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Content type: Research
| 16 July 2018

Accumulation of potential driver genes with genomic alterations predicts survival of high-risk neuroblastoma patients

Authors: Chen Suo, Wenjiang Deng, Trung Nghia Vu, Mingrui Li, Leming Shi and Yudi Pawitan
Content type: Opinion
| 6 July 2018

Modeling protein folding in vivo

Authors: Irina Sorokina and Arcady Mushegian
Content type: Research
| 7 June 2018

Predicting clinical outcome of neuroblastoma patients using an integrative network-based approach

Authors: Léon-Charles Tranchevent, Petr V. Nazarov, Tony Kaoma, Georges P. Schmartz, Arnaud Muller, Sang-Yoon Kim, Jagath C. Rajapakse and Francisco Azuaje
Content type: Research
| 30 May 2018

Predicting survival times for neuroblastoma patients using RNA-seq expression profiles

Authors: Tyler Grimes, Alejandro R. Walker, Susmita Datta and Somnath Datta
Content type: Research
| 22 May 2018

Unraveling bacterial fingerprints of city subways from microbiome 16S gene profiles

Authors: Alejandro R. Walker, Tyler L. Grimes, Somnath Datta and Susmita Datta

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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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Accumulation of potential driver genes with genomic alterations predicts survival of high-risk neuroblastoma patients

Modeling protein folding in vivo

Predicting clinical outcome of neuroblastoma patients using an integrative network-based approach

Predicting survival times for neuroblastoma patients using RNA-seq expression profiles

Unraveling bacterial fingerprints of city subways from microbiome 16S gene profiles

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

Cannabis use in psychiatric populations and risk of suicide: A new perspective

Where is your fat accumulating? Different fat distribution is linked to different cardiometabolic risk in a sex-dependent manner

Why some people test positive for malaria after successful anti-malarial treatment

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