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    Sugarcane: an unexpected habitat for black yeasts in Chaetothyriales

    Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum, Poaceae) is cultivated on a large scale in (sub)tropical regions such as Brazil and has considerable economic value for sugar and biofuel production. The plant is a rich substrat...

    Flávia de F. Costa, Rafael S. C. de Souza, Morgana F. Voidaleski in IMA Fungus (2023)

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    Genome comparison between clinical and environmental strains of Herbaspirillum seropedicae reveals a potential new emerging bacterium adapted to human hosts

    Herbaspirillum seropedicae is an environmental β-proteobacterium that is capable of promoting the growth of economically relevant plants through biological nitrogen fixation and phytohormone production. However, ...

    Helisson Faoro, Willian K. Oliveira, Vinicius A. Weiss in BMC Genomics (2019)

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    GFinisher: a new strategy to refine and finish bacterial genome assemblies

    Despite the development in DNA sequencing technology, improving the number and the length of reads, the process of reconstruction of complete genome sequences, the so called genome assembly, is still complex. ...

    Dieval Guizelini, Roberto T. Raittz, Leonardo M. Cruz in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    FGAP: an automated gap closing tool

    The fast reduction of prices of DNA sequencing allowed rapid accumulation of genome data. However, the process of obtaining complete genome sequences is still very time consuming and labor demanding. In additi...

    Vitor C Piro, Helisson Faoro, Vinicius A Weiss, Maria BR Steffens in BMC Research Notes (2014)