Viral Bioinformatics Research Centre
Chris Upton, University of Victoria, Canada
In this special issue of Virology, we highlight some of the stories that were presented during the 1st International Symposium on Giant Virus Biology. The 25 presentations covered a wide range of topics, from biochemistry...
What life is like on the medical front lines in Sierra Leone Source: time.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
Sequence alignments are used to find evidence of homology but sometimes contain regions that are difficult to align which can interfere with the quality of the subsequent analyses. Although it is possible to remove...
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Sea star associated densovirus might be the cause of a lethal disease that melts these marine invertebrates into piles of slime and ossicles. Source: www.virology.ws See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada has launched a clinical trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed at its national microbiology laboratory and expects to have the results in early 2015, the government said on Friday....
More than 150 years ago, the British government made smallpox vaccination compulsory, resulting in a massive political backlash. Opponents used tactics and arguments that are familiar today. If anything, the contemporary anti-vaxxer has regressed...
Sequencing study reveals low levels of microbes in lab reagents that can create big problems for some microbiome studies. Researchers studying microbiomes can do their best to prevent contamination, but a new study reveals...
In this review, we discuss the current knowledge of the role of the antibody response against dengue virus and highlight novel insights into targets recognized by the human antibody response. We also discuss how...
If you haven’t read the transcript of Sean Eddy’s recent talk “On High Throughput Sequencing for Neuroscience”, go ahead and read it. It’s full of many observations and insights into the relationsh… Source: bytesizebio.net...
It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 12 years, since 26 Jun 2008 (via @twi_age).
Top #tweeted story in #bioinformatics: Liftoff: an accurate gene annotation mapping tool | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.169680v1, see more http://tweetedtimes.com/v/1343?s=tnp
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