Background: Many online resources for the life sciences have been developed and introduced in peer-reviewed papers recently, ranging from databases and web applications to data-an...
Background: The Affymetrix GeneChip technology uses multiple probes per gene to measure its expression level. Individual probe signals can vary widely, which hampers proper interp...
Rudi Alberts, Peter Terpstra, Menno Hardonk, Leoni...
Background: There has been considerable effort focused on developing efficient programs for tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Many of these programs do not account f...
Christopher K. Edlund, Won H. Lee, Dalin Li, David...
Background: RNA interference has revolutionized our ability to study the effects of altering the expression of single genes in mammalian (and other) cells through targeted knockdo...
Jyoti K. Shah, Harold R. Garner, Michael A. White,...
Background: Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) or microsatellite markers are valuable for genetic research. Experimental methods to develop SSR markers are laborious, time consuming and...
Jifeng Tang, Samantha J. Baldwin, Jeanne M. E. Jac...