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Analyses of alternative polyadenylation: from old school biochemistry to high-throughput technologies

  • Yeh, Hsin-Sung;Zhang, Wei;Yong, Jeongsik
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.201-207
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    • 2017
  • Alternations in usage of polyadenylation sites during transcription termination yield transcript isoforms from a gene. Recent findings of transcriptome-wide alternative polyadenylation (APA) as a molecular response to changes in biology position APA not only as a molecular event of early transcriptional termination but also as a cellular regulatory step affecting various biological pathways. With the development of high-throughput profiling technologies at a single nucleotide level and their applications targeted to the 3'-end of mRNAs, dynamics in the landscape of mRNA 3'-end is measureable at a global scale. In this review, methods and technologies that have been adopted to study APA events are discussed. In addition, various bioinformatics algorithms for APA isoform analysis using publicly available RNA-seq datasets are introduced.

The Principles and Applications of High-Throughput Sequencing Technologies

  • Jun-Yeong Lee
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.9-24
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    • 2023
  • The advancement in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technology has revolutionized the field of biology, including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics. This technology has become a crucial tool in many areas of research, allowing scientists to generate vast amounts of genetic data at a much faster pace than traditional methods. With this increased speed and scale of data generation, researchers can now address critical questions and gain new insights into the inner workings of living organisms, as well as the underlying causes of various diseases. Although the first HTS technology have been introduced about two decades ago, it can still be challenging for those new to the field to understand and use effectively. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of commonly used HTS technologies these days and their applications in terms of genome sequencing, transcriptome, DNA methylation, DNA-protein interaction, chromatin accessibility, three-dimensional genome organization, and microbiome.

Recent advances in microfluidic technologies for biochemistry and molecular biology

  • Cho, Soong-Won;Kang, Dong-Ku;Choo, Jae-Bum;Demllo, Andrew J.;Chang, Soo-Ik
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.705-712
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    • 2011
  • Advances in the fields of proteomics and genomics have necessitated the development of high-throughput screening methods (HTS) for the systematic transformation of large amounts of biological/chemical data into an organized database of knowledge. Microfluidic systems are ideally suited for high-throughput biochemical experimentation since they offer high analytical throughput, consume minute quantities of expensive biological reagents, exhibit superior sensitivity and functionality compared to traditional micro-array techniques and can be integrated within complex experimental work flows. A range of basic biochemical and molecular biological operations have been transferred to chip-based microfluidic formats over the last decade, including gene sequencing, emulsion PCR, immunoassays, electrophoresis, cell-based assays, expression cloning and macromolecule blotting. In this review, we highlight some of the recent advances in the application of microfluidics to biochemistry and molecular biology.

Quantitative Analysis of Nucleic Acids - the Last Few Years of Progress

  • Ding, Chunming;Cantor, Charles R.
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2004
  • DNA and RNA quantifications are widely used in biological and biomedical research. In the last ten years, many technologies have been developed to enable automated and high-throughput analyses. In this review, we first give a brief overview of how DNA and RNA quantifications are carried out. Then, five technologies (microarrays, SAGE, differential display, real time PCR and real competitive PCR) are introduced, with an emphasis on how these technologies can be applied and what their limitations are. The technologies are also evaluated in terms of a few key aspects of nucleic acids quantification such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, cost and throughput.

Platform Technologies for Research on the G Protein Coupled Receptor: Applications to Drug Discovery Research

  • Lee, Sung-Hou
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute an important class of drug targets and are involved in every aspect of human physiology including sleep regulation, blood pressure, mood, food intake, perception of pain, control of cancer growth, and immune response. Radiometric assays have been the classic method used during the search for potential therapeutics acting at various GPCRs for most GPCR-based drug discovery research programs. An increasing number of diverse small molecules, together with novel GPCR targets identified from genomics efforts, necessitates the use of high-throughput assays with a good sensitivity and specificity. Currently, a wide array of high-throughput tools for research on GPCRs is available and can be used to study receptor-ligand interaction, receptor driven functional response, receptor-receptor interaction,and receptor internalization. Many of the assay technologies are based on luminescence or fluorescence and can be easily applied in cell based models to reduce gaps between in vitro and in vivo studies for drug discovery processes. Especially, cell based models for GPCR can be efficiently employed to deconvolute the integrated information concerning the ligand-receptor-function axis obtained from label-free detection technology. This review covers various platform technologies used for the research of GPCRs, concentrating on the principal, non-radiometric homogeneous assay technologies. As current technology is rapidly advancing, the combination of probe chemistry, optical instruments, and GPCR biology will provide us with many new technologies to apply in the future.

Development of Rapid Thermal Processor for Large Glass LTPS Production

  • Kim, Hyoung-June;Shin, Dong-Hoon
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.533-536
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    • 2006
  • VIATRON TECHNOLOGIES has developed Field-Enhanced Rapid Thermal Processor (FERTP) system that enables LTPS LCD and AMOLED manufacturers to produce poly-Si films at low cost, high throughput, and high yield. The FE-RTP allows the diverse process options including crystallization, thermal oxidation of gate oxides and fast pre-compactions. The process and equipment compatibility with a-Si TFT lines is able to provide a viable solution to produce poly-Si TFTs using a-Si TFT lines.

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In silico High-Throughput Screening by Hierarchical Chemical DB Search by 3D Pharmacophore Model

  • Shin, Jae-Min
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.181-182
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    • 2002
  • Recentadvancesin '-omics ' technologies enable us to discover more diverse disease- relevant target proteins, which encourages us to find out more target-specific novel lead compounds as new drug candidates. Therefore, high-throughput screening (HTS) becomes an essential tool in this area. Among many HTS tools, in silico HTS is a very fast and cost-effective tool to try to derive a new lead compound for any new targets, especially when the target protein structures are known or readily modeled. (omitted)

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CB-Sense: High Throughput Cross-technology Communication via IEEE 802.11 Idle Time (IEEE 802.11의 유휴 시간을 활용한 이기종 통신 기술의 처리량 향상 방법)

  • Lim, Jin Mook;Kim, Seungku
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.227-240
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    • 2020
  • This paper proposes a novel CTC technology, CB-sense. The CB-sense guarantees a dedicated period for the CTC that results in low duty cycle of the receiver device. In addition, it send a lot of information explosively during the dedicated CTC period. Thus, it can achieve high throughput. The CB-sense uses Clear to Send (CTS) packets to transmit information bits to the heterogeneous wireless technologies. The CTS packets block the neighboring node transmissions, so it reduces co-channel interference. In experiment results, CB-sense represents 20 times more throughput than FreeBee and below 5% symbol error rate in the interference environment.

Protein Microarrays and Their Applications

  • Lee, Bum-Hwan;Teruyuki Nagamune
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2004
  • In recent years, the importance of proteomic works, such as protein expression, detection and identification, has grown in the fields of proteomic and diagnostic research. This is because complete genome sequences of humans, and other organisms, progress as cellular processing and controlling are performed by proteins as well as DNA or RNA. However, conventional I protein analyses are time-consuming; therefore, high throughput protein analysis methods, which allow fast, direct and quantitative detection, are needed. These are so-called protein microarrays or protein chips, which have been developed to fulfill the need for high-throughput protein analyses. Although protein arrays are still in their infancy, technical development in immobilizing proteins in their native conformation on arrays, and the development of more sensitive detection methods, will facilitate the rapid deployment of protein arrays as high-throughput protein assay tools in proteomics and diagnostics. This review summarizes the basic technologies that are needed in the fabrication of protein arrays and their recent applications.