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Content type: Research
| 13 February 2019

Integrative analysis based on survival associated co-expression gene modules for predicting Neuroblastoma patients’ survival time

Authors: Yatong Han, Xiufen Ye, Jun Cheng, Siyuan Zhang, Weixing Feng, Zhi Han, Jie Zhang and Kun Huang
Content type: Hypothesis
| 23 January 2019

From tumors to species: a SCANDAL hypothesis

Authors: A. Y. Panchin, V. V. Aleoshin and Y. V. Panchin
Content type: Opinion
| 16 January 2019

Exon skipping-rich transcriptomes of animals reflect the significance of exon-shuffling in metazoan proteome evolution

Authors: Laszlo Patthy
Content type: Research
| 15 January 2019

Interface residues of transient protein-protein complexes have extensive intra-protein interactions apart from inter-protein interactions

Authors: Srinivasan Jayashree, Pavalam Murugavel, Ramanathan Sowdhamini and Narayanaswamy Srinivasan
Content type: Research
| 14 December 2018

Stable coevolutionary regimes for genetic parasites and their hosts: you must differ to coevolve

Authors: Faina Berezovskaya, Georgy P. Karev, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf and Eugene V. Koonin

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Content type: Hypothesis
| 2 July 2014

Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

Authors: Alexander Y Panchin, Alexander I Tuzhikov and Yuri V Panchin
Content type: Research
| 11 December 2008

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

Authors: Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen
Content type: Hypothesis
| 24 August 2009

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

Authors: Armen Y Mulkidjanian
Content type: Hypothesis
| 19 September 2006

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

Authors: Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja
Content type: Research
| 16 March 2006

A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Authors: Kira S Makarova, Nick V Grishin, Svetlana A Shabalina, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

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Integrative analysis based on survival associated co-expression gene modules for predicting Neuroblastoma patients’ survival time

From tumors to species: a SCANDAL hypothesis

Exon skipping-rich transcriptomes of animals reflect the significance of exon-shuffling in metazoan proteome evolution

Interface residues of transient protein-protein complexes have extensive intra-protein interactions apart from inter-protein interactions

Stable coevolutionary regimes for genetic parasites and their hosts: you must differ to coevolve

Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Editors-in-Chief

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2017

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Where’s the Whale? Quiz

The Australian dingo: untamed or feral?

Bigger CRISPR- Cas12a toolbox, wider genomic coverage and higher targeting efficiencies

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