Background: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of t...
Robert Lawrence, Aaron G. Day-Williams, Katherine ...
Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
Background: Phylogenetic analyses of protein families are used to define the evolutionary relationships between homologous proteins. The interpretation of protein-sequence phyloge...
Gareth Palidwor, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Miguel A. An...
Background: Microarrays are routinely used to assess mRNA transcript levels on a genome-wide scale. Large amount of microarray datasets are now available in several databases, and...
Mattia Pelizzola, Norman Pavelka, Maria Foti, Paol...
Background: Designing novel proteins with site-directed recombination has enormous prospects. By locating effective recombination sites for swapping sequence parts, the probabilit...