Background: Jumping alignments have recently been proposed as a strategy to search a given multiple sequence alignment A against a database. Instead of comparing a database sequen...
Anne-Kathrin Schultz, Ming Zhang, Thomas Leitner, ...
Background: Homology is a crucial concept in comparative genomics. The algorithm probably most widely used for homology detection in comparative genomics, is BLAST. Usually a stri...
Like Fokkens, Sandra M. C. Botelho, Jos Boekhorst,...
Background: Molecular biologists work with DNA databases that often include entire genomes. A common requirement is to search a DNA database to find exact matches for a nondegener...
Background: Enhancements in sequencing technology have recently yielded assemblies of large genomes including rat, mouse, human, fruit fly, and zebrafish. The availability of larg...
Eric C. Rouchka, Abdelnaby Khalyfa, Nigel G. F. Co...
Background: Cis-regulatory modules are combinations of regulatory elements occurring in close proximity to each other that control the spatial and temporal expression of genes. Th...
Voichita D. Marinescu, Isaac S. Kohane, Alberto Ri...