简介：ThisisthespecialissuedevotedtobioinformaticsresearchinSingapore.BioinformaticsresearchinSingaporestartedlargelyin1996whentheBioinformaticsCenter,NationalUniversityofSingapore,wasformed.Withthegovernment'seffortstoturnSingaporeintoapowerhouseofbiomedicalresearch,theGenomeInstituteofSingaporeandtheBioinformaticsInstituteofSingaporehavebeenestablishedsince2000.Recently,abioinformaticsresearchcenterwasalsoformedintheNanyangTechnologicalUniversity.Currently,therearealargenumberofbioinformaticsresearchteamsineachoftheseinstitutions.

简介：Thecorona-likespikesorpeplomersonthesurfaceofthevirionunderelectronicmicroscopearethemoststrikingfeaturesofcoronaviruses.TheS(spike)proteinisthelargeststructuralprotein,with1,255aminoacids,intheviralgenome.Itsstructurecanbedividedintothreeregions:alongN-terminalregionintheexte-rior,acharacteristictransmembrane(TM)region,andashortC-terminusintheinteriorofavirion.WedetectedfifteensubstitutionsofnucleotidesbycomparisonswiththeseventeenpublishedSARS-CoVgenomesequences,eight(53.3%)ofwhicharenon-synonymousmutationsleadingtoaminoacidalternationswithpredictedphysiochemicalchanges.ThepossibleantigenicdeterminantsoftheSproteinarepredicted,andtheresultisconfirmedbyELISA(enzyme-linkedimmunosorbentassay)withsynthesizedpeptides.AnotherprofoundfindingisthatthreedisulfidebondsaredefinedattheC-terminuswiththeN-terminusoftheE(envelope)pro-tein,basedonthetypicalsequenceandpositions,thusestablishingthestructuralconnectionwiththesetwoimportantstructuralproteins,ifconfirmed.Phyloge-neticanalysisrevealsseveralconservedregionsthatmightbepotentdrugtargets.

简介：Purifiedproteinderivative(PPD)skintestsoftenyieldpoorspecificity,sothattodevelopnewserologicalantigensfordistinguishingbetweenMycobacteriumtuberculosisinfectionandBacilleCalmette-Guerin(BCG)vaccinationisapriority,especiallyfordevelopingcountrieslikeChina.Wepredictedtheantigenicityforselectedopenreadingframes(ORFs)basedonthegenomesequencesofM.tuberculosisH37RvandM.bovisBCG,aswellastheirfunctionsanddifferencesofexpressionunderdifferentstimulus.ThecandidateORFswereclonedfromH37RvsequencesandexpressedasrecombinantproteinsinEscherichiacoli.Westudiedtheserodiagnosticpotentialof11purifiedrecombinantsbyusingenzyme-linkedimmunosorbentassay(ELISA)andinvolvingacohortcomposedof58TBpatients(34malesand24females),8healthyvolunteersand50PPD-negativeindividualsbeforeandafterBCGvaccination.Forallthe11antigens,themedianODvaluesfortheserafromTBpatientswerestatisticallysignificantlyhigherthanthoseforPPD-negativeindividualsbeforeorafterBCGvaccination(P<0.01).Theyhadatleast92%specificityinhealthycontrolsandsixseroantigens(Rv0251c,Rv1973,Rv2376c,Rv2537c,Rv2785candRv3873A)wereneverreportedwithseroantigenicitiespreviously.Thustheapproachcombiningcomparativegenomics,bioinformaticsandELISAtechniquescanbeemployedtoidentifynewseroantigensdistinguishingM.tuberculosisinfectionfromBCGvaccination.

简介：WehaverecentlyclonedapathogeninducibleblastresistancegenePi-khfromtheindicaricelineTetepusingapositionalcloningapproach.Inthisstudy,wecarriedoutstructuralorganizationanalysisofthePi-khlocusinbothindicaandjaponicaricelines.A100kbregioncontaining50kbupstreamand50kbdown-streamsequencesflankingtothePi-khlocuswasselectedfortheinvestigation.Atotalof16genesinindicaand15genesinjaponicawerepredictedandanno-tatedinthisregion.TheaverageGCcontentofindicaandjaponicagenesinthisregionwas53.15%and49.3%,respectively.Bothindicaandjaponicasequenceswerepolymorphicforsimplesequencerepeatshavingmono-,di-,tri-,tetra-,andpentanucleotides.SequenceanalysisofthespecificblastresistantPi-khalleleofTetepandthesusceptiblePi-khalleleofthejaponicaricelineNipponbareshoweddifferencesinthenumberanddistributionofmotifsinvolvedinphosphorylation,resultingintheresistancephenotypeinTetep.

简介：用定序技术的16SrDNA基因，entomopatho遗传因子的线虫(杀虫剂的一种)的非共生的细菌的三不同的种(Steinernemasp。并且Heterorhabditissp)从感染的昆虫死尸被孤立并且识别{街郎mellonella幼虫)在48小时的柱子感染以后。顺序类似分析表明紧张SRK3，SRK4和SRK5分别地属于Ochrobactrumcytisi，Schineria幼虫和Ochrobactrumanthropi。isolatesO。anthropi和S。幼虫被发现分别地，而，与Heterorhabditisindica紧张BDU-17和Yer-136被联系O。cytisi与Steinernemasiamkayai紧张BDU-87被联系。Phenotypically，时间的杀虫剂的一种细菌是相当与共生杀虫剂的一种细菌(Photorhabdus和Xenorhabdus类)有关。紧张SRK3和SRK5phylogeographically类似于几非共生者并且污染了在德国(LMG3311T)和中国(X-14)孤立的杀虫剂的一种细菌，当紧张SRK4与S的isolates相同时。从在匈牙利的Wohlfahrtiamagnifica的幼虫(Ll/57，Ll/58，Ll/68和L2/11)。结果被RNA第二等的结构和排列序列的最小的精力计算进一步证实。这研究建议这些线虫的非共生者phylogeographically由于阶段变化在某程度被分叉。因此，这些紧张不是主人依赖者，但是环境特定孤立。