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Phylogenetic analyses of complete mitochondrial genome sequences suggest a basal divergence of the enigmatic rodent AnomalurusDavid S Horner
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
BMC Evol Biol 7:16. 2007..While it is now generally agreed that Rodentia constitutes a monophyletic sister-group of Lagomorpha and that this clade (Glires) is sister to Primates and Dermoptera, higher-level relationships within Rodentia remain contentious...
On the statistical assessment of classifiers using DNA microarray dataN Ancona
lstituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per I Automazione CNR, Via Amendola 122 D l, 70126 Bari, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 7:387. 2006....
ASPIC: a novel method to predict the exon-intron structure of a gene that is optimally compatible to a set of transcript sequencesPaola Bonizzoni
DISCo, University of Milan Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, Milan, 20135, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 6:244. 2005..Apart from often being computationally expensive, this approach is vulnerable to several problems--hence the need to develop novel strategies...
Regularized Least Squares Cancer classifiers from DNA microarray dataNicola Ancona
Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per I Automazione, CNR, Via Amendola 122 D I, 70126 Bari, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 6:S2. 2005..The performances of both approaches have been also investigated with respect to the number of selected genes and different gene selection strategies...
Untranslated regions of mRNAsFlavio Mignone
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria, 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Genome Biol 3:REVIEWS0004. 2002....
UTRdb and UTRsite: specialized databases of sequences and functional elements of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Update 2002Graziano Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 30:335-40. 2002..All Internet resources we implemented for retrieval and functional analysis of 5'- and 3'-UTRs of eukaryotic mRNAs are accessible at http://bighost.area.ba.cnr.it/BIG/UTRHome/...
Structural and functional features of eukaryotic mRNA untranslated regionsG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria, 26, 20133, Milan, Italy
Gene 276:73-81. 2001..We review in this paper the major structural and compositional features of eukaryotic mRNA untranslated regions and provide some examples of bioinformatic analyses for their functional characterization...
The untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs: structure, function, evolution and bioinformatic tools for their analysisG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Italy
Brief Bioinform 1:236-49. 2000..Structural, compositional and evolutionary features of untranslated sequences of metazoan mRNAs have been investigated showing peculiar intra- and interspecific patterns...
Nucleotide substitution rate of mammalian mitochondrial genomesG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
J Mol Evol 48:427-34. 1999..As the divergence times of the organism pairs under consideration are known with sufficient accuracy, absolute nucleotide substitution rates are also provided...
Analysis of oligonucleotide AUG start codon context in eukariotic mRNAsG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133, Milan, Italy
Gene 261:85-91. 2000..area.ba.cnr.it:8000/BioWWW/ATG.html) to determine the relative abundance of a user submitted oligonucleotide context in a given species or taxon...
A novel method for estimating substitution rate variation among sites in a large dataset of homologous DNA sequencesG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Genetics 157:859-65. 2001....
PatSearch: a pattern matcher software that finds functional elements in nucleotide and protein sequences and assesses their statistical significanceG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria, 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Bioinformatics 16:439-50. 2000....
Isochore specificity of AUG initiator context of human genesG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133, Milan, Italy
FEBS Lett 464:60-2. 1999..This is in agreement with independent data from the literature concerning the location of housekeeping and tissue-specific genes, respectively...
UTRdb and UTRsite: specialized databases of sequences and functional elements of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAsG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 28:193-6. 2000..All internet resources implemented for retrieval and functional analysis of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs are accessible at http://bigarea.area.ba.cnr.it:8000/EmbIT/UTRH ome/..
MitoNuc and MitoAln: two related databases of nuclear genes coding for mitochondrial proteinsG Pesole
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20122 Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 28:163-5. 2000..MitoNuc and MitoAln retrieval through SRS at http://bio-www.ba.cnr.it:8000/srs6/ can easily allow the extraction of sequence data, subsequences defined by specific features and nucleotide or amino acid multiple alignments...
Computational identification of protein coding potential of conserved sequence tags through cross-species evolutionary analysisFlavio Mignone
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 31:4639-45. 2003..The application of this method may help the validation of predicted genes, the prediction of alternative splicing patterns in known and unknown genes and the definition of a dictionary of non-coding regulatory elements...
Complete mtDNA of Ciona intestinalis reveals extensive gene rearrangement and the presence of an atp8 and an extra trnM gene in ascidiansCarmela Gissi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
J Mol Evol 58:376-89. 2004..4%), and the absence of asymmetric base distribution between the two strands suggest that this genome is more similar to those of some protostomes than to deuterostomes...
