Bacterial genomes reflect their adaptation strategies through nucleotide usage trends found
in their chromosome composition. Bacteria, unlike eukaryotes contain a wide range of …

Immunoinformatics is an emergent branch of informatics science that long ago pullulated
from the tree of knowledge that is bioinformatics. It is a discipline which applies informatic …

Motivation: There is a growing literature on the detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)
events by means of parametric, non-comparative methods. Such approaches rely only on …

Conjugation of single-stranded DNA drives horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and
was widely studied in conjugative plasmids. The organization and function of integrative and …

Background Elucidation of a genotype-phenotype relationship is critical to understand an
organism at the whole-system level. Here, we demonstrate that comparative analyses of …

Pathogenicity is a complex multifactorial process confounded by the concerted activity of
genetic regions associated with virulence and/or resistance determinants. Pathogenicity …

Harmful algal blooms, caused by rapid growth and accumulation of certain microalgae in the
ocean, pose considerable impacts on marine environments, aquatic industries and even …

Genomic islands are related to microbial adaptation and carry different genomic
characteristics from the host. Therefore, many methods have been proposed to detect …

Avian pathogenic E. coli and human extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli serotypes O1, O2 and
O18 strains isolated from different hosts are generally located in phylogroup B2 and ST …

Background Genomic islands are associated with microbial adaptations, carrying genomic
signatures different from the host. Some methods perform an overall test to identify genomic …