Plasmids are mobile genetic elements that carry important accessory genes. Cataloging
plasmids is a fundamental step to elucidate their roles in promoting horizontal gene transfer …

Plasmids alter microbial evolution and lifestyles by mobilizing genes that often confer fitness
in changing environments across clades. Yet our ecological and evolutionary understanding …

The fight against bacterial antibiotic resistance must be given critical attention to avert the
current and emerging crisis of treating bacterial infections due to the inefficacy of clinically …

Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements that often encode fitness-enhancing
features. However, many bacteria carry" cryptic" plasmids that do not confer clear beneficial …

Motivation Bacteriophages are viruses infecting bacteria. Being key players in microbial
communities, they can regulate the composition/function of microbiome by infecting their …

Pathogen detection from biological and environmental samples is important for global
disease control. Despite advances in pathogen detection using deep learning, current …

It is generally assumed that all bacteria must have at least one rRNA operon (rrn operon) on
the chromosome, but some strains of the genera Aureimonas and Oecophyllibacter carry …

ABSTRACT The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antimicrobial resistance
(AMR) as one of the top three global dangers to public health. One of the most vital factors …

This work presents a method for the reduction of the total scattering cross section (TSCS) for
a planar configuration of cylinders by means of generative modeling and deep learning …

Nanopore sequencing is an emerging technology that reads DNA by utilizing a unique
method of detecting nucleic acid sequences and identifies the various chemical …