Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: culturing novel soil bacteria; profiling biofilm formation; regulatory role for miRNA:miRNA duplexes; synthesis of combinatorial libraries; phylogenetic analysis of coelomata

Summary

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 culturing novel soil bacteria, profiling biofilm formation, a regulatory role for miRNA:miRNA duplexes, synthesis of combinatorial libraries and a phylogenetic analysis of coelomata

Culturing novel soil bacteria

Laboratory cultivation of widespread and previously uncultured soil bacteria. Joseph SJ, Hugenholtz P, Sangwan P, Osborne CA, Janssen PH. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003, 69:7210-7215.

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Profiling biofilm formation

Global impact of mature biofilm lifestyle on Escherichia coli K-12 gene expression. Beloin C, Valle J, Latour-Lambert P, Faure P, Kzreminski M, Balestrino D, Haagensen JA, Molin S, Prensier G, Arbeille B, Ghigo JM. Mol Microbiol 2004, 51:659-674.

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Regulatory role for miRNA:miRNA duplexes

Complementary miRNA pairs suggest a regulatory role for miRNA:miRNA duplexes. Lai EC, Wiel C, Rubin GM. RNA 2004, 10:171-175.

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Synthesis of combinatorial libraries

2D and 3D spatially addressed arrays for high-throughput automated synthesis of combinatorial libraries. Patek M, Safar P, Smrcina M, Wegrzyniak E, Bjergarde K, Weichsel A, Strop P. J Comb Chem 2004, 6:43-49.

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Phylogenetic analysis of coelomata

Coelomata and not ecdysozoa: evidence from genome-wide phylogenetic analysis. Wolf YI, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV. Genome Res 2004, 14:29-36.

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