Viral Bioinformatics Research Centre
Chris Upton, University of Victoria, Canada
Virus taxonomy at present is best characterized as a categorization of convenience, without a firm basis in the principles of evolutionary biology. Specifically, virus species definitions appear to depend more on tradition and popular...
“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 US is on the brink of a new virus epidemic; a virus that wasn’t there ten years ago but which is now worrying officials. Chikungunya, which causes an incapacitating fever, is spread via...
Large DNA sequence data sets require special bioinformatics tools to search and compare them. Such tools should be easy to use so that the data can be easily accessed by a wide array of...
Ahoj,
New video on toll like receptors (tlr). TLR are important in recognising foreign bodies, and are important in inducing and creating an immune response towards a foreign body.
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July has been a particularly trying month for HIV/AIDS researchers as they mourned the loss of colleagues killed in a militant attack and received new reports of the virus’ remarkable tenacity.
Source: www.latimes.com
“Ah welcome! Come in, come in!” said the institute director as Professor Smith appeared for their scheduled 2pm meeting. “I want to talk to you about your latest proposal”, the director continued. …
Source: biomickwatson.wordpress.com
We found that 72% of Web sites are still available at the published addresses, only 9% of services are completely unavailable. Older addresses often redirect to new pages. We checked the functionality of all available services: for 33%, we could not test functionality because there was no example data or a related problem; 13% were truly no longer working as expected; we could positively confirm functionality only for 45% of all services.
Source: www.plosone.org
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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