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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

Comparative transcriptomics across the prokaryotic tree of life.

Ofir Cohen, Shany Doron, Omri Wurtzel, Daniel Dar, Sarit Edelheit, Iris Karunker, Eran Mick, Rotem Sorek

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ofir CohenDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Shany DoronDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Omri WurtzelDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Daniel DarDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Sarit EdelheitDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Iris KarunkerDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Eran MickDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rotem SorekDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel rotem.sorek@weizmann.ac.il.
Weizmann Institute of Science · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole-transcriptome sequencing studies from recent years revealed an unexpected complexity in transcriptomes of bacteria and archaea, including abundant non-coding RNAs, cis-antisense transcription and regulatory untranslated regions (UTRs). Understanding the functional relevance of the plethora of non-coding RNAs in a given organism is challenging, especially since some of these RNAs were attributed to 'transcriptional noise'. To allow the search for conserved transcriptomic elements we produced comparative transcriptome maps for multiple species across the microbial tree of life. These transcriptome maps are detailed in annotations, comparable by gene families, and BLAST-searchable by user provided sequences. Our transcriptome collection includes 18 model organisms spanning 10 phyla/subphyla of bacteria and archaea that were sequenced using standardized RNA-seq methods. The utility of the comparative approach, as implemented in our web server, is demonstrated by highlighting genes with exceptionally long 5'UTRs across species, which correspond to many known riboswitches and further suggest novel putative regulatory elements. Our study provides a standardized reference transcriptome to major clinically and environmentally important microbial phyla. The viewer is available at http://exploration.weizmann.ac.il/TCOL, setting a framework for comparative studies of the microbial non-coding genome.

Indexed as

TranscriptomeUser-Computer Interface5' Untranslated RegionsArchaeaBacteriaChromosome MappingComputer GraphicsPhylogenyRiboswitchRNA, ArchaealRNA, BacterialRNA, UntranslatedSequence Analysis, RNA5' Untranslated RegionsRiboswitchRNA, ArchaealRNA, BacterialRNA, Untranslated

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PMID27154273
PMCPMC4987935
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