Sequence alignment algorithm enables rapid search of world's microbial DNA

By making the world's microbial DNA easier to explore, a new sequence alignment tool, LexicMap, lets scientists search for a ...
Nature

From next-generation resequencing reads to a high-quality variant data set

Sequencing has entered the scientific zeitgeist and the demand for novel sequences has never been greater, with applications spanning comparative genomics, clinical diagnostics and metagenomics, as ...
Ars Technica

You can help medical science just by playing a new Borderlands mini-game

Players can help biomedical research by playing a new color-matching mini-game introduced in Borderlands 3 this week. "Borderlands Science" basically tricks human players into solving complex genetic ...
JSTOR Daily

Utility of Secondary Structure in Phylogenetic Reconstructions Using nrDNA ITS Sequences: An Example from Potalieae (Gentianaceae: Asteridae)

The gentians (Gentianaceae, Asteridae) form a morphologically and ecologically diverse group of plants with interesting phytochemical and medicinal properties. The family contains six tribes, but ...
JSTOR Daily

Path Reversal, Islands, and the Gapped Alignment of Random Sequences

In bioinformatics, the notion of an 'island' enhances the efficient simulation of gapped local alignment statistics. This paper generalizes several results relevant to gapless local alignment ...