Titanic clash over CRISPR patents turns ugly
Accusations of impropriety feature in escalating dispute. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Titanic clash over CRISPR patents turns ugly Source: Virology News
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The ancestors are not among us
>>Terms like ‘basal’, ‘early-diverging’, and ‘first-branching’ reflect persistent misconceptions about evolution and phylogeniesSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca The ancestors are not among us Source: Viral Bioinformatics
Is Another Zika Brewing in the Caribbean?
Researchers have identified an illness that is carried by mosquitoes and has never been seen in the Caribbean. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Is Another Zika Brewing in the Caribbean? Source: Virology...
Software citation principles
Software is a critical part of modern research and yet there is little support across the scholarly ecosystem for its acknowledgement and citation. Inspired by the activities of the FORCE11 working group focused on...
SWORD—a highly efficient protein database search
Motivation: Protein database search is one of the fundamental problems in bioinformatics. For decades, it has been explored and solved using different exact and heuristic approaches. However, exponential growth of data in recent years...
Life Expectancy II: It’s in the Genes – Common Science Space
(Microscopic image of C. elegans with Nomarski DIC optics: by permission, Prof. Sander van den Heuvel, Developmental Biology, Universiteit Utrecht. About 200x lifesize.) How long can we expect to live in the future? The...
Life Expectancy I: How Far We’ve Come – Common Science Space
In 2006 the World Health Organisation coined a new term: “the Glasgow Effect”. It resulted from an analysis of life expectancy data in two neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland. One, a prosperous upper-middle-class village outside...
Eukaryotic-Like Virus Budding in Archaea
See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Eukaryotic-Like Virus Budding in Archaea Source: Viral Bioinformatics
Assessing Student Learning
For those of us involved in curriculum redesign, the University of Leicester Learning Institute has put together a useful page oSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Assessing Student Learning Source:...
Genomoviridae: a new family of widespread single-stranded DNA viruses
Here, we introduce a new family of eukaryote-infecting single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses that was created recently by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). The family, named Genomoviridae, contains a single genus, Gemycircularvirus,...
