Large-scale behavioural studies show that people approach a new game systematically and adaptively rationally. A cognitive model called the ‘Intuitive Gamer’ offers insights into this process and may inform the design of more flexible AI systems.

In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern

Bacteria produce natural products to adapt to their environments, with phage interactions as major ecological and evolutionary drivers. While some nat…

Bacteriophages are key tools in molecular biology and promising agents against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Here, the authors present a high-throughput droplet microfluidics platform that co-encapsu...

Nature - Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

Bifrost graph gene caller. Contribute to bacpop/ggCaller development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ultima Genomics announced the 2.0 version of their Solaris chemistry at AGBT.  Perhaps the biggest splash here is that Solaris 2.0 relies on...

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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Hi-C methods for studying 3D genome structure typically require millions of cells and struggle with repetitive regions. Here, authors develop CiFi, combining 3C with PacBio HiFi sequencing, enabling c...

Sporosarcina pasteurii is the most widely studied bacterium for microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), a process of intense interest for materials and construction applications. D...

Abstract. Comparisons of long-read and short-read (meta)genome assemblies typically show that short-read sequence assemblies are less error-prone, but stru

AbstractMotivation. Over the past years, substantial numbers of microbial species’ genomes have been deposited outside of conventional INSDC databases.Resu

Abstract. The pervasive availability of publicly available microbial genomes has opened many new avenues for microbiology research, yet it also demands rob

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

If I had been more atop things, I would have written this just under a week ago, on the nineteenth anniversary of my starting to write in th...

Abstract. The classification of living systems presents significant challenges due to the prevalence of gene transfer between genomes. Traditional taxonomi

Bacteria are frequently attacked by viruses, known as phages, and rely on diverse defence systems like restriction endonucleases and CRISPR-Cas to survive. While phages can evade these defences by cov...

OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3 - aqlaboratory/openfold-3

Assembling complex heterozygous genomes is hindered by highly similar allelic sequences and interchromosomal repeats, such as segmental duplications and rDNA arrays. Partitioning long HiFi reads by…