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Content type: Research
| 20 April 2018

MEGAN-LR: new algorithms allow accurate binning and easy interactive exploration of metagenomic long reads and contigs

Authors: Daniel H. Huson, Benjamin Albrecht, Caner Bağcı, Irina Bessarab, Anna Górska, Dino Jolic and Rohan B. H. Williams
Content type: Research
| 3 April 2018

Multi-omics integration for neuroblastoma clinical endpoint prediction

Authors: Margherita Francescatto, Marco Chierici, Setareh Rezvan Dezfooli, Alessandro Zandonà, Giuseppe Jurman and Cesare Furlanello
Content type: Research
| 2 March 2018

Prevalence of loss-of-function alleles does not correlate with lifetime fecundity and other life-history traits in metazoans

Authors: Aleksandra V. Bezmenova, Georgii A. Bazykin and Alexey S. Kondrashov
Content type: Research
| 21 February 2018

Genes sharing the protein family domain decrease the performance of classification with RNA-seq genomic signatures

Authors: Anna Leśniewska, Joanna Zyprych-Walczak, Alicja Szabelska-Beręsewicz and Michal J. Okoniewski
Content type: Research
| 12 February 2018

Finite-size effects in transcript sequencing count distribution: its power-law correction necessarily precedes downstream normalization and comparative analysis

Authors: Wing-Cheong Wong, Hong-kiat Ng, Erwin Tantoso, Richie Soong and Frank Eisenhaber

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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
| 3 January 2011

The advantages and disadvantages of horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of the first species

Authors: Aaron A Vogan and Paul G Higgs

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MEGAN-LR: new algorithms allow accurate binning and easy interactive exploration of metagenomic long reads and contigs

Multi-omics integration for neuroblastoma clinical endpoint prediction

Prevalence of loss-of-function alleles does not correlate with lifetime fecundity and other life-history traits in metazoans

Genes sharing the protein family domain decrease the performance of classification with RNA-seq genomic signatures

Finite-size effects in transcript sequencing count distribution: its power-law correction necessarily precedes downstream normalization and comparative analysis

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

The advantages and disadvantages of horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of the first species

Editors-in-Chief

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2015

Journal sections

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Moulding a network – How fungi establish and maintain a dynamic mycelial colony

Ever feel in your gut that you and your dog have more in common than you realized?

Is plastic waste the next global environmental crisis?

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