Understanding the functional significance of alternative splicing and other mechanisms that generate RNA transcript diversity is an important challenge facing modern-day molecular...
Ann E. Loraine, Gregg A. Helt, Melissa S. Cline, M...
Background: Assignment of function to new molecular sequence data is an essential step in genomics projects. The usual process involves similarity searches of a given sequence aga...
Liisa B. Koski, Michael W. Gray, B. Franz Lang, Ge...
Background: RNA-dependent gene silencing is becoming a routine tool used in laboratories worldwide. One of the important remaining hurdles in the selection of the target sequence,...
The tertiary (3D) structure of a protein contains the essential information for understanding the biological function of the protein at the molecular and cellular levels. Traditio...
Manesh J. Shah, Sergei Passovets, Dongsup Kim, Kyl...
Background: As a variety of functional genomic and proteomic techniques become available, there is an increasing need for functional analysis methodologies that integrate heteroge...