Exome sequencing reveals second hits in cancer
A recent article published in Genome Biology by Qi Zhao and colleagues explores the roles of allele specific expression and loss of heterozygosity in the… Read more »
Andrew Cosgrove
Senior Editor at Genome Biology
Andrew obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Dundee in 2005. He joined Genome Biology in 2009 after a post doctoral research position at the University of Sheffield investigating chromosome positioning during meiosis in yeast.
Latest posts by Andrew Cosgrove (see all)
- Exploring the history of smallpox vaccination with 19th Century American vaccination kits - 16th November 2020
- The fascination of plant genomes - 20th May 2019
- Genome Biology at Genome Informatics - 18th February 2019
Sequencing of a tumor and its metastases
In an article just published in Genome Biology, Steven Jones and colleagues at the British Columbia Cancer Agency have used next generation sequencing to… Read more »
Skewed X inactivation in mammals
In an article just published in Genome Biology, Andrew Clark and his colleagues at Cornell describe an intriguing bias that they have found in transcription… Read more »
Non-productive transcription in yeast
Studies measuring mRNA abundance, such as those using microarrays, have often been used as a proxy for transcriptional control of gene expression. However, the… Read more »
Active DNA demethylation
In an article recently published in Genome Biology, Michael Rehli and colleagues of the University Hospital Regensburg have identified novel examples of active… Read more »
Sequence periodicity discovered in human genome
In an article just published in Genome Biology, Charles Hebert and Hugues Roest Crollius of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris have shown the existence of a… Read more »
Transcriptional control in flies
In a paper recently published in Genome Biology, Boris Adryan (Cambridge University) and Sarah Teichmann (LMB) have presented evidence that calls in to question… Read more »
Normalizing RNA-seq data
Genome Biology recently published an article from Alicia Oshlack and colleagues in which they describe an approach for performing Gene Ontology analysis on… Read more »
GOseq – a new method for Gene Ontology analysis of RNA-seq data
Until recently, microarrays have been the method of choice for transcriptional profiling. The advent of next generation sequencing technologies however… Read more »
MEM – a useful tool for searching microarray data
Over recent years the use of microarrays has generated vast amounts of gene expression data. However, these data are not readily accessible, particularly… Read more »