Background: Microarray technology is a powerful and widely accepted experimental technique in molecular biology that allows studying genome wide transcriptional responses. However...
Tung T. Nguyen, Richard R. Almon, Debra C. DuBois,...
Background: Protein domains have long been an ill-defined concept in biology. They are generally described as autonomous folding units with evolutionary and functional independenc...
Ya Zhang, John-Marc Chandonia, Chris H. Q. Ding, S...
Background: Integration of multiple results from Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) studies is a key point to understand the genetic determinism of complex traits. Up to now many effor...
Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, Bruno Goffinet, Alain Cha...
Background: Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are surviving traces of ancient retrovirus infections and now reside within the human DNA. Recently HERV expression has been dete...
Merja Oja, Jaakko Peltonen, Jonas Blomberg, Samuel...
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been successfully applied to a variety of problems in molecular biology, ranging from alignment problems to gene nding and annotation. Alignment p...