Background: The regulation of gene expression is complex and occurs at many levels, including transcriptional and post-transcriptional, in metazoans. Transcriptional regulation is...
Christina Chaivorapol, Collin Melton, Grace Wei, R...
Background: Transposable elements are abundant in eukaryotic genomes and it is believed that they have a significant impact on the evolution of gene and chromosome structure. Whil...
Background: The joint analysis of several categorical variables is a common task in many areas of biology, and is becoming central to systems biology investigations whose goal is ...
Corinne Dahinden, Giovanni Parmigiani, Mark C. Eme...
Background: Testing for selection is becoming one of the most important steps in the analysis of multilocus population genetics data sets. Existing applications are difficult to u...
Tiago Antao, Ana Lopes, Ricardo J. Lopes, Albano B...
Background: Ultraconserved elements are nucleotide or protein sequences with 100% identity (no mismatches, insertions, or deletions) in the same organism or between two or more or...