Mobile genetic elements associated with antimicrobial resistance

SR Partridge, SM Kwong, N Firth… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an
increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both …

High throughput sequencing for plant virus detection and discovery

DEV Villamor, T Ho, M Al Rwahnih, RR Martin… - …, 2019 - Am Phytopath Society
Over the last decade, virologists have discovered an unprecedented number of viruses
using high throughput sequencing (HTS), which led to the advancement of our knowledge …

CDD/SPARCLE: the conserved domain database in 2020

S Lu, J Wang, F Chitsaz, MK Derbyshire… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract As NLM's Conserved Domain Database (CDD) enters its 20th year of operations as
a publicly available resource, CDD curation staff continues to develop hierarchical …

Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding

R Lu, X Zhao, J Li, P Niu, B Yang, H Wu, W Wang… - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary Background In late December, 2019, patients presenting with viral pneumonia
due to an unidentified microbial agent were reported in Wuhan, China. A novel coronavirus …

PubChem 2019 update: improved access to chemical data

S Kim, J Chen, T Cheng, A Gindulyte, J He… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract PubChem (https://pubchem. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov) is a key chemical information
resource for the biomedical research community. Substantial improvements were made in …

InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations

AL Mitchell, TK Attwood, PC Babbitt… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The InterPro database (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/interpro/) classifies protein
sequences into families and predicts the presence of functionally important domains and …

Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes

L Gao, H Altae-Tran, F Böhning, KS Makarova, M Segel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Bacteria and archaea are frequently attacked by viruses and other mobile genetic elements
and rely on dedicated antiviral defense systems, such as restriction endonucleases and …

DFAST: a flexible prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline for faster genome publication

Y Tanizawa, T Fujisawa, Y Nakamura - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We developed a prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline, DFAST, that also supports
genome submission to public sequence databases. DFAST was originally started as an on …

RefSeq: an update on prokaryotic genome annotation and curation

DH Haft, M DiCuccio, A Badretdin, V Brover… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) project at the National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI) provides annotation for over 95 000 prokaryotic genomes that meet …

GeneMark-EP+: eukaryotic gene prediction with self-training in the space of genes and proteins

T Brůna, A Lomsadze… - NAR genomics and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We have made several steps toward creating a fast and accurate algorithm for gene
prediction in eukaryotic genomes. First, we introduced an automated method for efficient ab …