Using Weeder for the discovery of conserved transcription factor binding sitesGiulio Pavesi
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Curr Protoc Bioinformatics . 2006..The program has been designed to make its usage as simple as possible and to require very little prior knowledge about the length and conservation of the motifs to be found...
A transcriptional sketch of a primary human breast cancer by 454 deep sequencingAlessandro Guffanti
Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Milan, Italy
BMC Genomics 10:163. 2009..This method utilizes a cDNA library normalization step to diminish the representation of highly expressed transcripts and biology-oriented bioinformatic analyses to facilitate detection of rare and novel transcripts...
Weeder Web: discovery of transcription factor binding sites in a set of sequences from co-regulated genesGiulio Pavesi
D.I.Co, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 32:W199-203. 2004..The web interface is available at the address www.pesolelab.it by following the 'Tools' link...
An algorithm for finding signals of unknown length in DNA sequencesG Pavesi
Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication, University of Milan Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, Milan, I 20126, Italy
Bioinformatics 17:S207-14. 2001..Finally, we discuss some significance measures that can be used to sort the patterns output by the algorithm...
rRNA-like sequences in human mRNAsFlavio Mignone
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, , Milan, Italy
Appl Bioinformatics 1:145-54. 2002....
Transcript mapping and genome annotation of ascidian mtDNA using EST dataCarmela Gissi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, , Milano, Italy
Genome Res 13:2203-12. 2003....
Exalign: a new method for comparative analysis of exon-intron gene structuresGiulio Pavesi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 36:e47. 2008..The web interface for accessing Exalign is available at http://www.pesolelab.it/exalign/ or http://www.beacon.unimi.it/exalign/..
The estimation of relative site variability among aligned homologous protein sequencesD S Horner
Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generale, Universita di Milano, 20113 Milano, Italy
Bioinformatics 19:600-6. 2003....
WeederH: an algorithm for finding conserved regulatory motifs and regions in homologous sequencesGiulio Pavesi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 8:46. 2007....
Correction: High throughput approaches reveal splicing of primary microRNA transcripts and tissue specific expression of mature microRNAs in Vitis viniferaErica Mica
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
BMC Genomics 11:109. 2010..The editors and authors regret the inconvenience caused to readers by premature publication of the original paper...
Mitochondrial phylogeny of Anura (Amphibia): a case study of congruent phylogenetic reconstruction using amino acid and nucleotide charactersCarmela Gissi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria, 26 20133 Milano, Italy
Gene 366:228-37. 2006....
Accurate discrimination of conserved coding and non-coding regions through multiple indicators of evolutionary dynamicsMatteo Rè
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italia
BMC Bioinformatics 10:282. 2009....
Genome-wide identification of coding and non-coding conserved sequence tags in human and mouse genomesFlavio Mignone
Department of Structural Chemistry and Inorganic Stereochemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Milan, Italy
BMC Genomics 9:277. 2008..This discrimination is often based (thus dependent) on the availability of annotated proteins...
Correlated substitution analysis and the prediction of amino acid structural contactsDavid S Horner
Department of Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Brief Bioinform 9:46-56. 2008..We review methods for the detection of correlated amino acid substitutions, compare their relative performance in contact prediction and predict future directions in the field...
The mitochondrial genome of Phallusia mammillata and Phallusia fumigata (Tunicata, Ascidiacea): high genome plasticity at intra-genus levelFabio Iannelli
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
BMC Evol Biol 7:155. 2007....
Huntingtin gene evolution in Chordata and its peculiar features in the ascidian Ciona genusCarmela Gissi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Milano, Italy
BMC Genomics 7:288. 2006....
Mitogenomics reveals two cryptic species in Ciona intestinalisFabio Iannelli
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Trends Genet 23:419-22. 2007....
Phylogenetic analyses: a brief introduction to methods and their applicationDavid S Horner
Department of Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Expert Rev Mol Diagn 4:339-50. 2004....
WebVar: A resource for the rapid estimation of relative site variability from multiple sequence alignmentsFlavio Mignone
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, , 20113 Milano, Italy
Bioinformatics 20:1331-3. 2004..WebVar provides a variety of graphic and textual representations of estimates, designed to assist in phylogenetic analysis. AVAILABILITY: The WebVar server is located at http://www.pesolelab.it/Tools/WebVar.html..
Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric speciesC Gissi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Milano, Italy
Heredity 101:301-20. 2008..Thus, the analysis of congeneric species promises to be a valuable approach for the assessment of the mtDNA evolutionary trend in poorly or not yet sampled metazoan groups...
uAUG and uORFs in human and rodent 5'untranslated mRNAsMichele Iacono
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, , Via Celoria, 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Gene 349:97-105. 2005....
