Background: Population genetics studies based on the analysis of mtDNA and mitochondrial disease studies have produced a huge quantity of sequence data and related information. Th...
Background: The general problem of RNA secondary structure prediction under the widely used thermodynamic model is known to be NP-complete when the structures considered include a...
In biological applications, the tandem mass spectrometry is a widely used method for determining protein and peptide sequences from an ”in vitro” sample. The sequences are not...
Background: As one of the most widely used parsimony methods for ancestral reconstruction, the Fitch method minimizes the total number of hypothetical substitutions along all bran...
Jialiang Yang, Jun Li, Liuhuan Dong, Stefan Gr&uum...
Background: Comparison of the human genome with other primates offers the opportunity to detect evolutionary events that created the diverse phenotypes among the primate species. ...