Background: Identifying genes and pathways associated with diseases such as cancer has been a subject of considerable research in recent years in the area of bioinformatics and co...
Zhenqiu Liu, Ronald B. Gartenhaus, Ming Tan, Feng ...
Background: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in directed sequencing for the discovery of novel polymorphisms. As the first step in PCR directed sequencing, effective PCR pr...
Kelvin Li, Anushka Brownley, Timothy B. Stockwell,...
Background: Gene expression profiling has the potential to unravel molecular mechanisms behind gene regulation and identify gene targets for therapeutic interventions. As microarr...
Ivan Borozan, Limin Chen, Bryan Paeper, Jenny E. H...
Background: Non-homology based methods such as phylogenetic profiles are effective for predicting functional relationships between proteins with no considerable sequence or struct...
Ryosuke Watanabe, Enrique Morett, Edgar E. Vallejo
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...