Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
Background: Detecting conserved noncoding sequences (CNSs) across species highlights the functional elements. Alignment procedures combined with computational prediction of transc...
Hisakazu Iwama, Yukio Hori, Kensuke Matsumoto, Koj...
Background: Second generation sequencing technologies yield DNA sequence data at ultra high-throughput. Common to most biological applications is a mapping of the reads to an almo...
Manuel Holtgrewe, Anne-Katrin Emde, David Weese, K...
Large-scale comparison of genomic DNA is of fundamental importance in annotating functional elements of genomes. To perform large comparisons efficiently, BLAST (Methods: Companio...
ALTER is an open web-based tool to transform between different multiple sequence alignment formats. The originality of ALTER lies in the fact that it focuses on the specifications...