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The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes

Roman L Tatusov*, Natalie D Fedorova, John D Jackson, Aviva R Jacobs, Boris Kiryutin, Eugene V Koonin, Dmitri M Krylov, Raja Mazumder, Sergei L Mekhedov, Anastasia N Nikolskaya, B Sridhar Rao, Sergei Smirnov, Alexander V Sverdlov, Sona Vasudevan, Yuri I Wolf, Jodie J Yin and Darren A Natale

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The CMG (CDC45/RecJ, MCM, GINS) complex is a conserved component of the DNA replication system in all archaea and eukaryotes

Kira S Makarova, Eugene V Koonin, Zvi Kelman Biology Direct 2012, 7:7 (13 February 2012)

Comparative genomic analysis reveals diverged orthologs of eukaryotic CDC45 protein and bacterial RecJ nuclease in nearly all archaeal genomes; the CMG complex is conserved in both archaea and eukaryotes, and appears to be an essential component of the ancestral DNA replication machinery.

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Metagenomics - a guide from sampling to data analysis

Torsten Thomas, Jack Gilbert, Folker Meyer Microbial Informatics and Experimentation 2012, 2:3 (9 February 2012)

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The EnzymeTracker: an open-source laboratory information management system for sample tracking

Thomas Triplet, Gregory Butler BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:15 (26 January 2012)

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The core and unique proteins of haloarchaea

Melinda D Capes, Priya DasSarma, Shiladitya DasSarma BMC Genomics 2012, 13:39 (24 January 2012)

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Identification of gene-oriented exon orthology between human and mouse

Gloria C-L Fu, Wen-chang Lin BMC Genomics 2012, 13(Suppl 1):S10 (17 January 2012)

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Analysis of expression sequence tags from a full-length-enriched cDNA library of developing sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum)

Tao Ke, Caihua Dong, Han Mao, Yingzhong Zhao, Hong Chen, Hongyan Liu, Xuyan Dong, Chaobo Tong, Shengyi Liu BMC Plant Biology 2011, 11:180 (24 December 2011)

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Preimplantation development regulatory pathway construction through a text-mining approach

Elisa Donnard, Adriano Barbosa-Silva, Rafael LM Guedes, Gabriel R Fernandes, Henrique Velloso, Matthew J Kohn, Miguel A Andrade-Navarro, J Ortega BMC Genomics 2011, 12(Suppl 4):S3 (22 December 2011)

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Amino acids biosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation pathways: a great genomic deletion during eukaryotes evolution

RLM Guedes, F Prosdocimi, GR Fernandes, LK Moura, HAL Ribeiro, JM Ortega BMC Genomics 2011, 12(Suppl 4):S2 (22 December 2011)

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An insight into the sialome of Simulium guianense (DIPTERA:SIMulIIDAE), the main vector of River Blindness Disease in Brazil

Andrezza C Chagas, Eric Calvo, Paulo FP Pimenta, José MC Ribeiro BMC Genomics 2011, 12:612 (19 December 2011)

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Efficient α, β-motif finder for identification of phenotype-related functional modules

Matthew C Schmidt, Andrea M Rocha, Kanchana Padmanabhan, Zhengzhang Chen, Kathleen Scott, James R Mihelcic, Nagiza F Samatova BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:440 (11 November 2011)

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Molecular markers to characterize the hermaphroditic reproductive system of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Tracy Chong, Joel M Stary, Yuying Wang, Phillip A Newmark BMC Developmental Biology 2011, 11:69 (10 November 2011)

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Comparative genomics study of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and ectoine relevant genes from Halomonas sp. TD01 revealed extensive horizontal gene transfer events and co-evolutionary relationships

Lei Cai, Dan Tan, Gulsimay Aibaidula, Xin-Ran Dong, Jin-Chun Chen, Wei-Dong Tian, Guo-Qiang Chen Microbial Cell Factories 2011, 10:88 (1 November 2011)

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Benchmarking of the 2010 BioCreative Challenge III text-mining competition by the BioGRID and MINT interaction databases

Andrew Chatr-aryamontri, Andrew Winter, Livia Perfetto, Leonardo Briganti, Luana Licata, Marta Iannuccelli, Luisa Castagnoli, Gianni Cesareni, Mike Tyers BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12(Suppl 8):S8 (3 October 2011)

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Differential proteome analysis of human embryonic kidney cell line (HEK-293) following mycophenolic acid treatment

Muhammad Qasim, Hazir Rahman, Michael Oellerich, Abdul R Asif Proteome Science 2011, 9:57 (20 September 2011)

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An integrative approach to ortholog prediction for disease-focused and other functional studies

Yanhui Hu, Ian Flockhart, Arunachalam Vinayagam, Clemens Bergwitz, Bonnie Berger, Norbert Perrimon, Stephanie E Mohr BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:357 (31 August 2011)

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CloVR: A virtual machine for automated and portable sequence analysis from the desktop using cloud computing

Samuel V Angiuoli, Malcolm Matalka, Aaron Gussman, Kevin Galens, Mahesh Vangala, David R Riley, Cesar Arze, James R White, Owen White, W Florian Fricke BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:356 (30 August 2011)

Cloud Virtual Resource (CloVR) is a new desktop application for large-scale sequence analysis using remote computing resources that provides several automated pipelines for microbial genomics, including 16S, whole genome and metagenome sequence analysis.

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Specialized adaptation of a lactic acid bacterium to the milk environment: the comparative genomics of Streptococcus thermophilus LMD-9

Yong Goh, Caitlin Goin, Sarah O’Flaherty, Eric Altermann, Robert Hutkins Microbial Cell Factories 2011, 10(Suppl 1):S22 (30 August 2011)

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Systems biology of bacterial nitrogen fixation: High-throughput technology and its integrative description with constraint-based modeling

Osbaldo Resendis-Antonio, Magdalena Hernández, Emmanuel Salazar, Sandra Contreras, Gabriel Batallar, Yolanda Mora, Sergio Encarnación BMC Systems Biology 2011, 5:120 (29 July 2011)

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iRsp1095: A genome-scale reconstruction of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides metabolic network

Saheed Imam, Safak Yilmaz, Ugur Sohmen, Alexander S Gorzalski, Jennifer L Reed, Daniel R Noguera, Timothy J Donohue BMC Systems Biology 2011, 5:116 (21 July 2011)

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Leaderless genes in bacteria: clue to the evolution of translation initiation mechanisms in prokaryotes

Xiaobin Zheng, Gang-Qing Hu, Zhen-Su She, Huaiqiu Zhu BMC Genomics 2011, 12:361 (12 July 2011)

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Algal Functional Annotation Tool: a web-based analysis suite to functionally interpret large gene lists using integrated annotation and expression data

David Lopez, David Casero, Shawn J Cokus, Sabeeha S Merchant, Matteo Pellegrini BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:282 (12 July 2011)

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Detection of Fused Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes using Gene deFuser: Analysis of the Tetrahymena thermophila genome

Hannah MW Salim, Amanda M Koire, Nicholas A Stover, Andre RO Cavalcanti BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:279 (11 July 2011)

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Complete genome sequence of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus

Kuo-Hsiang Tang, Kerrie Barry, Olga Chertkov, Eileen Dalin, Cliff S Han, Loren J Hauser, Barbara M Honchak, Lauren E Karbach, Miriam L Land, Alla Lapidus, Frank W Larimer, Natalia Mikhailova, Samuel Pitluck, Beverly K Pierson, Robert E Blankenship BMC Genomics 2011, 12:334 (29 June 2011)

The genome sequence of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus shows numerous distinctive features that may shine light on the origin and early evolution of photosynthesis.

