(2 July 2009)

Subtle differences in control of flowering-induction genes might contribute to the annual versus perennial growth habits of related plant species.

(1 July 2009)

An integrative strategy of comparative genomics, experimental and computational approaches reveals aspects of a regulatory network controlling neuronal-specific expression in presynaptic neurons.

(1 July 2009)

A conserved gene regulatory circuit for dopaminergic neuron differentiation.

(30 June 2009)

A genetic map of the human infective blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni offers new approaches for research on this important parasitic worm.

(30 June 2009)

The first genetic linkage map of Schistosoma mansoni reveals insights into higher female recombination, confirms ZW inheritance patterns and recombination hotspots.

(29 June 2009)

The integration of medical information into gene and protein networks could lead to a better understanding of complex diseases.

(29 June 2009)

Lessons in personal genome analysis, social networking or health information?

(26 June 2009)

The genome sequence of Thermococcus gammatolerans, a radioresistant archaeon, is described; a proteomic analysis reveals that radioresistance may be due to unknown DNA repair enzymes.

(26 June 2009)

A report of BioSysBio 2009, the IET conference on Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Cambridge, UK, 23-25 March 2009.

(25 June 2009)

A new and validated genome-scale metabolic model of Bacillus subtilis 168, iBsu1103, is presented that has significantly improved completeness and accuracy.

(23 June 2009)

Comparison of the sorghum, maize and rice genomes shows that gene duplication and functional innovation is common to evolution of most but not all genes in the C4 photosynthetic pathway.

(18 June 2009)

A proteomic and metabolic network analysis of honeybee queen spermathecal fluid provides insights into female long-term sperm storage mechanisms.

(16 June 2009)

The brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus, unlike terrestrial plants, undergoes extensive reprogramming of its transcriptome during the acclimation to mild abiotic stress.

(16 June 2009)

A large-scale survey of potential recently acquired integrative elements in 119 archaeal and bacterial genomes reveals that many recently acquired genes have originated from integrative elements

(16 June 2009)

The mean expression value: a new method for accurate and reliable normalization of microRNA expression data from RT-qPCR experiments.

(15 June 2009)

A review of the cytoskeleton-organizing WASP and WAVE family proteins.

(15 June 2009)

A transposon in the germline genome of the ciliate Oxytricha removes itself from the differentiating somatic genome during development.

(12 June 2009)

A novel evolutionary analysis of metabolic networks across 26 taxa reveals a highly-conserved but flexible core of metabolic enzymes.

(9 June 2009)

Analysis of the genome-wide distribution patterns of histone H3 lysine4 methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings shows that it has widespread roles in regulating gene expression.

(8 June 2009)

Double-strand breaks initiate coat protein switching in African trypanosomes.