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QUT News articleSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Brisbane researchers discover native Australian plant can kill Zika virus Source: Viral Bioinformatics

Mosquitoes are responsible for transmission of viruses, including dengue, West Nile and chikungunya viruses. Female mosquitoes are infected when they blood-feed on vertebrates, a required step for oogenesis. During this process, mosquitoes encounter high...

PSI-BLAST, an extremely popular tool for sequence similarity search, features the utilization of Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) constructed from a multiple sequence alignment (MSA). PSSM allows the detection of more distant homologs than a...

New technology allows for rapid diagnosis of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the CongoSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca New technology allows for rapid diagnosis of Ebola in the...

The classification of complex organisms is in chaos. Stephen T. Garnett and Les Christidis propose a solution. And that solution in part is that leg- and leaf-ologists (aka animal and plant taxonomists) take the...

For the purposes of these rules, a preprint is defined as a complete written description of a body of scientific work that has yet to be published in a journal. Typically, a preprint is...

Author summary Many researchers have found out the hard way that there’s a world of difference between “works for me on my machine” and “works for other people on theirs.” Many common challenges can...

Flaviviruses comprise a large and diverse group of positive-stranded RNA viruses, including tick-, mosquito- and unknown-vector-borne flaviviruses. A novel flavivirus was detected in pools of Aedes vexans nipponii (n=1) and Aedes esoensis (n=3) collected...

Vaccination against measles has many benefits, not only lifelong protection against this potentially serious virus. Mina et al. analyzed data collected since mass vaccination began in high-income countries when measles was common. Measles vaccination...

The quest to develop a cure for HIV has long been plagued by a seemingly simple question: How do doctors determine if someone is cured? The virus has a knack for lying dormant in...