BMC Biology

official impact factor 5.20

Open Access Methodology article

Composition-based statistics and translated nucleotide searches: Improving the TBLASTN module of BLAST

E Michael Gertz*, Yi-Kuo Yu, Richa Agarwala, Alejandro A Schäffer and Stephen F Altschul

BMC Biology 2006, 4:41 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-4-41

Accesses  

  • Last 30 days: 54 accesses
  • Last 365 days: 625 accesses
  • All time: 4392 accesses

Cited by

BioMed Central: 4 citations

Research   Open Access

Extensive intron gain in the ancestor of placental mammals

Dušan Kordiš Biology Direct 2011, 6:59 (23 November 2011)

Phylogenomic analysis of domesticated genes provides evidence for numerous intron gains in the ancestor of placental mammals and demonstrates that adequate taxon sampling is crucial for reconstructing intron evolution.

Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

Comparative genomic analysis of the zebra finch degradome provides new insights into evolution of proteases in birds and mammals

Víctor Quesada, Gloria Velasco, Xose S Puente, Wesley C Warren, Carlos López-Otín BMC Genomics 2010, 11:220 (1 April 2010)

This article is part of a collection on Zebra finch: the companion...

Comparison of the degradomes of birds and mammals using genes identified in the zebra finch, chicken and human genomes shows how biological traits unique to the zebra finch are reflected in the evolution of their proteases.

Software   Open Access Highly Accessed

PLAST: parallel local alignment search tool for database comparison

Van Hoa Nguyen, Dominique Lavenier BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:329 (12 October 2009)

Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

Evolution of C2H2-zinc finger genes and subfamilies in mammals: Species-specific duplication and loss of clusters, genes and effector domains

Hamsa D Tadepally, Gertraud Burger, Muriel Aubry BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:176 (18 June 2008)

Extensive mapping of zinc finger transcription factors across five mammalian species provides a comprehensive insight into the duplication and degeneration of genes in different lineages during the evolution of this family.