Based on presentations at a workshop held in Santa Barbara, on 7-8 September 2006, this supplement is a collection of research articles related to novel algorithms and enabling techniques for bio- and biomedical image analysis, mining, visualisation, and biology applications

The testis transcriptome of mouse strains containing homozygous segments of Mus spretus origin in a Mus musculus background was analyzed.

Analysis of duplicate genes and predicted microRNA targets in human and mouse shows that microRNAs are important in how the regulatory patterns of mammalian paralogs have evolved.

The first genomic and chemical characterization of fruit fly neuropeptides outside Drosophila melanogaster provides insights into the evolution of the neuropeptidome in this genus.

Transcript abundance of roughly a third of expressed Arabidopsis thaliana genes is circadian-regulated.

Multiparallel QTL analysis of 15 Arabidopsis primary carbohydrate metabolism enzymes reveals that traits affecting primary metabolism are often correlated.

Dr Jonathan Steven Alexander
Louisiana State University, Health Services Center

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