Publications by authors named "Ruth Bennett"

Ensembl (www.ensembl.org) is an open platform integrating publicly available genomics data across the tree of life with a focus on eukaryotic species related to human health, agriculture and biodiversity.

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GENCODE produces comprehensive reference gene annotation for human and mouse. Entering its twentieth year, the project remains highly active as new technologies and methodologies allow us to catalog the genome at ever-increasing granularity. In particular, long-read transcriptome sequencing enables us to identify large numbers of missing transcripts and to substantially improve existing models, and our long non-coding RNA catalogs have undergone a dramatic expansion and reconfiguration as a result.

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  • - Accurate gene annotations are essential for interpreting how genomes function, and the GENCODE consortium has spent twenty years creating reference annotations for human and mouse genomes, serving as a vital resource for researchers globally.
  • - Previous annotations of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) were incomplete and poorly organized, hindering research, prompting GENCODE to launch a comprehensive effort that resulted in adding nearly 18,000 novel human genes and over 22,000 novel mouse genes, significantly increasing the catalog of transcripts.
  • - The new annotations not only show evolutionary patterns and link to genetic variants associated with traits but also improve understanding of previously unclear genomic functions, greatly advancing research into both human and mouse genetic diseases.
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With a global footprint of 10 million hectares across 12.5 million farms, coffee is among the world's most traded commodities. The coffee industry has launched a variety of initiatives designed to reduce coffee's contribution to climate change and biodiversity loss and enhance the socio-economic conditions of coffee producers.

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Ensembl (https://www.ensembl.org) is a freely available genomic resource that has produced high-quality annotations, tools, and services for vertebrates and model organisms for more than two decades.

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GENCODE produces high quality gene and transcript annotation for the human and mouse genomes. All GENCODE annotation is supported by experimental data and serves as a reference for genome biology and clinical genomics. The GENCODE consortium generates targeted experimental data, develops bioinformatic tools and carries out analyses that, along with externally produced data and methods, support the identification and annotation of transcript structures and the determination of their function.

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Ensembl (https://www.ensembl.org) has produced high-quality genomic resources for vertebrates and model organisms for more than twenty years.

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Comprehensive genome annotation is essential to understand the impact of clinically relevant variants. However, the absence of a standard for clinical reporting and browser display complicates the process of consistent interpretation and reporting. To address these challenges, Ensembl/GENCODE and RefSeq launched a joint initiative, the Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) collaboration, to converge on human gene and transcript annotation and to jointly define a high-value set of transcripts and corresponding proteins.

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Ensembl (https://www.ensembl.org) is unique in its flexible infrastructure for access to genomic data and annotation.

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Numerical simulations of coupled hemodynamics and leukocyte transport and adhesion inside coronary arteries have been performed. Realistic artery geometries have been obtained for a set of four patients from intravascular ultrasound and angiography images. The numerical model computes unsteady three-dimensional blood hemodynamics and leukocyte concentration in the blood.

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  • Cocoa agriculture is expanding to meet chocolate demand but poses a threat to biodiversity, particularly among bird species.
  • Studies indicate that bird diversity significantly declines in low shade cocoa farms, while farms with more canopy cover can maintain similar diversity levels as nearby forests, albeit with different bird communities.
  • The findings highlight the importance of conserving forests and promoting mixed-shade agroforestry to support diverse biological communities in cocoa-growing landscapes.
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The Ensembl project (https://www.ensembl.org) annotates genomes and disseminates genomic data for vertebrate species.

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The Ensembl (https://www.ensembl.org) is a system for generating and distributing genome annotation such as genes, variation, regulation and comparative genomics across the vertebrate subphylum and key model organisms.

