Background: Although carbohydrates are the third major class of biological macromolecules, after proteins and DNA, there is neither a comprehensive database for carbohydrate struc...
Background: Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are ubiquitous metalloenzymes that play an important role in the defense of aerobic organisms against oxidative stress, by converting reac...
Background: The conservation of gene order among prokaryotic genomes can provide valuable insight into gene function, protein interactions, or events by which genomes have evolved...
Christine Fong, Laurence Rohmer, Matthew Radey, Mi...
Background: There is accumulating evidence that the milieu of repeat elements and other nongenic sequence features at a given chromosomal locus, here defined as the genome environ...
Derek Huntley, Y. Amy Tang, Tatyana B. Nesterova, ...
Background: Gene family identification from ESTs can be a valuable resource for analysis of genome evolution but presents unique challenges in organisms for which the entire genom...