Background: Human cancer is caused by the accumulation of tumor-specific mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressors that confer a selective growth advantage to cells. As a conse...
Background: Phylogenetic relationships between genes are not only of theoretical interest: they enable us to learn about human genes through the experimental work on their relativ...
Background: Type III secretion system (T3SS) is a specialized protein delivery system in gramnegative bacteria that injects proteins (called effectors) directly into the eukaryoti...
Yang Yang, Jiayuan Zhao, Robyn L. Morgan, Wenbo Ma...
Background: The amount of available biological information is rapidly increasing and the focus of biological research has moved from single components to networks and even larger ...
Stephanie Heinen, Bernhard Thielen, Dietmar Schomb...
Background: Assembling genomic sequences from a set of overlapping reads is one of the most fundamental problems in computational biology. Algorithms addressing the assembly probl...