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Difference in the distribution pattern of substrate enzymes in the metabolic network of Escherichia coli, according to chaperonin requirement

Kazuhiro Takemoto, Tatsuya Niwa, Hideki Taguchi BMC Systems Biology 2011, 5:98 (24 June 2011)

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Exploring the symbiotic pangenome of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Marco Galardini, Alessio Mengoni, Matteo Brilli, Francesco Pini, Antonella Fioravanti, Susan Lucas, Alla Lapidus, Jan-Fang Cheng, Lynne Goodwin, Samuel Pitluck, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Tanja Woyke, Natalia Mikhailova, Natalia Ivanova, Hajnalka Daligault, David Bruce, Chris Detter, Roxanne Tapia, Cliff Han, Hazuki Teshima, Stefano Mocali, Marco Bazzicalupo, Emanuele G Biondi BMC Genomics 2011, 12:235 (12 May 2011)

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Genome-wide discovery of missing genes in biological pathways of prokaryotes

Yong Chen, Fenglou Mao, Guojun Li, Ying Xu BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12(Suppl 1):S1 (15 February 2011)

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Phylogenomic reconstruction of lactic acid bacteria: an update

Zhi-Gang Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Ye, Li Yu, Peng Shi BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:1 (1 January 2011)

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Digital expression profiling of novel diatom transcripts provides insight into their biological functions

Uma Maheswari, Kamel Jabbari, Jean-Louis Petit, Betina M Porcel, Andrew E Allen, Jean-Paul Cadoret, Alessandra De Martino, Marc Heijde, Raymond Kaas, Julie La Roche, Pascal J Lopez, Véronique Martin-Jézéquel, Agnès Meichenin, Thomas Mock, Micaela Schnitzler Parker, Assaf Vardi, E Virginia Armbrust, Jean Weissenbach, Michaël Katinka, Chris Bowler Genome Biology 2010, 11:R85 (25 August 2010)

Digital expression profiling of the diatom transcriptome under varying environmental conditions provides insights into the roles of novel diatom genes.

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An insight into the sialotranscriptome of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Elen Anatriello, José MC Ribeiro, Isabel KF de Miranda-Santos, Lucinda G Brandão, Jennifer M Anderson, Jesus G Valenzuela, Sandra R Maruyama, João S Silva, Beatriz R Ferreira BMC Genomics 2010, 11:450 (22 July 2010)

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Comparative microarray analysis of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus expression profiles of larvae pre-attachment and feeding adult female stages on Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle

Manuel Rodriguez-Valle, Ala Lew-Tabor, Cedric Gondro, Paula Moolhuijzen, Megan Vance, Felix D Guerrero, Matthew Bellgard, Wayne Jorgensen BMC Genomics 2010, 11:437 (19 July 2010)

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Cgaln: fast and space-efficient whole-genome alignment

Ryuichiro Nakato, Osamu Gotoh BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:224 (30 April 2010)

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Phylogenetic detection of numerous gene duplications shared by animals, fungi and plants

Xiaofan Zhou, Zhenguo Lin, Hong Ma Genome Biology 2010, 11:R38 (6 April 2010)

A phylogentic analysis reveals that many gene duplications occurred prior to the split in animals, fungi and plants.

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An insight into the sialome of Glossina morsitans morsitans

Juliana Alves-Silva, José MC Ribeiro, Jan Abbeele, Geoffrey Attardo, Zhengrong Hao, Lee R Haines, Marcelo B Soares, Matthew Berriman, Serap Aksoy, Michael J Lehane BMC Genomics 2010, 11:213 (30 March 2010)

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Legionella pneumophila pangenome reveals strain-specific virulence factors

Giuseppe D'Auria, Nuria Jiménez-Hernández, Francesc Peris-Bondia, Andrés Moya, Amparo Latorre BMC Genomics 2010, 11:181 (17 March 2010)

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Transcriptome analysis of reproductive tissue and intrauterine developmental stages of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans)

Geoffrey M Attardo, José MC Ribeiro, Yineng Wu, Matthew Berriman, Serap Aksoy BMC Genomics 2010, 11:160 (9 March 2010)

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Construction and analysis of protein–protein interaction networks

Karthik Raman Automated Experimentation 2010, 2:2 (15 February 2010)

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Biana: a software framework for compiling biological interactions and analyzing networks

Javier Garcia-Garcia, Emre Guney, Ramon Aragues, Joan Planas-Iglesias, Baldo Oliva BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:56 (27 January 2010)

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Discovering local patterns of co - evolution: computational aspects and biological examples

Tamir Tuller, Yifat Felder, Martin Kupiec BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:43 (22 January 2010)

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Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: Clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution

Natalya Yutin, Yuri I Wolf, Didier Raoult, Eugene V Koonin Virology Journal 2009, 6:223 (17 December 2009)

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Human synthetic lethal inference as potential anti-cancer target gene detection

Nuria Conde-Pueyo, Andreea Munteanu, Ricard V Solé, Carlos Rodríguez-Caso BMC Systems Biology 2009, 3:116 (16 December 2009)

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The other side of comparative genomics: genes with no orthologs between the cow and other mammalian species

Raffaele Mazza, Francesco Strozzi, Andrea Caprera, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, John L Williams BMC Genomics 2009, 10:604 (14 December 2009)

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Analysis of regulatory protease sequences identified through bioinformatic data mining of the Schistosoma mansoni genome

David H Bos, Chris Mayfield, Dennis J Minchella BMC Genomics 2009, 10:488 (21 October 2009)

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XML-based approaches for the integration of heterogeneous bio-molecular data

Marco Mesiti, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Ismael Sanz, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori, Paolo Perlasca, Giorgio Valentini, David Manset BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 12):S7 (15 October 2009)

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Tardigrade workbench: comparing stress-related proteins, sequence-similar and functional protein clusters as well as RNA elements in tardigrades

Frank Förster, Chunguang Liang, Alexander Shkumatov, Daniela Beisser, Julia C Engelmann, Martina Schnölzer, Marcus Frohme, Tobias Müller, Ralph O Schill, Thomas Dandekar BMC Genomics 2009, 10:469 (12 October 2009)

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Synorth: exploring the evolution of synteny and long-range regulatory interactions in vertebrate genomes

Xianjun Dong, David Fredman, Boris Lenhard Genome Biology 2009, 10:R86 (21 August 2009)

Synorth is a web resource for exploring and categorizing the syntenic relationships in gene regulatory blocks across multiple genomes.

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Gene expression profiling in susceptible interaction of grapevine with its fungal pathogen Eutypa lata: Extending MapMan ontology for grapevine

Ana Rotter, Céline Camps, Marc Lohse, Christian Kappel, Stefania Pilati, Matjaž Hren, Mark Stitt, Pierre Coutos-Thévenot, Claudio Moser, Björn Usadel, Serge Delrot, Kristina Gruden BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9:104 (5 August 2009)

Annotation of grapevine Vitis vinifera gene expression data using MapMan ontology to focus on selected metabolic pathways showed that the genes induced by powdery mildew infection encode pathogenesis related proteins and enzymes of flavonoid metabolism.

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Comparative genomic analysis uncovers 3 novel loci encoding type six secretion systems differentially distributed in Salmonella serotypes

Carlos J Blondel, Juan C Jiménez, Inés Contreras, Carlos A Santiviago BMC Genomics 2009, 10:354 (4 August 2009)

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Zebrafish reward mutants reveal novel transcripts mediating the behavioral effects of amphetamine

Katharine J Webb, William HJ Norton, Dietrich Trümbach, Annemarie H Meijer, Jovica Ninkovic, Stefanie Topp, Daniel Heck, Carsten Marr, Wolfgang Wurst, Fabian J Theis, Herman P Spaink, Laure Bally-Cuif Genome Biology 2009, 10:R81 (31 July 2009)

Transcriptome analysis of a zebrafish mutant that does not respond to amphetamine identifies a network of coordinated gene regulation that may underlie the susceptibility to addiction.

