The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) was a longitudinal cohort study which investigated the natural history of knee osteoarthritis across the spectrum of the disease through the collection of imaging, biochemical, genetic, and risk markers of knee OA. Measures included knee symptoms and function (evaluated using the West Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) and the Knee injury and...

This dataset includes 330 Emirati adults participating in the UAE Healthy Future Study-Pilot (UAEHFS-pilot) who provided mouthwash samples. There were 225 non-smokers and 105 smokers who used cigarettes, dokha, shisha, or a combination of tobacco products. 101 of the 105 smokers were male. Tobacco use and frequency were assessed with a structured questionnaire and urine cotinine lab results. Gene...

The dataset includes 864 genomic sequences obtained from COVID-19 patients aged 18 years old and above within the NYU Langone Health system between March 12 and May 10, 2020. Patients reflected the health system's catchment area (i.e., the greater New York City metropolitan area). rRNA-depleted total RNA was sequenced, underwent quality control, and analyzed to produce phylogenetic trees. Further...

To construct a fixed time-scaled phylogenetic tree, the investigators combined 828 viral genome sequences obtained from COVID-19 patients at NYU Langone Health between March and May 2020 with 1,899 background sequences that were contributed to the Nextstrain repository. A total of 2,727 SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences are available in the dataset. The supporting R code included with the dataset will produce...

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is caused by changes in FMR1 gene, which leads to transcriptional silencing and loss of its protein product fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). For this study, proteomic experiments were performed to investigate the de novo translational profile in FXS model mice is altered at steady state and in response to metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) stimulation. Altered...

The data from this study displays the complexity of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) transcriptome architecture. VZV causes varicella and reactivates later in life to cause herpes zoster. The VZV genome is known to produce multitudes of overlapping transcripts and distinct open reading frames (ORFs) have been studied as well. However, the architecture of the VZV transcriptome remains unknown. This...

This dataset was collected to show that direct RNA sequencing using nanopore arrays is an alternative to conventional RNA sequencing approaches, which are complicated by high gene density, overlapping reading frames, and complex splicing patterns. In direct RNA sequencing, individual polyadenylated RNAs are sequenced directly. For this study, direct RNA sequencing was used to profile the herpes simplex...

Adenovirus is a nuclear replicating DNA virus that relies on the host cell machinery for productive infection. Processing and metabolism of cellular RNAs are regulated by METTL3, which catalyzes the addition of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) to messenger RNAs. Although m6A-modified adenoviral RNAs have been detected previously, the location and function of m6A within the infectious cycle is unknown. For...

Arboviruses are caused by a group of viruses spread to people (host) by the bite of infected insects (vector). It is within these hosts that arboviruses replicate and undergo genomic evolution. However, how arboviruses evolve, are transmitted, or cause disease in nature remain unclear. Therefore, this study established a Zika virus (ZIKV) vector-borne transmission system in immunocompromised mice to...

This study characterized gut microbiome in pre-treatment stool using 16S rRNA gene and shotgun metagenome sequencing in melanoma patients undergoing immunotherapy. Transcriptional expression of metagenomic pathways was confirmed with metatranscriptome sequencing. Metatranscriptomics is important for determining expression of metagenomic functions in the microbial community. They also examined associations...