IPA Now Supports Affymetrix Exon Arrays and Additional Species
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today released IPA 6.3, the newest version of its pathway analysis and life sciences knowledge software. IPA now supports Affymetrix GeneChip(R) Exon Arr...Quest Diagnostics Discovers New Genetic Mutations Affecting Cystic Fibrosis Screening
...ers are falsely identified as non-carriers," said Dr. Strom, lead investigator of the study. "Comprehensive mutation analysis using DNA sequencing and exon deletions/duplications is therefore important to resolve apparent homozygosity (the false appearance that the patient inherited the same mutations fro...First treatment for muscular dystrophy in sight: Scientists successfully harness exon-skipping
... gene that block the effective creation of dystrophin. Because the gene's mutation could affect any of its 79 exons and sometimes more than one single exon at a time, scientists employed a "cocktail" of antisense called morpholinos to extend the range of this application. By skipping more than a single ex...EMBL GeneCore purchases Genomatix's next generation sequencing data analysis solution
...g and peak finding, and performs automated binding pattern identification. For RNAseq experiments, normalized expression values are calculated at the exon and transcript level. A special GenomeThesaurus is also provided for potential splice junctions, which allows for splice junction analysis and identif...The first autism disease genes
... which is a tightly linked protein to neuroligin, implicated in synapse formation for glutamate neurons. This revealed a hemizygous deletion of coding exon for neurexin gene for a pair of affected siblings. Accumulating evidence thus points out that neurexin/neuroligin/Shank3 (NLGN3/4, SHANK3, NRXN1) gene...Research Shows Why Statins Don't Work for Everyone
...called exons that are spliced together to produce an active protein, he explained. Statins block LDL cholesterol production by binding to a particular exon when the protein is assembled. But depending on how this HMGCR splicing occurs, a statin drug has a better or worse chance of working as it should to...Gene expression differences between Europeans and Africans affect response to drugs, infections
...ta Clara, CA. In the March 7, 2008, print issue of American Journal of Human Genetics, and published early online, the researchers used Affymetrix exon arrays to show that expression levels for nearly five percent of the 9,156 human genes they studied varied significantly between individuals of Europe...Getting More From Whole-Transcript Microarrays
...y on a genome-wide scale, without investing in new exon microarray technologies. Alternative splicing...genome-wide scale, Affymetrix have developed their exon 1.0 ST platform. However, the study by Mark Robins...both the Affymetrix Gene 1.0 ST and the Affymetrix exon 1.0 ST chips. Robinson said, "Our intention was no...ExonHit Reports Proof-of-Concept in Breast Cancer Diagnostic Using its SpliceArray(TM) Platform
...ith this technology on the market." SpliceArray(TM) biochips are ExonHit's proprietary research tools [2]. They quantify mRNA expression at the exon level. They also provide a comprehensive RNA splicing analysis across the entire human genome and enable the identification of known splice variants a...AVI BioPharma Reports Positive Pre-Clinical Influenza Data
... AVI BioPharma develops therapeutic products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases using third-generation NEUGENE antisense drugs and ESPRIT exon skipping technology. AVI's lead NEUGENE antisense compound is designed to target cell proliferation disorders, including cardiovascular restenosis. In...DNA template could explain evolutionary shifts
...r variation. "I think this is going to make people think very hard about copy number variation with respect to genome evolution, gene evolution and exon shuffling," said Dr. James R. Lupski ( http://www.bcm.edu/genetics/facultyaz/lupski.html ) , vice chair of molecular and human genetics at BCM and sen...Joining forces to improve lung cancer treatment
...D-CRT) with dose-per-fraction escalation for treatment of stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (Poland) Confirmation that EGFR mutations (deletion in exon 19, missense L858R) are the most important predictors of sensitivity to tyrosine-kinase inhibitor targeted therapies (Italy) Barbara Zolty from th...Boehringer Ingelheim uses Genomatix' Next Generation Sequencing data analysis systems
...g and peak finding, and performs automated binding pattern identification. For RNAseq experiments, normalized expression values are calculated at the exon and transcript level. A special GenomeThesaurus is also provided for potential splice junctions, which allows for splice junction analysis and identif...Genomatix joins Illumina-Connect program
...g and peak finding, and performs automated binding pattern identification. For RNAseq experiments, normalized expression values are calculated at the exon and transcript level. A special GenomeThesaurus is also provided for potential splice junctions, which allows for splice junction analysis and identif...Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues
...y tissue-dependent. Certain protein isoforms that are common in heart tissue, for example, might be very rare in brain tissue, so that the alternative exon functions like a molecular switch. Scientists who study splicing have a general idea of how tissue-specificity may be achieved, but they have much les...New method provides panoramic view of protein-RNA interactions in living cells
