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Volume 2013, Article ID 680436, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/680436
Research Article

Comparative Analysis of Barophily-Related Amino Acid Content in Protein Domains of Pyrococcus abyssi and Pyrococcus furiosus

Liudmila S. Yafremava,1,2 Massimo Di Giulio,3 and Gustavo Caetano-Anollés1

1Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
2National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
3Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”, CNR, 80131 Napoli, Italy

Received 4 July 2013; Revised 21 August 2013; Accepted 23 August 2013

Academic Editor: Kyung Mo Kim

Copyright © 2013 Liudmila S. Yafremava et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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