Background: We present a novel method to encode ambiguously aligned regions in fixed multiple sequence alignments by ‘Pairwise Identity and Cost Scores Ordination’ (PICS-Ord)....
Robert K. Luecking, Brendan P. Hodkinson, Alexandr...
Background: Genes work coordinately as gene modules or gene networks. Various computational approaches have been proposed to find gene modules based on gene expression data; for e...
Ting Gong, Jianhua Xuan, Li Chen, Rebecca B. Riggi...
Chromatin modification (CM) is a set of epigenetic processes that govern many aspects of DNA replication, transcription and repair. CM is carried out by groups of physically inter...
Andrei L. Turinsky, Brian Turner, Rosanne C. Borja...
A decade ago, the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database was established at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The original objective of GEO was to serve as...
Tanya Barrett, Dennis B. Troup, Stephen E. Wilhite...
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...