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Alternative transporters
02 Feb 2012
NBIC Faculty Dick de Ridder and colleagues have found alternative lactate transporters in baker's yeast
Cracking mitochondrial ribosome assembly
02 Feb 2012
So far, already an extensive number of factors involved in the biogenesis of cytosolic ribosomes have been identified. However, when it comes to mitoc...
Towards interoperable bioscience data
30 Jan 2012
Chris Evelo (Maastricht) and 50 other researchers representing 37 research groups plead in Nature Genetics to use the ISA standard in order create dat...
Crossing borders
23 Jan 2012
NBIC Faculty 't Hoen (LUMC) et al develop the Dandelion algorithm to construct and train intraspecies Bayesian networks.
Driven by design
23 Jan 2012
Functional genomics experiments are increasingly determined by a predefined experimental design. The design drives data generation and determines how ...
Resequencing: important, but hardly rewarded
17 Jan 2012
Van Hijum, Siezen et al. resequenced L. Plantarum
Typing tuberculosis
12 Jan 2012
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's major health problems. It is estimated that roughly one-third of the global population is infected with Mycoba...
Variation OK, but not in name
20 Dec 2011
A formalized description of the standard human variant nomenclature
Intriguing repeats
19 Dec 2011
ProRepeat: an integrated, curated and updated repository and analysis platform for the study of amino acid tandem repeats.
Correlated variation
13 Dec 2011
In predicting functional sites in proteins, conservation of amino acids in sequence alignments is a well-known indicator of functional properties. In ...
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