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The number and proportion of genes with no known function are growing rapidly. To quantify this phenomenon and provide criteria for prioritizing genes for functional characterization, we developed a bioinformatics pipeline that identifies robustly...

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Scientists receive too little peer-review training. Here’s one method for effectively peer-reviewing papers, says Mathew Stiller-Reeve.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca How to write a thorough peer review Source:...

Sequence alignment is crucial in genomics studies. However, optimal multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is NP-hard. Thus, modern MSA methods employ progressive heuristics, breaking the problem into a series of pairwise alignments guided by a...

Author summary Data expressed as numbers are ubiquitous in research in the life sciences and other fields. The typical scientific workflow using such numerical data consists of analyzing the raw data to obtain numerical...

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Author summary Emerging infectious diseases are often the result of a host shift, where a pathogen jumps from one host species into another. Understanding the factors underlying host shifts is a major goal for...

Scientists think that the lessons learned over the past couple of decades could help foster the development of vaccines for diseases other than HIV. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Why HIV vaccine...

The isolation of influenza types A and B in the 1930’s fueled an interest in the development of an influenza vaccine that would reduce mortality in future epidemics and pandemics. See it on Scoop.it,...

The porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is a swine infectious viral pathogen of great significance in global swine herds. It was recently detected at another Provi… See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Genetic...