Background: Biologists are often interested in performing a simple database search to identify proteins or genes that contain a well-defined sequence pattern. Many databases do no...
Background: The continuous flow of EST data remains one of the richest sources for discoveries in modern biology. The first step in EST data mining is usually associated with EST ...
Background: The ESTuber database (http://www.itb.cnr.it/estuber) includes 3,271 Tuber borchii expressed sequence tags (EST). The dataset consists of 2,389 sequences from an in-hou...
Barbara Lazzari, Andrea Caprera, Cristian Cosentin...
Background: Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] is one of the most important food and forage legumes in the semiarid tropics because of its ability to tolerate drought and grow ...
Xianfeng Chen, Thomas W. Laudeman, Paul J. Rushton...
Background: Microsatellites are short, tandemly-repeated DNA sequences which are widely distributed among genomes. Their structure, role and evolution can be analyzed based on exh...