Background: The question of how a circle or line segment becomes covered when random arcs are marked off has arisen repeatedly in bioinformatics. The number of uncovered gaps is o...
John Moriarty, Julian R. Marchesi, Anthony Metcalf...
Background: Transcription Factors (TFs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) are key players for gene expression regulation in higher eukaryotes. In the last years, a large amount of bioinforma...
Olivier Friard, Angela Re, Daniela Taverna, Michel...
Background: Due to the complex and distributed nature of biological research, our current biological knowledge is spread over many redundant annotation databases maintained by man...
Brad T. Sherman, Da Wei Huang, Qina Tan, Yongjian ...
Background: There is accumulating evidence that the milieu of repeat elements and other nongenic sequence features at a given chromosomal locus, here defined as the genome environ...
Derek Huntley, Y. Amy Tang, Tatyana B. Nesterova, ...
Background: The engineering of ontologies, especially with a view to a text-mining use, is still a new research field. There does not yet exist a well-defined theory and technolog...