Since its emergence in late 2019, millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been generated as part of global efforts to monitor the evolution and spread of the virus. This unprecedented volume of data provi...

High-dimensional data are visualized through representation on tree structures.

Initial genomes from May 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, reveal a new spillover event Context On 15 May 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, ...

Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died at 77.

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General. 

Critics say “autocratic” behavior by GISAID could hamper response to a future pandemic

Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.

The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...

One of the most powerful approaches for identifying the mechanisms underlying complex biological phenomena is not just to measure bulk populations, or even take single-cell snapshots, but to directly ...

Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

Cells often navigate through confined spaces. Now it is shown that cells retain a mechanical memory of previous confinement events, which makes them more efficient at migrating through narrow microenv...

Pangraph is currently under heavy development. Bugs and crashes are to be expected.

Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...

Editorial: As the White House retools US imperialism with import duties, others must resist dependency – deepening regional ties and reducing exposure to chokepoints