Recent developments have revolutionized the study of biomolecules. Among them are
molecular markers, amplification and sequencing of nucleic acids. The latter is classified into …

Antimicrobial resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Concord (S. Concord) is known to cause
severe gastrointestinal and bloodstream infections in patients from Ethiopia and Ethiopian …

We present avidity sequencing, a sequencing chemistry that separately optimizes the
processes of stepping along a DNA template and that of identifying each nucleotide within …

The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is the most widespread xenarthran
species across the Americas. Recent studies have suggested it is composed of 4 …

A study of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana detected lower mutation rates in genomic regions
where mutations are more likely to be deleterious, challenging the principle that …

Variation in the rates and characteristics of germline and somatic mutations across the
genome of an organism is informative about DNA damage and repair processes and can …

As whole genome sequencing is becoming more accessible and affordable for clinical
microbiological diagnostics, the reliability of genotypic antimicrobial resistance (AMR) …

Background Next-generation sequencing pipelines often perform error correction as a
preprocessing step to obtain cleaned input data. State-of-the-art error correction programs …

The sequence assembly algorithms have rapidly evolved with the vigorous growth of
genome sequencing technology over the past two decades. Assembly mainly uses the …

Motivation Error correction is a fundamental pre-processing step in many Next-Generation
Sequencing (NGS) pipelines, in particular for de novo genome assembly. However, existing …