The correct assembly of plant genomes can be hampered by a large amount of repetitive sequences. Researchers have developed a bioinformatics tool for the automatic detection of repetitive genome ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America has raised serious concerns on its ramifications for the population in the Americas and spread of the virus worldwide. The Zika ...

Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) models have revolutionised the field of natural language processing and machine translation. These models have the remarkable capability to handle both input and output ...

The field of machine learning includes the development and application of computer algorithms that improve with experience. Machine learning methods can be divided into supervised, semi-supervised and ...

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finalized the adoption of version 1.7 of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standard ST.26, effective July 1, 2024. This standard, integral ...

Roche NimbleGen and Biogemma entered into a research agreement which will apply Roche NimbleGen’s array-based Sequence Capture complexity reduction technology to provide targeted re-sequencing of crop ...

GenomeQuest, Inc. is reaching out to biotech researchers with GenomeQuest™ 4.0, a web-enabled platform for genetic sequence data search and analysis. According to Company, this version fortifies the ...

Gatersleben, 20.01.2020 The development of next-generation-sequencing (NGS) has enabled researchers to investigate genomes that might previously have been considered too complex or too expensive.