Lassa fever kills 2 in Nimba, Liberia
The head of Disease Prevention and Control at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Thomas Nagbe says lassa fever has killed two persons in Nimba County and leaves more than a hundred contacts to be...
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ORCAN—a web-based meta-server for real-time detection and functional annotation of orthologs
Summary: ORCAN (ORtholog sCANner) is a web-based meta-server for one-click evolutionary and functional annotation of protein sequences. The server combines information from the most popular orthology-prediction resources, including four tools and four online databases....
KNIME4NGS: a comprehensive toolbox for next generation sequencing analysis
Summary: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data requires the processing of large datasets by chaining various tools with complex input and output formats. In order to automate data analysis, we propose to standardize...
phyx: Phylogenetic tools for Unix
Summary: The ease with which phylogenomic data can be generated has drastically escalated the computational burden for even routine phylogenetic investigations. To address this, we present phyx: a collection of programs written in C ++...
Yellow fever kills 600 monkeys in Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest
An outbreak of yellow fever has claimed the lives of more than 600 monkeys and dozens of humans in Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest region, threatening the survival of rare South American primates, a zoologist said...
South Africa’s plan to tackle HIV among sex workers
South African activists call for the decriminalisation of sex work to protect human rights and reduce spread of HIV. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News South Africa's plan to tackle HIV among sex...
Taiwan reports human H7N9 avian influenza case, dozens of additional cases reported in China
For the 5th time since 2013, Taiwan has reported an imported human H7N9 avian influenza case. According to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (computer translated), the case has been identified as a 69-year-old man...
Nigerian Professor Discovers Cure For HIV/AIDS. Yah. Sure he did.
Prof. Francis Otunta, the Vice Chancellor (VC), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, in Abia, has confirmed the discovery of a new drug for the treatment and cur Ed Rybicki’s insight:No comment… See it...
Evolution Weekend: Now More Than Ever!
Now more than ever! For the past 11 years, hundreds of religious congregations, congregations from a wide array of religious persuasions and from all corners of the world, have come together to celebrate the...
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in South Africa: 2nd case in 2017
ProMED-mail See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in South Africa: 2nd case in 2017 Source: Virology News
