1.
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
Maxwell
Burroughs,
Eugene
V
Koonin,
L
Aravind
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :15 (15 June 2013)
Abstract | Provisional PDF
2.
Two novel PIWI families: roles in inter-genomic conflicts in bacteria and mediator-dependent modulation of transcription in eukaryotes
A
Maxwell
Burroughs,
Lakshminarayan
M
Iyer,
L
Aravind
Biology Direct 2013, 8 :13 (8 June 2013)
Abstract | Provisional PDF
| PubMed
3.
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
4.
GeneRIF indexing: sentence selection based on
machine learning
Antonio
J
Jimeno-Yepes,
J
Caitlin
Sticco,
James
G
Mork,
Alan
R
Aronson
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :171 (31 May 2013)
Abstract | Provisional PDF
| PubMed
5.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
6.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
7.
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.
8.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
9.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
10.
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
11.
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)
Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
12.
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.
13.
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.
14.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
15.
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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Graphical abstract
16.
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”.
17.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
18.
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.
19.
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
20.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
21.
Effects of multiple conformers per compound upon 3-D similarity search and bioassay data analysis
Sunghwan
Kim,
Evan
E
Bolton,
Stephen
H
Bryant
Journal of Cheminformatics 2012, 4 :28 (7 November 2012)
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Editor’s summary
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Graphical abstract
In the latest article in the PubChem3D series, the effects of employing multiple diverse conformers per compound on 3D similarity computation are investigated, which may help to build search and analysis tools that exploit 3D molecular similarity between compounds in PubChem
22.
Thematic clustering of text documents using an EM-based approach
Sun
Kim,
W
Wilbur
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2012, 3 (Suppl 3):S6 (5 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
23.
Finding biomedical categories in Medline®
Lana
Yeganova,
Won
Kim,
Donald
C
Comeau,
W John
Wilbur
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2012, 3 (Suppl 3):S3 (5 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
24.
Proteorhodopsin genes in giant viruses
Natalya
Yutin,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :34 (4 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central | F1000 Biology
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Editor’s summary
Some giant viruses encode previously unknown proteorhodopsins that are predicted to affect signal transduction in infected protists and might have substantial ecological impact.
25.
Coalescent: an open-source and scalable framework for exact calculations in coalescent theory
Susanta
Tewari,
John
L
Spouge
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 :257 (3 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
26.
In silico identification and characterization of the ion transport specificity for P-type ATPases in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Lorena
Novoa-Aponte,
Andrés
León-Torres,
Miyer
Patiño-Ruiz,
Jenifer
Cuesta-Bernal,
Luz-Mary
Salazar,
David
Landsman,
Leonardo
Mariño-Ramírez,
Carlos-Yesid
Soto
BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12 :25 (3 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
27.
Does the central dogma still stand?
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :27 (23 August 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
28.
Hidden evolutionary complexity of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA viruses of eukaryotes
Natalya
Yutin,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Virology Journal 2012, 9 :161 (14 August 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
Research confirming that the Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA viruses, from smallpox to mimivirus, evolved from a single common ancestor. Interestingly a number of core genes, carrying out the same function in these diverse viruses, were unrelated to each other but were instead independently acquired from their eukaryotic hosts. This remarkable example of convergent evolution reveals a complex genetic history for an important group of viruses.
29.
Polymorphic toxin systems: Comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics
Dapeng
Zhang,
Robson
F
de Souza,
Vivek
Anantharaman,
Lakshminarayan
M
Iyer,
L
Aravind
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :18 (25 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
Comprehensive dissection of polymorphic and related secreted toxin systems uncovers nearly 240 toxin and immunity domains with implications for intra-organismal conflict, kin discrimination, pathogenesis and emergence of eukaryotic sub-cellular systems.
30.
Automated hierarchical classification of protein domain subfamilies based on functionally-divergent residue signatures
Andrew
F
Neuwald,
Christopher
J
Lanczycki,
Aron
Marchler-Bauer
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 :144 (22 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
31.
Epigenetic functions enriched in transcription factors binding to mouse recombination hotspots
Min
Wu,
Chee-Keong
Kwoh,
Teresa
M
Przytycka,
Jing
Li,
Jie
Zheng
Proteome Science 2012, 10 (Suppl 1):S11 (21 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
32.
Primer-BLAST: A tool to design target-specific primers for polymerase chain reaction
Jian
Ye,
George
Coulouris,
Irena
Zaretskaya,
Ioana
Cutcutache,
Steve
Rozen,
Thomas
L
Madden
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 :134 (18 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
33.
New finite-size correction for local alignment score distributions
Yonil
Park,
Sergey
Sheetlin,
Ning
Ma,
Thomas
L
Madden,
John
L
Spouge
BMC Research Notes 2012, 5 :286 (12 June 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
34.
A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants
Paul
B
Talbert,
Kami
Ahmad,
Geneviève
Almouzni,
Juan
Ausió,
Frederic
Berger,
Prem
L
Bhalla,
William
M
Bonner,
W
Cande,
Brian
P
Chadwick,
Simon W
L
Chan,
George A
M
Cross,
Liwang
Cui,
Stefan
I
Dimitrov,
Detlef
Doenecke,
José
M
Eirin-López,
Martin
A
Gorovsky,
Sandra
B
Hake,
Barbara
A
Hamkalo,
Sarah
Holec,
Steven
E
Jacobsen,
Kinga
Kamieniarz,
Saadi
Khochbin,
Andreas
G
Ladurner,
David
Landsman,
John
A
Latham,
Benjamin
Loppin,
Harmit
S
Malik,
William
F
Marzluff,
John
R
Pehrson,
Jan
Postberg
et al.
