Knime4Bio, a set of custom nodes for the KNIME and other publications

1.	Knime4Bio: a set of custom nodes for the interpretation of Next Generation Sequencing data with KNIME.
	Lindenbaum P, Le Scouarnec S, Portero V, Redon R.
	Bioinformatics. 2011 Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print]
	PMID: 21984761 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Abstract SUMMARY: Analysing large amounts of data generated by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies is difficult for researchers or clinicians without computational skills. They are often compelled to delegate this task to computer biologists working with command line utilities. The availability of easy-to-use tools will become essential with the generalisation of NGS in research and diagnosis. It will enable investigators to handle much more of the analysis. Here, we describe Knime4Bio, a set of custom nodes for the KNIME (The Konstanz Information Miner) interactive graphical workbench, for the interpretation of large biological datasets. We demonstrate that this tool can be utilised to quickly retrieve previously published scientific findings. AVAILABILITY: http://code.google.com/p/knime4bio/

2.	Fetal akinesia: review of the genetics of the neuromuscular causes.
	Ravenscroft G, Sollis E, Charles AK, North KN, Baynam G, Laing NG.
	J Med Genet. 2011 Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print]
	PMID: 21984750 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

3.	Deep resequencing of GWAS loci identifies independent rare variants associated with inflammatory bowel disease.
	Rivas MA, Beaudoin M, Gardet A, Stevens C, Sharma Y, Zhang CK, Boucher G, Ripke S, Ellinghaus D, Burtt N, Fennell T, Kirby A, Latiano A, Goyette P, Green T, Halfvarson J, Haritunians T, Korn JM, Kuruvilla F, Lagacé C, Neale B, Lo KS, Schumm P, Törkvist L; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (NIDDK IBDGC); United Kingdom Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium; International Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium, Dubinsky MC, Brant SR, Silverberg MS, Duerr RH, Altshuler D, Gabriel S, Lettre G, Franke A, D'Amato M, McGovern DP, Cho JH, Rioux JD, Xavier RJ, Daly MJ.
	Nat Genet. 2011 Oct 9. doi: 10.1038/ng.952. [Epub ahead of print]
	PMID: 21983784 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Abstract More than 1,000 susceptibility loci have been identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of common variants; however, the specific genes and full allelic spectrum of causal variants underlying these findings have not yet been defined. Here we used pooled next-generation sequencing to study 56 genes from regions associated with Crohn's disease in 350 cases and 350 controls. Through follow-up genotyping of 70 rare and low-frequency protein-altering variants in nine independent case-control series (16,054 Crohn's disease cases, 12,153 ulcerative colitis cases and 17,575 healthy controls), we identified four additional independent risk factors in NOD2, two additional protective variants in IL23R, a highly significant association with a protective splice variant in CARD9 (P < 1 × 10(-16), odds ratio ≈ 0.29) and additional associations with coding variants in IL18RAP, CUL2, C1orf106, PTPN22 and MUC19. We extend the results of successful GWAS by identifying new, rare and probably functional variants that could aid functional experiments and predictive models.