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Open AccessHaploCoV: unsupervised classification and rapid detection of novel emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2
Accurate and timely monitoring of the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is crucial for identifying and tracking potentially more transmissible/virulent viral variants, and implement mitigation strategies to limit their ...
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Open AccessLaniakea@ReCaS: exploring the potential of customisable Galaxy on-demand instances as a cloud-based service
Improving the availability and usability of data and analytical tools is a critical precondition for further advancing modern biological and biomedical research. For instance, one of the many ramifications of ...
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Open AccessAccurate detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic mRNAs by ddPCR and meta-transcriptomics analysis
SARS-CoV-2 replication requires the synthesis of a set of structural proteins expressed through discontinuous transcription of ten subgenomic mRNAs (sgmRNAs). Here, we have fine-tuned droplet digital PCR (ddPC...
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Open AccessComplete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications
Modern sequencing technologies should make the assembly of the relatively small mitochondrial genomes an easy undertaking. However, few tools exist that address mitochondrial assembly directly.
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Open AccessELIXIR-IT HPC@CINECA: high performance computing resources for the bioinformatics community
The advent of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies and the concomitant reduction in sequencing costs allows unprecedented high throughput profiling of biological systems in a cost-efficient manner. Mo...
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Open AccessCoVaCS: a consensus variant calling system
The advent and ongoing development of next generation sequencing technologies (NGS) has led to a rapid increase in the rate of human genome re-sequencing data, paving the way for personalized genomics and prec...
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Open AccessA-GAME: improving the assembly of pooled functional metagenomics sequence data
Expression screening of environmental DNA (eDNA) libraries is a popular approach for the identification and characterization of novel microbial enzymes with promising biotechnological properties. In such “func...