Raj Lab:Reading list

Here's a list of papers that we think are interesting or useful--still very much a work in progress.

Introduction to stochastic effects in gene expression
//A surprisingly modern analysis of non-genetic variability in gene expression in mammalian cells. //A beautiful demonstration that variability in gene expression is intrinsically random. //Perhaps the first demonstration of the dependence of variability upon biochemical parameters.
 * 1) ko-emboj-90 pmid=2167833
 * 1) elowitz-science-02 pmid=12183631
 * 1) ozbudak-natgen-02 pmid=11967532

Numbers in biology
//A classic paper about the physical limits of receptor function. //A really cool paper about the role that quantitative measurements can play in studying biology
 * 1) berg-biophysj-77 pmid=911982
 * 1) phillips-pnas-09 pmid=20018695

Developmental biology
//This paper talks about how patterns can form from the spatial interactions between diffusing chemical species. Check out the date this paper was published: before the structure of DNA (this ref says 1953, but it was actually 1952)! Also, it's one of the first papers to recognize the role that computer simulations could play in studying these types of problems. //A technical tour de force in which the authors show that stochastic expression established the retinal mosaic in fruit flies. //In this paper, the authors show that stochastic lineage commitment is a result of transcriptome wide variability in gene expression. Cool!
 * 1) turing-ptrslb-52 pmid=2185858
 * 1) gregor-cell-07 pmid=17632062
 * 2) wernet-nature06 pmid=16525464
 * 1) chang-nature08 pmid=18497826