Genome viewed from biophysics

Unraveling Genome Biophysics.

While digitizing the human genome has been one of the major recent scientific achievements, unraveling genome structure and, more importantly, structure/function relationships has been a major preoccupation for many scientific teams worldwide. Indeed, the understanding of structure from the DNA level to nucleosomes, chromatin fibers, genes, and chromosomes holds the key to interpreting many of ...

Creole Viewed from Population Dynamics

Creole is one of the main topics in various fields concerning the language origin and the language change, such as sociolinguistics, the developmental psychology of language, paleoanthropology and so on. Our purpose in this paper is to develop an evolutionary theory of language to study the emergence of creole. We discuss how the emergence of creole is dealt with in the perspective of populatio...

Genome of the extremely radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans viewed from the perspective of comparative genomics.

The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans shows remarkable resistance to a range of damage caused by ionizing radiation, desiccation, UV radiation, oxidizing agents, and electrophilic mutagens. D. radiodurans is best known for its extreme resistance to ionizing radiation; not only can it grow continuously in the presence of chronic radiation (6 kilorads/h), but also it can survive acute exposures t...

A basal deuterostome genome viewed as a natural experiment.

With the determination of its genome sequence the utility of the sea urchin model system increases. The phylogenetic position of the sea urchin among the deuterostomes allows for informative comparisons to vertebrate research models. A combined whole genome shotgun and bacterial artificial chromosome based strategy yielded a high quality draft genome sequence of 814 Mb. The predicted gene set e...

Biophysics.