4%) and the full-length isoform (29.6%). Δ(E1q141) would provoke the loss of 47 amino-acids of the N-terminal domain that encodes for substrate specificity. Thus, the three anomalous transcripts are likely to inactivate UGT1A1. Moreover, this patient is also homozygous for the promoter variant A(TA)7TAA that decreases UGT1A1 expression by 70%, so the full-length transcript produced by c.864+5G>T would be even more reduced ( less then 9%), thus supporting the diagnosis of CNS-type II. Therefore, minigenes represent valuable tools for the functional and clinical classifications of genetic variants. Copyright © 2020 Gailite, Valenzuela-Palomo, Sanoguera-Miralles, Rots, Kreile and Velasco.Structural variation (SV) represents a major form of genetic variations that contribute to polymorphic variations, human diseases, and phenotypes in many organisms. Long-read sequencing has been successfully used to identify novel and complex SVs. However, comparison of SV detection tools for long-read sequencing datasets has not been reported. Therefore, we developed an analysis workflow that combined two alignment tools (NGMLR and minimap2) and five callers (Sniffles, Picky, smartie-sv, PBHoney, and NanoSV) to evaluate the SV detection in six datasets of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The accuracy of SV regions was validated by re-aligning raw reads in diverse alignment tools, SV callers, experimental conditions, and sequencing platforms. The results showed that SV detection between NGMLR and minimap2 was not significant when using the same caller. The PBHoney was with the highest average accuracy (89.04%) and Picky has the lowest average accuracy (35.85%). The accuracy of NanoSV, Sniffles, and smartie-sv was 68.67%, 60.47%, and 57.67%, respectively. In addition, smartie-sv and NanoSV detected the most and least number of SVs, and SV detection from the PacBio sequencing platform was significantly more than that from ONT (p = 0.000173). Copyright © 2020 Luan, Zhang, Zhu, Chen and Xie.Recent research using chromatin conformation capture technologies, such as Hi-C, has demonstrated the importance of topologically associated domains (TADs) and smaller chromatin loops, collectively referred hereafter as "interacting domains." Many such domains change during development or disease, and exhibit cell- and condition-specific differences. Quantification of the dynamic behavior of interacting domains will help to better understand genome regulation. Methods for comparing interacting domains between cells and conditions are highly limited. We developed TADCompare, a method for differential analysis of boundaries of interacting domains between two or more Hi-C datasets. TADCompare is based on a spectral clustering-derived measure called the eigenvector gap, which enables a loci-by-loci comparison of boundary differences. Using this measure, we introduce methods for identifying differential and consensus boundaries of interacting domains and tracking boundary changes over time. We further propose a novel framework for the systematic classification of boundary changes. Colocalization- and gene enrichment analysis of different types of boundary changes demonstrated distinct biological functionality associated with them. TADCompare is available on https//github.com/dozmorovlab/TADCompare and Bioconductor (submitted). Copyright © 2020 Cresswell and Dozmorov.Escherichia coli cells respond to a period of famine by globally reorganizing their gene expression. The changes are known as the stringent response, which is orchestrated by the alarmone ppGpp that binds directly to RNA polymerase. The resulting changes in gene expression are particularly well studied in the case of amino acid starvation. We used deep RNA sequencing in combination with spike-in cells to measure global changes in the transcriptome after valine-induced isoleucine starvation of a standard E. coli K12 strain.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Etopophos.html  Owing to the whole-cell spike-in method that eliminates variations in RNA extraction efficiency between samples, we show that ribosomal RNA levels are reduced during isoleucine starvation and we quantify how the change in cellular RNA content affects estimates of gene regulation. Specifically, we show that standard data normalization relying on sample sequencing depth underestimates the number of down-regulated genes in the stringent response and overestimates the number of up-regulated genes by approximately 40%. The whole-cell spike-in method also made it possible to quantify how rapidly the pool of total messenger RNA (mRNA) decreases upon amino acid starvation. A principal component analysis showed that the first two components together described 69% of the variability of the data, underlining that large and highly coordinated regulons are at play in the stringent response. The induction of starvation by sudden addition of high valine concentrations provoked prominent regulatory responses outside of the expected ppGpp, RpoS, and Lrp regulons. This underlines the notion that with the high resolution possible in deep RNA sequencing analysis, any different starvation method (e.g., nitrogen-deprivation, removal of an amino acid from an auxotroph strain, or valine addition to E. coli K12 strains) will produce measurable variations in the stress response produced by the cells to cope with the specific treatment. Copyright © 2020 Gummesson, Shah, Borum, Fessler, Mitarai, Sørensen and Svenningsen.Genomic prediction is an effective way to estimate the genomic breeding values from genetic information based on statistical methods such as best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP). The used of haplotype, clusters of linked single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) as markers instead of individual SNPs can improve the accuracy of genomic prediction. Since the probability of a quantitative trait loci to be in strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) with a cluster of markers is higher compared to an individual marker. To make haplotypes efficient in genomic prediction, finding optimal ways to define haplotypes is essential. In this study, 770K or 50K SNP chip data was collected from Hanwoo (Korean cattle) population consisted of 3,498 cattle. Using SNP chip data, haplotype was defined in three different ways based on 1) the number of SNPs included, 2) length of haplotypes (bp), and 3) agglomerative hierarchical clustering based on LD. To compare the methods in parallel, haplotypes defined by all methods were set to have comparable sizes; 5, 10, 20 or 50 SNPs on average per haplotype.