Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...
Background: Accurate sequence alignments are essential for homology searches and for building three-dimensional structural models of proteins. Since structure is better conserved ...
Background: Selenocysteine and pyrrolysine are the 21st and 22nd amino acids, which are genetically encoded by stop codons. Since a number of microbial genomes have been completel...
Background: Researchers interested in analysing the expression patterns of functionally related genes usually hope to improve the accuracy of their results beyond the boundaries o...
Background: Prediction of disulfide bridges from protein sequences is useful for characterizing structural and functional properties of proteins. Several methods based on differen...
Marc Vincent, Andrea Passerini, Matthieu Labb&eacu...