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Modulation of the proteoglycan receptor PTPσ promotes recovery after spinal cord injury

Lang, B.T. et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature13974 (3 December 2014)

Optimization of crop productivity in tomato using induced mutations in the florigen pathway

Park, S.J. et al. Nat. Genetics 46, 1337–1342 (2014)

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

Buchfink, B. et al. Nat. Methods doi:10.1038/nmeth.3176 (17 November 2014)

A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome

Yue, F. et al. Nature 515, 355–364 (2014)

Genomically encoded analog memory with precise in vivo DNA writing in living cell populations

Farzadfard, F. et al. Science 346, 1256272 (2014)