Table of Contents

New Editors Join Genome Research

• Laurie Goodman

Transcendent Elements: Whole-Genome Transposon Screens and Open Evolutionary Questions

• Ian Holmes

Intraproteomic Networks: New Forays Into Predicting Interaction Partners

• L. Aravind
• and Lakshminarayan M. Iyer

Evidence That Plant-Like Genes in Chlamydia Species Reflect an Ancestral Relationship between Chlamydiaceae, Cyanobacteria, and the Chloroplast

• Fiona S.L. Brinkman,
• Jeffrey L. Blanchard,
• Artem Cherkasov,
• Yossef Av-Gay,
• Robert C. Brunham,
• Rachel C. Fernandez,
• B. Brett Finlay,
• Sarah P. Otto,
• B.F. Francis Ouellette,
• Patrick J. Keeling,
• Ann M. Rose,
• Robert E.W. Hancock,
• and Steven J.M. Jones

Predicting Protein Cellular Localization Using a Domain Projection Method

• Richard Mott,
• Jörg Schultz,
• Peer Bork,
• and Chris P. Ponting

Functional Cloning, Sorting, and Expression Profiling of Nucleic Acid-Binding Proteins

• Y. Ramanathan,
• Haibo Zhang,
• Virginie Aris,
• Patricia Soteropoulos,
• Stuart A. Aaronson,
• and Peter P. Tolias

Minimal Introns Are Not “Junk”

• Jun Yu,
• Zhiyong Yang,
• Miho Kibukawa,
• Marcia Paddock,
• Douglas A. Passey,
• and Gane Ka-Shu Wong

B-ZIP Proteins Encoded by the Drosophila Genome: Evaluation of Potential Dimerization Partners

• Jan Fassler,
• David Landsman,
• Asha Acharya,
• Jonathan R. Moll,
• Maria Bonovich,
• and Charles Vinson

Conserved Disruptions in the Predicted Coiled-Coil Domains of Eukaryotic SMC Complexes: Implications for Structure and Function

• Matthew Beasley,
• Huiling Xu,
• William Warren,
• and Michael McKay

Parallel Identification of New Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

• Guy Oshiro,
• Lisa M. Wodicka,
• Michael P. Washburn,
• John R. Yates III,
• David J. Lockhart,
• and Elizabeth A. Winzeler

Computational Identification of Operons in Microbial Genomes

• Yu Zheng,
• Joseph D. Szustakowski,
• Lance Fortnow,
• Richard J. Roberts,
• and Simon Kasif

Large-Scale Proteomic Analysis of the Human Spliceosome

• Juri Rappsilber,
• Ursula Ryder,
• Angus I. Lamond,
• and Matthias Mann

CpG Methylation Modifies the Genetic Stability of Cloned Repeat Sequences

• Kerrie Nichol
• and and Christopher E. Pearson

Voluntary Ethanol Consumption by Mice: Genome-Wide Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci and Their Interactions in a C57BL/6ByJ × 129P3/J F₂ Intercross

• Alexander A. Bachmanov,
• Danielle R. Reed,
• Xia Li,
• Shanru Li,
• Gary K. Beauchamp,
• and Michael G. Tordoff

Automated De Novo Identification of Repeat Sequence Families in Sequenced Genomes

• Zhirong Bao
• and Sean R. Eddy

Parallel Construction of Orthologous Sequence-Ready Clone Contig Maps in Multiple Species

• James W. Thomas,
• Arjun B. Prasad,
• Tyrone J. Summers,
• Shih-Queen Lee-Lin,
• Valerie V.B. Maduro,
• Jacquelyn R. Idol,
• Joseph F. Ryan,
• Pamela J. Thomas,
• Jennifer C. McDowell,
• and Eric D. Green

Inferring Alternative Splicing Patterns in Mouse from a Full-Length cDNA Library and Microarray Data

• Hiromi Kochiwa,
• Ryosuke Suzuki,
• Takanori Washio,
• Rintaro Saito,
• The RIKEN Genome Exploration Research Group Phase, II Team,
• Hidemasa Bono,
• Piero Carninci,
• Yasushi Okazaki,
• Rika Miki,
• Yoshihide Hayashizaki,
• and Masaru Tomita

The Drosophila Gene Collection: Identification of Putative Full-Length cDNAs for 70% of D. melanogaster Genes

• Mark Stapleton,
• Guochun Liao,
• Peter Brokstein,
• Ling Hong,
• Piero Carninci,
• Toshiyuki Shiraki,
• Yoshihide Hayashizaki,
• Mark Champe,
• Joanne Pacleb,
• Ken Wan,
• Charles Yu,
• Joe Carlson,
• Reed George,
• Susan Celniker,
• and Gerald M. Rubin

Erratum for vol. 12, p. 701