Britney Y. Lau

TL;DR: The release of IslandViewer 4 is reported, with novel features to accommodate the needs of larger-scale microbial genomics analysis, while expanding GI predictions and improving its flexible visualization interface.

TL;DR: A new species-specific identifiers that refer to unique RNA sequences within a context of single species are created in RNAcentral, a database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that aggregates data from specialised ncRNAs resources and provides a single entry point for accessing ncRNA sequences of all nc RNA types from all organisms.

TL;DR: The algorithm identifies tDNAs, finds fragments of those t DNAs in the same replicon and removes unlikely candidate islands through a series of filters, insisting that each island encode an integrase, and attachment site sequence identity is carefully noted; therefore, the database also serves in the study of integrase site-specificity and its evolution.

TL;DR: It is validated recent identification of tmRNA homologs in oomycete mitochondria by finding partner genes from oomyCete nuclei that target SmpB to the mitochondrion and identifying a small number of complete, but often highly derived, bacterial genomes that appear to lack a functional copy of either the tm RNA or Smp B gene.

TL;DR: TIGER uses a comparative genomic, ping-pong BLAST approach, based on the principle that the IGE integration module (i.e. its int-attP region) is cohesive, to map IGEs with unprecedented precision and without attB site bias.