Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: plant comparative mitochondrial genomics; open source proteomics database; identifying disease-associated enzymes; predicting microRNA targets; genome annotation using polymorphisms

Plant comparative mitochondrial genomics

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 covering plant comparative mitochondrial genomics; open source proteomics database; identifying disease-associated enzymes; predicting microRNA targets; genome annotation using polymorphisms.

The complete nucleotide sequence and multipartite organization of the tobacco mitochondrial genome: comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes in higher plants. Sugiyama Y, Watase Y, Nagase M, Makita N, Yagura S, Hirai A, Sugiura M. Mol Genet Genomics 2004, December 3.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-2-309.asp#Sugiyama

Open source proteomics database

Open source system for analyzing, validating, and storing protein identification data. Craig R, Cortens JP, Beavis RC. J Proteome Res 2004, 3:1234-1242.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-2-309.asp#Craig

Identifying disease-associated enzymes

Discovering disease-associated enzymes by proteome reactivity profiling. Barglow KT, Cravatt BF. Chem Biol 2004, 11:1523-1531.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-2-309.asp#Barglow

Predicting micrRNA targets

Fast and effective prediction of microRNA/target duplexes. Rehmsmeier M, Steffen P, Hochsmann M, Giegerich R. RNA 2004, 10:1507-1517.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-2-309.asp#Rehmsmeier

Genome annotation using polymorphisms

Intraspecies sequence comparisons for annotating genomes. Boffelli D, Weer CV, Weng L, Lewis KD, Shoukry MI, Pachter L, Keys DN, Rubin EM. Genome Res 2004, 14:2406-2411.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-2-309.asp#Boffelli