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OrthoSelect: a protocol for selecting orthologous groups in phylogenomics

Fabian Schreiber, Kerstin Pick, Dirk Erpenbeck, Gert Wörheide, Burkhard Morgenstern BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:219 (16 July 2009)

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Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest

Pere Puigbò, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Journal of Biology 2009, 8:59 (13 July 2009)

Koonin and colleagues, comparing a forest of 7000 phylogenetic trees, discern vertical inheritance even at the earliest stages of prokaryotic evolution, despite horizontal gene transfer, but the branching order of the earliest radiations may never be resolved.

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Genomic and systems evolution in Vibrionaceae species

Jianying Gu, Jennifer Neary, Hong Cai, Audrey Moshfeghian, Stephen A Rodriguez, Timothy G Lilburn, Yufeng Wang BMC Genomics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S11 (7 July 2009)

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Comparative transcriptomics in the Triticeae

Andreas W Schreiber, Tim Sutton, Rico A Caldo, Elena Kalashyan, Ben Lovell, Gwenda Mayo, Gary J Muehlbauer, Arnis Druka, Robbie Waugh, Roger P Wise, Peter Langridge, Ute Baumann BMC Genomics 2009, 10:285 (29 June 2009)

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Analysis of salivary transcripts and antigens of the sand fly Phlebotomus arabicus

Jitka Hostomská, Věra Volfová, Jianbing Mu, Mark Garfield, Iva Rohoušová, Petr Volf, Jesus G Valenzuela, Ryan C Jochim BMC Genomics 2009, 10:282 (25 June 2009)

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Construction of an adult barnacle (Balanus amphitrite) cDNA library and selection of reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR studies

Tristano Bacchetti De Gregoris, Marco Borra, Elio Biffali, Thomas Bekel, J Grant Burgess, Richard R Kirby, Anthony S Clare BMC Molecular Biology 2009, 10:62 (24 June 2009)

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A comprehensive resource for integrating and displaying protein post-translational modifications

Tzong-Yi Lee, Justin Hsu, Wen-Chi Chang, Ting-Yuan Wang, Po-Chiang Hsu, Hsien-Da Huang BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:111 (23 June 2009)

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The updated dbPTM 2.0 database offers an integrated interface to display both experimentally verified and predicted post-translational modifications on a protein's secondary or tertiary structure, and includes information on solvent accessibility, protein variation, and regions of intrinsic structural disorder.

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The Symbiosis Interactome: a computational approach reveals novel components, functional interactions and modules in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Ignacio Rodriguez-Llorente, Miguel A Caviedes, Mohammed Dary, Antonio J Palomares, Francisco M Cánovas, José M Peregrín-Alvarez BMC Systems Biology 2009, 3:63 (16 June 2009)

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Databases of homologous gene families for comparative genomics

Simon Penel, Anne-Muriel Arigon, Jean-François Dufayard, Anne-Sophie Sertier, Vincent Daubin, Laurent Duret, Manolo Gouy, Guy Perrière BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 6):S3 (16 June 2009)

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On the cytotoxicity of HCR-NTPase in the neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y

Markus Pasdziernik, Barbara Kaltschmidt, Christian Kaltschmidt, Claudia Klinger, Michael Kaufmann BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:102 (11 June 2009)

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Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes

Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2009, 4:19 (3 June 2009)

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Improving protein structure similarity searches using domain boundaries based on conserved sequence information

Kenneth Thompson, Yanli Wang, Tom Madej, Stephen H Bryant BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9:33 (19 May 2009)

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Identification of genes expressed in the hermaphrodite germ line of C. elegans using SAGE

Xin Wang, Yongjun Zhao, Kim Wong, Peter Ehlers, Yuji Kohara, Steven J Jones, Marco A Marra, Robert A Holt, Donald G Moerman, Dave Hansen BMC Genomics 2009, 10:213 (9 May 2009)

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Genomic analysis of Campylobacter fetus subspecies: identification of candidate virulence determinants and diagnostic assay targets

Paula M Moolhuijzen, Ala E Lew-Tabor, Bartosz M Wlodek, Fernán G Agüero, Diego J Comerci, Rodolfo A Ugalde, Daniel O Sanchez, Rudi Appels, Matthew Bellgard BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:86 (8 May 2009)

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Improving Gene-finding in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii:GreenGenie2

Alan L Kwan, Linya Li, David C Kulp, Susan K Dutcher, Gary D Stormo BMC Genomics 2009, 10:210 (7 May 2009)

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Co-evolutionary networks of genes and cellular processes across fungal species

Tamir Tuller, Martin Kupiec, Eytan Ruppin Genome Biology 2009, 10:R48 (5 May 2009)

Two new measures of evolution are used to study co-evolutionary networks of fungal genes and cellular processes; links between co-evolution and co-functionality are revealed.

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Microbial co-habitation and lateral gene transfer: what transposases can tell us

Sean D Hooper, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Nikos C Kyrpides Genome Biology 2009, 10:R45 (24 April 2009)

Interactions between microbial communities are revealed using a network of lateral gene transfer events.

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Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria

Vicky Merhej, Manuela Royer-Carenzi, Pierre Pontarotti, Didier Raoult Biology Direct 2009, 4:13 (10 April 2009)

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The complete genome sequence of Staphylothermus marinus reveals differences in sulfur metabolism among heterotrophic Crenarchaeota

Iain J Anderson, Lakshmi Dharmarajan, Jason Rodriguez, Sean Hooper, Iris Porat, Luke E Ulrich, James G Elkins, Kostas Mavromatis, Hui Sun, Miriam Land, Alla Lapidus, Susan Lucas, Kerrie Barry, Harald Huber, Igor B Zhulin, William B Whitman, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Carl Woese, James Bristow, Nikos Kyrpides BMC Genomics 2009, 10:145 (2 April 2009)

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Partitioning clustering algorithms for protein sequence data sets

Sondes Fayech, Nadia Essoussi, Mohamed Limam BioData Mining 2009, 2:3 (2 April 2009)

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Uncovering metabolic pathways relevant to phenotypic traits of microbial genomes

Gabi Kastenmüller, Maria Schenk, Johann Gasteiger, Hans-Werner Mewes Genome Biology 2009, 10:R28 (10 March 2009)

A new machine learning-based method is presented here for the identification of metabolic pathways related to specific phenotypes in multiple microbial genomes.

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Protein function annotation by homology-based inference

Yaniv Loewenstein, Domenico Raimondo, Oliver C Redfern, James Watson, Dmitrij Frishman, Michal Linial, Christine Orengo, Janet Thornton, Anna Tramontano Genome Biology 2009, 10:207 (2 February 2009)

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Where information on homologous proteins is available, progress is being made in automated prediction of protein function from sequence and structure.

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The salivary gland transcriptome of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi reveals accelerated evolution of genes relevant to hematophagy

Eric Calvo, Van M Pham, Osvaldo Marinotti, John F Andersen, José MC Ribeiro BMC Genomics 2009, 10:57 (29 January 2009)

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Genome Projector: zoomable genome map with multiple views

Kazuharu Arakawa, Satoshi Tamaki, Nobuaki Kono, Nobuhiro Kido, Keita Ikegami, Ryu Ogawa, Masaru Tomita BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:31 (23 January 2009)

Genome Projector provides an easy-to-use, zoomable and scrollable user interface for browsing of genomic and metabolomic data, utilizing the Google Maps interface, and currently covers 320 bacterial genomes online.

