Background: Microevolution is the study of short-term changes of alleles within a population and their effects on the phenotype of organisms. The result of the below-species-level...
Background: The estimation of the difference between two evolutionary distances within a triplet of homologs is a common operation that is used for example to determine which of t...
Christophe Dessimoz, Manuel Gil, Adrian Schneider,...
Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
Background: We recently developed the Paired End diTag (PET) strategy for efficient characterization of mammalian transcriptomes and genomes. The paired end nature of short PET se...
Kuo Ping Chiu, Chee-Hong Wong, Qiongyu Chen, Prami...
Background: With the rapid expansion of DNA sequencing databases, it is now feasible to identify relevant information from prior sequencing projects and completed genomes and appl...