High-Throughput Assays Applied to Parasitic and/or Infectious Diseases: Innovative Insights on Pathogens’ Biology

Dear Colleagues,

High-throughput assays have currently become essential components of biomedical research, aiming at building a full landscape of cellular mechanisms at the molecular level. A wide number of infectious microbes and parasites have now their genomes completely sequenced and annotated, paving the way for a variety of omics strategies that can be adopted in order to scrutinize peculiarities on their biology and diseases’ traits. In this Special Issue, we welcome both literature review and original research articles (including investigations through deep bioinformatics meta-analyses and/or machine learning methods on public datasets), as well as short communications, which have employed high-throughput omics approaches on any pathogen-related broad theme, leading to innovative insights on its biology that comprise narrower subthemes in any subfields of genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, parasitology, immunology, pharmacology, pathology, epidemiology, and ecology (in case of vector-borne pathogens), among others. Studies on pathogens impacting either biomedical or veterinary sciences will be considered, aiming to enrich the variety of highly qualified papers to be published herein. Our final overall goal is to promote scientific knowledge that may contribute to the worldwide battle against parasitic and/or infectious diseases.

NOTE: Detailed description of methodologies and technical aspects of the conducted research is strongly recommended, mainly in cases where ad hoc adaptations have been performed.

Dr. Elton J. R. Vasconcelos
Dr. Yvonne Drechsler
Dr. Nilmar Moretti
Dr. Igor Cestari
Prof. Dr. Glenn McConkey
Guest Editors

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• omics approaches
• molecular microbiology
• molecular parasitology
• host–pathogen interaction
• infectious diseases
• bioinformatics