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See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca A new method of manufacturing short, single-stranded DNA molecules can solve many of the problems associated with current production methods. The new method can be...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Following the initial and sporadic emergence into humans of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza A viruses in Hong Kong in 1997, we have come to...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca With this post I present a figure I’ve been working on for a while now. With it, I try to summarise the developments in (next...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca 19 water samples were collected aboard the Sorcerer II sailing vessel from the southern Indian Ocean in an effort to more thoroughly understand the lifestyle...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Two back-to-back papers were published last week that provide a detailed analysis of what it would take for avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9 viruses to...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Vincent, Alan and Kathy review novel approaches to preventing influenza virus infection. See on www.twiv.tv

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca In the context of metagenomics, we introduce a new approach to protein database search called PAUDA, which runs ∼10 000 times faster than BLASTX, while...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Lymphocystis disease virus (LCDV) is a large icosahedral dsDNA-containing virus of the Lymphocystivirus genus within the Iridoviridae family that can cause disease in more than...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Utilizing its integrated camera as a spectrometer, we demonstrate the use of a smartphone as the detection instrument for a label-free photonic crystal biosensor. A...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca The ecology of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has significantly changed from sporadic outbreaks in terrestrial poultry to persistent circulation in terrestrial and aquatic...