Genome and metagenome comparisons based on large amounts of next-generation
sequencing (NGS) data pose significant challenges for alignment-based approaches due to …

Background Alignment-free (AF) sequence comparison is attracting persistent interest driven
by data-intensive applications. Hence, many AF procedures have been proposed in recent …

As computational biologists continue to be inundated by ever increasing amounts of
metagenomic data, the need for data analysis approaches that keep up with the pace of …

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in North America and Europe. The
clinical manifestations of Lyme disease vary based on the genospecies of the infecting …

Motivation k-mer-based algorithms have become increasingly popular in the processing of
high-throughput sequencing data. These algorithms span the gamut of the analysis pipeline …

Pathogen populations are expected to evolve virulence traits in response to resistance
deployed in agricultural settings. However, few temporal datasets have been available to …

Mutants without root hairs show reduced inorganic orthophosphate (Pi) uptake and
compromised growth on soils when Pi availability is restricted. What is less clear is whether …

The encounter of large amounts of biological sequence data generated during the last
decades and the algorithmic and hardware improvements have offered the possibility to …

“A Mathematical Theory of Communication” was published in 1948 by Claude Shannon to
address the problems in the field of data compression and communication over (noisy) …

The recent increase in Group A Streptococcus (GAS) incidences in several countries across
Europe and some areas of the Unites States (US) has raised concerns. To understand GAS …