Viral Bioinformatics Research Centre
Chris Upton, University of Victoria, Canada
“Viruses Throughout Life & Time: Friends, Foes, Change Agents” aims to increase awareness of the viral world by examining the role of viruses in biological systems and as major drivers of evolution. Source: academy.asm.org...
The current West African ebolavirus outbreak, which has now reached more than 1,000 cases and resulted in more than 800 deaths, is a reminder of the often unpredictable nature of viruses and the difficulties…...
A never-ending arms race drives coevolution between pathogens and hosts. In plants, pathogen attacks invoke multiple layers of host immune responses. Many pathogens deliver effector proteins into host cells to suppress host immunity, and...
Viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites and utilize host elements to support key viral processes, including penetration of the plasma membrane, initiation of infection, replication, and suppression of the host’s antiviral defenses. In this review,...
Summary: WebProtégé is an open-source Web application for editing OWL 2 ontologies. It contains several features to aid collaboration, including support for the discussion of issues, change notification and revision-based change tracking. WebProtégé also features...
More than a pun on the explosive growth of sequencing data, BLAST makes annotation and comparisons of similar sequences much easier. Created by a group at the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information in…...
After we discussed newly discovered entry factors for ebolavirus and hepatitis C virus on TWiV 166, the New York Times covered part of the story. (RT @815wrldtrvlr: How lethal is ebolavirus? Source: www.virology.ws See...
Each chapter attempts to answer a biological/bioinformatics question, but also has multiple sub-themes for students from different backgrounds. The chapters are so elegantly planned that readers from different backgrounds … Source: www.homolog.us See on Scoop.it...
Mommyish just posted a piece entitled 10 Terrible Reasons To Have A Home Birth by Bethany Ramos. It’s partly serious and partly tongue in cheek, and accompanied by lots of animated GIFs. Ramos’ rea…...
Parents are now denying newborns important Vitamin K injections to avoid unnecessary “toxins” VIDEO Source: www.salon.com 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/
