Occasional zoonotic viral attacks on immunologically naive populations result in massive
death tolls that are capable of threatening human survival. Currently, severe acute …

Phages are one of the key components in the structure, dynamics, and interactions of
microbial communities in different bins. It has a clear impact on human health and the food …

This study supports the development of predictive bacteriophage (phage) therapy: the
concept of phage cocktail selection to treat a bacterial infection based on machine learning …

With the ever-expanding number of available sequences from bacterial genomes, and the
expectation that this data type will be the primary one generated from both diagnostic and …

The host range of a plant virus is the number of species in which it can reproduce. Most
studies of plant virus host range evolution have focused on the genetics of host–pathogen …

Recent advances in metagenomics provided a valuable alternative to culture-based
approaches for better sampling viral diversity. However, some of newly identified viruses …

Background: There is great interest in understanding the viral genomic predictors of
phenotypic traits that allow influenza A viruses to adapt to or become more virulent in …

Microorganisms inhabiting fermented foods represent the main link between the
consumption of this food and human health. Although some fermented food is a reservoir of …

Predicting the hosts of newly discovered viruses is important for pandemic surveillance of
infectious diseases. We investigated the use of alignment-based and alignment-free …

ABSTRACT RNA viruses are capable of rapid host shifting, typically due to a point mutation
that confers expanded host range. As additional point mutations are necessary for further …