Bioinformatics/Computational Studies In The Area Of Telomere Shortening
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skm770 ▴ 150

Hi All,

I was wondering if anybody can provide me with links to good review papers which use computational biology/bioinformatics approaches to tackle the problem of telomere shortening and different epigenetic factors involved. Although there are a lot of publications available that talk about it but I couldn't find any which were computationally intensive and I was wondering if other people have tried to model the problem computationally or is it even feasible to do so. Also since cancer cells have a different telomere length maintenance mechanism "Alternative lengthening of telomeres" (ALT) I was wondering if people have used the encode or other available dataset to answer biological questions about telomere length maintenance during cancer vs the control set using various computational/statistical methods

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AndreiR ▴ 260

Hello,

Maybe this could help:

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/5/666.full.pdf

and think this is a good review for background (without bioinformatics)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722252/pdf/emboj2009195a.pdf

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Yeah Thanks I have gone through these reviews before. But I was wondering how feasible it is to target this problem using datasets like ENCODE or others available at NIH Roadmap to epigenomics. I am really interested to go ahead in using these data sets to study how ALT may be affecting different cancers differently and somehow come up with a computational model to describe it. I am just concerned about the feasibility of the project using these data sets

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