Background: The presence of gaps in an alignment of nucleotide or protein sequences is often an inconvenience for bioinformatical studies. In phylogenetic and other analyses, for ...
Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira, Peter Wad Sackett, Ander...
Background: For the past few years, scientific controversy has surrounded the large number of errors in forensic and literature mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data. However, recent res...
Hwan Young Lee, Injee Song, Eunho Ha, Sung-Bae Cho...
Background: Microarrays were first developed to assess gene expression but are now also used to map protein-binding sites and to assess allelic variation between individuals. Rega...
Richard P. Auburn, Roslin R. Russell, Bettina Fisc...
Background: Unigenic evolution is a powerful genetic strategy involving random mutagenesis of a single gene product to delineate functionally important domains of a protein. This ...
Colleen D. Behrsin, Chris J. Brandl, David W. Litc...
Background: Phylogenetic methods which do not rely on multiple sequence alignments are important tools in inferring trees directly from completely sequenced genomes. Here, we exte...
Alexander F. Auch, Stefan R. Henz, Barbara R. Holl...