Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is considered a strong evolutionary force shaping the content of microbial genomes in a substantial manner. It is the difference in spee...
Stephan Waack, Oliver Keller, Roman Asper, Thomas ...
Background: We establish that the occurrence of protein folds among genomes can be accurately described with a Weibull function. Systems which exhibit Weibull character can be int...
Artem Cherkasov, Shannan J. Ho Sui, Robert C. Brun...
With the exponential growth of complete genome sequences, the analysis of these sequences is becoming a powerful approach to build genome-scale metabolic models. These models can ...
Background: Arabidopsis thaliana is the model species of current plant genomic research with a genome size of 125 Mb and approximately 28,000 genes. The function of half of these ...
Hui Lan, Rachel Carson, Nicholas J. Provart, Antho...
Background: The popularity of massively parallel exome and transcriptome sequencing projects demands new data mining tools with a comprehensive set of features to support a wide r...