Viral Bioinformatics Research Centre
Chris Upton, University of Victoria, Canada
Summary: Correlated mutations constitute a fundamental idea in evolutionary biology, and understanding correlated mutations will, in turn, facilitate an understanding of the genetic mechanisms governing evolution. CorMut is an R package designed to compute correlated...
Understanding Animal Research provides information about animal research and testing and the resulting advances in science and medicine. Source: www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
This is the homepage of TransPhylo, a software package for the Bayesian inference of infectious disease transmission from a phylogeny. The input is a dated phylogeny, where leaves correspond to pathogens isolated from the infected...
From molecules to physiology Source: www.plospathogens.org See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
Background: Mobile elements (MEs) constitute greater than 50% of the human genome as a result of repeated insertion events during human genome evolution. Source: www.biomedcentral.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
The story of Ebola’s most recent (and now deadliest) outbreak is a book worthy topic. Source: www.forbes.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
Researchers at Stanford exploited the newly developed precision gene editing technology known CRISPR-Cas9 into an anti-virus technology by cutting out Epstein-Barr virus from the host genome of infected cells. Infected cells successfully treated this way scale back...
The U.S. military will deploy about 3,000 personnel to West Africa to coordinate international aid, build treatment centers and train health-care workers as part of President Barack Obama’s offensive against a worsening Ebola outbreak,...
Source: www.faqs.org The ‘Unix philosophy’ originated with Ken Thompson’s early meditations on how to design a small but capable operating system with a clean service interface. It grew as the Unix culture learned things about...
Science/AAAS | Special Collection: Ebola #medicine #virology #onehealth http://t.co/vPrJoGhvfY Source: www.sciencemag.org See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca
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
Reminder: Do you use the Pathway Tools software? We urgently need your letters of support for our grant application by today! See http://www.ai.sri.com/pkarp/misc/ptletter.txt. Your letter doesn't need to be long; please help us out any way you can! #Bioinformatics
Our ProFit software is now available as a docker image! Zero install, just download a little wrapper script and run it. #zeroinstall #docker #structuralbiology #bioinformatics http://www.bioinf.org.uk/software/profit/
