Background: Sequence-based phylogeny reconstruction is a fundamental task in Bioinformatics. Practically all methods for phylogeny reconstruction are based on multiple alignments....
Holger Wagner, Burkhard Morgenstern, Andreas W. M....
Background: Several semantic similarity measures have been applied to gene products annotated with Gene Ontology terms, providing a basis for their functional comparison. However,...
Catia Pesquita, Daniel Faria, Hugo P. Bastos, Ant&...
Background: The function of a novel gene product is typically predicted by transitive assignment of annotation from similar sequences. We describe a novel method, GOtcha, for pred...
David M. A. Martin, Matthew Berriman, Geoffrey J. ...
RNA genes lack most of the signals used for protein gene identification. A major shortcoming of previous discriminative methods to distinguish functional RNA (fRNA) genes from oth...
Richard F. Meraz, Xiaofeng He, Chris H. Q. Ding, S...
Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...