Background: Natural selection eliminates detrimental and favors advantageous phenotypes. This process leaves characteristic signatures in underlying genomic segments that can be r...
Background: Automated protein function prediction methods are the only practical approach for assigning functions to genes obtained from model organisms. Many of the previously re...
Jaehee Jung, Gangman Yi, Serenella A. Sukno, Micha...
10 Phonotaxis is the ability to orient towards or away from sound sources. Crickets can locate conspecifics by phonotaxis to the calling (mating) song they produce, and can evade ...
Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Background: In the last decade, biochemical studies have revealed that epigenetic modifications including histone modifications, histone variants and DNA methylation form a comple...
Xiaojiang Xu, Stephen Hoang, Marty W. Mayo, Stefan...