Bacteria influence eukaryotic biology as parasitic, commensal or beneficial symbionts. Aside
from these organismal interactions, bacteria have also been important sources of new …

The decreasing cost of sequencing and concomitant augmentation of publicly available
genomes have created an acute need for automated software to assess genomic …

The MUMmer system and the genome sequence aligner nucmer included within it are
among the most widely used alignment packages in genomics. Since the last major release …

The goal of many genome sequencing projects is to provide a complete representation of a
target genome (or genomes) as underpinning data for further analyses. However, it can be …

While the genome sequencing revolution has led to the sequencing and assembly of many
thousands of new genomes, genome annotation still uses very nearly the same technology …

Assembled genome sequences are being generated at an exponential rate. Here we
present FCS-GX, part of NCBI's Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) tool suite, optimized to …

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that survive a remarkable array of stresses, including
desiccation. How tardigrades survive desiccation has remained a mystery for more than 250 …

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are small aquatic animals. Some tardigrade
species tolerate almost complete dehydration and exhibit extraordinary tolerance to various …

Sequencing in all areas of the tree of life has produced> 300,000 cytochrome P450 (CYP)
sequences that have been mined and collected. Nomenclature has been assigned to> …

Abstract Background The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is among the
100 worst invasive species in the world. As one of the most important crop pests and virus …