In this work, we propose a software tool, called PROCSIMO, which aims the identification of similarities between operons in bacterial genomes. From a database which contains the ch...
Carlos Azevedo, Alexandre Plastino, Ana Tereza R. ...
Background: With the exponential increase in genomic sequence data there is a need to develop automated approaches to deducing the biological functions of novel sequences with hig...
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia
Background: Algorithms that locate evolutionarily conserved sequences have become powerful tools for finding functional DNA elements, including transcription factor binding sites;...
WormBase (http://www.wormbase.org) is a central data repository for nematode biology. Initially created as a service to the Caenorhabditis elegans research field, WormBase has evo...
Todd W. Harris, Igor Antoshechkin, Tamberlyn Bieri...