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See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Evolutionary innovation in eukaryotes and especially animals is at least partially driven by genome rearrangements and the resulting emergence of proteins with new domain combinations,...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca I haven’t looked at this book beyond the ToC and preview availabe on this page, but it looks like it might be of interest to...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Mutual information (MI) is an approach commonly used to estimate the evolutionary correlation of 2 amino acid sites. Although several MI methods exist, prior to...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Despite the rapidly increasing number of sequenced and re-sequenced genomes, many issues regarding the computational assembly of large-scale sequencing data have remain unresolved. Computational assembly...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Engineering contributions have played an important role in the rise and evolution of cellular biology. Engineering technologies have helped biologists to explore the living organisms...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca The advent of Intel’s massively parallel coprocessor will make every server a supercomputer. This week, Intel unveiled its new Xeon Phi coprocessor, which puts an astonishing...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Few medical interventions compete with vaccines for their cumulative impact on health and well-being of entire populations. Routine immunization of children in the United States...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza viruses are now enzootic in parts of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Occasionally, these viruses transmit to humans and...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca This work describes the first genome-wide analysis of the transcriptional landscape of the pig. A new porcine Affymetrix expression array was designed in order to...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Molecular piracy is a biological phenomenon in which one replicon (the pirate) uses the structural proteins encoded by another replicon (the helper) to package its...