Category: Uncategorized

Matt Shirley — PISCES: alignment free RNA-seq quantiation and QC pipelineSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca PISCES – alignment free RNA-seq quantiation and QC pipeline | RNA-Seq Blog Source: Viral...

The discovery helps to identify dormant infected cells and could one day lead to a cure Ed Rybicki’s insight:I would just stick with "The discovery helps to identify dormant infected cells" – because EVERYTHING...

Virology Highlights features highlighted articles published in Virology, with posts summarizing the research in the authors’ words. Ed Rybicki’s insight:Valuable stuff: we need to do more of this in more of Africa. See it...

The ability to recognize invading viral pathogens and to distinguish their components from those of the host cell is critical to initiate the innate immune response. The efficiency of this detection is an important...

Infection of humans by viruses from animal hosts — so-called zoonoses — occur relatively frequently around the world. Examples over the last few decades include human infections caused by avian influenza A viruses of hemagglutinin subtypes H5, H6,...

Bacterial, viral and parasitic zoonotic pathogens that transmit via the fecal-oral route have a major impact on global health. However, the mechanisms underlying the emergence of such pathogens from the animal reservoir and their...

The accidental discovery of the giant virus of amoeba — Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV; more commonly known as mimivirus) — in 2003 changed the field of virology. Viruses were previously defined by their submicroscopic...

A widespread epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was reported recently in South and Central America. The biggest concern to the ZIKV infection is the significant increase of microcephaly in the fetus born to...

We have all read the punchlines – data scientist is the sexiest job, there’s not enough of them and the salaries are very high. The role has been sold so well…See it on Scoop.it, via...

Rhinoviruses are the most common causes of the common cold. Their many distinct lineages fall into “major” and “minor” groups that use different cell surface receptors to enter host cells. Minor-group rhinoviruses are more...