New York Times: Watch Plants Light Up When They Get Attacked (2018)
Plants have no eyes, no ears, no mouth and no hands. They do not have a brain or a nervous system. Muscles? Forget them. They’re stuck where they started, soaking up the sun and...
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Insights into the Human Virome Using CRISPR Spacers from Microbiomes
CRISPR-Cas systems function by uptake and integration of foreign genetic element sequences into the CRISPR array, which constitutes a genomic archive of iterative vaccination events. Consequently, CRISPR spacers can be investigated to reconstruct interplay...
Genomes for all
The notion that the genetic inheritance of any species can be described as a single sequence has always been a convenient simplification. Most reference genomes are derived from only one or a small number...
scanPAV: a pipeline for extracting presence–absence variations in genome pairs | Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic
AbstractMotivation. The recent technological advances in genome sequencing techniques have resulted in an exponential increase in the number of sequenced humanSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca scanPAV: a pipeline...
Monkeypox case in England
Cases of monkeypox confirmed in England.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Monkeypox case in England Source: Viral Bioinformatics
Plant compound may shut down eye cancer
The primrose-based compound may be able to halt growth of an eye cancer that is fatal in about half the people who develop it. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Plant compound may...
Experimental cancer vaccine combo has 100% success rate in mice
A promising new cancer vaccine has shown the ability to ward off, and stop the return, of aggressive cancer cells.By adding a molecule called Diprovocim to a… See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News...
Gold medal for UCT Vaccinology Research Chair | UCT News
UCT Vaccinology Research Chair Professor Anna-Lise Williamson has been honoured with a gold medal from the SA Medical Research Council for her seminal scientific contributions. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Gold medal...
GrapeTree: visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organismsSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca GrapeTree: visualization of core...
Prot-SpaM: Fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences
Word-based or `alignment-free’ sequence comparison has become an active research area in bioinformatics. While previous word-frequency approaches calculated rough measures of sequence similarity or dissimilarity, some new alignment-free methods are able to accurately estimate...
