Basic biological information is stored in strings of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) or amino acids
(proteins). Teasing out the meaning of these strings is a central problem of modern biology. Matching and
aligning strings brings out their shared characteristics. Although string matching is well-understood in the
edit-distance model, biological strings...
Transcriptomics and gene expression profiling enables the elucidation of the genetic response of an organism to various environmental cues. Transcriptomics enables the deciphering of differences between two closely related organisms to the same environment and in contrast, enables the elucidation of genetic responses of the same organism to different environmental...
Hemocyanins are oxygen transport molecules found only in molluscs and
arthropods. They are very large molecules with molecular weights in the
range of several million Daltons. They are multisubunit aggregates and their
oxygen binding site contains a binuclear copper center. Molluscan and
arthropodan hemocyanins are fundamentally different in structure and...
