Open-access databases such as the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) contain more than 2.4 million bacterial genomes, and this number continues to grow rapidly. Until now, searching these vast ...

Three papers in this issue of present major advances in understanding the evolution of birds and mammals, made possible by new methods for comparing the genomes of hundreds of species. Three papers ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Gene editing for the development of new treatments, and for studying disease as well as normal function in humans and other organisms, may advance more quickly with a new tool for cutting larger ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Roestel, Jessica A., Wiersema, John H., Jansen, Robert K., Borsch, Thomas, and Gruenstaeudl, Michael. 2023. [Dataset] On the importance of correct DNA sequence alignment in plastid phylogenomics – an ...

Scientists at INRS have identified a family of enzymes, known as Ssn, that can make targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA—a feat never before achieved. This discovery not only fills a major gap in ...

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