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New genes of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri involved in pathogenesis and adaptation revealed by a transposon-based mutant library

Marcelo L Laia, Leandro M Moreira, Juliana Dezajacomo, Joice B Brigati, Cristiano B Ferreira, Maria IT Ferro, Ana CR Silva, Jesus A Ferro, Julio CF Oliveira BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:12 (16 January 2009)

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Reliable transfer of transcriptional gene regulatory networks between taxonomically related organisms

Jan Baumbach, Sven Rahmann, Andreas Tauch BMC Systems Biology 2009, 3:8 (15 January 2009)

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Mononucleotide repeats are asymmetrically distributed in fungal genes

Mark WJ van Passel, Leo H de Graaff BMC Genomics 2008, 9:596 (11 December 2008)

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Algorithm of OMA for large-scale orthology inference

Alexander CJ Roth, Gaston H Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:518 (4 December 2008)

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Comparative genomic analysis of carbon and nitrogen assimilation mechanisms in three indigenous bioleaching bacteria: predictions and validations

Gloria Levicán, Juan A Ugalde, Nicole Ehrenfeld, Alejandro Maass, Pilar Parada BMC Genomics 2008, 9:581 (3 December 2008)

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Exploring the mialome of ticks: an annotated catalogue of midgut transcripts from the hard tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)

Jennifer M Anderson, Daniel E Sonenshine, Jesus G Valenzuela BMC Genomics 2008, 9:552 (20 November 2008)

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Extension of the COG and arCOG databases by amino acid and nucleotide sequences

Florian Meereis, Michael Kaufmann BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:479 (13 November 2008)

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Gene expression profiling in chicken heterophils with Salmonella enteritidis stimulation using a chicken 44 K Agilent microarray

Hsin-I Chiang, Christina L Swaggerty, Michael H Kogut, Scot E Dowd, Xianyao Li, Igal Y Pevzner, Huaijun Zhou BMC Genomics 2008, 9:526 (6 November 2008)

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Syntenator: Multiple gene order alignments with a gene-specific scoring function

Christian Rödelsperger, Christoph Dieterich Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2008, 3:14 (6 November 2008)

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Multiple genome alignment for identifying the core structure among moderately related microbial genomes

Ikuo Uchiyama BMC Genomics 2008, 9:515 (31 October 2008)

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Information-based methods for predicting gene function from systematic gene knock-downs

Matthew T Weirauch, Christopher K Wong, Alexandra B Byrne, Joshua M Stuart BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:463 (29 October 2008)

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BioVenn – a web application for the comparison and visualization of biological lists using area-proportional Venn diagrams

Tim Hulsen, Jacob de Vlieg, Wynand Alkema BMC Genomics 2008, 9:488 (16 October 2008)

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RNomics and Modomics in the halophilic archaea Haloferax volcanii: identification of RNA modification genes

Henri Grosjean, Christine Gaspin, Christian Marck, Wayne A Decatur, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard BMC Genomics 2008, 9:470 (9 October 2008)

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Automatically extracting functionally equivalent proteins from SwissProt

Lisa EM McMillan, Andrew CR Martin BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:418 (6 October 2008)

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The conservation pattern of short linear motifs is highly correlated with the function of interacting protein domains

Siyuan Ren, Guang Yang, Youyu He, Yiguo Wang, Yixue Li, Zhengjun Chen BMC Genomics 2008, 9:452 (1 October 2008)

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Comparative phosphoproteomics reveals evolutionary and functional conservation of phosphorylation across eukaryotes

Jos Boekhorst, Bas van Breukelen, Albert JR Heck, Berend Snel Genome Biology 2008, 9:R144 (1 October 2008)

A comparison of phosphoproteomics datasets of six eukaryotes shows significant overlap between phosphoproteomes.

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The missing link: Bordetella petrii is endowed with both the metabolic versatility of environmental bacteria and virulence traits of pathogenic Bordetellae

Roy Gross, Carlos A Guzman, Mohammed Sebaihia, Vítor AP Martins dos Santos, Dietmar H Pieper, Ralf Koebnik, Melanie Lechner, Daniela Bartels, Jens Buhrmester, Jomuna V Choudhuri, Thomas Ebensen, Lars Gaigalat, Stefanie Herrmann, Amit N Khachane, Christof Larisch, Stefanie Link, Burkhard Linke, Folker Meyer, Sascha Mormann, Diana Nakunst, Christian Rückert, Susanne Schneiker-Bekel, Kai Schulze, Frank-Jörg Vorhölter, Tetyana Yevsa, Jacquelyn T Engle, William E Goldman, Alfred Pühler, Ulf B Göbel, Alexander Goesmann et al. BMC Genomics 2008, 9:449 (30 September 2008)

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Short Linear Motifs recognized by SH2, SH3 and Ser/Thr Kinase domains are conserved in disordered protein regions

Siyuan Ren, Vladimir N Uversky, Zhengjun Chen, A Keith Dunker, Zoran Obradovic BMC Genomics 2008, 9(Suppl 2):S26 (16 September 2008)

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Complete genome of Phenylobacterium zucineum – a novel facultative intracellular bacterium isolated from human erythroleukemia cell line K562

Yingfeng Luo, Xiaoli Xu, Zonghui Ding, Zhen Liu, Bing Zhang, Zhiyu Yan, Jie Sun, Songnian Hu, Xun Hu BMC Genomics 2008, 9:386 (13 August 2008)

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Characterization of expressed sequence tags from a full-length enriched cDNA library of Cryptomeria japonica male strobili

Norihiro Futamura, Yasushi Totoki, Atsushi Toyoda, Tomohiro Igasaki, Tokihiko Nanjo, Motoaki Seki, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Adriano Mari, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kenji Shinohara BMC Genomics 2008, 9:383 (11 August 2008)

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Large gene overlaps in prokaryotic genomes: result of functional constraints or mispredictions?

Albert Pallejà, Eoghan D Harrington, Peer Bork BMC Genomics 2008, 9:335 (15 July 2008)

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Proteomic profile of dormant Trichophyton Rubrum conidia

Wenchuan Leng, Tao Liu, Rui Li, Jian Yang, Candong Wei, Wenliang Zhang, Qi Jin BMC Genomics 2008, 9:303 (25 June 2008)

Shotgun proteomics of Trichophyton rubrum, a human skin pathogen, has identified proteins required for the survival and germination of the asexual spores of this fungus.

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Circular reasoning rather than cyclic expression

Lars Jensen, Ulrik de Lichtenberg, Thomas Jensen, Søren Brunak, Peer Bork Genome Biology 2008, 9:403 (23 June 2008)

A response to Combined analysis reveals a core set of cycling genes by Y Lu, S Mahony, PV Benos, R Rosenfeld, I Simon, LL Breeden and Z Bar-Joseph. Genome Biol 2007, 8:R146.

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Insight into the sialome of the castor bean tick, Ixodes ricinus

Jindřich Chmelař, Jennifer M Anderson, Jianbing Mu, Ryan C Jochim, Jesus G Valenzuela, Jan Kopecký BMC Genomics 2008, 9:233 (20 May 2008)

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Phylogenomics of plant genomes: a methodology for genome-wide searches for orthologs in plants

Matthieu G Conte, Sylvain Gaillard, Gaetan Droc, Christophe Perin BMC Genomics 2008, 9:183 (21 April 2008)

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JCoast – A biologist-centric software tool for data mining and comparison of prokaryotic (meta)genomes

Michael Richter, Thierry Lombardot, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Renzo Kottmann, Melissa Duhaime, Jörg Peplies, Frank Glöckner BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:177 (1 April 2008)

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Homoplasy in genome-wide analysis of rare amino acid replacements: the molecular-evolutionary basis for Vavilov's law of homologous series

Igor B Rogozin, Karen Thomson, Miklós Csürös, Liran Carmel, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2008, 3:7 (17 March 2008)

Homoplasy denotes the same (parallel) mutations occurring independently in different lineages. It is a scourge of phylogenetic methods. Here, however, it is shown that homoplasy is also an interesting evolutionary phenomenon. Homplasy seems, at least, in part, to underlie the so-called homologous series of phenotypic variation occurring in different, particularly, closely related lineages, an effect first described by the famous Russian geneticict Vavilov some 90 years ago.

