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IMPORTANCE Aichi virus 1 (AiV-1) is a human pathogen that can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. AiV-1 is identified in environmental screening studies with higher frequency and greater abundance than other...

Approximate string matching is the problem of finding all factors of a given text that are at a distance at most k from a given pattern. Fixed-length approximate string matching is the problem of...

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Author Summary Identifying functionally equivalent proteins between species is a fundamental problem in comparative genetics. While orthology does not guarantee functional equivalence, the identification of orthologs—genes in different organisms that diverged by speciation—is often...

Human cosavirus (HCoSV) is a genus recently identified in the family Picornaviridae, which contains important pathogens to human health. Here, a novel type of HCoSV strain, cosavirus-zj-1 (GenBank no. KX545380), was identified in the...

The headline sounds like something your clueless relative would forward off social media, but it may be true: Birth year affects flu susceptibility.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Can the...

Marek’s disease (MD) is a lymphotropic and oncogenic disease of chickens that can lead to death in susceptible and unvaccinated host birds. The causative pathogen, MD virus (MDV), a highly oncogenic alphaherpesvirus, integrates into...

Sub-Saharan project could one day help ecosystems to resist climate change and improve agriculture. Ed Rybicki’s insight:Go Don Cowan et al….! See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Quest to map Africa’s soil microbiome...

Molecular evolution studies involve many different hard computational problems solved, in most cases, with heuristic algorithms that provide a nearly optimal solution. Hence, diverse software tools exist for the different stages involved in a...

An early-stage study of the effectiveness of a lung-cancer vaccine developed by scientists in Cuba could start as early as next month. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News FDA Approves Clinical Trials to...