Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Next-generation sequencing, PacBio SMRT sequencing, and Nanopore sequencing, can generate numerous sequence data in a single run. Raw reads or assembled sequence need to be submitted to public ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others. By Benjamin Mueller In late December 2019, ...

In outbreak response, speed is critical as authorities seek to quickly determine the cause of a disease and prevent it from spreading. A new report is now raising fresh questions about China’s early ...

A new combination of some of the molecules essential for human life has been detected in a sample of an extremely rare blood type at a hospital in eastern China, according to a Chinese news report.

A database management system can help teams create databases and keep critical information organized in a central repository. However, to make the most of the system, it's critical that organizations ...

Hello dear author, thank you in advance for developing such an amazing tool. I'm trying to build a custom database with some Fusarium genomes I'm interested in. In order to do that, I've created a ...