Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: Salmonella physiology; artificial endonucleases; Ciona genome; image informatics; plant defense responses.

Summary

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 covering gene expression in Salmonella, artificial endonucleases, the draft genome of Ciona intestinalis, the use of image informatics to analyze C. elegansbehavior and transcript profiling of plant defense responses.

Salmonella physiology

Unravelling the biology of macrophage infection by gene expression profiling of intracellular Salmonella enterica . Eriksson S, Lucchini S, Thompson A, Rhen M, Hinton JC. Mol Microbiol 2003, 47:103-118.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2003-4-2-307.asp#Eriksson

Artificial endonucleases

Design, activity, and structure of a highly specific artificial endonuclease. Chevalier BS, Kortemme T, Chadsey MS, Baker D, Monnat RJ, Stoddard BL. Mol Cell 2002, 10:895-905.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2003-4-2-307.asp#Chevalier

Ciona genome

The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis : insights into chordate and vertebrate origins. Dehal P, Satou Y, Campbell RK, Chapman J, Degnan B, De Tomaso A, Davidson B, Di Gregorio A, Gelpke M, Goodstein DM, et al. Science 2002, 298:2157-2167.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2003-4-2-307.asp#Dehal

Image informatics

Using machine vision to analyze and classify Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral phenotypes quantitatively. Baek JH, Cosman P, Feng Z, Silver J, Schafer WR. J Neurosci Methods 2002, 118:9-21.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2003-4-2-307.asp#Baek

Plant defense responses

Comprehensive transcript profiling of Pto- and Prf-mediated host defense responses to infection by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato . Mysore KS, Crasta OR, Tuori RP, Folkerts O, Swirsky PB, Martin GB. Plant J 2002 32:299-315.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2003-4-2-307.asp#Mysore