Genomic data are ubiquitous across disciplines, from agriculture to biodiversity, ecology,
evolution and human health. However, these datasets often contain noise or errors and are …

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and computational methods
have added a new dimension to metagenomic data analysis ie genome-resolved …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies can generate billions of reads in a single
sequencing run. However, with such high-throughput comes quality issues which have to be …

Background Individual organisms may exhibit phenotypic plasticity when they acclimate to
different conditions. Such plastic responses may facilitate or constrain the adaptation of their …

Controlling quality of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data files is a necessary but
complex task. To address this problem, we statistically characterize common NGS quality …

Read alignment is the central step of many analytic pipelines that perform variant calling. To
reduce error, it is common practice to pre-process raw sequencing reads to remove low …

Organisms often acquire physiological and morphological modifications to conquer
ecological challenges when colonizing new environments which lead to their adaptive …

Morphological traits have served generations of biologists as a taxonomic indicator, and
have been the main basis for defining and classifying species diversity for centuries. A …

Environment plays an important role in the evolution of plumage coloration in birds and may
also lead to sexual dichromatism if males and females face different selection pressures …

Hyposidra talaca (Walker) is an important pest of tea plant. H. talaca can cause losses of
between 40–100% in the dry season if proper control is not carried out. H. talaca has natural …