI · SANGER INSTITUTE · PI HUBBARD, TIMOTHY JOHN · 2007 to 2012
$11.2M
Landscape of transcription in human and mouseU54HG007004 · NHGRI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI GINGERAS, THOMAS RAYMOND · 2012 to 2017
$10.6M
Mapping Sites of Transcription and RegulationU01HG003147 · NHGRI · AFFYMETRIX, INC. · PI GINGERAS, THOMAS RAYMOND · 2003 to 2006
$4.1M
Developing Software For Protein-Based Gene FindingR01HG003700 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GIDDINGS, MORGAN CORINNE · 2005 to 2011
$3.3M
Roles of small RNAs in guarding germ cell genomesR37GM062534 · NIGMS · NEW YORK GENOME CENTER · PI HANNON, GREGORY J · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
Generating and Managing Large Scale Proteogenomic Data for ENCODE Cell LinesRC2HG005591 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CHEN, XIAN, GIDDINGS, MORGAN CORINNE · 2009 to 2010
$1.6M
European Research Council 249968NCI NIH HHS P30 CA045508NHGRI NIH HHS 1RC2HG005591NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG003700NHGRI NIH HHS R01HG003700NHGRI NIH HHS RC2 HG005591NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG003147NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG007234NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004555NHGRI NIH HHS U54HG004555NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004557NHGRI NIH HHS U54HG004557NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004558NHGRI NIH HHS U54HG004558NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004576NHGRI NIH HHS U54HG004576NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG007004NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM062534Wellcome Trust 062023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic cells make many types of primary and processed RNAs that are found either in specific subcellular compartments or throughout the cells. A complete catalogue of these RNAs is not yet available and their characteristic subcellular localizations are also poorly understood. Because RNA represents the direct output of the genetic information encoded by genomes and a significant proportion of a cell's regulatory capabilities are focused on its synthesis, processing, transport, modification and translation, the generation of such a catalogue is crucial for understanding genome function. Here we report evidence that three-quarters of the human genome is capable of being transcribed, as well as observations about the range and levels of expression, localization, processing fates, regulatory regions and modifications of almost all currently annotated and thousands of previously unannotated RNAs. These observations, taken together, prompt a redefinition of the concept of a gene.

Indexed as

Encyclopedias as TopicMolecular Sequence AnnotationAllelesCell LineDNADNA, IntergenicEnhancer Elements, GeneticExonsGene Expression ProfilingGenesGenome, HumanGenomicsHumansPolyadenylationProtein IsoformsRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidDNADNA, IntergenicProtein IsoformsRNA

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PMID22955620
PMCPMC3684276

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