We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

The majority of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) expression studies in plants remain
underutilized and inaccessible due to the use of disparate transcriptome references and the …

Comparing newly obtained and previously known nucleotide and amino-acid sequences
underpins modern biological research. BLAST is a well-established tool for such …

Long noncoding RNAs are emerging as important regulators of cellular functions, but little is
known of their role in the human immune system. Here we investigated long intergenic …

The design of genetic markers is of particular relevance in crop breeding programs. Despite
many economically important crops being polyploid organisms, the current primer design …

Thawing permafrost promotes microbial degradation of cryo-sequestered and new carbon
leading to the biogenic production of methane, creating a positive feedback to climate …

Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to
improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these …

Open-source software development has had significant impact, not only on society, but also
on scientific research. Papers describing software published as open source are amongst …

Motivation: bio-samtools is a Ruby language interface to SAMtools, the highly popular library
that provides utilities for manipulating high-throughput sequence alignments in the …

The emergence of Omicron (B. 1.1. 529), a new Variant of Concern in the COVID-19
pandemic, while accompanied by the ongoing Delta variant infection, has once again fueled …