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(17 March 2010)

Transcriptional profiling of Dictyostelium development reveals significant conservation of transcriptional profiles between evolutionarily divergent species.

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(15 March 2010)

Genome-wide mapping of the human TFIIB and NC2 transcription factor binding sites reveals insights into the formation of the pre-initiation complex.

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(15 March 2010)

Novel motifs identified in a comparative genomic analysis of bacterial, archaeal and metagenomic data reveals over 100 candidate structured RNAs.

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(11 March 2010)

Genes with short 5UTR introns have higher expression than genes with no or long 5UTR introns. Complex evolutionary forces act on these introns.

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(8 March 2010)

Novel human pseudogenes are identified that had previous functionality and their age is estimated. The rate of loss-of-function occurred uniformly.

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(1 March 2010)

A high resolution strand-specific transcriptional atlas of the budding yeast mitotic cell cycle, including both mRNA and non-coding RNA profiles.

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(23 February 2010)

The genome of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum lacks genes thought to be crucial in other insects for recognition, signaling and killing of microbes.

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(16 February 2010)

A comparative analysis of SNPs and their exonic and intronic environments identifies the features predictive of splice affecting variants.