The outbreak of a novel coronavirus associated with acute respiratory disease, called
COVID‐19, marked the introduction of the third spillover of an animal coronavirus (CoV) to …

Proper functioning of biological cells requires that the process of protein expression be
carried out with high efficiency and fidelity. Given an amino‐acid sequence of a protein …

The current outbreak of viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel
coronavirus designated 2019‐nCoV by the World Health Organization, as determined by …

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is an
emerging disease with fatal outcomes. In this study, a fundamental knowledge gap question …

Background Due to the degeneracy of the genetic code, most amino acids can be encoded
by multiple synonymous codons. Synonymous codons naturally occur with different …

Prophages are phages in lysogeny that are integrated into, and replicated as part of, the
host bacterial genome. These mobile elements can have tremendous impact on their …

Summary The 2013–2015 West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reminds us
of how little is known about biosafety level 4 viruses. Like Ebola virus, Lassa virus (LASV) …

The molecular diversity of viruses complicates the interpretation of viral genomic and
proteomic data. To make sense of viral gene functions, investigators must be familiar with …

Here we present MARVEL, a tool for prediction of double-stranded DNA bacteriophage
sequences in metagenomic bins. MARVEL uses a random forest machine learning …

Summary Despite more than 2,000-fold variation in genome size, key features of genome
architecture are largely conserved across angiosperms. Parasitic plants have elucidated the …