I've done a number of posts on biological topics over the past three years here. These are a few of them:
The
Primordial Nature of Phage Genes
Virus
Genes Don't Always Come from the Host
A
Virus with a Metabolic Gene
A
Virus, a Worm, and a Louse Walk into a Bar
Viral
Abduction of Proteins
Nucleus-like
Viruses and Their Enzymes
A
Surprise in an Algal Virus
How
Quickly Did Life Arise on Earth?
Why
Do Some Bacteria Have GC-rich DNA?
Bacteria
in Hail Stones
A
Catalase Conundrum
Strict
Anaerobes that Produce Catalase
Genes,
Codons, and Purines
Are
Some Leprosy Pseudogenes Turned On?
A
Stroll on the Beach in 1,000,000,000 B.C.
The
GGAGG Reflex
Are
Overapping Genes Real?
How
Antisense Genes Are Discovered
Bidirectionally
Overlapping Genes
Codons
and Reverse Complement Codons
The
Pathogen's Playbook
Coming
to Grips with Pseudogenes
Pseudogenes
Are Not Junk DNA
Whooping
Cough Genomics
The
Most Deadly Pathogen of All Time
Are
Dead Genes Still Alive in the Leprosy Bacillus?
Why
Do So Many Codons Begin with a Purine?
A
Binary Signal in the Second Codon Base
The
First Base in a Codon is Usually a Purine
Frameshift
Errors in Leprosy Bacterium DNA
Why
So Many Helicases?
A
Different Approach to Anti-Aging
Thermometer
Genes
How
Do Bacteria Survive Radiation Damage?
March
of the Microbes
A
Manganese Catalase Fusion Protein
The
Other Catalase
Odd
Structures in a Prophage Genome
A
Gene Heatmap
A
Large Genome with Lots of Structure
Not
All Organisms Use Amino Acids the Same Ways
Comparative
Genomics Using the Canvas API
Why
Mitochondrial DNA is Different
More
about Mitochondrial DNA
Strand
Asymmetry in Mitochondrial DNA
Highly
Expressed Genes: Better-Repaired?
DNA
Strand Asymmetry: More Surprises
Do-It-Yourself
Phylogenetic Trees
Shedding
Light on DNA Strand Asymmetry
DNA
Repair 101
An
Evolutionary Debate that Misses the Point
Shannon
Entropy and DNA
Chiggers,
Scrub Tyhpus, and Pseudogenes
Looking
for LUCA
Which
Direction Does the Gene Point?
The
Pseudogene Hall of Fame
More
Secrets of the Virus World
Virus
Genes Don't Come from Host Genes
Evolution
of Prophage Genes
Evolution
of Viral Genes vs. Host Genes
How
to Build Your Own Phylo Trees with Mega6
Where
Do Virus Genes Come From?
Anaerobic
Catalases and Codon Pseudodegeneracy
Problems
with the Tuberculosis Genome
Making
Sense of Antisense
The
"Hypothetical Protein" Problem
A
JavaScript Tip for Biohackers
Ancient
Drug Resistance Genes
Fixing
the Genome Annotation Nightmare
Biology's
Dirty Little Secret
A
Tale of Nematodes, Scarabs, Germs, and Genes
A
Strange Codon Symmetry
A
Tale of Two Microbes
Deep-Sea
Vents: The Mosquito Connection
Almost all of these posts relate to microbial genetics and/or bioinformatics.
I've also written 40 "biological" articles for BigThink, which can be seen here.
