Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...
Background: Metagenomics is an approach to the characterization of microbial genomes via the direct isolation of genomic sequences from the environment without prior cultivation. ...
Katharina J. Hoff, Maike Tech, Thomas Lingner, Rol...
Background: Motif finding algorithms have developed in their ability to use computationally efficient methods to detect patterns in biological sequences. However the posterior cla...
Ana C. Casimiro, Susana Vinga, Ana T. Freitas, Arl...
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...
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) provides the scientific community with a single, centralized, authoritative resource for protein sequences and functional information. For...