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2012, 5 :7 (31 May 2012)
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Editor’s summary
In response to an urgent need to rationalize the current schemes for naming histone variants, researchers from over 30 institutions worldwide have developed consistent but flexible naming rules that are informative and database-searchable.
35.
CytoITMprobe: a network information flow plugin for Cytoscape
Aleksandar
Stojmirović,
Alexander
Bliskovsky,
Yi-Kuo
Yu
BMC Research Notes 2012, 5 :237 (15 May 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
36.
The Physalis peruviana leaf transcriptome: assembly, annotation and gene model prediction
Gina
A
Garzón-Martínez,
Z
Zhu,
David
Landsman,
Luz
S
Barrero,
Leonardo
Mariño-Ramírez
BMC Genomics 2012, 13 :151 (25 April 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
37.
Mediation of Drosophila autosomal dosage effects and compensation by network interactions
John
H
Malone,
Dong-Yeon
Cho,
Nicolas
R
Mattiuzzo,
Carlo
G
Artieri,
Lichun
Jiang,
Ryan
K
Dale,
Harold
E
Smith,
Jennifer
McDaniel,
Sarah
Munro,
Marc
Salit,
Justen
Andrews,
Teresa
M
Przytycka,
Brian
Oliver
Genome Biology 2012, 13 :R28 (24 April 2012)
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Editor’s summary
A comprehensive RNA-seq analysis of autosomal dosage effects and compensation in 21 autosomal deficiency Drosophila lines
38.
Domain enhanced lookup time accelerated BLAST
Grzegorz
M
Boratyn,
Alejandro
A
Schäffer,
Richa
Agarwala,
Stephen
F
Altschul,
David
J
Lipman,
Thomas
L
Madden
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :12 (17 April 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
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Editor’s summary
DELTA-BLAST is a new BLAST alignment tool for sensitive protein searches that uses conserved domain models to construct a position specific scoring matrix.
39.
Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns
Igor
B
Rogozin,
Liran
Carmel,
Miklos
Csuros,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :11 (16 April 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central |
40.
Archaeal origin of tubulin
Natalya
Yutin,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Biology Direct 2012, 7 :10 (29 March 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Probable ancestors of eukaryotic tubulins, denoted artubulins, were discovered in two genomes of thaumarchaeota of the genus Nitrosoarchaeum.
41.
Post-radiation increase in VEGF enhances glioma cell motility in vitro
Whoon
Kil,
Philip
J
Tofilon,
Kevin
Camphausen
Radiation Oncology 2012, 7 :25 (22 February 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | F1000 Medicine | F1000 Biology
42.
Automatic identification and normalization of dosage forms in drug monographs
Jiao
Li,
Zhiyong
Lu
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012, 12 :9 (15 February 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
43.
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)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
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.
44.
Increasing peptide identifications and decreasing search times for ETD spectra by pre-processing and calculation of parent precursor charge
Viswanadham
Sridhara,
Dina
L
Bai,
An
Chi,
Jeffrey
Shabanowitz,
Donald
F
Hunt,
Stephen
H
Bryant,
Lewis
Y
Geer
Proteome Science 2012, 10 :8 (9 February 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
45.
Predicting tissue specific cis-regulatory modules in the human genome using pairs of co-occurring motifs
Hani
Z
Girgis,
Ivan
Ovcharenko
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 :25 (7 February 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
46.
Female Anopheles gambiae antennae: increased transcript accumulation of the mosquito-specific odorant-binding-protein OBP2
Seth
A
Hoffman,
Lakshminarayanan
Aravind,
Soundarapandian
Velmurugan
Parasites & Vectors 2012, 5 :27 (6 February 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
The odorant binding protein, OBP2, had increased transcript accumulation in the antennae of female vs. male Anopheles gambiae. suggesting it may play a role in female feeding and breeding behavior. Image: Heads, mouthparts and antennae of female (left) and male (right) Anopheles gambiae
47.
Constructing a semantic predication gold standard from the biomedical literature
Halil
Kilicoglu,
Graciela
Rosemblat,
Marcelo
Fiszman,
Thomas
C
Rindflesch
BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12 :486 (20 December 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
48.
A unified framework for managing provenance information in translational research
Satya
S
Sahoo,
Vinh
Nguyen,
Olivier
Bodenreider,
Priti
Parikh,
Todd
Minning,
Amit
P
Sheth
BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12 :461 (29 November 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
49.
Automated annotation of chemical names in the literature with tunable accuracy
Jun
D
Zhang,
Lewis
Y
Geer,
Evan
E
Bolton,
Stephen
H
Bryant
Journal of Cheminformatics 2011, 3 :52 (22 November 2011)
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Editor’s summary
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Graphical abstract
An automated chemical name annotation system has been developed to annotate small molecule names in scientific abstracts with the aim of reproducing MeSH term annotations on biomedical and chemical literature
50.
Francisella RNA polymerase contains a heterodimer of non-identical α subunits
Damir
Mukhamedyarov,
Kira
S
Makarova,
Konstantin
Severinov,
Konstantin
Kuznedelov
BMC Molecular Biology 2011, 12 :50 (22 November 2011)
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Editor’s summary
Unlike all other known bacterial genera, Francisella possesses two rpoA genes, encoding two non-identical alpha subunits of the RNA polymerase, and both subunits must be present in the same enzyme to ensure robust transcription activity.