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Massively parallel RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has rapidly become the assay of choice for interrogating RNA transcript abundance and diversity. This article provides a detailed introduction to fundamental RNA-seq molecular biology and informatics concepts. We...

Microbial Genomics is a new fully open access, online-only journal from the Society for General Microbiology. Increasingly I try only to link to open access journals from MicrobiologyBytes, but I d… Sourced through Scoop.it...

Bowtie, Bowtie2, BWA, CLC, GSNAP, BBMap, Novoalign, and SMALT. Sourced through Scoop.it from: merenlab.org See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca

Ebola and Marburg are 16 to 23 million years old, not thousands of years old as once thought, according to a recent PeerJ paper. The new research also indicates that while Ebola and Marburg are both...

By genetically engineering pigs to degrade a crucial virus protein, animals can be made less susceptible to foot and mouth disease virus. Sourced through Scoop.it from: microbiologybytes.wordpress.com Now for the wings…B-) See on Scoop.it...

About a month ago, a number of news stories were published reporting that the University of Toronto had offered a course in alternative medicine taught by a homeopath named Beth Laundau-Halpern that presented a...

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a new class of non-polyadenylated non-coding RNAs that may play important roles in many biological processes. Researchers from Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.rna-seqblog.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics...

The first human inhabitants of the Americas lived in a time thousands of years before the first written records, and the story of their transcontinental migration is the subject of ongoing debate and active...

Over the past fifty years, Marek’s disease—an illness of fowl—has become fouler. Marek’s is caused by a highly contagious virus, related to those that cause herpes in humans. It spreads through the… Sourced through...

The BBSRC National Virology Centre, inside The Pirbright institute’s new £145M Plowright Building , is one of the biggest investments in the science infrastr… Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.youtube.com See on Scoop.it – Virology...