Background: Unigenic evolution is a powerful genetic strategy involving random mutagenesis of a single gene product to delineate functionally important domains of a protein. This ...
Colleen D. Behrsin, Chris J. Brandl, David W. Litc...
Background: Mitochondria are sub-cellular organelles that have a central role in energy production and in other metabolic pathways of all eukaryotic respiring cells. In the last f...
Domenico Catalano, Flavio Licciulli, Antonio Turi,...
Background: Expression microarray analysis is one of the most popular molecular diagnostic techniques in the post-genomic era. However, this technique faces the fundamental proble...
Yian A. Chen, Cheng-Chung Chou, Xinghua Lu, Elizab...
Background: There has been an explosion in the number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within public databases. In this study we focused on non-synonymous protein coding ...
Richard J. B. Dobson, Patricia B. Munroe, Mark J. ...
Background: Most virus detection methods are geared towards the detection of specific single viruses or just a few known targets, and lack the capability to uncover the novel viru...