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Viral sequences recovered from metagenomic data can be incomplete or contaminated with microbial DNA. ViralQC uses information from both DNA sequences and predicted proteins to detect contamination and estimate how complete a viral contig is.

On Jan 10 2020, while news of the first fatality was barely trickling in, the 29,903 letters constituting the viral genome from an affected individual in Wuhan had already been elucidated (even though a few corrections were made subsequently).

github.com - fastv is an ultra-fast tool for identification of SARS-CoV-2 and other microbes from sequencing data. It detects microbial sequences from FASTQ data, generates JSON reports and visualizes the result in HTML reports. This tool can be used to detect...

The new SARS-CoV-2 version, B.1.1.7, which was first seen in the third week of September in Kent and Greater London, has since spread to other locations in the UK.

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What can we learn from people with the genetics to get sick — who don't? With most inherited diseases, only some family members will develop the disease, while others who carry the same genetic risks dodge it. Stephen Friend suggests we start...

online resources on must-read papers in evolutionary biology, for a literature club

Newly Found Pandoraviruses Hint at a Fourth Branch of Life

Submit your SARS-CoV-2 sequence data to GenBank and SRA with our new submission landing page.

Here is a list of mosquito species known for transmitting the Dengue virus along with essential and applied information about each species: