Background: Over the past few years, new massively parallel DNA sequencing technologies have emerged. These platforms generate massive amounts of data per run, greatly reducing th...
Francisco Fernandes, Paulo G. S. da Fonseca, Lu&ia...
Background: Metagenomic analyses of microbial communities that are comprehensive enough to provide multiple samples of most loci in the genomes of the dominant organism types will...
John M. Eppley, Gene W. Tyson, Wayne M. Getz, Jill...
It is widely accepted that the optimal alignment between a pair of proteins or nucleic acid sequences that minimizes the edit distance may not necessarily re
ect the correct biolog...
At least 43% of the human genome is occupied by repetitive elements. Moreover, around 51% of the rice genome is occupied by repetitive elements. The analysis of repetitive element...
Optical mapping is an integrated system for the analysis of single DNA molecules. It constructs restriction maps (noted as “optical map”) from individual DNA molecules present...
Haifeng Li, Anton Valouev, David C. Schwartz, Mich...