fungeLab

Functional genomics Lab, Dept. of Biochemical Engg. and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi, India.

[fungeLab @FungeLab]

Our recent work using Polygenic risk scores suggests a strong genetic basis of infection severity across Indian population @medrxivpreprint @covid19indiaorg @TheHinduScience @ICMRDELHI @iitdelhi @IGIBSocial @GenomeIndia https://t.co/mX05fNi8Ic

[Meghna @MeghnaSrishti]

So, I am going to take this opportunity to shout out a big yay! to all my students and others in field ecology. You are generating data under conditions that many students from countries with impressive publications records will just never survive.

[Vishva Dixit @dixitvishva]

The road to death: Caspases, cleavage, and pores https://t.co/HGZfef2kmA

[Yalun (Alan) Yu @yalun_yu]

Our paper of the Drude2023 lipid force field is finally here! It would be a great tool to study membrane permeability and polarization effects involving biomembranes! With @alex_mackerell, Benoit Roux, Jeff Klauda and Rich Pastor. #charmm https://t.co/2URSFlHj0u

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Another snapshot of soft-money lab funding: the path to being able to fully cover my salary (green rows were funded).

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

Analysis of 272 oncogenic #GeneFusions in transcriptomics data from 5,190 #ChildhoodCancers reveals possible etiologies and therapeutic potential

#CancerResearch @natrescancer

https://t.co/SfDslxKaUp

[Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze (@const-ae.bsky.social) @const_ae]

Incredibly proud to see our benchmark of single-cell preprocessing methods finally published 🥳🥳🎉

We show that despite its theoretical limitations, no other transformation consistently outperforms log(y/s+1).
All details at https://t.co/0caikoVmBa and https://t.co/X61ICd6sao

[Anurag Agrawal @AnuragAgrawalMD]

An important new milestone in gene editing therapies

[Jonathan Göke @JonathanGoeke]

the latest release of the SG-NEx @nanopore long read RNA-Seq data resource! Includes 11 cell lines, direct RNA, PCR-cDNA, direct cDNA, short read RNA-Seq, m6ACE-Seq. Now with BLOW5 for all samples. Hosted on AWS for fast access and download speed

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Review of 1,039 studies indicates that exercise can be more effective than counselling or medication for depression https://t.co/CclIqNtHeY https://t.co/t6ZQeS8YpL

[Albert Vilella @AlbertVilella]

The world of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) post-#AGBT23:
1) Some will say that $ILMN Illumina is sleep-walking into a cliff: the company has been dominating the field with 80-90%+ of the market-share, but they are unable to retain their technological advantage to competitors:

[Harm-Jan @HarmJanWestra]

1/10 Large eQTL resources enable identification of genes for which cis-eQTL effects colocalize with GWAS hits. We are happy to announce that our MetaBrain study and eQTL resource is now out at Nature Genetics (https://t.co/HRuzPmSVu2).

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Interesting discussion below on the utility of small case GWAS. I used the FinnGen data to get a rough approximation of how many cases it takes to get a genome-wide significant association (as a crude proxy for "replication" I also required the trait to have a GWS locus in R8):

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

While I appreciate the sentiment, I am not a fan of such blind rules. Let me start with a 🧵 of some major human genetic discoveries (many translated to therapeutics) made with very few samples.
https://t.co/C4E8SXpvfZ

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

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[Christine Mayr @Mayr_Christine]

New preprint from us!

mRNAs act as chaperones for IDRs.

mRNAs often bind to IDRs. This changes their conformational ensembles to drive protein complex assembly, and controls protein activity.

Thank you @VickyLuo0223!

https://t.co/0LeTA2bjXv

[Senjuti Saha, PhD | সেঁজুতি সাহা @senjutisaha]

Fought cancer at 24.
Fighting Crohns disease since 25. Moved to Bangladesh to better use my second chance at life at 29.
But my hardest fight at 36 is "global health"- a field that systematically oppresses the oppressed.
Not giving up. 2nd life anyways. But wish I were a cat.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

GRAIL worked with 140 institutions on a benchmark atlas of cfDNA and isn't even bothering to deposit the raw data 😬

[Sorek Lab @SorekLab]

Direct sequencing of proteins via nanopores? 🤯🤯🤯
https://t.co/euZy7urK36

[John Tsang @tsanglab.bsky.social @TsangLab]

Has anyone used ChatGPT to review a paper or grant? 🤨

[Paris Peace Forum @ParisPeaceForum]

😷 #REPORT: What are the political conditions to avoid another #pandemic❓

Check out the policy recommendations on early warning and response from our fieldwork in #Botswana 🇧🇼 and #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 ↓