Background: As biology becomes an increasingly computational science, it is critical that we develop software tools that support not only bioinformaticians, but also bench biologi...
Background: The identification of chromosomal homology will shed light on such mysteries of genome evolution as DNA duplication, rearrangement and loss. Several approaches have be...
Xiyin Wang, Xiaoli Shi, Zhe Li, Qihui Zhu, Lei Kon...
Background: Despite the current availability of several hundreds of thousands of amino acid sequences, more than 36% of the enzyme activities (EC numbers) defined by the Nomenclat...
Background: Understanding how amino acid substitutions affect protein functions is critical for the study of proteins and their implications in diseases. Although methods have bee...
Background: The invariant lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has potential as a powerful tool for the description of mutant phenotypes and gene expression patterns. We...
Thomas J. Boyle, Zhirong Bao, John I. Murray, Carl...