Background: Many functional proteins have a symmetric structure. Most of these are multimeric complexes, which are made of non-symmetric monomers arranged in a symmetric manner. H...
Background: Taxon sampling is a major concern in phylogenetic studies. Incomplete, biased, or improper taxon sampling can lead to misleading results in reconstructing evolutionary...
Federico Plazzi, Ronald R. Ferrucci, Marco Passamo...
Background: Human cancer is caused by the accumulation of tumor-specific mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressors that confer a selective growth advantage to cells. As a conse...
Background: The rate of mRNA transcription is controlled by transcription factors that bind to specific DNA motifs in promoter regions upstream of protein coding genes. Recent res...
Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Feifei Xu, Hans Ronne,...
Background: Understanding how genes are expressed and regulated in different tissues is a fundamental and challenging question. However, most of currently available biological dat...
Xiong Liu, Xueping Yu, Donald J. Zack, Heng Zhu, J...