Genome Watch in 2021

This Genome Watch article highlights how technical advances have enabled the identification of short protein-coding open reading frames and thus the discovery of hidden small proteins.

This Genome Watch highlights how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic laid the groundwork for continued use of real-time genomic epidemiology for public health responses in low-and-middle-income countries.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the need for improved phenotypic approaches to complement the power of genomics.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights how recent advances in computational identification of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), and in their experimental manipulation, are opening new avenues to access novel secondary metabolites.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights recent advances in genome editing of parasitic worms that affect one-fifth of humans globally.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights current research into the genomic and functional diversity of type VI secretion systems in Vibrio cholerae.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights approaches that enable high-resolution mapping of transcription start sites in apicomplexan parasites.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the search for unusually large (or small) tailed phages driven by metagenomics.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights how metagenomics could link the gut microbiota and COVID-19 disease outcomes and track emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, with the potential to inform clinical practice and public health policy.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights how metagenomics can be used for surveillance and studying infections with respiratory pathogens.

This month’s Genome Watch highlights the genomic traits underlying the ancestral association between endobacteria, which live inside arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which reside within plants.