Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: predicting worm 3' ends; mapping cohesins; pentatricopeptide review; environmental genomics of the rumen; new flatworm transposons

Predicting worm 3' ends

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 covering the prediction of worm 3' ends; the mapping of cohesins; a pentatricopeptide review; environmental genomics of the rumen; new flatworm transposons.

A probabilistic model of 3' end formation in Caenorhabditis elegans . Hajarnavis A, Korf I, Durbin R. Nucleic Acids Res 2004, 32:3392-3399.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2004-5-10-350.asp#Hajarnavis

Mapping cohesins

Genome-wide mapping of the cohesin complex in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Glynn EF, Megee PC, Yu HG, Mistrot C, Unal E, Koshland DE, DeRisi JL, Gerton JL. PLoS Biol 2004, 2:E259.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2004-5-10-350.asp#Glynn

Pentatricopeptide review

Genome-wide analysis of Arabidopsis pentatricopeptide repeat proteins reveals their essential role in organelle biogenesis. Lurin C, Andrés C, Aubourg S, Bellaoui M, Bitton F, Bruyère C, Caboche M, Debast C, Gualberto J, Hoffmann B, et al. Plant Cell 2004, 16:2089-2103.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2004-5-10-350.asp#Lurin

Environmental genomics of the rumen

Suppressive subtractive hybridization as a tool for identifying genetic diversity in an environmental metagenome: the rumen as a model. Galbraith EA, Antonopoulos DA, White BA. Environ Microbiol 2004, 6:928-937.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2004-5-10-350.asp#Galbraith

New flatworm transposons

Merlin, a new superfamily of DNA transposons identified in diverse animal genomes and related to bacterial IS1016 insertion sequences. Feschotte C. Mol Biol Evol 2004, 21:1769-1780.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2004-5-10-350.asp#Feschotte