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Safety tested Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is licensed as third-generation vaccine against smallpox and serves as a potent vector system for development of new candidate vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer. Historically, MVA...

A historic review of the discovery of new viruses leads to reminders of traditions that have evolved over 118 years. One such tradition gives credit for the discovery of a virus to the investigator(s)...

Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2015 Dec 30;23(3):204-12. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00597-15. Research Support, N.I.H., ExtramuralSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Oral Immunization with Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Prime and Intramuscular Protein Boost Provides Protection...

Can we use programs for automated or semi-automated information extraction from scientific texts as practical alternatives to professional curation? I show that error rates of current information extraction programs are too high to replace...

So Illumina has announced the next revolution of sequencers– the NovaSeq. Read an opinion here: “Illumina have announced NovaSeq, an entirely new sequencing system that completely disrupts their existing HiSeq user-base.  In my opinion,...

Orthology analysis is a fundamental tool in comparative genomics. Sophisticated methods have been developed to distinguish between orthologs and paralogs and to classify paralogs into subtypes depending on the duplication mechanism and timing, relative...

Despite the central place held by bioinformatics in modern life sciences and related areas, it has only recently been integrated to a limited extent into high-school teaching and learning programs. Here we describe the...

Sham scholarly publications and academic conferences without rigor reflect a legitimate problem: too many Ph.D.-holders chasing too few credentials.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca A Peek Inside the Strange World...

See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca The Tweeted Times – personal newspaper generated from your Twitter account Source: Viral Bioinformatics

The rapid and reliable detection of infectious agents is one of the most challenging tasks in scenarios lacking well-equipped laboratory infrastructure, like diagnostics in rural areas of developing countries. Commercially available point-of-care diagnostic tests...