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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

GBshape: a genome browser database for DNA shape annotations.

Tsu-Pei Chiu, Lin Yang, Tianyin Zhou, Bradley J Main, Stephen C J Parker, Sergey V Nuzhdin, Thomas D Tullius, Remo Rohs

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tsu-Pei ChiuMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Lin YangMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Tianyin ZhouMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Bradley J MainMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Stephen C J ParkerDepartments of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Sergey V NuzhdinMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Thomas D TulliusDepartment of Chemistry and Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Remo RohsMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA rohs@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · USBoston University · USUniversity of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Inferring regulatory circuitry from microarray dataR01HG003008 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI BUSSEMAKER, HARMEN J · 2004 to 2020
$7.0M
Multi-scale modeling of genetic variation in a developmental networkU01GM103804 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI DEPACE, ANGELA H, MARJORAM, PAUL · 2013 to 2016
$2.0M
Genome analysis based on the integration of DNA sequence and shapeR01GM106056 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ROHS, REMO · 2014 to 2017
$1.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG003008NHGRI NIH HHS R01HG003008NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM106056NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM106056NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM103804NIGMS NIH HHS U01GM103804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many regulatory mechanisms require a high degree of specificity in protein-DNA binding. Nucleotide sequence does not provide an answer to the question of why a protein binds only to a small subset of the many putative binding sites in the genome that share the same core motif. Whereas higher-order effects, such as chromatin accessibility, cooperativity and cofactors, have been described, DNA shape recently gained attention as another feature that fine-tunes the DNA binding specificities of some transcription factor families. Our Genome Browser for DNA shape annotations (GBshape; freely available at http://rohslab.cmb.usc.edu/GBshape/) provides minor groove width, propeller twist, roll, helix twist and hydroxyl radical cleavage predictions for the entire genomes of 94 organisms. Additional genomes can easily be added using the GBshape framework. GBshape can be used to visualize DNA shape annotations qualitatively in a genome browser track format, and to download quantitative values of DNA shape features as a function of genomic position at nucleotide resolution. As biological applications, we illustrate the periodicity of DNA shape features that are present in nucleosome-occupied sequences from human, fly and worm, and we demonstrate structural similarities between transcription start sites in the genomes of four Drosophila species.

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Databases, Nucleic AcidGenomeMolecular Sequence AnnotationWeb BrowserAnimalsBinding SitesDNAHumansNucleic Acid ConformationNucleosomesTranscription Initiation SiteDNANucleosomes

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PMID25326329
PMCPMC4384032
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