Nature

Improving deep learning protein monomer and complex structure prediction using DeepMSA2 with huge metagenomics data

Leveraging iterative alignment search through genomic and metagenome sequence databases, we report the DeepMSA2 pipeline for uniform protein single- and multichain multiple-sequence alignment (MSA) ...
CNN

Genetic sequence of coronavirus was submitted to US database two weeks before China’s official disclosure, documents show

The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was submitted to a National Institutes of Health database two weeks before its release by the Chinese government, according to ...
Nature

Sequence-to-sequence translation from mass spectra to peptides with a transformer model

A fundamental challenge in mass spectrometry-based proteomics is the identification of the peptide that generated each acquired tandem mass spectrum. Approaches that leverage known peptide sequence ...

New method enables accurate sequencing of short peptides hidden in food and human body

Our food and our bodies are full of tiny protein fragments called peptides. These small chains of amino acids act as biological messengers, influencing processes ranging from sensory perception to ...
CNN

Scientist says early coronavirus samples were deleted from NIH database

Scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic might be working with the wrong samples, because some early samples of the virus submitted by a Chinese researcher were deleted from a ...
The New York Times

Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted? They’re Back

Chinese researchers have uploaded genetic sequences of coronaviruses to a scientific database more than a year after they took them offline. By Carl Zimmer A batch of early coronavirus data that went ...