Background: The engineering of ontologies, especially with a view to a text-mining use, is still a new research field. There does not yet exist a well-defined theory and technolog...
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is considered a strong evolutionary force shaping the content of microbial genomes in a substantial manner. It is the difference in spee...
Stephan Waack, Oliver Keller, Roman Asper, Thomas ...
Background: The public availability of over 180,000 bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences has facilitated microbial identification and classification using hybridization an...
Zhengdong Zhang, George W. Jackson, George E. Fox,...
Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as defined here are single base sequence changes or short insertion/deletions between or within individuals of a given species. ...
Lakshmi K. Matukumalli, John J. Grefenstette, Davi...
Background: The proliferation of data repositories in bioinformatics has resulted in the development of numerous interfaces that allow scientists to browse, search and analyse the...
Kevin L. Garwood, Christopher Garwood, Cornelia He...