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

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a cornerstone of computational biology, facilitating the exploration of functional, structural and evolutionary relationships among biological sequences.

Interviewer: We're talking about Bam Iobio, an easy to use web-based app that analyzes genomic sequence data in seconds. Announcer: Examining the latest research and telling you about the latest ...

In a new article, researchers explain their work on computer-assisted approaches towards surveillance and consequent design of drugs and vaccines to combat the growth and spread of the Zika virus. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...