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Content type: Review
| 21 September 2018

Is pre-Darwinian evolution plausible?

Authors: Marc Tessera
Content type: Research
| 20 September 2018

Integration of multiple types of genetic markers for neuroblastoma may contribute to improved prediction of the overall survival

Authors: Aneta Polewko-Klim, Wojciech Lesiński, Krzysztof Mnich, Radosław Piliszek and Witold R. Rudnicki
Content type: Research
| 22 August 2018

MetaBinG2: a fast and accurate metagenomic sequence classification system for samples with many unknown organisms

Authors: Yuyang Qiao, Ben Jia, Zhiqiang Hu, Chen Sun, Yijin Xiang and Chaochun Wei
Content type: Research
| 22 August 2018

Models of cell signaling uncover molecular mechanisms of high-risk neuroblastoma and predict disease outcome

Authors: Marta R. Hidalgo, Alicia Amadoz, Cankut Çubuk, José Carbonell-Caballero and Joaquín Dopazo
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

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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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Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

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Is pre-Darwinian evolution plausible?

Integration of multiple types of genetic markers for neuroblastoma may contribute to improved prediction of the overall survival

MetaBinG2: a fast and accurate metagenomic sequence classification system for samples with many unknown organisms

Models of cell signaling uncover molecular mechanisms of high-risk neuroblastoma and predict disease outcome

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

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 complexities for household energy management: lessons from a smart grid pilot project

Kermit’s sticky little fingers: What do we know (and what not) about tree frog attachment?

Aging and the intricacies of the immune system

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