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ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG2016

Past Roadblocks and New Opportunities in Transcription Factor Network Mapping.

Michael R Brent

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Review in Trends in genetics : TIG, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. Model-based transcriptome engineering promotes a fermentative transcriptional state in yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michael R BrentDepartments of Computer Science and Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University, , Saint Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: brent@wustl.edu.

Funding

CAPSULE REGULATION AND VIRULENCE IN CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANSR01AI087794 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BRENT, MICHAEL R, DOERING, TAMARA L · 2011 to 2020
$4.1M
Linking Gene Regulation to MetabolismR01GM100452 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BRENT, MICHAEL R · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI087794NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100452
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the principal mechanisms by which cells differentiate and respond to changes in external signals or conditions is by changing the activity levels of transcription factors (TFs). This changes the transcription rates of target genes via the cell's TF network, which ultimately contributes to reconfiguring cellular state. Since microarrays provided our first window into global cellular state, computational biologists have eagerly attacked the problem of mapping TF networks, a key part of the cell's control circuitry. In retrospect, however, steady-state mRNA abundance levels were a poor substitute for TF activity levels and gene transcription rates. Likewise, mapping TF binding through chromatin immunoprecipitation proved less predictive of functional regulation and less amenable to systematic elucidation of complete networks than originally hoped. This review explains these roadblocks and the current, unprecedented blossoming of new experimental techniques built on second-generation sequencing, which hold out the promise of rapid progress in TF network mapping.

Indexed as

Transcription, GeneticChromosome MappingGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksHumansProtein BindingRNA, MessengerTranscription FactorsRNA, MessengerTranscription Factorscomputational methodsgene expression profilingnascent RNA sequencingregulatory systems biologytranscriptional regulatory networks.transcription factor activity

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PMID27720190
PMCPMC5117949

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