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Clustering of cognate proteins among distinct proteomes derived from multiple links to a single seed sequence

Adriano Barbosa-Silva, Venkata P Satagopam, Reinhard Schneider, J Miguel Ortega BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:141 (5 March 2008)

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Functional protein divergence in the evolution of Homo sapiens

Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Subhajyoti De, Sarah A Teichmann Genome Biology 2008, 9:R33 (15 February 2008)

Quantification of the divergence of proteins by functional category shows that morphological changes in metazoa have been driven by variation in regulatory genes.

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SynechoNET: integrated protein-protein interaction database of a model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Woo-Yeon Kim, Sungsoo Kang, Byoung-Chul Kim, Jeehyun Oh, Seongwoong Cho, Jong Bhak, Jong-Soon Choi BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 1):S20 (13 February 2008)

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Characterization of a newly developed chicken 44K Agilent microarray

Xianyao Li, Hsin-I Chiang, James Zhu, Scot E Dowd, Huaijun Zhou BMC Genomics 2008, 9:60 (31 January 2008)

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The tryptophan pathway genes of the Sargasso Sea metagenome: new operon structures and the prevalence of non-operon organization

Juliana Kagan, Itai Sharon, Oded Beja, Jonathan C Kuhn Genome Biology 2008, 9:R20 (27 January 2008)

An analysis of the seven genes of the tryptophan pathway in the Sargasso Sea metagenome shows that the majority of contigs and scaffolds contain whole or split operons that are similar to previously analyzed trp gene organizations.

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Giant viruses, giant chimeras: The multiple evolutionary histories of Mimivirus genes

David Moreira, Céline Brochier-Armanet BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:12 (18 January 2008)

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The fungus Ustilago maydis and humans share disease-related proteins that are not found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Martin Münsterkötter, Gero Steinberg BMC Genomics 2007, 8:473 (20 December 2007)

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Direct selection and phage display of a Gram-positive secretome

Dragana Jankovic, Michael A Collett, Mark W Lubbers, Jasna Rakonjac Genome Biology 2007, 8:R266 (13 December 2007)

A phage display system for direct selection, identification, expression and purification of bacterial secretome proteins has been developed.

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Functional annotation of 19,841 Populus nigra full-length enriched cDNA clones

Tokihiko Nanjo, Tetsuya Sakurai, Yasushi Totoki, Atsushi Toyoda, Mitsuru Nishiguchi, Tomoyuki Kado, Tomohiro Igasaki, Norihiro Futamura, Motoaki Seki, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kenji Shinohara BMC Genomics 2007, 8:448 (3 December 2007)

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Clusters of orthologous genes for 41 archaeal genomes and implications for evolutionary genomics of archaea

Kira S Makarova, Alexander V Sorokin, Pavel S Novichkov, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2007, 2:33 (27 November 2007)

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CoryneCenter – An online resource for the integrated analysis of corynebacterial genome and transcriptome data

Heiko Neuweger, Jan Baumbach, Stefan Albaum, Thomas Bekel, Michael Dondrup, Andrea T Hüser, Jörn Kalinowski, Sebastian Oehm, Alfred Pühler, Sven Rahmann, Jochen Weile, Alexander Goesmann BMC Systems Biology 2007, 1:55 (22 November 2007)

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The distributions, mechanisms, and structures of metabolite-binding riboswitches

Jeffrey E Barrick, Ronald R Breaker Genome Biology 2007, 8:R239 (12 November 2007)

Phylogenetic analyses revealed insights into the distribution of riboswitch classes in different microbial groups, and structural analyses led to updated aptamer structure models and insights into the mechanism of these non-coding RNA structures.

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Poly-G/poly-C tracts in the genomes of Caenorhabditis

Yang Zhao, Nigel J O'Neil, Ann M Rose BMC Genomics 2007, 8:403 (7 November 2007)

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CoryneRegNet 4.0 – A reference database for corynebacterial gene regulatory networks

Jan Baumbach BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:429 (6 November 2007)

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Towards validating the hypothesis of phylogenetic profiling

Raja Loganantharaj, Mazen Atwi BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 7):S25 (1 November 2007)

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Assessing the ability of sequence-based methods to provide functional insight within membrane integral proteins: a case study analyzing the neurotransmitter/Na+ symporter family

Dennis R Livesay, Patrick D Kidd, Sepehr Eskandari, Usman Roshan BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:397 (17 October 2007)

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Large scale clustering of protein sequences with FORCE -A layout based heuristic for weighted cluster editing

Tobias Wittkop, Jan Baumbach, Francisco P Lobo, Sven Rahmann BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:396 (17 October 2007)

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Functional and evolutionary analysis of alternatively spliced genes is consistent with an early eukaryotic origin of alternative splicing

Manuel Irimia, Jakob Rukov, David Penny, Scott Roy BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:188 (4 October 2007)

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Analysis of gene order data supports vertical inheritance of the leukotoxin operon and genome rearrangements in the 5' flanking region in genus Mannheimia

Jesper Larsen, Peter Kuhnert, Joachim Frey, Henrik Christensen, Magne Bisgaard, John E Olsen BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:184 (3 October 2007)

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Identification of homologs in insignificant blast hits by exploiting extrinsic gene properties

Jos Boekhorst, Berend Snel BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:356 (21 September 2007)

Using basic gene properties like gene length and gene order dramatically improves the division of results in the BLAST 'gray zone' into spurious matches and genuine hits.

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Uncovering the mutation-fixation correlation in short lineages

Eric J Vallender, Bruce T Lahn BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:168 (21 September 2007)

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A statistical analysis of the three-fold evolution of genomic compression through frame overlaps in prokaryotes

Fabrizio Lillo, David C Krakauer Biology Direct 2007, 2:22 (18 September 2007)

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The complement of protein kinases of the microsporidium Encephalitozoon cuniculi in relation to those of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Diego Miranda-Saavedra, Michael JR Stark, Jeremy C Packer, Christian P Vivares, Christian Doerig, Geoffrey J Barton BMC Genomics 2007, 8:309 (4 September 2007)

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Global analysis of host response to induction of a latent bacteriophage

Robin E Osterhout, Israel A Figueroa, Jay D Keasling, Adam P Arkin BMC Microbiology 2007, 7:82 (31 August 2007)

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Cophenetic correlation analysis as a strategy to select phylogenetically informative proteins: an example from the fungal kingdom

Eiko E Kuramae, Vincent Robert, Carlos Echavarri-Erasun, Teun Boekhout BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:134 (9 August 2007)

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Novel metrics for evaluating the functional coherence of protein groups via protein semantic network

Bin Zheng, Xinghua Lu Genome Biology 2007, 8:R153 (31 July 2007)

Metrics are presented for assessing overall functional coherence of a group of proteins based on the associated biomedical literature.

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PHIDIAS: a pathogen-host interaction data integration and analysis system

Zuoshuang Xiang, Yuying Tian, Yongqun He Genome Biology 2007, 8:R150 (30 July 2007)

PHIDIAS is a web-based database system serving as a centralized source to search, compare and analyse integrated genome sequences, conserved domains and transcriptional data related to pathogen-host interactions.

