Latest Posters
The Opisthokonta and the Ecdysozoa may be clades: An update on Philip et al. (2005)
To test the monophyly of Opisthokonta (animal-fungal clade) and Ecdysozoa (nematode-arthropod clade), Philip et al [Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 1175–1184 (2005)] used sequence data from 10 eukaryotic geno…
Received 02 June 2009 10:00 UTC; Posted 05 June 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
Atomic Structures of Molecules Based on Additivity of Atomic and/or Ionic Radii
The authors have shown in recent years that interatomic and interionic distances are sums of the radii of the adjacent atoms and/or ions. Many examples will be provided and it will be shown how the…
Received 28 May 2009 09:26 UTC; Posted 03 June 2009
Posted to: Chemistry
GUDMAP – An Online GenitoUrinary Resource
The GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) is a consortium of laboratories working to provide the scientific and medical community with gene expression data and tools to facil…
Received 29 May 2009 13:53 UTC; Posted 30 May 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Curation at the NCBI: Genomes, Genes, & Sequence Standards
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides curation support for many genomes, and disseminates information in several resources including Entrez Gene, reference sequences (R…
Received 26 May 2009 16:13 UTC; Posted 27 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Structural Analysis of Polarizing Indels Argues the Root of the Tree of Life is Near the Chloroflexi
Determining which branches of the tree of life have derived features narrows down the possible location of the root. Currently the polarization of indels done by Lake et al.1-5 and the polarizi…
Received 26 May 2009 18:04 UTC; Posted 27 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
H-InvDB release 6, a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts
H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB; http://www.h-invitational.jp/) is an integrated database of human genes and transcripts. By extensive analyses of all human transcr…
Received 14 May 2009 02:31 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Literature Triage and Indexing in the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Group
The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI; http://www.informatics.jax.org) group is comprised of several collaborating projects including the Mouse Genome Database (MGD) Pr…
Received 13 May 2009 16:01 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
TMS, phosphenes and visual mental imagery: A mini-review and a theoretical framework
We reviewed the existing research linking visual mental imagery and phosphenes induced by TMS. We examined and contrasted conditions (and parameters) under which intensity and amplitude of TMS appl…
Received 13 May 2009 14:57 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Cancer Biology Data Curation at the Mouse Tumor Biology Database (MTB)
Many advances in the field of cancer biology have been made using mouse models of human cancer. The Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB, http://tumor.informatics.jax.org) da…
Received 13 May 2009 15:27 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Automatisation in UniProtKB / Swiss-Prot Annotation: New Rules and Tools
The development of next generation sequencing technologies promises a massive increase in the rate of submission of new protein sequences to sequence databases such as the Universal Protein Resourc…
Received 04 May 2009 11:27 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
