Background: The increasing number of sequenced genomes provides the basis for exploring the genetic and functional diversity within the tree of life. Only a tiny fraction of the e...
Tina Koestler, Arndt von Haeseler, Ingo Ebersberge...
Background: Amino acids responsible for structure, core function or specificity may be inferred from multiple protein sequence alignments where a limited set of residue types are ...
Jonathan R. Manning, Emily R. Jefferson, Geoffrey ...
Background: DNA copy number alterations are one of the main characteristics of the cancer cell karyotype and can contribute to the complex phenotype of these cells. These alterati...
Jing Huang, Wen Wei, Joyce Chen, Jane Zhang, Guoyi...
Background: Since the publication of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, bioinformatic data have been accumulating at an overwhelming pace. Currently, more than 3 million...
Elijah Roberts, John Eargle, Dan Wright, Zaida Lut...
Background: Protein sequence alignment is one of the basic tools in bioinformatics. Correct alignments are required for a range of tasks including the derivation of phylogenetic t...
Tomas Ohlson, Varun Aggarwal, Arne Elofsson, Rober...