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Tropical forests in the Americas are undergoing rapid conversion to commercial agriculture, and many migratory bird species that use these forests have experienced corresponding populations declines. Conservation research for migratory birds in the tropics has focused overwhelmingly on shade coffee plantations and adjacent forest, but both cover types are now in decline, creating an urgent need to evaluate conservation opportunities in other agricultural systems. Here we compare how a community of 42 Neotropical migratory bird species and a subset of five conservation-priority species differ in usage and habitat associations among a secondary forest baseline and four expanding commercial plantation systems in Guatemala: African oil palm, teak, rubber, and mixed-native hardwoods.

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The Ensembl project (https://www.ensembl.org) makes key genomic data sets available to the entire scientific community without restrictions.

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We report full-length draft de novo genome assemblies for 16 widely used inbred mouse strains and find extensive strain-specific haplotype variation. We identify and characterize 2,567 regions on the current mouse reference genome exhibiting the greatest sequence diversity. These regions are enriched for genes involved in pathogen defence and immunity and exhibit enrichment of transposable elements and signatures of recent retrotransposition events.

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The Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) project provides a dataset of protein-coding regions that are identically annotated on the human and mouse reference genome assembly in genome annotations produced independently by NCBI and the Ensembl group at EMBL-EBI. This dataset is the product of an international collaboration that includes NCBI, Ensembl, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, Mouse Genome Informatics and University of California, Santa Cruz. Identically annotated coding regions, which are generated using an automated pipeline and pass multiple quality assurance checks, are assigned a stable and tracked identifier (CCDS ID).

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The presence of cardiovascular comorbidities is frequently associated with poor outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). No clear role has been defined for cardiac biomarkers in acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD). The aim of this systematic review was to examine the prognostic value of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and troponins in patients with AECOPD.

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  • - The Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) project is a collaboration between NCBI, Ensembl, and other institutions to maintain high-quality, consistently annotated datasets of protein-coding regions in human and mouse genomes, identifiable by stable CCDS IDs.
  • - The project undergoes continuous review to ensure accuracy and has recently updated its web and FTP sites with clearer reporting on annotation releases, improved search and display functionalities, and additional biological information.
  • - The document highlights the current status of the CCDS dataset, recent expansions, and plans for future curation priorities to enhance the dataset's reliability and usefulness.
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  • Trastuzumab improves survival in HER2-positive breast cancer, but some patients are resistant to it.
  • Neratinib, an irreversible panHER inhibitor, showed greater effectiveness in HER2-amplified cell lines and when combined with trastuzumab, increased growth inhibition in sensitive and trastuzumab-resistant cells.
  • The study suggests that neratinib effectively combats both innate and acquired trastuzumab resistance, highlighting that a combination of trastuzumab and neratinib may be more beneficial than either drug alone.
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Unlabelled: Currently, an alteration in the gross volume of a tumor is used to assess its response to trastuzumab; however, this approach provides only a late indication of response. Tissue-sample ex vivo assays are potentially valuable, but their procurement through biopsies is invasive and might be biased by tumor heterogeneity. We studied the feasibility of using PET to quantify changes in ErbB2 (HER2/neu) expression and to predict the response to trastuzumab in BT474 breast cancer xenografts with N-[2-(4-(18)F-fluorobenzamido)ethyl]maleimide ((18)F-FBEM)-HER(2:342) Affibody.

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Purpose: To evaluate the effect of scaling on sensitivity to change for grading the vertical cup:disc ratio (CDR).

Methods: Vertical CDR was assessed by six observers (three ophthalmologists and three optometrists) on 43 stereo disc photographs. Repeated observations were made for both 0.

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Spectral sensitivities of individual photoreceptors in the compound eye of Manduca sexta were verified by immunocytochemistry, and the retinal mosaic was mapped, using polyclonal antisera raised against amino-terminal sequences of three identified rhodopsins: P520, P450 and P357. Retinulae are composed of a small proximal cell and seven or eight elongate cells extending across the retina. In each retinula, one or two elongate dv cells oriented in the dorsal-ventral axis of the retinal lattice express either P450 or P357.

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