Project description:The Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS), Acanthaster planci, is a highly fecund predator of reef-building corals distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific. COTS population outbreaks cause substantial loss of coral cover, diminishing the integrity and resilience of the reef ecosystems thus increasing their susceptibility to climate change. We sequenced genomes of A. planci from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (GBR) and Okinawa, Japan (OKI) to guide identification of species-specific peptide communication with potential applications in mitigation strategies. The genome-encoded proteins excreted and secreted into the surrounding seawater by COTS forming aggregations and by those escaping the predatory giant triton snail, Charonia tritonis, were identified LC-MS/MS.
Project description:Comprehensive snake venomics of the Okinawa Habu pit viper, Protobothrops flavoviridis, by complementary mass spectrometry-guided approaches
Project description:This dataset is part of ERC funded HumEn project (http://www.hum-en.eu/). This dataset relates to standardization of genome wide DNase 1 hypersensitivity methods in the differentiation system developed in HumEn project.
Project description:As part of the ENCODE consortium project (NIH, NHGRI), we conducted genome-wide location analysis for various transcription factors in various cell types. The long-term goal of this project is to determine the function of each DNA nucleotide in the genome. Measurement of transcription factor binding events is an important part of this effort. Here we measure genome-wide binding events for a variety of important transcriptional regulators. Keywords: ChIP-chip