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BMCBI
2008
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Background: Survival time is an important clinical trait for many disease studies. Previous works have shown certain relationship between patients' gene expression profiles a...
BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Genome wide association (GWA) studies are now being widely undertaken aiming to find the link between genetic variations and common diseases. Ideally, a well-powered G...
BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: The rapid annotation of genes on a genome-wide scale is now possible for several organisms using high-throughput RNA interference assays to knock down the expression o...
BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Over 60% of protein-coding genes in vertebrates express mRNAs that undergo alternative splicing. The resulting collection of transcript isoforms poses significant chal...