Eugenia Galeota

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | IIT · Center for Genomic Science

Intracranial aneurysms (IAs) are very rare in children, and the characteristics of the T-cells in the IA wall are largely unknown. A comatose 7-years-old child was admitted to our center because of a subarachnoid hemorrhage due to a ruptured giant aneurysm of the right middle cerebral artery. Two days after the aneurysm clipping the patient was ful...

Motivation Approaches such as chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) represent the standard for the identification of binding sites of DNA-associated proteins, including transcription factors and histone marks. Public repositories of omics data contain a huge number of experimental ChIP-seq data, but their reuse and integra...

To understand how a protective immune response against SARS-CoV-2 develops over time, we integrated phenotypic, transcriptional, and repertoire analyses on PBMCs from patients with mild and severe COVID-19 during and after infection and compared them to healthy donors (HDs). A type I IFN response signature marked all the immune populations from sev...

The quantification of the kinetic rates of RNA synthesis, processing, and degradation are largely based on the integrative analysis of total and nascent transcription, the latter being quantified through RNA metabolic labeling. We developed INSPEcT-, a computational method based on the mathematical modeling of premature and mature RNA expression th...

Public repositories of large-scale omics datasets represent a valuable resource for researchers. In fact, data re-analysis can either answer novel questions or provide critical data able to complement in-house experiments. However, despite the development of standards for the compilation of metadata, the identification and organization of samples s...

The histone demethylase LSD1 is a key chromatin regulator that is often deregulated in cancer. Its ortholog, dLsd1 plays a crucial role in Drosophila oogenesis; however, our knowledge of dLsd1 function is insufficient to explain its role in the ovary. Here, we have performed genome-wide analysis of dLsd1 binding in the ovary, and we document that d...

The kinetic rates of RNA synthesis, processing and degradation determine the dynamics of transcriptional regulation by governing both the abundance and the responsiveness to modulations of premature and mature RNA species. The study of RNA dynamics is largely based on the integrative analysis of total and nascent transcription, with the latter bein...

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant RNA modification. It has been involved in the regulation of RNA metabolism, including degradation and translation, in both physiological and disease conditions. A recent study showed that m6A-mediated degradation of key transcripts also plays a role in the control of T cells homeostasis and IL-7 induced...

Public repositories of large-scale biological data currently contain hundreds of thousands of experiments, including high-throughput sequencing and microarray data. The potential of using these resources to assemble data sets combining samples previously not associated is vastly unexplored. This requires the ability to associate samples with clear...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have deeply changed our understanding of cellular processes by delivering an astonishing amount of data at affordable prices; nowadays, many biology laboratories have already accumulated a large number of sequenced samples. However, managing and analyzing these data poses new challenges, which may easil...

Background: To investigate in the NeoSphere trial the contribution of the immune system to pathological complete response in breast (pCRB) after neoadjuvant docetaxel with trastuzumab (TH), pertuzumab (TP) or both (THP), or monoclonal antibodies alone (HP). Patients and methods: Immune-gene mRNA expression (n=350, 83,8%), lymphocyte-infiltration...

Cell organization is governed and maintained via specific interactions among its constituent macromolecules. Comparison of the experimentally determined protein interaction networks in different model organisms has revealed little conservation of the specific edges linking ortholog proteins. Nevertheless, some topological characteristics of the gra...

Background: Genomic studies in estrogen-receptor (ER) positive breast cancer showed few commonly mutated genes and suggested that tumors with higher background of mutation rate were enriched in intrinsic aromatase-inhibitor-resistant tumors (Ellis MJ Nature 2012). Different combinations of proliferation (PROL) and estrogen-receptor related genes (E...

IntAct (freely available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact) is an open-source, open data molecular interaction database populated by data either curated from the literature or from direct data depositions. IntAct has developed a sophisticated web-based curation tool, capable of supporting both IMEx- and MIMIx-level curation. This tool is now utilized...

The Proteomics Standard Initiative Common QUery InterfaCe (PSICQUIC) specification was created by the Human Proteome Organization Proteomics Standards Initiative (HUPO-PSI) to enable computational access to molecular-interaction data resources by means of a standard Web Service and query language. Currently providing >150 million binary interaction...

The Molecular INTeraction Database (MINT, http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/) is a public repository for protein–protein interactions (PPI) reported in peer-reviewed journals. The database grows steadily over the years and at September 2011 contains approximately 235 000 binary interactions captured from over 4750 publications. The web interface all...

One of the most pressing and interesting actual scientific challenges deals with the analysis and the understanding of complex network dynamics. In particular, a major trend is the definition of new frameworks for the analysis, the exploration and the detection of the dynamics at play in real dynamic networks. In this paper, we focus in particular...

To study proteins in the context of a cellular system, it is essential that the molecules with which a protein interacts are identified and the functional consequence of each interaction is understood. A plethora of resources now exist to capture molecular interaction data from the many laboratories generating…