Background: Statistical bioinformatics is the study of biological data sets obtained by new micro-technologies by means of proper statistical methods. For a better understanding o...
Comparative genomics has become an essential approach for identifying homologous gene candidates and their functions, and for studying genome evolution. We developed GenomeBlast, ...
Guoqing Lu, Liying Jiang, Resa M. Kotalik, Thaine ...
Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
Morgan G. I. Langille, William W. L. Hsiao, Fiona ...
Background: Rapid annotation and comparisons of genomes from multiple isolates (pan-genomes) is becoming commonplace due to advances in sequencing technology. Genome annotations c...
Samuel V. Angiuoli, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Steve...
Background: Protein function is often dependent on subsets of solvent-exposed residues that may exist in a similar three-dimensional configuration in non homologous proteins thus ...