Background: Defensins are antimicrobial peptides of innate immunity functioning by non-specific binding to anionic phospholipids in bacterial membranes. Their cationicity, amphipa...
Background: Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is a perennial plant and has been consumed by humans as a vegetable, a tea and an herbal medicine for more than 2000 years. It, however,...
Lei Guo, Nan Mei, Stacey L. Dial, James C. Fuscoe,...
Background: Alignment of RNA secondary structures is important in studying functional RNA motifs. In recent years, much progress has been made in RNA motif finding and structure a...
Jianghui Liu, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Jun Hu, Bin Tia...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Milenko Drinic UCLA Computer Science Dep. 4732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 milenko@cs.ucla.edu Darko Kirovski Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 da...