Background: Transcription Factors (TFs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) are key players for gene expression regulation in higher eukaryotes. In the last years, a large amount of bioinforma...
Olivier Friard, Angela Re, Daniela Taverna, Michel...
Background: Over 60% of protein-coding genes in vertebrates express mRNAs that undergo alternative splicing. The resulting collection of transcript isoforms poses significant chal...
Michael C. Ryan, Barry Zeeberg, Natasha J. Caplen,...
Background: Whole genome shotgun sequencing produces increasingly higher coverage of a genome with random sequence reads. Progressive whole genome assembly and eventual finishing ...
Qunfeng Dong, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Volker Brendel
Background: Many newly detected point mutations are located in protein-coding regions of the human genome. Knowledge of their effects on the protein's 3D structure provides i...
Hanka Venselaar, Tim A. H. te Beek, Remko K. P. Ku...
Background: There is an increasing number of proteins with known structure but unknown function. Determining their function would have a significant impact on understanding diseas...