Background: Selenocysteine and pyrrolysine are the 21st and 22nd amino acids, which are genetically encoded by stop codons. Since a number of microbial genomes have been completel...
Background: Innumerable biological investigations require comparing collections of molecules, cells or organisms to one another with respect to one or more of their properties. Al...
Background: Current sequencing technologies give access to sequence information for genomes and metagenomes at a tremendous speed. Subsequent data processing is mainly performed b...
Michael Richter, Thierry Lombardot, Ivaylo Kostadi...
Background: Evolutionary processes, such as gene family evolution or parasite-host cospeciation, can often be viewed as a tree evolving inside another tree. Relating two given tre...
Bengt Sennblad, Eva Schreil, Ann-Charlotte Berglun...
Background: Comparative genomics is the analysis and comparison of genomes from different species. This area of research is driven by the large number of sequenced genomes and hea...
Mohamed Ibrahim Abouelhoda, Stefan Kurtz, Enno Ohl...