Virtual Issue: Chemosensors

Virtual Issue: Chemosensors

Chemosensors are compounds that incorporate a receptor unit and a reporter unit in a single molecule. A chemosensor transforms the action of binding to a specific analyte into a readable signal. Chemosensors have enabled the study of molecular interactions in a range of different media and interfaces. This offers a non-invasive approach to observe living biological samples in real time without ...

Biocuration Virtual Issue 2012

Curated databases are a cornerstone of research in the life sciences providing essential encyclopedic-like reference information on genes, their products and interactions, nomenclature standards, reference genome sequences and their annotations. Research laboratories and experimental techniques rely on resources such as databases and bioinformatics software that provide integrated tools to faci...

BioCreative-IV virtual issue

BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology is an international community-wide effort for evaluating text mining (TM) and information extraction systems applied to the biological domain (http:// www.biocreative.org/).The Challenge Evaluations and the accompanying BioCreative Workshops bring together the TM and biology communities to drive the development of practically...

Virtual Issue: Molecular Sensors**

A molecular sensor, also known as a chemosensor or probe, is a molecular or supramolecular-based system that is able to transform probe–analyte interactions into a signal which allows analyte sensing. The most common output signals are usually optical or electrochemical changes. In particular, optical responses have become very popular due to the possibility of using low-cost, widely available ...

Virtual issue on polymorphism.