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Identification of gene targets against dormant phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections

Dennis J Murphy, James R Brown BMC Infectious Diseases 2007, 7:84 (26 July 2007)

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TrED: the Trichophyton rubrum Expression Database

Jian Yang, Lihong Chen, Lingling Wang, Wenliang Zhang, Tao Liu, Qi Jin BMC Genomics 2007, 8:250 (25 July 2007)

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Extensive genomic diversity and selective conservation of virulence-determinants in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains of O157 and non-O157 serotypes

Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tadasuke Ooka, Asadulghani, Jun Terajima, Jean-Philippe Nougayrède, Ken Kurokawa, Kousuke Tashiro, Toru Tobe, Keisuke Nakayama, Satoru Kuhara, Eric Oswald, Haruo Watanabe, Tetsuya Hayashi Genome Biology 2007, 8:R138 (10 July 2007)

Comparing the genomes of O157 and non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains reveals the selective conservation of a large number of virulence determinants.

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Cell-specific microarray profiling experiments reveal a comprehensive picture of gene expression in the C. elegans nervous system

Stephen E Von Stetina, Joseph D Watson, Rebecca M Fox, Kellen L Olszewski, W Clay Spencer, Peter J Roy, David M Miller Genome Biology 2007, 8:R135 (5 July 2007)

A novel strategy for profiling Caenorhabditis elegans cells identifies transcripts highly enriched in either the embryonic or larval C. elegans nervous system, including 19 conserved transcripts of unknown function that are also expressed in the mammalian brain.

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Three-Dimensional Phylogeny Explorer: Distinguishing paralogs, lateral transfer, and violation of "molecular clock" assumption with 3D visualization

Namshin Kim, Christopher Lee BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:213 (20 June 2007)

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Transcriptome analysis of the venom gland of the Mexican scorpion Hadrurus gertschi (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

Elisabeth F Schwartz, Elia Diego-Garcia, Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega, Lourival D Possani BMC Genomics 2007, 8:119 (16 May 2007)

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Structural and functional insights into Mimivirus ORFans

Harpreet Saini, Daniel Fischer BMC Genomics 2007, 8:115 (9 May 2007)

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An insight into the sialome of the oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (Rots)

John F Andersen, B Joseph Hinnebusch, David A Lucas, Thomas P Conrads, Timothy D Veenstra, Van M Pham, José MC Ribeiro BMC Genomics 2007, 8:102 (16 April 2007)

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Modelling the evolution of the archaeal tryptophan synthase

Rainer Merkl BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:59 (10 April 2007)

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Orthology prediction at scalable resolution by phylogenetic tree analysis

René TJM van der Heijden, Berend Snel, Vera van Noort, Martijn A Huynen BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:83 (8 March 2007)

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Structural and evolutionary bioinformatics of the SPOUT superfamily of methyltransferases

Karolina L Tkaczuk, Stanislaw Dunin-Horkawicz, Elzbieta Purta, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:73 (5 March 2007)

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Genome display tool: visualizing features in complex data sets

Lalitha Viswanath, Yue Lu, George E Fox Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2007, 2:1 (14 February 2007)

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Phylogenetic signal and functional categories in Proteobacteria genomes

Iñaki Comas, Andrés Moya, Fernando González-Candelas BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7(Suppl 1):S7 (8 February 2007)

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Intron Evolution and Information processing in the DNA polymerase α gene in spirotrichous ciliates: A hypothesis for interconversion between DNA and RNA deletion

Wei-Jen Chang, Victoria M Addis, Anya J Li, Elin Axelsson, David H Ardell, Laura F Landweber Biology Direct 2007, 2:6 (1 February 2007)

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Prediction of effective genome size in metagenomic samples

Jeroen Raes, Jan O Korbel, Martin J Lercher, Christian von Mering, Peer Bork Genome Biology 2007, 8:R10 (15 January 2007)

A novel computational approach shows a link between genome size and habitat from analysis of environmental metagenomic DNA reads.

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An annotated cDNA library and microarray for large-scale gene-expression studies in the ant Solenopsis invicta

John Wang, Stephanie Jemielity, Paolo Uva, Yannick Wurm, Johannes Gräff, Laurent Keller Genome Biology 2007, 8:R9 (15 January 2007)

An annotated EST resource for the fire ant Solenopsis invicta containing 21,715 ESTs, which represent 11,864 putatively different transcripts, and a corresponding cDNA microarray are described.

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DiscoverySpace: an interactive data analysis application

Neil Robertson, Mehrdad Oveisi-Fordorei, Scott D Zuyderduyn, Richard J Varhol, Christopher Fjell, Marco Marra, Steven Jones, Asim Siddiqui Genome Biology 2007, 8:R6 (8 January 2007)

DiscoverySpace, a graphical application for bioinformatics data analysis, in particular analysis of SAGE data, is described

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An annotated catalogue of salivary gland transcripts in the adult female mosquito, Ædes ægypti*

José MC Ribeiro, Bruno Arcà, Fabrizio Lombardo, Eric Calvo, Van My Phan, Prafulla K Chandra, Stephen K Wikel BMC Genomics 2007, 8:6 (4 January 2007)

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Evolutionary conservation of domain-domain interactions

Zohar Itzhaki, Eyal Akiva, Yael Altuvia, Hanah Margalit Genome Biology 2006, 7:R125 (21 December 2006)

Mapping of domain-domain interactions onto the cellular protein-protein interaction networks of different organisms demonstrates that there is a catalogue of domain pairs that is used for mediating various interactions in the cell

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Did the last common ancestor have a biological membrane?

Gáspár Jékely Biology Direct 2006, 1:35 (27 November 2006)

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Integration and mining of malaria molecular, functional and pharmacological data: how far are we from a chemogenomic knowledge space?

Lyn-Marie Birkholtz, Olivier Bastien, Gordon Wells, Delphine Grando, Fourie Joubert, Vinod Kasam, Marc Zimmermann, Philippe Ortet, Nicolas Jacq, Nadia Saïdani, Sylvaine Roy, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Vincent Breton, Abraham I Louw, Eric Maréchal Malaria Journal 2006, 5:110 (17 November 2006)

A review of the different tools and strategies that have recently been developed to process the huge amount of data produced by the X-omic projects. This includes the comparison of protein sequences, high throughput reconstruction of molecular phylogenies, representation of biological processes, methods to integrate X-omic generated data following drug treatments and in silico prediction of protein structure and identification of specific ligand.

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In silico and microarray-based genomic approaches to identifying potential vaccine candidates against Leptospira interrogans

Hong-Liang Yang, Yong-Zhang Zhu, Jin-Hong Qin, Ping He, Xu-Cheng Jiang, Guo-Ping Zhao, Xiao-Kui Guo BMC Genomics 2006, 7:293 (16 November 2006)

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Integration of curated databases to identify genotype-phenotype associations

Chern-Sing Goh, Tara A Gianoulis, Yang Liu, Jianrong Li, Alberto Paccanaro, Yves A Lussier, Mark Gerstein BMC Genomics 2006, 7:257 (12 October 2006)

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Analysis of the dermatophyte Trichophyton rubrum expressed sequence tags

Lingling Wang, Li Ma, Wenchuan Leng, Tao Liu, Lu Yu, Jian Yang, Li Yang, Wenliang Zhang, Qian Zhang, Jie Dong, Ying Xue, Yafang Zhu, Xingye Xu, Zhe Wan, Guohui Ding, Fudong Yu, Kang Tu, Yixue Li, Ruoyu Li, Yan Shen, Qi Jin BMC Genomics 2006, 7:255 (11 October 2006)

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M-GCAT: interactively and efficiently constructing large-scale multiple genome comparison frameworks in closely related species

Todd J Treangen, Xavier Messeguer BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:433 (5 October 2006)

Research article   Open Access

Comparative assessment of performance and genome dependence among phylogenetic profiling methods

Evan S Snitkin, Adam M Gustafson, Joseph Mellor, Jie Wu, Charles DeLisi BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:420 (27 September 2006)

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Diverse bacterial genomes encode an operon of two genes, one of which is an unusual class-I release factor that potentially recognizes atypical mRNA signals other than normal stop codons

Pavel V Baranov, Bente Vestergaard, Thomas Hamelryck, Raymond F Gesteland, Jens Nyborg, John F Atkins Biology Direct 2006, 1:28 (13 September 2006)

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Global gene expression during stringent response in Corynebacterium glutamicum in presence and absence of the rel gene encoding (p)ppGpp synthase

Olaf Brockmann-Gretza, Jörn Kalinowski BMC Genomics 2006, 7:230 (8 September 2006)

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Exopolysaccharide-associated protein sorting in environmental organisms: the PEP-CTERM/EpsH system. Application of a novel phylogenetic profiling heuristic

Daniel H Haft, Ian T Paulsen, Naomi Ward, Jeremy D Selengut BMC Biology 2006, 4:29 (24 August 2006)

A conserved C-terminal domain distributed across bacterial species found in sediment, soil and biofilms, identified using a rapid phylogenetic profiling method, appears to be involved in protein export sorting in exopolysaccharide production.

