miRNAs are involved in various biological processes and different diseases through interacting with their target mRNAs. Therefore, deciphering miRNA targets is important for diagnostics and therapeutics. However, it i...
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miRNAs are involved in various biological processes and different diseases through interacting with their target mRNAs. Therefore, deciphering miRNA targets is important for diagnostics and therapeutics. However, it is still complex and expensive to do large scale screening for miRNA alterations and identify their downstream miRNA targets. Recently, integrating analysis of miRNA expression profiles and mRNA expression levels has been used to successfully identify the most prominent interactions. Here, we present a protocol that combines both expression data and computational prediction to refine the microarray result for identifying the miRNA targets. Many details are also provided to help researchers choose more appropriate tools and methods for a given type of application. Available web-based resources and experimental conditions for functional enrichment and validation of miRNA targets are also summarized. less
Lipids are defined as hydrophobic or amphipathic small molecules which consist of a number of structurally and functionally distinct molecules that span from nonpolar to neutral to polar compounds. Lipidomics is the c...
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Lipids are defined as hydrophobic or amphipathic small molecules which consist of a number of structurally and functionally distinct molecules that span from nonpolar to neutral to polar compounds. Lipidomics is the comprehensive analysis of all lipids in a biological system. Changes in lipid metabolism and composition, as well as of distinct lipid species have been linked with altered plant growth, development, and responses to environmental stresses including salinity. Recently, improved liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based techniques have provided the rapid expansion of lipidomics research. Sample preparation and lipid extraction are important steps in lipidomics, and this chapter describes important considerations in lipid monophasic and biphasic extractions from plant tissues prior to untargeted plant lipidomics approaches with LC-MS. less
Physiological and optogenetic dissection of discrete locus coeruleus neuronal populations reveals a functional disassociation, with heterogeneous engagement of locus coeruleus neurons in either fear learning or extinc...
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Physiological and optogenetic dissection of discrete locus coeruleus neuronal populations reveals a functional disassociation, with heterogeneous engagement of locus coeruleus neurons in either fear learning or extinction models.
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are an important feature of prokaryote genomes but are seldom well annotated and, consequently, are often underestimated. MGEs include transposons (Tn), insertion sequences (ISs), propha...
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Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are an important feature of prokaryote genomes but are seldom well annotated and, consequently, are often underestimated. MGEs include transposons (Tn), insertion sequences (ISs), prophages, genomic islands (GEIs), integrons, and integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs). They are intimately involved in genome evolution and promote phenomena such as genomic expansion and rearrangement, emergence of virulence and pathogenicity, and symbiosis. In spite of the annotation bottleneck, there are so far at least 75 different programs and databases dedicated to prokaryotic MGE analysis and annotation, and this number is rapidly growing. Here, we present a practical guide to explore, compare, and visualize prokaryote MGEs using a combination of available software and databases tailored to small scale genome analyses. This protocol can be coupled with expert MGE annotation and exploited for evolutionary and comparative genomic analyses. less
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR) is a useful tool for the analysis of lipid components in biofluids such as serum/plasma. Such tool is applied for the analysis of lipid components in serum/plasm...
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Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR) is a useful tool for the analysis of lipid components in biofluids such as serum/plasma. Such tool is applied for the analysis of lipid components in serum/plasma of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The practical approach of sampling, storage, lipid extraction procedure, sample preparation before performing the 1H NMR spectroscopy experiments is presented. All the experimental parameters of NMR spectroscopy are also described. Details of the assignments of lipid components (qualitative analysis) and quantification of particular lipid components (quantitative analysis) are explained. less
The wealth of molecular information provided by high-throughput technologies has enhanced the efforts dedicated to the reconstruction of regulatory networks in diverse biological systems. This information, however, ha...
