BIBI was designed to automate DNA sequence analysis for bacterial identification in the clinical field. BIBI relies on the use of BLAST and CLUSTAL W programs applied to different subsets of sequences extracted from GenBank. These sequences are filtered and stored in a new database, which is adapted to bacterial identification.

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are known to influence plant growth by various direct or indirect mechanisms. Thirty–two strains were isolated from 15 soils sampled in central Iran, by using and comparing three different methods. The screening of soil samples by means of soil paste– plate method combined with isolation on mannitol agar proved to be the best strategy in terms of reli...

South Africa planned early for its covid vaccination programme. Yet ongoing procurement problems and new variant fuelled waves have left population vulnerable, reports Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla

The aim of this paper was to develop statistical models to estimate individual breed composition based on the previously proposed idea of regressing discrete random variables corresponding to counts of reference alleles of biallelic molecular markers located across the genome on the allele frequencies of each marker in the pure (base) breeds. Some of the existing regression-based methods do not...