BMCBI
2008
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2008
Background: Time-course microarray experiments are being increasingly used to characterize dynamic biological processes. In these experiments, the goal is to identify genes differ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Metagenomics is an approach to the characterization of microbial genomes via the direct isolation of genomic sequences from the environment without prior cultivation. ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: The models developed to characterize the evolution of multigene families (such as the birth-and-death and the concerted models) have also been applied on the level of ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Metabolic fluxes provide invaluable insight on the integrated response of a cell to environmental stimuli or genetic modifications. Current computational methods for e...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Identification of RNA homologs within genomic stretches is difficult when pairwise sequence identity is low or unalignable flanking residues are present. In both cases...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Microarray technology has become very popular for globally evaluating gene expression in biological samples. However, non-linear variation associated with the technolo...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Identification of approximate tandem repeats is an important task of broad significance and still remains a challenging problem of computational genomics. Often there ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Tiling arrays are an important tool for the study of transcriptional activity, proteinDNA interactions and chromatin structure on a genome-wide scale at high resolutio...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) or microsatellite markers are valuable for genetic research. Experimental methods to develop SSR markers are laborious, time consuming and...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: The discovery of biomarkers is an important step towards the development of criteria for early diagnosis of disease status. Recently electrospray ionization (ESI) and ...