Genome annotation is a tedious task that is mostly done by automated methods; however,
the accuracy of these approaches has been questioned since the beginning of the …

Sequencing of taxonomic or phylogenetic markers is becoming a fast and efficient method
for studying environmental microbial communities. This has resulted in a steadily growing …

The average citizen thinks of microbes as dangerous or at least as nasty enemies to her/his
health that she/he cannot see. The invisibility to the naked eye is the reason why microbes …

The main methods for the study of microorganisms in the environment (water, soil, sediment,
biofilms), the different techniques of sampling for measuring biomass, the activities, and the …

Most life on this planet is microbial and for the last two decades, environmental genomics
has contributed to reveal an impressive biodiversity of this microbial life. This approach …

Background One of the most frequent uses of bioinformatics tools concerns functional
characterization of a newly produced nucleotide sequence (a query sequence) by applying …