Sequence and structural analyses reveal a divergent peptidyl transferase centre and a hibernation factor in archaea.

Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree inference reconstructs phylogenies from Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs). Since MSAs are inherently noisy, ML tools may experience overfitting, whereby the inferred top...

We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an assembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces ...

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Scientific Reports - Extremely acidophilic filamentous fungi are more prevalent in diverse ecosystems than previously documented

Protein structure prediction has undergone a revolution with the advent of AI- based algorithms, such as AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold. As a result, over 200 million predicted protein structures have been...

Rodrigues and Queiroz et al. report the discovery of Naiavirus, the largest enveloped virus, isolated from a Brazil biome. With an oval capsid and flexible tail, its giant genome holds many novel gene...

Although the buildup of plastic in the marine environment is a long-standing problem, it has only lately been realized how relevant this pollution may be to the ocean. Microplastic fragments are an em...

Bacteria of the phylum Actinomycetota are extremely diverse: They inhabit niches ranging from soils and ocean sediments to the normal human microbiota, and they cause tuberculosis, one of the most pre...

Prokaryotic genes are arranged in operons, with functionally related genes often located adjacent to one another (1). There are several ways in which the operonic organization of genes facilitates the...

I'm delighted to announce the publication of "Launching the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity" -- a short publication in Nature, written by the new IUCN Microbe Group, of which I am a part! The paper introduces the need for a Specialist Group focused on microorganisms, microbial communities, and the connection between microbes and health of environments and all other organisms.