Analysis of accessible chromatin landscape in the inner cell mass and trophectoderm of human blastocysts

M Yang, X Tao, S Titus, T Zhao… - Molecular Human …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Early embryonic development is characterized by drastic changes in chromatin structure that
affects the accessibility of the chromatin. In human, the chromosome reorganization and its …

Comparing transcriptome profiles of human embryo cultured in closed and standard incubators

J Li, J Huang, W Han, X Shen, Y Gao, G Huang - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
It is necessary to compare the transcriptomic profiles of human embryos cultured in time-
lapse imaging (TLI) incubators and standard incubators (SI) in order to determine whether a …

Finding cell-specific expression patterns in the early Ciona embryo with single-cell RNA-seq

GR Ilsley, R Suyama, T Noda, N Satoh… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-seq has been established as a reliable and accessible technique enabling
new types of analyses, such as identifying cell types and studying spatial and temporal gene …

Dynamic pattern of histone H3 core acetylation in human early embryos

XF Wang, SM Xie, SM Guo, P Su, LQ Zhou - Cell Cycle, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
After fertilization, highly differentiated sperm and oocyte are reprogrammed to totipotent
embryo, which subsequently cleavages and develops into an individual through spatial …

EnClaSC: a novel ensemble approach for accurate and robust cell-type classification of single-cell transcriptomes

X Chen, S Chen, R Jiang - BMC bioinformatics, 2020 - Springer
Background In recent years, the rapid development of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-
seq) techniques enables the quantitative characterization of cell types at a single-cell …

Bioinformatics advancements for detecting epidemic disease using machine learning approaches

B Baruah, MP Dutta - … Systems and Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of …, 2020 - Springer
In the twentieth century, many researchers have started working on bioinformatics for
disease biomarker detection using genetic information, ie, DNA microarray dataset and RNA …

A DNA methylation state transition model reveals the programmed epigenetic heterogeneity in human pre-implantation embryos

C Zhao, N Zhang, Y Zhang, N Tuersunjiang, S Gao… - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background During mammalian early embryogenesis, expression and epigenetic
heterogeneity emerge before the first cell fate determination, but the programs causing such …

IsoXpressor: a tool to assess transcriptional activity within isochores

LAK Ayad, AM Dourou, S Arhondakis… - Genome Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genomes are characterized by large regions of homogeneous base compositions known as
isochores. The latter are divided into GC-poor and GC-rich classes linked to distinct …

Proteomic analysis demonstrates that parthenogenetically activated swamp buffalo embryos have dysregulated energy metabolism

L Pu, Q Shahzad, F Chen, S Yao… - … in Domestic Animals, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The comprehensive understanding of early embryo development is essential to optimize in
vitro culture conditions. Protein expression landscape of parthenogenetically produced …

Probe signal values in mRNA arrays imply an excessive involvement of neutrophil FCGR1 in tuberculosis

K Wu, M Li, Z Chen, DB Lowrie, XY Fan - Frontiers in Medicine, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The perturbed genes from transcriptomes are often presented in terms of relative
expressions against control samples. However, the probe signal values (PSVs) of genes …