Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes

Genome of Acanthamoeba castellanii highlights extensive lateral gene transfer and early evolution of tyrosine kinase signaling

(2013) Michael Clarke et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Mapping single molecule sequencing reads using basic local alignment with successive refinement (BLASR): application and theory

(2012) Mark J Chaisson et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Related Giant Viruses in Distant Locations and Different Habitats: Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus Represents a Third Lineage of the Mimiviridae That Is Close to the Megavirus Lineage

(2012) Niyaz Yoosuf et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Mind the Gap: Upgrading Genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS Long-Read Sequencing Technology

(2012) Adam C. English et al.   PLoS One

Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses

(2012) C. Desnues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gain and loss of multiple functionally related, horizontally transferred genes in the reduced genomes of two microsporidian parasites

(2012) J.-F. Pombert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Translation in Giant Viruses: A Unique Mixture of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Termination Schemes

(2012) Sandra Jeudy et al.   PLoS Genetics

Viruses with More Than 1,000 Genes: Mamavirus, a New Acanthamoeba polyphagamimivirus Strain, and Reannotation of Mimivirus Genes

(2011) Philippe Colson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Two new subfamilies of DNA mismatch repair proteins (MutS) specifically abundant in the marine environment

(2011) Hiroyuki Ogata et al.   ISME Journal

Giant DNA Virus Mimivirus Encodes Pathway for Biosynthesis of Unusual Sugar 4-Amino-4,6-dideoxy-d-glucose (Viosamine)

(2011) Francesco Piacente et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

(2011) E. W. Sayers et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Distant Mimivirus relative with a larger genome highlights the fundamental features of Megaviridae

(2011) D. Arslan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Bacterial Cytoskeleton

(2010) Matthew T. Cabeen et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Gap5—editing the billion fragment sequence assembly

(2010) James K. Bonfield et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

mRNA deep sequencing reveals 75 new genes and a complex transcriptional landscape in Mimivirus

(2010) M. Legendre et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

CDD: a Conserved Domain Database for the functional annotation of proteins

(2010) A. Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Investigations of an extraordinary endocytobiont in Acanthamoeba sp.: development and replication

(2010) Patrick Scheid et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton

(2010) M. G. Fischer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mimivirus: the emerging paradox of quasi-autonomous viruses

(2010) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The complete sequence of the smallest known nuclear genome from the microsporidian Encephalitozoon intestinalis

(2010) Nicolas Corradi et al.   Nature Communications

Mimivirus and its Virophage

(2009) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

A toolbox for validation of mass spectrometry peptides identification and generation of database: IRMa

(2009) Véronique Dupierris et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The polyadenylation site of Mimivirus transcripts obeys a stringent 'hairpin rule'

(2009) D. Byrne et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

(2009) David Moreira et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring

(2009) David W. Adams et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ten good reasons not to exclude giruses from the evolutionary picture

(2009) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ancient ESCRTs and the evolution of binary fission

(2009) Rachel Y. Samson et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Structural Studies of the Giant Mimivirus

(2009) Chuan Xiao et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE

InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

(2008) S. Hunter et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Distinct DNA Exit and Packaging Portals in the Virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus

(2008) Nathan Zauberman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY