Background: With the rapid expansion of DNA sequencing databases, it is now feasible to identify relevant information from prior sequencing projects and completed genomes and appl...
Background: Recent genomic scale survey of epigenetic states in the mammalian genomes has shown that promoters and enhancers are correlated with distinct chromatin signatures, pro...
Kyoung-Jae Won, Iouri Chepelev, Bing Ren, Wei Wang
Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common genetic variations in the human genome and are useful as genomic markers. Oligonucleotide SNP microarrays ha...
Cheng Li, Rameen Beroukhim, Barbara A. Weir, Wendy...
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...