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This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was ...

The extinction of Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, has long been a subject of intrigue and speculation. A ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...