Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics in Microbiology
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Informatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 993
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Through continued advancements in high-throughput technology, the raw experimental data extracted from genomes of microorganisms continue to grow at an increasing rate. As viruses, archaea, bacteria, fungi and unicellular protozoa together are the main contributors to the Earth’s total biomass, its climate, and the known spectrum of human, animal and plant diseases, we must rise to this data challenge through scalable computational methods that help to uncover the intrinsic and contextual meaning of their genomes. At the same time, these data allow us to explore microbial genomes at unprecedented resolutions and precisions in terms of evolutionary time, structural organisation and their functional elements. Many of these data are already in public repositories waiting to be (re-)analysed with novel computational and bioinformatics methods.
With this preamble, this Special Issue invites research contributions in comparative, structural, and functional genomics that, from fine-grained details to large-scale organization, use computational methods to microbial genomics data.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, computational and bioinformatics approaches to comparative genomics in the context of emerging infectious diseases, genomic and genetic signatures of cross-species and cross-domain interactions between macro- and microorganisms (e.g., host-pathogen genomics), and large-scale organisational principles of microbial genomes in data-driven structural genomics.
Dr. Andreas Martin Lisewski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- computational microbial genomics
- comparative genomics
- structural genomics
- functional genomics
- genomic data bioinformatics
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