During the last decade, the area of bioinformatics has produced an overwhelming amount of data, with the recently published draft of the human genome being the most prominent exam...
Background: The analysis of oligonucleotide microarray data in pathogen surveillance and discovery is a challenging task. Target template concentration, nucleic acid integrity, an...
Omar J. Jabado, Sean Conlan, P. Lan Quan, Jeffrey ...
Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
Background: The post-genomic era is characterised by a torrent of biological information flooding the public databases. As a direct consequence, similarity searches starting with ...
Anne Friedrich, Raymond Ripp, Nicolas Garnier, Emm...
Background: As one of the most widely used parsimony methods for ancestral reconstruction, the Fitch method minimizes the total number of hypothetical substitutions along all bran...
Jialiang Yang, Jun Li, Liuhuan Dong, Stefan Gr&uum...