Bioinformatics and Genomics
Article commentary
19 September 2018
Application of EST-SSR markers developed from the transcriptome of Torreya grandis (Taxaceae), a threatened nut-yielding conifer tree
Editor rating: 9 / 10
Pankaj Jaiswal –– This article on Torreya grandis (Taxaceae) an ancient conifer species that is endemic to southeast China provides an important insight into the population structure and distribution of the species. It also generated the genomic resources necessary to move forward the research on Torreya grandis.
17 September 2018
Metabolic marker gene mining provides insight in global mcrA diversity and, coupled with targeted genome reconstruction, sheds further light on metabolic potential of the Methanomassiliicoccales
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Peter Dunfield –– Will specificaly interest those working on methanogenesis, but more broadly the technical novelty may appeal to many microbial ecologists interested in mining metagenomic datases.
17 September 2018
Exome sequencing study of 20 patients with high myopia
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Yong Wang –– This paper performed exom sequencing to study high myopia and identified several potential disease genes. The data and analysis provides a valuable resources for the field.
31 August 2018
Plant data visualisation using network graphs
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Massimiliano Zanin –– An interesting demonstration on how data can be represented using new web-based technologies.
14 August 2018
A minimal set of internal control genes for gene expression studies in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Section Editor rating: 7 / 10
Elena Papaleo –– An interesting solution to identify a subset of reference genes for qualitative qPCR of cancer samples
8 August 2018
Denoising the Denoisers: an independent evaluation of microbiome sequence error-correction approaches
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Jun Chen –– The article provides a timely and informative comparison of the state-of-the-art error-correction pipelines. The presented results can guide the selection of appropriate pipelines that suit the research needs.
3 August 2018
The Oyster River Protocol: a multi-assembler and kmer approach for de novo transcriptome assembly
Section Editor rating: 7 / 10
Keith Crandall –– De novo transcriptome assembly is a complex and difficult problem without a solid solution that works well across species. This helps move the needle in the right direction.
31 July 2018
Detection and benchmarking of somatic mutations in cancer genomes using RNA-seq data
Editor rating: 7 / 10
Elena Papaleo –– An interesting read for the cancer biology and computational biology community on the usage of RNASeq to study somatic mutations.
31 July 2018
Venomix: a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Section Editor rating: 7 / 10
Keith Crandall –– This is a novel bioinformatic pipeline to find toxin genes from transcriptome data that looks to be broadly applicable across organisms.
31 July 2018
Rapid multi-locus sequence typing direct from uncorrected long reads using Krocus
Section Editor rating: 7 / 10
Keith Crandall –– Krocus looks like a great piece of software now extended for long-read sequencing technology to identify MLST schemes. 
Academic Editors
Average h-index of Editorial Board: 35
Discussing these articles
Donovan Parks @donovan_parks
3 days ago
Nice approach for using large-scale mining of specific genes to identify novel lineages of important metabolic genes https://t.co/Edf2AMrCCh via @thePeerJ
Behav Ecol Papers @BehavEcolPapers
24 days ago
Plant data visualisation using network graphs https://t.co/jNhxh3QGUR @thePeerJ https://t.co/WtIvd7p08x
binay panda @ganitlabs
37 days ago
our recent paper on a minimal set of internal control genes for gene expression studies in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma busts old myths on housekeeping genes in hnscc gene expression studies https://t.co/vf1rBZuUl9 #openscience
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash
47 days ago
Denoising the Denoisers: an independent evaluation of microbiome sequence error-correction approaches https://t.co/gdqfcA3Qhd w @BetaScience
Matt MacManes @macmanes
52 days ago
Finally Published! The Oyster River Protocol: a multi-assembler and kmer approach for de novo transcriptome assembly. https://t.co/6Ss7TULCKQ
Jason Macrander @Jason_Macrander
55 days ago
Happy #ToxinTuesday! Venomix: Toxin Gene Candidate Identifier https://t.co/V5ebCm9Lmv is now available (but was before on @Bitbucket and @PeerJPreprints) now via @thePeerJ.
Andrew Page @andrewjpage
55 days ago
Krocus for uncorrected long read MLST has been published today in @thePeerJ https://t.co/zlZchJRjM6 #Bioinformatics #Microbiology #Epidemiology