The identification of potential regulatory motifs in new sequence data is increasingly important
for experimental design. Those motifs are commonly located by matches to IUPAC strings …

Motivation: Promoter analysis is an essential step on the way to identify regulatory networks.
A prerequisite for successful promoter analysis is the prediction of potential transcription …

Components of microbial cell walls are potent activators of innate immune responses in
animals. For example, the mammalian TLR4 signaling pathway is activated by bacterial …

Peptidoglycans from bacterial cell walls trigger immune responses in insects and mammals.
A peptidoglycan recognition protein, PGRP, has been cloned from moths as well as …

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders in man and animal associated with
conformational conversion of a cellular prion protein (PrP c ) into the pathologic isoform (PrP …

Three models of conditional discrimination learning by pigeons are described: stimulus
configuration learning, the multiple‐rule model, and concept learning. A review of the literature …

MOTIVATION: DIALIGN is a new method for pairwise as well as multiple alignment of nucleic
acid and protein sequences. While standard alignment programs rely on comparing single …

Sexually dimorphic traits play key roles in animal evolution and behavior. Little is known,
however, about the mechanisms governing their development and evolution. One recently …

In this paper, a new way to think about, and to construct, pairwise as well as multiple alignments
of DNA and protein sequences is proposed. Rather than forcing alignments to either …

Understanding the mechanisms underlying the morphological divergence of species is one
of the central goals of evolutionary biology. Here, we analyze the genetic and molecular …