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Research   Open Access

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

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Research   Open Access

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

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Research article   Open Access

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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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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.

Methodology article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Research article   Open Access

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

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Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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.

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Research article   Open Access

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.

Editorial   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Research   Open Access

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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 

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Anniversary Update   Open Access

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

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Software   Open Access

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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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Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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.

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Research article   Open Access

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

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Research article   Open Access

PubChem3D: conformer ensemble accuracy

Sunghwan Kim, Evan E Bolton, Stephen H Bryant Journal of Cheminformatics 2013, 5:1 (7 January 2013)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Graphical abstract

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Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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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Discovery notes   Open Access

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

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Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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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Hypothesis   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Discovery notes   Open Access

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

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Research article   Open Access

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central |  Editor’s summary | 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.

Research   Open Access

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

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Research   Open Access

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

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Discovery notes   Open Access Highly Accessed

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 |  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.

Software   Open Access

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

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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.

Opinion   Open Access Highly Accessed

Does the central dogma still stand?

Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2012, 7:27 (23 August 2012)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed

28.

Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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 |  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.

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Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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 |  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.

Methodology article   Open Access

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.

Proceedings   Open Access

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.

Software   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Technical Note   Open Access

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

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Review   Open Access Highly Accessed

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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.

Technical Note   Open Access

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

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Research   Open Access

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  Editor’s summary

A comprehensive RNA-seq analysis of autosomal dosage effects and compensation in 21 autosomal deficiency Drosophila lines

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Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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 |  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.

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Review   Open Access Highly Accessed

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 | 1 comment

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Discovery notes   Open Access Highly Accessed

Archaeal origin of tubulin

Natalya Yutin, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2012, 7:10 (29 March 2012)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  Editor’s summary

Probable ancestors of eukaryotic tubulins, denoted artubulins, were discovered in two genomes of thaumarchaeota of the genus Nitrosoarchaeum.

41.

Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Research article   Open Access

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

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Research   Open Access

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 |  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.

Methodology   Open Access

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

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Short report   Open Access Highly Accessed

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 |  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

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  Editor’s summary | 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

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Research article   Open Access

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)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed |  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.

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