BMCBI
2006
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2006
Background: Migration is an important aspect of cellular behaviour and is therefore widely studied in cell biology. Numerous components are known to participate in this process in...
BMCBI
2006
2006
Searching for interpretable rules for disease mutations: a simulated annealing bump hunting strategy
13 years 5 months ago
Background: Understanding how amino acid substitutions affect protein functions is critical for the study of proteins and their implications in diseases. Although methods have bee...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Genetic recombination can produce heterogeneous phylogenetic histories within a set of homologous genes. These recombination events can be obscured by subsequent resid...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: In the fly Drosophila melanogaster, new genetic, physiological, molecular and behavioral techniques for the functional analysis of the brain are rapidly accumulating. ...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Despite the current availability of several hundreds of thousands of amino acid sequences, more than 36% of the enzyme activities (EC numbers) defined by the Nomenclat...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Protein identification based on mass spectrometry (MS) has previously been performed using peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) or tandem MS (MS/MS) database searching. H...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Proteins are comprised of one or several building blocks, known as domains. Such domains can be classified into families according to their evolutionary origin. Wherea...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Automated comparison of complete sets of genes encoded in two genomes can provide insight on the genetic basis of differences in biological traits between species. Gen...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006