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We’ve been fans of the Molecule of the Month series by David Goodsell, for many years. Not only is Dr. Goodsell a talented artist but he writes very clear descriptions of the ways molecules...

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JEDDAH: The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that 3.3 percent, or 7,700 out of the 233,000 camels in the Kingdom, are infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus. Sourced through Scoop.it from:...

Giant viruses are protist-associated viruses belonging to the proposed order Megavirales; almost all have been isolated fromAcanthamoeba spp. Their isolation in humans suggests that they are part of the human virome. Using a high-throughput strategy to...

Scientists said they will reanimate a 30,000-year-old giant virus unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia, and warned climate change may awaken dangerous microscopic pathogens. Reporting this week in the flagship journal of the...

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#bioinformatics LayerCake: a tool for the visual comparison of viral deep sequencing data http://t.co/UwqNy7B4Zq Sourced through Scoop.it from: bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca

Conventional pairwise sequence comparison software algorithms are being used to process much larger datasets than they were originally designed for. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.biomedcentral.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca

Bacteria prey on humans, but the bugs have to beware of their own predators, too: a special class of viruses called phages. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.wired.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics...

Many infections are never diagnosed. We never know which virus or bacteria caused the illness – especially with colds and coughs. Thing is, until 2001, we didn’t even know we all came down with...