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On the origin of microbial ORFans: quantifying the strength of the evidence for viral lateral transfer

Yanbin Yin, Daniel Fischer BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:63 (16 August 2006)

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Cross genome comparisons of serine proteases in Arabidopsis and rice

Lokesh P Tripathi, R Sowdhamini BMC Genomics 2006, 7:200 (9 August 2006)

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What properties characterize the hub proteins of the protein-protein interaction network of Saccharomyces cerevisiae?

Diana Ekman, Sara Light, Åsa K Björklund, Arne Elofsson Genome Biology 2006, 7:R45 (16 June 2006)

An analysis of hubs (proteins with many interactors) and non-hubs in the S. cerevisiae protein interaction network shows that hub proteins are enriched with multiple and repeated domains.

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Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Gary C Hon, Chad L Myers, Ainslie Parsons, Helena Friesen, Rose Oughtred, Amy Tong, Chris Stark, Yuen Ho, David Botstein, Brenda Andrews, Charles Boone, Olga G Troyanskya, Trey Ideker, Kara Dolinski, Nizar N Batada, Mike Tyers Journal of Biology 2006, 5:11 (8 June 2006)

A new literature-based yeast database documents over 33,000 biological interactions, manually curated from the primary literature, and provides an invaluable resource to benchmark high-throughput methods in the study of complex networks.

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Integrated biclustering of heterogeneous genome-wide datasets for the inference of global regulatory networks

David J Reiss, Nitin S Baliga, Richard Bonneau BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:280 (2 June 2006)

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Similarity searches in genome-wide numerical data sets

Galina Glazko, Michael Coleman, Arcady Mushegian Biology Direct 2006, 1:13 (30 May 2006)

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Improving the specificity of high-throughput ortholog prediction

Debra L Fulton, Yvonne Y Li, Matthew R Laird, Benjamin GS Horsman, Fiona M Roche, Fiona SL Brinkman BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:270 (28 May 2006)

A new high-throughput method, Ortholuge, utilizes phylogenetic distance ratios to distinguish orthologous genes from those that are paralogous, and can be used on bacteria and eukaryotes on a genome-wide scale.

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Phylogenomic analysis of the GIY-YIG nuclease superfamily

Stanislaw Dunin-Horkawicz, Marcin Feder, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Genomics 2006, 7:98 (28 April 2006)

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Benchmarking ortholog identification methods using functional genomics data

Tim Hulsen, Martijn A Huynen, Jacob de Vlieg, Peter MA Groenen Genome Biology 2006, 7:R31 (13 April 2006)

A benchmarking of the most popular orthologous identification methods using functional genomics data identifies the two best methods.

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A phylogenomic gene cluster resource: the Phylogenetically Inferred Groups (PhIGs) database

Paramvir S Dehal, Jeffrey L Boore BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:201 (11 April 2006)

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Exploring dynamics of protein structure determination and homology-based prediction to estimate the number of superfamilies and folds

Ruslan I Sadreyev, Nick V Grishin BMC Structural Biology 2006, 6:6 (20 March 2006)

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Domain-based small molecule binding site annotation

Kevin A Snyder, Howard J Feldman, Michel Dumontier, John J Salama, Christopher WV Hogue BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:152 (17 March 2006)

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A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Kira S Makarova, Nick V Grishin, Svetlana A Shabalina, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2006, 1:7 (16 March 2006)

Computational analysis shows that CRISPR repeats and associated Cas proteins in prokaryotes might act in conjunction as a RNA-silencing mechanism against plasmids and viruses, similar to the eukaryotic RNA-interference system.

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Gene annotation and network inference by phylogenetic profiling

Jie Wu, Zhenjun Hu, Charles DeLisi BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:80 (17 February 2006)

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Predicting genes for orphan metabolic activities using phylogenetic profiles

Lifeng Chen, Dennis Vitkup Genome Biology 2006, 7:R17 (15 February 2006)

A method that combines local structure of a metabolic network with phylogenetic profiles is described and used to assign genes to orphan metabolic activities in yeast and Escherichia coli.

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EST analysis of the scaly green flagellate Mesostigma viride (Streptophyta): Implications for the evolution of green plants (Viridiplantae)

Andreas Simon, Gernot Glöckner, Marius Felder, Michael Melkonian, Burkhard Becker BMC Plant Biology 2006, 6:2 (13 February 2006)

According to EST comparisons, the scaly flagellate green alga, Mesostigma viride, shares more genes with embryophytes than with Chlamydomonas and may be a unicellular model for the last flagellate common ancestor of the streptophytes.

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Molecular phylogenetics and comparative modeling of HEN1, a methyltransferase involved in plant microRNA biogenesis

Karolina L Tkaczuk, Agnieszka Obarska, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:6 (24 January 2006)

Phylogenetic and fold-recognition analysis of homologs of HEN1, a key enzyme in plant microRNA biogenesis, yields a structural model of the catalytic domain and reveals HEN1 to be related to small-molecule methyltransferases.

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Similarity-based gene detection: using COGs to find evolutionarily-conserved ORFs

Bradford C Powell, Clyde A Hutchison BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:31 (19 January 2006)

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Eleven ancestral gene families lost in mammals and vertebrates while otherwise universally conserved in animals

Etienne GJ Danchin, Philippe Gouret, Pierre Pontarotti BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:5 (18 January 2006)

The absence of certain gene families that are conserved throughout other eukaryotes suggests that the human genome, which is generally considered to have evolved to high levels of complexity, has also undergone simplification and specific gene loss.

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Analysis of and function predictions for previously conserved hypothetical or putative proteins in Blochmannia floridanus

Peter Gaudermann, Ina Vogl, Evelyn Zientz, Francisco J Silva, Andres Moya, Roy Gross, Thomas Dandekar BMC Microbiology 2006, 6:1 (9 January 2006)

Reannotation of the Blochmannia floridanus genome using data from related species expands the knowledge of the symbiont's metabolic repertoire and highlights many conserved proteobacterial proteins.

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Ulysses - an application for the projection of molecular interactions across species

Danielle Kemmer, Yong Huang, Sohrab P Shah, Jonathan Lim, Jochen Brumm, Macaire MS Yuen, John Ling, Tao Xu, Wyeth W Wasserman, BF Francis Ouellette Genome Biology 2005, 6:R106 (2 December 2005)

Ulysses, a new software for the parallel analysis and display of protein interactions detected in various species, is described.

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Natural history of S-adenosylmethionine-binding proteins

Piotr Z Kozbial, Arcady R Mushegian BMC Structural Biology 2005, 5:19 (14 October 2005)

Analysis of the phyletic distribution and structural similarities of S-adenosylmethionine-binding proteins indicate that two widespread folds, the Rossman fold and TIM barrel, have repeatedly evolved for diverse types of reactions that require S-adenosylmethionine.