Pscan: finding over-represented transcription factor binding site motifs in sequences from co-regulated or co-expressed genesFederico Zambelli
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 37:W247-52. 2009..The website is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement. Address: http://www.beaconlab.it/pscan...
UTRdb and UTRsite: a collection of sequences and regulatory motifs of the untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAsFlavio Mignone
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, , Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 33:D141-6. 2005..g. GO term, PFAM domain, etc.). All internet resources implemented for retrieval and functional analysis of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs are accessible at http://www.ba.itb.cnr.it/UTR/...
MitoNuc: a database of nuclear genes coding for mitochondrial proteins. Update 2002Marcella Attimonelli
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 30:172-3. 2002..The logic scheme of MitoNuc database has been implemented in the ORACLE DBMS. This will allow the end-users to retrieve data through a friendly interface that will be soon implemented...
Phylogenetic comparison of huntingtin homologues reveals the appearance of a primitive polyQ in sea urchinMarzia Tartari
Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Mol Biol Evol 25:330-8. 2008....
Translational control of Scamper expression via a cell-specific internal ribosome entry siteDavide De Pietri Tonelli
Cellular Neurophysiology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 31:2508-13. 2003..Finally, the Scamper IRES appears to be the first IRES with specificity for kidney epithelial cells...
Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogenyAndrew G Clark
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Nature 450:203-18. 2007..These may prove to underlie differences in the ecology and behaviour of these diverse species...
PatSearch: A program for the detection of patterns and structural motifs in nucleotide sequencesGiorgio Grillo
Sezione di Bioinformatica e Genomica di Bari, Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche CNR, via Amendola 168/5, 70125 Bari, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 31:3608-12. 2003..PatSearch is available on the web at http://bighost.area.ba.cnr.it/BIG/PatSearch/...
Genomic organization and recombinational unit duplication-driven evolution of ovine and bovine T cell receptor gamma lociGiovanna Vaccarelli
Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, Via Amendola 165 A, 70126 Bari, Italy
BMC Genomics 9:81. 2008..2 and appears to be unique to ruminants. The purpose of this study was the sequencing of the genomic regions encompassing both loci in a "gammadelta high" organism and the analysis of their evolutionary history...
The nuclear OXPHOS genes in insecta: a common evolutionary origin, a common cis-regulatory motif, a common destiny for gene duplicatesDamiano Porcelli
Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia DIGEMI, Universita di Bari, Italy
BMC Evol Biol 7:215. 2007....
Computational methods for alternative splicing predictionPaola Bonizzoni
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 5:46-51. 2006..Specific features and limitations of different approaches and software are discussed, particularly those affecting prediction accuracy and assembly of alternative transcripts...
Molecular strategies in Metazoan genomic evolutionCecilia Saccone
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Universita degli Studi, Via Orabona 4, Bari, Italy
Gene 300:195-201. 2002..Here, we report a description of the evolution of the p53 gene family as an example of expansion of both genetic complexity and gene expression of the nuclear genome...
What is a gene? An updated operational definitionGraziano Pesole
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare E Quagliariello, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Gene 417:1-4. 2008....
Structural and evolutionary analysis of the ribosomal genes of the parasitic nematode Meloidogyne artiellia suggests its ancient originCarla De Giorgi
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, , Bari, Italy
Mol Biochem Parasitol 124:91-4. 2002
Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognitaPierre Abad
INRA, UMR 1301, 400 Route des Chappes, F 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France
Nat Biotechnol 26:909-15. 2008..Our results provide insights into the adaptations required by metazoans to successfully parasitize immunocompetent plants, and open the way for discovering new antiparasitic strategies...
Evolutionary dynamics of mammalian mRNA untranslated regions by comparative analysis of orthologous human, artiodactyl and rodent gene pairsAlessandra Larizza
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Bari, Italy
Comput Chem 26:479-90. 2002....
Mitochondrial DNA in metazoa: degree of freedom in a frozen eventCecilia Saccone
Centro di Studio sui Mitocondri e Metabolismo Energetico, CNR, Via Amendola 165 A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Gene 286:3-12. 2002....
The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phylaOlivier Jaillon
Genoscope CEA and UMR 8030 CNRS Genoscope Université d Evry, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux, BP5706, 91057 Evry, France
Nature 449:463-7. 2007..Furthermore, we explain the chronology of previously described whole-genome duplication events in the evolution of flowering plants...
In silico representation and discovery of transcription factor binding sitesGiulio Pavesi
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Brief Bioinform 5:217-36. 2004..This paper provides a survey of existing methods proposed for the problem, focusing both on the ideas underlying them and their availability to the scientific community...
