BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Much effort is currently made to develop the Gene Ontology (GO). Due to the dynamic nature of information it addresses, GO undergoes constant updates whose results are...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Preparedness for a possible global pandemic caused by viruses such as the highly pathogenic influenza A subtype H5N1 has become a global priority. In particular, it is...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: In recent years, the recognition of semantic types from the biomedical scientific literature has been focused on named entities like protein and gene names (PGNs) and ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ent> <title> <p>UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2008</p> </title> <editor>Eric C Rouchka and Julia Krushkal</editor> <note>Meeting ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Orthologous genes with deep phylogenetic histories are likely to retain similar regulatory features. In this report we utilize orthology assignments for pairs of genes...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: In plant mitochondria, the post-transcriptional RNA editing process converts C to U at a number of specific sites of the mRNA sequence and usually restores phylogeneti...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Cyanobacteria are model organisms for studying photosynthesis, carbon and nitrogen assimilation, evolution of plant plastids, and adaptability to environmental stresse...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Type I signal peptidases (SPases) are essential membrane-bound serine proteases responsible for the cleavage of signal peptides from proteins that are translocated acr...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: In recent years, substantial effort has been applied to de novo regulatory motif discovery. At this time, more than 150 software tools exist to detect regulatory bindi...