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Phydbac "Gene Function Predictor" : a gene annotation tool based on genomic context analysis

François Enault, Karsten Suhre, Jean-Michel Claverie BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:247 (12 October 2005)

Gene Function Predictor, included in the updated Phydbac tool compares well with other genomic context servers in proposing putative associations between Escherichia coli K-12 proteins, demonstrating an accuracy of over 70% in the linkage of these predictions to gene ontology terms.

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Human Lsg1 defines a family of essential GTPases that correlates with the evolution of compartmentalization

Emmanuel G Reynaud, Miguel A Andrade, Fabien Bonneau, Thi Ly, Michael Knop, Klaus Scheffzek, Rainer Pepperkok BMC Biology 2005, 3:21 (7 October 2005)

The expansion of a unique family of essential circularly permuted GTPases related to the human Lsg1 correlates with the evolution of compartmentalization of eukaryotic cells.

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Comparison of theoretical proteomes: Identification of COGs with conserved and variable pI within the multimodal pI distribution

Soumyadeep Nandi, Nipun Mehra, Andrew M Lynn, Alok Bhattacharya BMC Genomics 2005, 6:116 (9 September 2005)

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Generation and analysis of 9792 EST sequences from cold acclimated oat, Avena sativa

Marcus Bräutigam, Angelica Lindlöf, Shakhira Zakhrabekova, Gokarna Gharti-Chhetri, Björn Olsson, Olof Olsson BMC Plant Biology 2005, 5:18 (1 September 2005)

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JACOP: A simple and robust method for the automated classification of protein sequences with modular architecture

Peter Sperisen, Marco Pagni BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:216 (31 August 2005)

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Evidence for a second class of S-adenosylmethionine riboswitches and other regulatory RNA motifs in alpha-proteobacteria

Keith A Corbino, Jeffrey E Barrick, Jinsoo Lim, Rüdiger Welz, Brian J Tucker, Izabela Puskarz, Maumita Mandal, Noam D Rudnick, Ronald R Breaker Genome Biology 2005, 6:R70 (1 August 2005)

Comparative sequence analysis and structural probing identified five RNA elements in the intergenic region of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and other α-proteobacteria. One of these RNA elements is probably a SAM-II, the only riboswitch class identified so far that is not found in Gram-positive bacteria.

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Bioinformatics approaches for cross-species liver cancer analysis based on microarray gene expression profiling

H Fang, W Tong, R Perkins, L Shi, H Hong, X Cao, Q Xie, SH Yim, JM Ward, HC Pitot, YP Dragan BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6(Suppl 2):S6 (15 July 2005)

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The PD-(D/E)XK superfamily revisited: identification of new members among proteins involved in DNA metabolism and functional predictions for domains of (hitherto) unknown function

Jan Kosinski, Marcin Feder, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:172 (12 July 2005)

New members of the PD-(D/E)XK superfamily, with potential nuclease activity, have been identified using HHsearch, a combined sequence/structure method for the detection of remote homology.

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AutoFACT: An Automatic Functional Annotation and Classification Tool

Liisa B Koski, Michael W Gray, B Franz Lang, Gertraud Burger BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:151 (16 June 2005)

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A census of membrane-bound and intracellular signal transduction proteins in bacteria: Bacterial IQ, extroverts and introverts

Michael Y Galperin BMC Microbiology 2005, 5:35 (14 June 2005)

A comprehensive census of bacterial and archaeal signal transduction sequences reveals that the complexity of signalling systems can generally be correlated with the phylogenetic position and lifestyle of the organism, and that Wolinella succinogenes has the highest 'IQ' as measured by the number of encoded signal transducers.

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Predicting functional sites with an automated algorithm suitable for heterogeneous datasets

David La, Dennis R Livesay BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:116 (13 May 2005)

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ProGenExpress: Visualization of quantitative data on prokaryotic genomes

Michael Watson BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:98 (13 April 2005)

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Crystal structure of THEP1 from the hyperthermophile Aquifex aeolicus: a variation of the RecA fold

Michael Roßbach, Oliver Daumke, Claudia Klinger, Alfred Wittinghofer, Michael Kaufmann BMC Structural Biology 2005, 5:7 (20 March 2005)

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A novel firmicute protein family related to the actinobacterial resuscitation-promoting factors by non-orthologous domain displacement

Adriana Ravagnani, Christopher L Finan, Michael Young BMC Genomics 2005, 6:39 (17 March 2005)

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A comprehensive update of the sequence and structure classification of kinases

Sara Cheek, Krzysztof Ginalski, Hong Zhang, Nick V Grishin BMC Structural Biology 2005, 5:6 (16 March 2005)

An updated classification of the almost 60,000 known kinases allows a comprehensive structural annotation of all 25 subfamilies and provides a strong basis on which to classify any newly discovered family members.

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The 'permeome' of the malaria parasite: an overview of the membrane transport proteins of Plasmodium falciparum

Rowena E Martin, Roselani I Henry, Janice L Abbey, John D Clements, Kiaran Kirk Genome Biology 2005, 6:R26 (2 March 2005)

Bioinformatic and expression analyses attribute putative functions to transporters and channels encoded by the Plasmodium falciparum genome. The malaria parasite has substantially more membrane transport proteins than previously thought.

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Identification of a new family of putative PD-(D/E)XK nucleases with unusual phylogenomic distribution and a new type of the active site

Marcin Feder, Janusz M Bujnicki BMC Genomics 2005, 6:21 (18 February 2005)

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GenomeViz: visualizing microbial genomes

Rohit Ghai, Torsten Hain, Trinad Chakraborty BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:198 (15 December 2004)

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PCOGR: Phylogenetic COG ranking as an online tool to judge the specificity of COGs with respect to freely definable groups of organisms

Florian Meereis, Michael Kaufmann BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:150 (15 October 2004)

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Duplicated genes evolve slower than singletons despite the initial rate increase

I King Jordan, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:22 (6 July 2004)

Following gene duplication there is a period of rapid evolution, which then slows down in cases where the original gene has an important biological function and the duplicate is retained.

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Detection of evolutionarily stable fragments of cellular pathways by hierarchical clustering of phyletic patterns

Galina V Glazko, Arcady R Mushegian Genome Biology 2004, 5:R32 (27 April 2004)

A hierarchy of 3,688 phyletic patterns was characterized encompassing more than 5,000 known protein-coding genes from 66 complete microbial genomes. The results indicate that gene loss and displacement has occurred in the evolution of most pathways.

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The regulatory content of intergenic DNA shapes genome architecture

Craig E Nelson, Bradley M Hersh, Sean B Carroll Genome Biology 2004, 5:R25 (15 March 2004)

The relationship between regulatory complexity and gene spacing was examined in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. Intergenic distance, and hence genome architecture, is shaped by regulatory information contained in noncoding DNA.

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A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes

Eugene V Koonin, Natalie D Fedorova, John D Jackson, Aviva R Jacobs, Dmitri M Krylov, Kira S Makarova, Raja Mazumder, Sergei L Mekhedov, Anastasia N Nikolskaya, B Rao, Igor B Rogozin, Sergei Smirnov, Alexander V Sorokin, Alexander V Sverdlov, Sona Vasudevan, Yuri I Wolf, Jodie J Yin, Darren A Natale Genome Biology 2004, 5:R7 (15 January 2004)

We examined functional and evolutionary patterns in the recently constructed set of 5,873 clusters of predicted orthologs from seven eukaryotic genomes. The analysis reveals a conserved core of largely essential eukaryotic genes as well as major diversification and innovation associated with evolution of eukaryotic genomes.