...ipt into some sort of message, all the spaces need to be removed; but if an exon is dropped, a different version of that protein, which could carry a very d...here Nova2 binds to RNA, they could predict and directly observe whether an exon would be included or excluded in the final transcript, and which protein ve...Deep sequencing study reveals new insights into human transcriptome
...nes under study. In addition, a global survey of mRNA splicing events identified 94,241 splice junctions, of which 4,096 are novel, and showed that exon skipping is the most prevalent form of alternative splicing. Details are presented in the Science report of Sultan et al. "A Global View of Gene ...Researchers discover critical detail of cellular defense against genetic mistakes
...the NMD quality review depends on the physical spacing of proteins bound to the mRNA chain. If a stop reading signal occurs too far ahead of the final exon in the chain, as marked by an exon-exon junction complex (EJC), the cell concludes that the stop codon has mistakenly fallen in the middle of a set of...NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services
...es, Ambion mirVana arrays, and Operon oligo arrays; Yale offers expression profiling and genotyping on the Affymetrix platform and uses the Affymetrix exon arrays to look at splice variants, in addition to the new Illumina expression and genotyping capabilities. The principal investigator at Yale, S...Living view in animals shows how cells decide to make proteins
...ther intronic silencers were chopping out the IIIb exon -- and if so, in which tissues and organs -- or wh... in most tissues made the same decision to silence exon IIIb, but the cells used a variety of silencers an...d. For example, a cell’s decision to include exon IIIb is critical because the exon’s presence or ab...First Catalog Cancer Biochip for Sequence Capture Now Available from febit
...s. febit will stay at the forefront of cancer research and include key research study results in the next generation of febit's cancer biochips. A 2Mb exon cancer biochip will be available this summer and a 30Mb biochip is planned already for release in 2010. Multiplex NGS studies based on sequen...Jivan Focuses on Solutions for Transcriptome Sequencing
...pture Arrays for targeted sequencing of genomes, gene families and therapeutic areas. By using Jivan's database of mRNA sequences, including exons and exon junctions, Jivan can ensure the capture of all mRNA sequences of each gene of interest, including wildtype transcripts and splice variants. For genes ...AMT Accesses Technology for Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
...at will start its pre-clinical phase this year." exon skipping in DMD exon skipping is a technology to neutralize genetic def...rotein cannot take place. However, when the faulty exon is eliminated (i.e. skipped), protein synthesis do...Jivan Awarded US Patent #7,340,349 for Splice Array Analysis
... The issued claims cover mathematical algorithms for determining the expression levels of splice isoforms of a gene in a sample using microarrays with exon junction probes. "The '349 Patent validates JIVAN's position as a leader in the growing market for DNA microarrays to detect alternative splicing," ...In vivo visualization of alternative splicing
...2 changes during the lifetime of the worm: Embryos and early larvae express exon 9, while adult worms express exon 10. By linking exons 9 and 10 with differently colored fluorescent proteins...SNPs Powerful Tools for Association Studies
...this case, the nucleotide change that results in a RFLP is also the causative change (i.e., an A-to-T change in the number two nucleotide of the sixth exon in the - globin chain of the hemoglobin gene, Kan and Dozy, 1978). However, RFLPs only very rarely cause phenotypes and the number of RFLP markers tha...Protein Truncation Tests Using the DCode System
...cDNA indicated a deletion of 174 bp, corresponding to the entire exon 26. Because this cDNA mutation would result in an in-frame delet...ealed a homozygous G to A substitution at the last nucleotide of exon 26 (nt 3576). This mutation is referred to as 3576 G > A (c1135d...Protein Expression Service (Insect cell) from Exon BioSystems
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Description:...ceArray monitors 1543 known and potential splice events derived from 441 GPCR genes. Splice events are profiled with a patent-protected combination of exon and junction probes that allow robust, specific detection of the two possible molecular species resulting from each splice event. The GPCR SpliceArray...Custom Splice Arrays from ExonHit Therapeutics Inc.
Description:... spliced cDNAs aligned to the human genome. Each splice event contained in a custom SpliceArray is profiled with a patent protected combination of six exon and junction probes that allows robust, specific detection of the two possible molecular species resulting from each splice event. Custom SpliceArray...Apoptosis Pathway SpliceArrays from ExonHit Therapeutics Inc.
Description:...SpliceArray monitors 5806 known and potential splice events derived from 609 genes. Splice events are profiled with a patent-protected combination of exon and junction probes that allow robust, specific detection of the two possible molecular species resulting from each splice event. The Apoptosis and Ce...GPCR SpliceArray Service from ExonHit Therapeutics Inc.
Description:...ceArray monitors 1543 known and potential splice events derived from 441 GPCR genes. Splice events are profiled with a patent-protected combination of exon and junction probes that allow robust, specific detection of the two possible molecular species resulting from each splice event. The GPCR SpliceArray...T7 RNA polymerase from Chimerx
Description:...from a T7 promoter. Transcripts can be used as hybridization probes, templates for in vitro translation, substrates in RNA processing systems, or for exon and intron mapping of genomic DNA....