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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

OligoMiner provides a rapid, flexible environment for the design of genome-scale oligonucleotide in situ hybridization probes.

Brian J Beliveau, Jocelyn Y Kishi, Guy Nir, Hiroshi M Sasaki, Sinem K Saka, Son C Nguyen, Chao-Ting Wu, Peng Yin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 153 papers.

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Brian J BeliveauWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115; py@hms.harvard.edu brian.beliveau@wyss.harvard.edu.
Jocelyn Y KishiWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115.
Guy NirDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Hiroshi M SasakiWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115.
Sinem K SakaWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115.
Son C NguyenDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Chao-Ting WuDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0001-5525-871X
Peng YinWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115; py@hms.harvard.edu brian.beliveau@wyss.harvard.edu.

Funding

Culling the human genome of disease variants using ultraconserved elementsR01HD091797 · NICHD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WU, CHAO-TING · 2016 to 2020
$5.5M
The inheritance of position: It's not just who you are, it's where you areDP1GM106412 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WU, CHAO-TING · 2012 to 2016
$4.2M
Super-resolution imaging via programmable autonomous blinkingR01EB018659 · NIBIB · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI YIN, PENG · 2013 to 2017
$3.3M
Ultra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse TypesU01MH106011 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BATHE, MARK, BOYDEN, EDWARD S. · 2014 to 2016
$2.2M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB018659NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD091797NIGMS NIH HHS DP1 GM106412NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH106011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oligonucleotide (oligo)-based FISH has emerged as an important tool for the study of chromosome organization and gene expression and has been empowered by the commercial availability of highly complex pools of oligos. However, a dedicated bioinformatic design utility has yet to be created specifically for the purpose of identifying optimal oligo FISH probe sequences on the genome-wide scale. Here, we introduce OligoMiner, a rapid and robust computational pipeline for the genome-scale design of oligo FISH probes that affords the scientist exact control over the parameters of each probe. Our streamlined method uses standard bioinformatic file formats, allowing users to seamlessly integrate new and existing utilities into the pipeline as desired, and introduces a method for evaluating the specificity of each probe molecule that connects simulated hybridization energetics to rapidly generated sequence alignments using supervised machine learning. We demonstrate the scalability of our approach by performing genome-scale probe discovery in numerous model organism genomes and showcase the performance of the resulting probes with diffraction-limited and single-molecule superresolution imaging of chromosomal and RNA targets. We anticipate that this pipeline will make the FISH probe design process much more accessible and will more broadly facilitate the design of pools of hybridization probes for a variety of applications.

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AnimalsArabidopsisData MiningDNAGenomicsHumansIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceMiceModels, GeneticOligonucleotide ProbesDNAOligonucleotide ProbesFISHin situoligooligonucleotidesuperresolution

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PMCPMC5877937

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