Background: The imprint of natural selection on gene sequences is often difficult to detect. A plethora of methods have been devised to detect genetic changes due to selective pro...
Vicente Arnau, Miguel Gallach, J. Ignasi Lucas, Ig...
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: It has become increasingly apparent that a comprehensive database of RNA motifs is essential in order to achieve new goals in genomic and proteomic research. Secondary...
Teresa W. Haynes, Debra J. Knisley, Edith Seier, Y...