1.
Comparison of RefSeq protein-coding regions in human and vertebrate genomes
Jessica
H
Fong,
Terence
D
Murphy,
Kim
D
Pruitt
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :654 (25 September 2013)
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Two Pfam protein families characterized by a crystal structure of protein lpg2210 from Legionella pneumophila
Penelope
Coggill,
Ruth
Y
Eberhardt,
Robert
D
Finn,
Yuanyuan
Chang,
Lukasz
Jaroszewski,
Adam
Godzik,
Debanu
Das,
Qingping
Xu,
Herbert
L
Axelrod,
L
Aravind,
Alexey
G
Murzin,
Alex
Bateman
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :265 (3 September 2013)
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Novel autoproteolytic and DNA-damage sensing components in the bacterial SOS response and oxidized methylcytosine-induced eukaryotic DNA demethylation systems
L
Aravind,
Swadha
Anand,
Lakshminarayan
M
Iyer
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :20 (15 August 2013)
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Parabolic replicator dynamics and the principle of minimum Tsallis information gain
Georgy
P
Karev,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :19 (11 August 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Adequate theoretical description of the dynamics of realistic systems of prebiotic replicators requires the use of a form of the Maximum Entropy Principle in which the minimized quantity is Tsallis entropy, a generalization of the better known Shannon entropy function.
5.
MeSH indexing based on automatically generated summaries
Antonio
J
Jimeno-Yepes,
Laura
Plaza,
James
G
Mork,
Alan
R
Aronson,
Alberto
Díaz
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :208 (26 June 2013)
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Comprehensive analysis of the HEPN superfamily: identification of novel roles in intra-genomic conflicts, defense, pathogenesis and RNA processing
Vivek
Anantharaman,
Kira
S
Makarova,
A
Burroughs,
Eugene
V
Koonin,
L
Aravind
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :15 (15 June 2013)
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7.
Two novel PIWI families: roles in inter-genomic conflicts in bacteria and Mediator-dependent modulation of transcription in eukaryotes
A
Burroughs,
Lakshminarayan
M
Iyer,
L
Aravind
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :13 (8 June 2013)
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8.
Clustering cliques for graph-based summarization of the biomedical research literature
Han
Zhang,
Marcelo
Fiszman,
Dongwook
Shin,
Bartlomiej
Wilkowski,
Thomas
C
Rindflesch
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :182 (7 June 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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GeneRIF indexing: sentence selection based on machine learning
Antonio
J
Jimeno-Yepes,
J
Sticco,
James
G
Mork,
Alan
R
Aronson
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :171 (31 May 2013)
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NEXT-peak: a normal-exponential two-peak model for peak-calling in ChIP-seq data
Nak-Kyeong
Kim,
Rasika
V
Jayatillake,
John
L
Spouge
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :349 (25 May 2013)
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Domain analysis of symbionts and hosts (DASH) in a genome-wide survey of pathogenic human viruses
Mileidy
W
Gonzalez,
John
L
Spouge
BMC Research Notes 2013, 6 :209 (24 May 2013)
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Virophages, polintons, and transpovirons: a complex evolutionary network of diverse selfish genetic elements with different reproduction strategies
Natalya
Yutin,
Didier
Raoult,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Virology Journal 2013, 10 :158 (23 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A phylogenomic analysis found that giant viruses, virophages and transposable elements have a complex evolutionary relationship, suggesting that viruses evolved from non-viral mobile genetic elements and vice versa, on more than one occasion.
13.
Combining MEDLINE and publisher data to create parallel corpora for the automatic translation of biomedical text
Antonio
Jimeno Yepes,
Élise
Prieur-Gaston,
Aurélie
Névéol
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :146 (30 April 2013)
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Biology Direct: celebrating 7 years of open, published peer review
Eugene
V
Koonin,
Laura
F
Landweber,
David
J
Lipman
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :11 (30 April 2013)
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15.
Insights into archaeal evolution and symbiosis from the genomes of a nanoarchaeon and its inferred crenarchaeal host from Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park
Mircea
Podar,
Kira
S
Makarova,
David
E
Graham,
Yuri
I
Wolf,
Eugene
V
Koonin,
Anna-Louise
Reysenbach
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :9 (22 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
The genome of the first terrestrial member of the Nanoarchaeota and comparisons with the marine Nanoarchaeum equitans reveals stages in the evolution of archaeal symbiosis and parasitism
16.
Seeing the Tree of Life behind the phylogenetic forest
Pere
Puigbò,
Yuri
I
Wolf,
Eugene
V
Koonin
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :46 (15 April 2013)
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Using an ensemble of statistical metrics to quantify large sets of plant transcription factor binding sites
Parsa
Hosseini,
Ivan
Ovcharenko,
Benjamin
F
Matthews
Plant Methods 2013, 9 :12 (11 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
This article describes a software tool that can identify transcription factor binding sites from amongst large collections of promoter sequences by integrating a number of different approaches. The method is able to identify more over-represented binding site sequences than other common approaches.
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Mimiviridae: clusters of orthologous genes, reconstruction of gene repertoire evolution and proposed expansion of the giant virus family
Natalya
Yutin,
Philippe
Colson,
Didier
Raoult,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Virology Journal 2013, 10 :106 (4 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Clusters of orthologous genes for mimiviruses (mimiCOGs) were constructed and used for comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of large dsDNA viruses, finding that two Phycodnaviruses actually belong in the Mimiviridae.
19.
Genome-wide associations of signaling pathways in glioblastoma multiforme
Stefan
Wuchty,
Alexei
Vazquez,
Serdar
Bozdag,
Peter
O
Bauer
BMC Medical Genomics 2013, 6 :11 (28 March 2013)
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PubChem3D: conformer ensemble accuracy
Sunghwan
Kim,
Evan
E
Bolton,
Stephen
H
Bryant
Journal of Cheminformatics 2013, 5 :1 (7 January 2013)
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Lower short- and long-term mortality associated with overweight and obesity in a large cohort study of adult intensive care unit patients
Swapna
Abhyankar,
Kira
Leishear,
Fiona
M
Callaghan,
Dina
Demner-Fushman,
Clement
J
McDonald
Critical Care 2012, 16 :R235 (18 December 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Overweight and obese patients have significantly lower mortality rates than normal weight patients, both 30 days and one year after ICU admission, supporting the theory that obesity has a “protective effect”.
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AID/APOBEC cytosine deaminase induces genome-wide kataegis
Artem
G
Lada,
Alok
Dhar,
Robert
J
Boissy,
Masayuki
Hirano,
Aleksandr
A
Rubel,
Igor
B
Rogozin,
Youri
I
Pavlov
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :47 (18 December 2012)
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Updated clusters of orthologous genes for Archaea: a complex ancestor of the Archaea and the byways of horizontal gene transfer
Yuri
I
Wolf,
Kira
S
Makarova,
Natalya
Yutin,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :46 (14 December 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Analysis of the updated set of orthologs in 120 archaeal genomes reveals a complex history of gene exchange with no major "highways" of horizontal gene transfer.
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Live virus-free or die: coupling of antivirus immunity and programmed suicide or dormancy in prokaryotes
Kira
S
Makarova,
Vivek
Anantharaman,
L
Aravind,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :40 (14 November 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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ALOG domains: provenance of plant homeotic and developmental regulators from the DNA-binding domain of a novel class of DIRS1-type retroposons
Lakshminarayan
M
Iyer,
L
Aravind
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :39 (12 November 2012)
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