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Peroxiredoxins are conserved markers of circadian rhythms
Cellular life emerged ∼3.7 billion years ago. With scant exception, terrestrial organisms have evolved under predictable daily cycles owing to the Earth’s rotation. The advantage conferred on organisms that an...
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Open AccessIntegration and visualization of systems biology data in context of the genome
High-density tiling arrays and new sequencing technologies are generating rapidly increasing volumes of transcriptome and protein-DNA interaction data. Visualization and exploration of this data is critical to...
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Open AccessGTC: A web server for integrating systems biology data with web tools and desktop applications
Gaggle Tool Creator (GTC) is a web application which provides access to public annotation, interaction, orthology, and genomic data for hundreds of organisms, and enables instant analysis of the data using man...
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Open AccessLarge scale physiological readjustment during growth enables rapid, comprehensive and inexpensive systems analysis
Rapidly characterizing the operational interrelationships among all genes in a given organism is a critical bottleneck to significantly advancing our understanding of thousands of newly sequenced microbial and...
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Visualization of omics data for systems biology
High-throughput studies of biological systems are rapidly accumulating a wealth of 'omics'-scale data. Visualization is a key aspect of both the analysis and understanding of these data, and users now have man...
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The role of predictive modelling in rationally re-engineering biological systems
Synthetic biology will provide the potential to redesign, or even build from scratch, specialized organisms to carry out complex tasks. In this Opinion article, Nitin Baliga and colleagues argue that to achiev...
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Open AccessThe Firegoose: two-way integration of diverse data from different bioinformatics web resources with desktop applications
Information resources on the World Wide Web play an indispensable role in modern biology. But integrating data from multiple sources is often encumbered by the need to reformat data files, convert between nami...
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Prokaryotic Systems Biology
Prokaryotic systems biology is a holistic biological approach that enables comprehensive understanding of an organism. However, two opposing strategies have been proposed to attain such understanding: the top-...
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Open AccessIntegrated biclustering of heterogeneous genome-wide datasets for the inference of global regulatory networks
The learning of global genetic regulatory networks from expression data is a severely under-constrained problem that is aided by reducing the dimensionality of the search space by means of clustering genes int...
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Open AccessThe Inferelator: an algorithm for learning parsimonious regulatory networks from systems-biology data sets de novo
We present a method (the Inferelator) for deriving genome-wide transcriptional regulatory interactions, and apply the method to predict a large portion of the regulatory network of the archaeon Halobacterium NRC-...
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Open AccessThe Gaggle: An open-source software system for integrating bioinformatics software and data sources
Systems biologists work with many kinds of data, from many different sources, using a variety of software tools. Each of these tools typically excels at one type of analysis, such as of microarrays, of metabol...
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Comprehensive de novo structure prediction in a systems-biology context for the archaea Halobacterium sp. NRC-1
Large fractions of all fully sequenced genomes code for proteins of unknown function. Annotating these proteins of unknown function remains a critical bottleneck for systems biology and is crucial to understan...
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Open AccessLow-pass sequencing for microbial comparative genomics
We studied four extremely halophilic archaea by low-pass shotgun sequencing: (1) the metabolically versatile Haloarcula marismortui; (2) the non-pigmented Natrialba asiatica; (3) the psychrophile Halorubrum lacus...
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Genomic perspective on the photobiology of Halobacterium species NRC-1, a phototrophic, phototactic, and UV-tolerant haloarchaeon
Halobacterium species display a variety of responses to light, including phototrophic growth, phototactic behavior, and photoprotective mechanisms. The complete genome sequence of Halobacterium species NRC-1 (Pro...
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Promoter analysis by saturation mutagenesis
Gene expression and regulation are mediated by DNA sequences, in most instances, directly upstream to the coding sequences by recruiting transcription factors, regulators, and a RNA polymerase in a spatially d...