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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

Driving under age: assessing the behavior of older adults behind the wheel

How early can breast or ovarian cancer risk be predicted? Transmission of epigenetic changes to BRCA1 and MGMT genes

The genetics of merle coat patterns in dogs

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