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www.essentialgene.org - Essential genes are those indispensable for the survival of an organism, and their functions are therefore considered a foundation of life. Determination of a minimal gene set needed to sustain a life form, a fundamental question in biology, plays a...

bioconductor.org - doubletrouble aims to identify duplicated genes from whole-genome protein sequences and classify them based on their modes of duplication. The duplication modes are i. segmental duplication (SD); ii. tandem duplication (TD); iii. proximal...

Newly Found Pandoraviruses Hint at a Fourth Branch of Life

darkhorse.ucsd.edu - DarkHorse is a bioinformatic method for rapid, automated identification and ranking of phylogenetically atypical proteins on a genome-wide basis. It works by selecting potential ortholog matches from a reference database of amino acid...

amp.pharm.mssm.edu - Enrichment analysis is a popular method for analyzing gene sets generated by genome-wide experiments. Here we present a significant update to one of the tools in this domain called Enrichr. Enrichr currently contains a large collection of diverse...

This is an extract of taxdump-readme.txt to be found at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/

New CDD Release v.3.11 includes recomputed PSSMs and many more ...

How to download FASTA sequence for certain gene features while in the NCBI's Sequence Viewer. Sequence Viewer homepage: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/sviewer/ Sequence Viewer playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76D7EE6A6A8AC1C3

MutaBind is a new computational method and server created through NCBI research efforts that maps mutations on a protein structural complex, calculates changes in binding affinity, identifies deleterious mutations and produces a downloadable...

ncbi.github.io - Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Each alignment optimizes a composite score, taking into account simultaneously the two reads of a pair, and in case of...