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The wealth of molecular information provided by high-throughput technologies has enhanced the efforts dedicated to the reconstruction of regulatory networks in diverse biological systems. This information, however, has proven to be insufficient for the construction of quantitative models due to the absence of sufficiently accurate measurements of kinetic constants. As a result, there have been efforts to develop methodologies that permit the use of qualitative information about patterns of expression to infer the regulatory networks that generate such patterns. One of these approaches is the SQUAD method, which approximates a Boolean network with the use of a set of ordinary differential equations. The main benefit of the SQUAD method over purely Boolean approaches is the possibility of evaluating the effect of continuous external signals, which are pervasive in biological phenomena. A brief description and code on how to implement this method can be found at the following link: https://***/caramirezal/SQUADBookChapter . less
In the recent years the search for scalability in terms of computing power has led to very complex parallel computer architectures which require greater control of the storage and computation resources to utilize all ...
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(纸本)9780769561493
In the recent years the search for scalability in terms of computing power has led to very complex parallel computer architectures which require greater control of the storage and computation resources to utilize all the available hardware capacity for optimal performance. New solutions in the level of programming languages/models have increased the reliance and need for threads. A system with a huge number of threads can face problems with thread micro-management, smooth scaling between data and task parallelism, portability, and consistency. We present TCF++, a new concurrent C/C++ language extension generalizing on the idea of threads with so called thick control flows. Opposed to threading, thick control flows provide a way to orchestrate computation using lower number of independent actors, dynamically adapting to problem size. The language extension approach is chosen to support mixing with legacy code. We qualitatively analyze the new language's eligibility and explain its idiomatic use with a selection of core parallel algorithm kernels.
We provide a detailed protocol for robot-assisted, genome-wide measurement of fitness in the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using Quantitative Fitness Analysis (QFA). We first describe how we construct thousands...
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We provide a detailed protocol for robot-assisted, genome-wide measurement of fitness in the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using Quantitative Fitness Analysis (QFA). We first describe how we construct thousands of double or triple mutant yeast strains in parallel using Synthetic Genetic Array (SGA) procedures. Strains are inoculated onto solid agar surfaces by liquid spotting followed by repeated photography of agar plates. Growth curves are constructed and the fitness of each strain is estimated. Robot-assisted QFA, can be used to identify genetic interactions and chemical sensitivity/resistance in genome-wide experiments, but QFA can also be used in smaller scale, manual workflows. less
Increasing performance of computing systems necessitates providing solutions for improving scalability and productivity. In recent times, data-driven Program eXecution Models (PXMs) are gaining popularity due to their...
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(纸本)9781450344876
Increasing performance of computing systems necessitates providing solutions for improving scalability and productivity. In recent times, data-driven Program eXecution Models (PXMs) are gaining popularity due to their superior support compared to traditional von Neumann execution models. However, exposing the benefits of such PXMs within a high-level programming language remains a challenge. Although many high-level programming languages and APIs support concurrency and multi-threading (e.g., C++11, Java, OpenMP, MPI, etc.), their synchronisation models make large use of mutex and locks, generally leading to poor system performance. Conversely, one major appeal of Go programming language is the way it supports concurrency: goroutines (tagged functions) are mapped on OS threads and communicate each other through data structures buffering input data (channels). By forcing goroutines to exchange data only through channels, it is possible to enable a data-driven execution. This paper proposes a first attempt to map goroutines on a data-driven based PXM. Go compilation procedure and the run-time library are modified to exploit the execution of fine-grain threads on an abstracted parallel machine model.
In this research, I want to investigate programming language and middleware abstractions which offer an alternative approach in client/server Web application development, for dealing specifically with coordination bet...
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(纸本)9781538605394
In this research, I want to investigate programming language and middleware abstractions which offer an alternative approach in client/server Web application development, for dealing specifically with coordination between client and server components that has flexibility in mapping components to physical locations. I work on a middleware and JavaScript interpreter that provides support for modular coordination that avoid problems with both of the patterns presented in this Introduction. In my approach, developers would write a separate coordination specification which mediated client and server workflow. To evaluate the performance of my framework and prove the low-performance overhead, I have modified a well-known open source Web application, Java Pet Store by using my framework and then I have evaluated the modified Web application provides low-performance overhead.
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