clinker is a pipeline for easily generating publication-quality gene cluster comparison figures. Given a set of GenBank files, clinker will automatically extract protein translations, perform global ...

parasail is a SIMD C (C99) library containing implementations of the Smith-Waterman (local), Needleman-Wunsch (global), and various semi-global pairwise sequence alignment algorithms. Here, ...

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Advances in high-throughput sequencing technology have led to a rapid increase in the number of sequenced mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes), ensuring the emergence of mitochondrial phylogenomics, as ...

Understanding protein sequences and how they relate to the functions of proteins is extremely important. One of the most basic operations in bioinformatics is sequence alignment and usually the first ...

Humans can rapidly discriminate among many highly similar facial identities across identity-preserving image transformations (e.g., changes in facial expression), an ability that requires the system ...

The emergence of human infection with a novel H7N9 avian influenza reassortant in China raises a pandemic concern. However, it is not fully understood how these H9N2 chicken viruses facilitated the ...