Background: Molecular studies of microbial diversity have provided many insights into the bacterial communities inhabiting the human body and the environment. A common first step ...
James Robert White, Saket Navlakha, Niranjan Nagar...
Background: Many vital biological processes, including transcription and splicing, require a combination of short, degenerate sequence patterns, or motifs, adjacent to defined seq...
Micah Hamady, Erin Peden, Rob Knight, Ravinder Sin...
Recently, all the human genes were identified. But understanding the functions coded in the genes is of course a much harder problem. We are used to view DNA as some sort of a comp...
Background: The regulation of gene expression is complex and occurs at many levels, including transcriptional and post-transcriptional, in metazoans. Transcriptional regulation is...
Christina Chaivorapol, Collin Melton, Grace Wei, R...
Background: Pathways provide topical descriptions of cellular circuitry. Comparing analogous pathways reveals intricate insights into individual functional differences among speci...