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Volume 17 Supplement 8

Selected articles from the Sixth International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society for Bioinformatics on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for Innovative Genomics

Research

Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors ATV and MFN declare that they were not involved in the peer review process for any articles on which they are authors. The Supplement Editors declare no other competing interests.

Riviera Maya, Mexico22-26 April 2016

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Edited by Ana Tereza R de Vasconcelos, Paula R Kuser-Falcao and Marisa F Nicolás. 

  1. Bacterial non-coding RNAs act by base-pairing as regulatory elements in crucial biological processes. We performed the identification of trans-encoded small RNAs (sRNA) from the genomes of Mycoplama hyopneumoniae

    Authors: Franciele Maboni Siqueira, Guilherme Loss de Morais, Susan Higashi, Laura Scherer Beier, Gabriela Merker Breyer, Caio Padoan de Sá Godinho, Marie-France Sagot, Irene Silveira Schrank, Arnaldo Zaha and Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):743
  2. The development of large-scale technologies for quantitative transcriptomics has enabled comprehensive analysis of the gene expression profiles in complete genomes. RNA-Seq allows the measurement of gene expre...

    Authors: Katia de Paiva Lopes, Francisco José Campos-Laborie, Ricardo Assunção Vialle, José Miguel Ortega and Javier De Las Rivas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):725
  3. The field of metagenomics, defined as the direct genetic analysis of uncultured samples of genomes contained within an environmental sample, is gaining increasing popularity. The aim of studies of metagenomics...

    Authors: Esteban Pérez-Wohlfeil, Jose A. Arjona-Medina, Oscar Torreno, Eugenia Ulzurrun and Oswaldo Trelles
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):802
  4. Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a unique group of prokaryotes that have a potentially high impact on global geochemical cycling of significant primary elements because of their metabolic plasticity and the ab...

    Authors: Ana Carolina Vieira Araujo, Viviana Morillo, Jefferson Cypriano, Lia Cardoso Rocha Saraiva Teixeira, Pedro Leão, Sidcley Lyra, Luiz Gonzaga de Almeida, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcellos, Fernanda Abreu and Ulysses Lins
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):726

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2016 17:904

  5. Why we sleep is still one of the most perplexing mysteries in biology. Strong evidence indicates that sleep is necessary for normal brain function and that sleep need is a tightly regulated process. Surprising...

    Authors: Jason R. Gerstner, John N. Koberstein, Adam J. Watson, Nikolai Zapero, Davide Risso, Terence P. Speed, Marcos G. Frank and Lucia Peixoto
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):727
  6. The described species from the Metarhizium genus are cosmopolitan fungi that infect arthropod hosts. Interestingly, while some species infect a wide range of hosts (host-generalists), other species infect only a ...

    Authors: Nicolau Sbaraini, Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, Fábio Carrer Andreis, Ângela Junges, Guilherme Loss de Morais, Marilene Henning Vainstein, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos and Augusto Schrank
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):736
  7. Based in epidemiological evidence, repetitive ovulation has been proposed to play a role in the origin of ovarian cancer by inducing an aberrant wound rupture-repair process of the ovarian surface epithelium (...

    Authors: Ulises Urzúa, Sandra Ampuero, Katherine F. Roby, Garrison A. Owens and David J. Munroe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):728
  8. The emergence of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major public health concern. Many K. pneumoniae infections can only be treated when resorting to last-line drugs such as polymyxin B (PB). However, ...

    Authors: Pablo Ivan Pereira Ramos, Márlon Grégori Flores Custódio, Guadalupe del Rosario Quispe Saji, Thiago Cardoso, Gisele Lucchetti da Silva, Graziela Braun, Willames M. B. S. Martins, Raquel Girardello, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Elmer Fernández, Ana Cristina Gales and Marisa Fabiana Nicolás
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 8):737

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