Background: We study the usage of specific peptide platforms in protein composition. Using the pentapeptide as a unit of length, we find that in the universal proteome many pentap...
Giovanni Capone, Giuseppe Novello, Candida Fasano,...
Background: Microarrays were first developed to assess gene expression but are now also used to map protein-binding sites and to assess allelic variation between individuals. Rega...
Richard P. Auburn, Roslin R. Russell, Bettina Fisc...
Background: Many vital biological processes, including transcription and splicing, require a combination of short, degenerate sequence patterns, or motifs, adjacent to defined seq...
Micah Hamady, Erin Peden, Rob Knight, Ravinder Sin...
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is considered a strong evolutionary force shaping the content of microbial genomes in a substantial manner. It is the difference in spee...
Stephan Waack, Oliver Keller, Roman Asper, Thomas ...
Background: Even though real-time PCR has been broadly applied in biomedical sciences, data processing procedures for the analysis of quantitative real-time PCR are still lacking;...
Joshua S. Yuan, Ann Reed, Feng Chen, C. Neal Stewa...