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P-values have taken quite a beating lately. These widely used and commonly misapplied statistics have been blamed for giving a veneer of legitimacy to dodgy study results, encouraging bad research … Sourced through Scoop.it...

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Author Summary Since a protein’s function is largely determined by its structure, predicting a protein’s structure from its amino acid sequence can be very useful to understand its molecular functions and its role in...

The alignment of multiple protein sequences is one of the most commonly performed tasks in bioinformatics. In spite of considerable research and efforts that have been recently deployed for improving the performance of multiple...

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has built an impressive hardware operation from its home in the UK. Its MinION device, a handheld DNA sequencer smaller than a remote control, once seemed like the stuff of science...

“China– BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, launched its desktop sequencer BGISEQ-500 at the 10th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-10)… BGISEQ-500 is an integrated desktop sequencing solution with advantages in accuracy, simplicity, speed, flexibility, and...

Studies in a ferret model reveal that influenza virus replicates in the mammary gland, is shed in breast milk and transmitted to the infant. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.virology.ws See on Scoop.it – Virology...

As the world inches closer to polio eradication, laboratories studying the virus will have to bolster biosafety standards. Eventually, most will need to stop working with the pathogen entirely. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.the-scientist.com...

Cowpox virus (CPXV) causes most zoonotic orthopoxvirus (OPV) infections in Europe and Northern as well as Central Asia. The virus has the broadest host range of OPV and is transmitted to humans from rodents...

TOGGLE speeds up the creation of robust pipelines with reliable log tracking and data flow, for a large range of analyses. Moreover, it enables Biologists to concentrate on the biological relevance of results, and...