Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
Background: New "next generation" DNA sequencing technologies offer individual researchers the ability to rapidly generate large amounts of genome sequence data at drama...
Background: Sequencing metagenomes that were pre-amplified with primer-based methods requires the removal of the additional tag sequences from the datasets. The sequenced reads ca...
Robert Schmieder, Yan Wei Lim, Forest Rohwer, Robe...
Background: Most software packages for whole genome association studies are non-graphical, purely text based programs originally designed to run with UNIX-like operating systems. ...
Background: Gene expression patterns of olfactory receptors (ORs) are an important component of the signal encoding mechanism in the olfactory system since they determine the inte...