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There’s no escaping norovirus when you have it—the symptoms from this gastroenteritis-causing virus, though brief, are often debilitating. Preventing infections will rely on improving our understanding of how norovirus enters host cells. Orchard et...

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ArticleSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life Source: Viral Bioinformatics

by Lauren Cowley Hello You’re new to Bioinformatics and have no idea where to start. Let me suggest you give these tutorials/helpages a go: https://c2-d2.github.io/hanage-lab/Bioinformatics-for-bacterial-population-genomics/ https://learnpythonthehardway.org http://epidemic.bio.ed.ac.uk/how_to_read_a_phylogeny https://angus.readthedocs.io/en/2017/ https://norwegianveterinaryinstitute.github.io/BioinfTraining/ https://bitsandbugs.org/2017/06/26/salmonella-genomic-epidemiology-exercise/ https://bitsandbugs.org/2016/09/22/guideline-to-bioinformatics-tools/ See it on...

We report a major improvement to the assembly of published short read sequencing data from an ancient variola virus (VARV) genome by the removal of contig-capping sequencing tags and manual searches for gap-spanning reads....

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Plants are locked in an ancient arms race with hostile viruses, but genome editing is giving crops the upper hand.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Researchers Learn from Plant...

tl;dr Even with a polydT bead RNASeq extraction, you can find interesting metagenomic data, as many single stranded RNA viruses havSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Data for free:...

kallisto is a program for quantifying abundances of transcripts from RNA-Seq data, or more generally of target sequences using high-throughput sequencing reads. It is based on the novel idea of pseudoalignment for rapidly determining...