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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
Content type: Commentary
| 29 November 2018

Response to Martin and colleagues: mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

Authors: Michael Lynch and Georgi K. Marinov

The Comment to this article has been published in Biology Direct 2018 13:21
Content type: Research
| 23 November 2018

Reconstruction of endosomal organization and function by a combination of ODE and agent-based modeling strategies

Authors: Luis S. Mayorga, Ignacio Cebrian, Meghna Verma, Stefan Hoops and Josep Bassaganya-Riera

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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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David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

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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

Response to Martin and colleagues: mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

Reconstruction of endosomal organization and function by a combination of ODE and agent-based modeling strategies

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

Journal sections

News from BioMed Central

Understanding humans – the key to African swine fever control

Cervical Cancer Awareness Quiz

Our insights from engineering genomes

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