Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
Morgan G. I. Langille, William W. L. Hsiao, Fiona ...
Background: The ab initio protein folding problem consists of predicting protein tertiary structure from a given amino acid sequence by minimizing an energy function; it is one of...
Background: The accurate determination of orthology and inparalogy relationships is essential for comparative sequence analysis, functional gene annotation and evolutionary studie...
Benjamin Linard, Julie D. Thompson, Olivier Poch, ...
Background: Rapid annotation and comparisons of genomes from multiple isolates (pan-genomes) is becoming commonplace due to advances in sequencing technology. Genome annotations c...
Samuel V. Angiuoli, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Steve...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb.) strains differ in the number and locations of a transposon-like insertion sequence known as IS6110. Accurate detection of this sequence can be ...
Soumya Raychaudhuri, Joshua M. Stuart, Xuemin Liu,...