Background: The invariant lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has potential as a powerful tool for the description of mutant phenotypes and gene expression patterns. We...
Thomas J. Boyle, Zhirong Bao, John I. Murray, Carl...
Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as defined here are single base sequence changes or short insertion/deletions between or within individuals of a given species. ...
Lakshmi K. Matukumalli, John J. Grefenstette, Davi...
Background: Autoimmune diseases are disorders caused by an immune response directed against the body's own organs, tissues and cells. In practice more than 80 clinically dist...
Thomas Karopka, Juliane Fluck, Heinz-Theodor Mevis...
Background: Jumping alignments have recently been proposed as a strategy to search a given multiple sequence alignment A against a database. Instead of comparing a database sequen...
Anne-Kathrin Schultz, Ming Zhang, Thomas Leitner, ...
Background: In this study, we present a robust and reliable computational method for tag-togene assignment in serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE). The method relies on curre...