Ocean’s hidden world of plankton revealed in ‘enormous database’ – BBC News
Thousands of species of the ocean’s tiniest organisms are revealed in a series of studies. Source: www.bbc.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
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Core services: Reward bioinformaticians
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang. Source: www.nature.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics...
Missing link in evolution of complex cells discovered
Biologists have discovered a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life. The study provides a new understanding of how, billions of years ago, the complex cell types that...
TreeSeq, a Fast and Intuitive Tool for Analysis of Whole Genome and Metagenomic Sequence Data
Next-generation sequencing is not yet commonly used in clinical laboratories because of a lack of simple and intuitive tools. We developed a software tool (TreeSeq) with a quaternary tree search structure for the analysis...
The “First Replicon” on Earth? A Chat With Virologist Ricardo Flores
Ricardo Flores thinks viruses may be “the most important faction of the [planet’s] biomass” and that a viroid-like entity is a prime candidate for the first replicon on Earth. Viroids are subviral world parasites, non-protein coding...
Nature Reviews Microbiology: The damage-response framework of microbial pathogenesis (2003)
All other curves are derived from this basic curve. The arrow indicates that the position of the curve is variable, and depends on the particular host–microorganism interaction. The y-axis denotes host damage as a...
Haloviruses of archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes
Hypersaline environments up to near saturation are rich reservoirs of extremophilic viruses. One milliliter of salt water may contain up to 109 viruses which can also be trapped inside salt crystals. To date, most of...
Proteomics identifies DNA repair toolbox
Various repair mechanisms help our cells to revert continuous damage to their DNA. If they fail, mutations accumulate in the genome that can lead to devastating diseases. DNA repair defects underlie predisposition to certain...
New Chapter in Epigenetics
Unsuspected DNA modification raises possibility of new carrier of heritable epigenetic information Source: hms.harvard.edu See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
A more effective shingles vaccine could be on the way for people who need it
GSK says new shingles vaccine shows effectiveness across all age ranges, even those in their 70s. Source: www.washingtonpost.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
