Over the last decade, virologists have discovered an unprecedented number of viruses
using high throughput sequencing (HTS), which led to the advancement of our knowledge …

Summary Background In late December, 2019, patients presenting with viral pneumonia
due to an unidentified microbial agent were reported in Wuhan, China. A novel coronavirus …

Long-read sequencing technologies have substantially improved the assemblies of many
isolate bacterial genomes as compared to fragmented short-read assemblies. However …

It was recently shown that bacteria use, apart from CRISPR–Cas and restriction systems, a
considerable diversity of phage resistance systems,,–, but it is largely unknown how phages …

Despite the recognized excellence of virology and bioinformatics, these two communities
have interacted surprisingly sporadically, aside from some pioneering work on HIV-1 and …

Recent advances in single-cell genomics provide an alternative to largely gene-centric
metagenomics studies, enabling whole-genome sequencing of uncultivated bacteria …

Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic
movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the …

Considered one of the most devastating coral disease outbreaks in history, stony coral
tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is currently spreading throughout Florida's coral reefs and the …

Tomatoes come in a multitude of shapes and flavors despite a narrow genetic pool. Here,
we leverage whole-genome resequencing data available for 602 cultivated and wild …

Background Traditional methods for molecular epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are
suboptimal. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) offers ideal resolution to describe population …