Tim D. Williams

TL;DR: The Blast2GO framework is used to carry out a detailed analysis of annotation behaviour through homology transfer and its impact in functional genomics research to offer biologists useful information to take into account when addressing the task of functionally characterizing their sequence data.

TL;DR: The vision of the international, EU-funded project SOLUTIONS is described, where three routes are explored to link the occurrence of chemical mixtures at specific sites to the assessment of adverse biological combination effects, and comprehensive arrays of effect-based tools and trait-based field observations are explored.

TL;DR: This study provides a link between traditional single-gene biomarker studies and the emerging field of eco-toxicogenomics, demonstrating the utility of microarray studies on environmentally sampled, non-model organisms.

TL;DR: The utility of fingerprinting single chemicals for an improved understanding of the biological effect of pollutants is demonstrated, and the need to apply bioassays for water quality monitoring is highlighted in order to prevent underestimation of the overall biological effect.

TL;DR: The signaling pathways mediating the effects of exposure to Cu using a toxicogenomic approach in a fish model support the conserved mechanisms of Cu toxicity from lower vertebrates to mammals, provide novel insights into the deleterious effects of Cu in fish, and further demonstrate the utility of fish as environmental sentinels for chemical impacts on both environmental and human health.