Tools and Resources

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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Deterministic genetic barcoding for multiplexed behavioral and single-cell transcriptomic studies

    Jorge Blanco Mendana, Margaret Donovan ... Daryl M Gohl
    A method for genetically barcoding Drosophila is developed and used to tag defined cell populations in vivo for single-cell transcriptomics experiments and to enable multiplexed behavioral analysis.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The PRC2.1 subcomplex opposes G1 progression through regulation of CCND1 and CCND2

    Adam D Longhurst, Kyle Wang ... David P Toczyski
    An MTF2-containing subcomplex of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 promotes cell cycle progression through repression of D-type cyclin expression in certain cellular contexts.
    1. Neuroscience

    Live imaging of excitable axonal microdomains in ankyrin-G-GFP mice

    Christian Thome, Jan Maximilian Janssen ... Maren Engelhardt
    With the new Ankyrin-G-GFP reporter line, researchers can visualize and study neuronal compartments critical for signal transduction without affecting neuronal activity and subcellular integrity of the cells under investigation.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Volumetric trans-scale imaging of massive quantity of heterogeneous cell populations in centimeter-wide tissue and embryo

    Taro Ichimura, Taishi Kakizuka ... Takeharu Nagai
    Volumetric trans-scale imaging with a subcellular resolution across a wide field-of-view of 1.5 × 1.0 cm2 has been realized, facilitating the analysis of cellular dynamics during embryogenesis and brain function.
    1. Neuroscience

    Predicting individual traits from models of brain dynamics accurately and reliably using the Fisher kernel

    Christine Ahrends, Mark W Woolrich, Diego Vidaurre
    The HMM-Fisher kernel approach leverages individual signatures of brain dynamics for prediction, which can be used, for example, to search for brain dynamics-informed biomarkers of neuropsychiatric disease or predict treatment response.
    1. Neuroscience

    Driver lines for studying associative learning in Drosophila

    Yichun Shuai, Megan Sammons ... Yoshinori Aso
    A new collection of driver lines enables experimental manipulation of over 300 cell types centered around the mushroom body in Drosophila.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    CausalXtract, a flexible pipeline to extract causal effects from live-cell time-lapse imaging data

    Franck Simon, Maria Colomba Comes ... Herve Isambert
    CausalXtract is a computational tool to discover causal effects, beyond classical Granger and Schreiber causality approaches, from live-cell imaging data for a range of fundamental and translational research applications.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Robust single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals depot-specific cell population dynamics in adipose tissue remodeling during obesity

    Jisun So, Olivia Strobel ... Hyun Cheol Roh
    Significant technical improvement in single-nucleus RNA-seq reveals distinct adipocyte subpopulations that respond differently to obesity, including those undergoing adaptive healthy expansion and others displaying severe dysfunction.
    1. Neuroscience

    The NeuroML ecosystem for standardized multi-scale modeling in neuroscience

    Ankur Sinha, Padraig Gleeson ... Robin Angus Silver
    The NeuroML model description language, with its extensive software ecosystem, supports researchers in the development of FAIR, data-driven, biologically detailed models of neural systems.
    1. Cell Biology

    Atlas of Fshr expression from novel reporter mice

    Hongqian Chen, Hui-Qing Fang ... Peng Liu
    Exploiting the power of the Fshr reporter, the first comprehensive genetic record of the spatial distribution of FSHR expression offers prospects for extensive exploration of FSH-FSHR biology.