On the Early Evolution of Catabolic Pathways: A Comparative Genomics Approach. I. The Cases of Glucose, Ribose, and the Nucleobases Catabolic Routes

The timetable of evolution

(2017) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   Science Advances

Alexandr I. Oparin and the Origin of Life: A Historical Reassessment of the Heterotrophic Theory

(2016) Antonio Lazcano   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The TIM Barrel Architecture Facilitated the Early Evolution of Protein-Mediated Metabolism

(2016) Aaron David Goldman et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

On the Origin of Heterotrophy

(2016) Peter Schönheit et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The widespread role of non-enzymatic reactions in cellular metabolism

(2015) Markus A Keller et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Steps on the road to eukaryotes

(2015) T. Martin Embley et al.   NATURE

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Challenges in homology search: HMMER3 and convergent evolution of coiled-coil regions

(2013) Jaina Mistry et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases

(2013) Ron Caspi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Data, information, knowledge and principle: back to metabolism in KEGG

(2013) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structural Phylogenomics Reveals Gradual Evolutionary Replacement of Abiotic Chemistries by Protein Enzymes in Purine Metabolism

(2013) Kelsey Caetano-Anollés et al.   PLoS One

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Understanding prebiotic chemistry through the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and nucleobases in meteorites

(2012) Aaron S. Burton et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

(2012) Dougal Ritson et al.   Nature Chemistry

The proteomic complexity and rise of the primordial ancestor of diversified life

(2011) Kyung Mo Kim et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Reorganizing the protein space at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)

(2011)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Catalytic effects of Murchison Material: Prebiotic Synthesis and Degradation of RNA Precursors

(2011) Raffaele Saladino et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases

(2011) M. P. Callahan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UniProt Knowledgebase: a hub of integrated protein data

(2011) M. Magrane et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

Pre-calculated protein structure alignments at the RCSB PDB website: Fig. 1.

(2010) Andreas Prlić et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Which Way to Life?

(2010) Antonio Lazcano   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Bacteria with a eukaryotic touch: A glimpse of ancient evolution?

(2010) P. Forterre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

The NCBI BioSystems database

(2009) Lewis Y. Geer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH