Stephen Altschul, NCBI (nominated by David Lipman) This paper compares two different, widely used models used for studying the evolution of nucleic acids.
Alexei Fedorov, Department of Medicine, Medical University of Ohio (nominated by Manyuan Long) This paper represents very interesting results and hypothesis, so I have no reservation in recommending it for publication.
Alexei Fedorov, Director of Bioinformatics Lab, the University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43614-5809, USA (nominated by Dr. Laura F Landweber) This paper describes one of the most intriguing and incomprehensible questions in molecular biology – origin and evolution of introns.
Malcev successfully nominated the paper for an award of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences (Sobolev and Malcev were the only Presidium members from the Institute of Mathematics at the time).
This article was reviewed by Lee S. Katz, Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA USA (nominated by I. King Jordan) This paper uses several statistical methods to uncover and characterize recombination events in the history of C. trachomatis.
Dr. Yang Liu (nominated by Prof. Charles DeLisi), Boston University, USA This paper integrates three approaches that they identified before into a single system to predict problematic complexes.
Reviewer #2: Dr. Kira S. Makarova, NIH, NLM (nominated by Dr Eugene Koonin, NIH, NLM) This paper presents a detailed description of proteins involved or thought to be involved in purine biosynthesis in archaea.
Ludmila Chistoserdova, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Box 355014, Seattle, WA 98195-5014, USA (nominated by Janet Siefert, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States) This paper describes analysis of the genome of strain V4, an acidophilic methanotroph belonging to Verrucomicrobia.
Paul Harrison Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada (nominated by Mark Gerstein, Biomedical Informatics, Yale University, USA This paper describes a database of Nuclear Receptors and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases, and some analysis of their protein interactions.
This paper was reviewed by Arcady Mushegian, Simon Silver (nominated by Arcady Mushegian), Antoine Danchin (nominated by Eugene Koonin and Dieter Braunnominatedted by Sergey Maslov).
