Background: Leishmaniasis is a virulent parasitic infection that causes a worldwide disease burden. Most treatments have toxic side-effects and efficacy has decreased due to the e...
Background: By virtue of their shared ancestry, homologous sequences are similar in their structure and function. Consequently, multiple sequence alignments are routinely used to ...
Daniel R. Caffrey, Paul H. Dana, Vidhya Mathur, Ma...
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Background: RNA editing is one of several post-transcriptional modifications that may contribute to organismal complexity in the face of limited gene complement in a genome. One f...
The Protein Information Resource (PIR; http://wwwnbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/ ) supports research on molecular evolution, functional genomics, and computational biology by maintaining...
Winona C. Barker, John S. Garavelli, Daniel H. Haf...