Imperial College London
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ProfessorBorisLenhard

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences

Professor of Computational Biology
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 0911b.lenhard Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mr Alastair Douglas Ivor Williams +44 (0)20 3313 4318

 
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Location

 

6.12CLMS BuildingHammersmith Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@unpublished{Tan:2019:10.1101/575704,
author = {Tan, G and Polychronopoulos, D and Lenhard, B},
doi = {10.1101/575704},
title = {CNEr: a toolkit for exploring extreme noncoding conservation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/575704},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - UNPB
AB  - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Conserved Noncoding Elements (CNEs) are elements exhibiting extreme noncoding conservation in Metazoan genomes. They cluster around developmental genes and act as long-range enhancers, yet nothing that we know about their function explains the observed conservation levels. Clusters of CNEs coincide with topologically associating domains (TADs), indicating ancient origins and stability of TAD locations. This has suggested further hypotheses about the still elusive origin of CNEs, and has provided a comparative genomics-based method of estimating the position of TADs around developmentally regulated genes in genomes where chromatin conformation capture data is missing. To enable researchers in gene regulation and chromatin biology to start deciphering this phenomenon, we developed<jats:italic>CNEr</jats:italic>, a R/Bioconductor toolkit for large-scale identification of CNEs and for studying their genomic properties. We apply<jats:italic>CNEr</jats:italic>to two novel genome comparisons - fruit fly vs tsetse fly, and two sea urchin genomes - and report novel insights gained from their analysis. We also show how to reveal interesting characteristics of CNEs by coupling CNEr with existing Bioconductor packages.<jats:italic>CNEr</jats:italic>is available at Bioconductor (<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://bioconductor.org/packages/CNEr/">https://bioconductor.org/packages/CNEr/</jats:ext-link>) and maintained at github (<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://github.com/ge11232002/CNEr">https://github.com/ge11232002/CNEr</jats:ext-link>).</jats:p>
AU  - Tan,G
AU  - Polychronopoulos,D
AU  - Lenhard,B
DO  - 10.1101/575704
PY  - 2019///
TI  - CNEr: a toolkit for exploring extreme noncoding conservation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/575704
ER  -
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