Background: Over 60% of protein-coding genes in vertebrates express mRNAs that undergo alternative splicing. The resulting collection of transcript isoforms poses significant chal...
Michael C. Ryan, Barry Zeeberg, Natasha J. Caplen,...
Background: Obtaining physiological insights from microarray experiments requires computational techniques that relate gene expression data to functional information. Traditionall...
Anne M. Denton, Jianfei Wu, Megan K. Townsend, Pre...
Background: Non-homology based methods such as phylogenetic profiles are effective for predicting functional relationships between proteins with no considerable sequence or struct...
Ryosuke Watanabe, Enrique Morett, Edgar E. Vallejo
Background: Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with DNA microarrays (ChIP-chip) is a high-throughput assay for DNA-protein-binding or post-translational chromatin/histone modi...
Background: There are several situations in population biology research where simulating DNA sequences is useful. Simulation of biological populations under different evolutionary...