Background: A key post genomics challenge is to identify how genes in an organism come together and perform physiological functions. An important first step in this direction is t...
Technology--the collection of devices and methods available to human society--evolves by constructing new devices and methods from ones that previously exist, and in turn offering...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Background: Since its inception, proteomics has essentially operated in a discovery mode with the goal of identifying and quantifying the maximal number of proteins in a sample. I...
Mi-Youn K. Brusniak, Sung-Tat Kwok, Mark Christian...
Background: Phytochromes are photoreceptors, discovered in plants, that control a wide variety of developmental processes. They have also been found in bacteria and fungi, but for...