Yi Xing's Alternative Splicing and Computational Genomics Blog

From Junk to Gene

a very nice study. the detailed history of the creation of a functional exon from Alu.
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Apple Powerbook Crashes

My Apple Powerbook crashed on Friday. Looks like a harddrive failure. I am trying to use Disk Warrior to repair it but so far I haven't been successful.

Luckily I backed-up most of my work documents and all of my emails the night before the crash. Still, it's a huge mess now...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors act in concert to regulate common mRNA targets

By Rehwinkel et.al.

I am very pleased (and a little struck) by such a strong match between their experimental observations and our bioinformatic analyses
of NMD, i.e. the X chromosome is depleted for endogenous NMD candidates.

a few meetings in the next half a year

keystone, systems biology
rocky mountain 05 bioinformatics
Recomb regulatory genomics workshop

Protein Modularity of Alternatively Spliced Exons is Associated with Tissue-specific Regulations of Alternative Splicing

An open access paper published at PLoS Genetics.
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BLASTZ paper

click here to access.