Background: The ability to visualize genomic features and design experimental assays that can target specific regions of a genome is essential for modern biology. To assist in the...
Background: Comparative genomics is the analysis and comparison of genomes from different species. This area of research is driven by the large number of sequenced genomes and hea...
Mohamed Ibrahim Abouelhoda, Stefan Kurtz, Enno Ohl...
Background: Since the publication of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, bioinformatic data have been accumulating at an overwhelming pace. Currently, more than 3 million...
Elijah Roberts, John Eargle, Dan Wright, Zaida Lut...
Background: Metagenomic analyses of microbial communities that are comprehensive enough to provide multiple samples of most loci in the genomes of the dominant organism types will...
John M. Eppley, Gene W. Tyson, Wayne M. Getz, Jill...
Background: Public databases now contain multitude of complete bacterial genomes, including several genomes of the same species. The available data offers new opportunities to add...