New method enables accurate sequencing of short peptides hidden in food and human body

Our food and our bodies are full of tiny protein fragments called peptides. These small chains of amino acids act as ...
Nature

Improving deep learning protein monomer and complex structure prediction using DeepMSA2 with huge metagenomics data

Leveraging iterative alignment search through genomic and metagenome sequence databases, we report the DeepMSA2 pipeline for uniform protein single- and multichain multiple-sequence alignment (MSA) ...
Nature

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap

The size of microbial sequence databases continues to grow beyond the abilities of existing alignment tools. We introduce LexicMap, a nucleotide sequence alignment tool for efficiently querying ...
CNN

Genetic sequence of coronavirus was submitted to US database two weeks before China’s official disclosure, documents show

The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was submitted to a National Institutes of Health database two weeks before its release by the Chinese government, according to ...