The attack of different pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi and viruses has a negative impact on crop production. In counter such attacks, plants have developed different strategies involving the modification of gene ...

Chagas disease is an illness caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi that is distributed in 21 countries of Latin America. The main way of transmission of T. cruzi is through the feces of triatomines infected with the ...

The use of genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and other OMICs approaches together with bioinformatics tools allows a global picture of how a microbial cell operates in its community to be obtained. The ...

Metagenomics and other "omics" are among the fastest advancing scientific tools, underpinning the recent and unprecedented access to genetic and functional information of entire communities of bacteria, virus and fungi. ...

Pan-genomics: Applications, Challenges, and Future Prospects covers current approaches, challenges and future prospects of pan-genomics. The book discusses bioinformatics tools and their applications and focuses on bacterial ...

Ambitious efforts to characterize disease have been made worldwide, mainly in cancer, with initiatives such as the Cancer Genome Atlas. Many of these cost-intensive studies use cutting-edge technologies to delve deeply ...