This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton Sequence Searcher is a Java program that allows users to search for specific sequence motifs in protein or DNA sequences. For example, it can be used to identify restriction enzyme cleavage sites or find similar sequence patterns among multiple sequences. Most searches run …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 20 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of nematodes with the whipworm Trichuris trichiura. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP020.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org. Links …
As a college biology major during the 1970s I was taught that cells in which the genetic material is separated from the cytoplasm by a nuclear membrane – such as those of animals, fungi, plants, and protists – are called eukaryotes. In contrast, the DNA of bacteria is not bounded by such a structure, and …
This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton (Disclaimer: BBB was developed in the Upton lab, so this is a biased review.) This will be a multi-part posting describing the key features of BBB. Base-By-Base (BBB) is a Java (platform independent) multiple sequence alignment (MSA) editor. Development was begun many years …
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This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton Generating multiple sequence alignments (MSA) is one of the most commonly used bioinformatics techniques. The sequences to be compared can be DNA (promoters, genes, genomes) or proteins. Note that the length and number of sequences to be aligned has an impact on the …
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I arrived in Munich, Germany today for the start of a Symposium entitled ‘Viral offense and immune defense’. It is organized by Collaborative Research Center 455 (in German, Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB 455); these are centers funded by the German Research Foundation that support collaborative research throughout the country. This meeting will highlight 21 internationally renowned speakers …
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