DNAfan: a software tool for automated extraction and analysis of user-defined sequence regionsAndreas Gisel
Sezione di Bioinformatica e Genomica di Bari, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, CNR, Via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
Bioinformatics 20:3676-9. 2004..Its filter features restricts the pattern search to a well-defined set of sequences, allowing drastic reduction in false positive hits. AVAILABILITY: http://bighost.ba.itb.cnr.it:8080/Framework...
RNAProfile: an algorithm for finding conserved secondary structure motifs in unaligned RNA sequencesGiulio Pavesi
Department of Computer Science and Communication D I Co, University of Milan, Via Comelico 39, 20135 Milan, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 32:3258-69. 2004..We also show how it can be applied to corrupted datasets in which a motif does not appear in all the input sequences, as well as to the discovery of more complex motifs in the non-coding RNA...
Evolution of nuclearly encoded mitochondrial genes in MetazoaAnna De Grassi
Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Sezione di Bari, CNR, Bari, Italy
Gene 354:181-8. 2005..These results are consistent with the 'balance hypothesis' and, at least in insects, the expression of duplicate genes is low and strongly testis-biased...
MoD Tools: regulatory motif discovery in nucleotide sequences from co-regulated or homologous genesGiulio Pavesi
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 34:W566-70. 2006..Available at http://www.pesolelab.it/modtools/ and http://www.beacon.unimi.it/modtools/...
A novel additional group II intron distinguishes the mitochondrial rps3 gene in gymnospermsTeresa M R Regina
Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare, , 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
J Mol Evol 60:196-206. 2005..Furthermore, the pattern of the rps3i2 distribution among algae and land plants provides evidence for the evolutionary acquisition of this novel intron in gymnosperms via intragenomic transposition or retrotransposition...
Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sitesMartin Tompa
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Box 352350, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 2350, USA
Nat Biotechnol 23:137-44. 2005..The purpose of the current assessment is twofold: to provide some guidance to users regarding the accuracy of currently available tools in various settings, and to provide a benchmark of data sets for assessing future tools...
Molecular clock and gene functionCecilia Saccone
Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
J Mol Evol 57:S277-85. 2003..However, the porin gene redundancy found in invertebrates and possibly in some fishes may indicate a tendency to duplicate the genetic material, rather than a real need for function innovation...
Discrimination of non-protein-coding transcripts from protein-coding mRNAMartin C Frith
Genome Exploration Research Group Genome Network Project Core Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center GSC, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Kanagawa, Japan
RNA Biol 3:40-8. 2006..Conversely and surprisingly, our analyses also provide evidence that as much as approximately 10% of entries in the manually curated protein database Swiss-Prot are erroneous translations of actually non-coding transcripts...
Congruent mammalian trees from mitochondrial and nuclear genes using Bayesian methodsAurelio Reyes
Sezione di Bioinformatica e Genomica, Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche CNR Bari, Italy
Mol Biol Evol 21:397-403. 2004..Relationships between and within these lineages strongly suggest that the gene trees may also be congruent with the underlying species phylogeny...
p53FamTaG: a database resource of human p53, p63 and p73 direct target genes combining in silico prediction and microarray dataElisabetta Sbisà
Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche Sede di Bari, CNR, Via Amendola, 122 D 70126 Bari, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 8:S20. 2007....
Changes in Escherichia coli transcriptome during acclimatization at low temperatureAlessandra Polissi
Department of Microbiology, Glaxo Wellcome SpA, Verona, Italy
Res Microbiol 154:573-80. 2003..Interestingly, we found that PNPase both negatively and positively modulated the transcript abundance of some of these genes, thus suggesting a complex role of PNPase in controlling cold adaptation...
Energy biogenesis: one key for coordinating two genomesMarco Sardiello
Dipartimento di Anatomia Patologica e di Genetica, Sezione di Genetica, , Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Trends Genet 21:12-6. 2005....
Selection of relevant genes in cancer diagnosis based on their prediction accuracyRosalia Maglietta
Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l Automazione, CNR Via Amendola 122 D I, 70126 Bari, Italy
Artif Intell Med 40:29-44. 2007..The question we pose is the following: how do we measure the relevance of a single gene in a given pathology?..
Finding conserved gene order across multiple genomesGiulio Pavesi
Methods Mol Biol 396:111-9. 2007..This unit explains the usage of GeneSyn, a software tool for the automatic identification of conserved gene order across multiple annotated genomes...
DG-CST (Disease Gene Conserved Sequence Tags), a database of human-mouse conserved elements associated to disease genesAngelo Boccia
CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 33:D505-10. 2005..ceinge.unina.it/ and may be searched using both simple and complex queries. A graphic browser allows direct visualization of the CSTs and related annotations within the context of the relative gene and its transcripts...
