Background: The availability of complete genomic sequences for hundreds of organisms promises to make obtaining genome-wide estimates of substitution rates, selective constraints ...
Amy Egan, Anup Mahurkar, Jonathan Crabtree, Jonath...
Background: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in directed sequencing for the discovery of novel polymorphisms. As the first step in PCR directed sequencing, effective PCR pr...
Kelvin Li, Anushka Brownley, Timothy B. Stockwell,...
Background: The main two sorts of automatic gene annotation frameworks are ab initio and alignment-based, the latter splitting into two sub-groups. The first group is used for int...
Heng Li, Liang Guan, Tao Liu, Yiran Guo, Wei-Mou Z...
Background: Transposable elements are abundant in eukaryotic genomes and it is believed that they have a significant impact on the evolution of gene and chromosome structure. Whil...
Background: Cis-acting transcriptional regulatory elements in mammalian genomes typically contain specific combinations of binding sites for various transcription factors. Althoug...
Xochitl C. Morgan, Shulin Ni, Daniel P. Miranker, ...