Microbioinformatics

Dear Colleagues,

We spend a lot of time working on computers in microbiology research. We do not perform computer programming but search nucleotide or amino acid sequences similar to our query sequences in an international DNA/protein database, predict RNA or protein structures, construct multiple alignment of nucleotide or amino acid sequences, construct phylogenetic tree based on the multiple alignment, perform gene annotation of the genome sequence that we determined, etc. It is almost impossible to find scientific original papers in microbiology that do not use a computer at all. Computer works are essential in microbiology, and they are not limited in omics analyses (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, etc.). How do you incorporate computer operations and programs into microbiology? In this Special Issue, the editors would like you to submit any papers of developing microbiology by utilizing computer works.

Dr. Hiromi Nishida
Dr. Hiroshi Toda
Guest Editors

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