Background: In a previous study, we demonstrated that some essential proteins from pathogenic organisms contained sizable insertions/deletions (indels) when aligned to human prote...
Simon K. Chan, Michael Hsing, Fereydoun Hormozdiar...
Background: By virtue of their shared ancestry, homologous sequences are similar in their structure and function. Consequently, multiple sequence alignments are routinely used to ...
Daniel R. Caffrey, Paul H. Dana, Vidhya Mathur, Ma...
Background: In systems biology, and many other areas of research, there is a need for the interoperability of tools and data sources that were not originally designed to be integr...
John Boyle, Christopher C. Cavnor, Sarah A. Killco...
Background: The enormous throughput and low cost of second-generation sequencing platforms now allow research and clinical geneticists to routinely perform single experiments that...
Amol Carl Shetty, Prashanth Athri, Kajari Mondal, ...
Background: Recognizing similarities and deriving relationships among protein molecules is a fundamental requirement in present-day biology. Similarities can be present at various...