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: Genes interact with each other as basic building blocks of life, forming a complicated network. The relationship between groups of genes with different functions can b...
Jong-Min Kim, Yoon-Sung Jung, Engin A. Sungur, Kap...
Background: Probability based statistical learning methods such as mutual information and Bayesian networks have emerged as a major category of tools for reverse engineering mecha...
Background: Gene family identification from ESTs can be a valuable resource for analysis of genome evolution but presents unique challenges in organisms for which the entire genom...
Background: The engineering of ontologies, especially with a view to a text-mining use, is still a new research field. There does not yet exist a well-defined theory and technolog...