NAR
2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
Protein secretion is a key virulence mechanism of pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria, which makes the investigation of secreted proteins (‘effectors’) crucial for understanding...
NAR
2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
The subcellular localization (SCL) of a microbial protein provides clues about its function, its suitability as a drug, vaccine or diagnostic target and aids experimental design. ...
NAR
2011
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ODB (Operon DataBase) aims to collect data of all known and conserved operons in completely sequenced genomes. Three newly updated features of this database have been added as fol...
BMCBI
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Background: An increasing number of whole viral and bacterial genomes are being sequenced and deposited in public databases. In parallel to the mounting interest in whole genomes,...
BMCBI
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
Background: Complete sequencing of bacterial genomes has become a common technique of present day microbiology. Thereafter, data mining in the complete sequence is an essential st...
BMCBI
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
Background: Public databases now contain multitude of complete bacterial genomes, including several genomes of the same species. The available data offers new opportunities to add...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: The recent availability of complete sequences for numerous closely related bacterial genomes opens up new challenges in comparative genomics. Several methods have been...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Chromosomal replication is the central event in the bacterial cell cycle. Identification of replication origins (oriCs) is necessary for almost all newly sequenced bac...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Background: Overlapping genes (OGs) in bacterial genomes are pairs of adjacent genes of which the coding sequences overlap partly or entirely. With the rapid accumulation of seque...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Bacterial promoters, which increase the efficiency of gene expression, differ from other promoters by several characteristics. This difference, not yet widely exploite...