Recent Advances in Evolutionary Genomics & Bioinformatics
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 3276
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinformatics; functional genomics; systems biology; non-model bacterial strains; biotechnology, biorefinery, biofuels production, bioplastics production, circular economy
Interests: comparative genomics; proteomics; genomic signal processing; phylogenetic; microbial diversity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Traditional biotechnologies suffer from the real limitation of the lack of fundamental knowledge regarding evolution of various microorganisms, including regulatory and signaling pathways hiding in their genomes, preventing the use of novel targeted genetic modifications or other interventions of metabolic engineering necessary to establish economically feasible processes. Novel methods, laboratory as well as computational, are needed to overcome these obstacles. Selection of naturally robust microorganisms, the key concept of Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology, cannot be done without comprehensive evolutionary characterization of newly discovered genomes or metagenomes of various microbial communities. Nowadays, novel technologies, especially the third generation sequencing platforms, bring new opportunities for evolutionary bioinformatics to supplement information on evolution by capturing epigenetic changes of genomes. Moreover, evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics are no longer only descriptive, but bring active tools for selection and genome engineering of microorganisms by the means of systems and synthetic biology. Such a controlled evolution is crucial for processes that could be used on an industrial scale in the future.
This Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Evolutionary Genomics & Bioinformatics” seeks high-quality work focusing on the latest approaches, methods, and algorithms for evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics or genome reports of novel organisms utilizable for bio-based chemical engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Description and characterization of novel (meta)genomes utilizable in biotechnology
- Evolutionary studies of genomes used for bio-based chemical engineering
- Synthetic biology of organisms used for bio-based chemical engineering
- Systems biology and in silico description of processes within industrially utilizable organisms
- Third generation sequencing data mining for high-throughput multiomics analyses
- Novel methods and computational tools for comparative and functional genomics
Dr. Karel Sedlar
Dr. Helena Skutkova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- comparative genomics
- evolutionary bioinformatics
- biotechnology
- microbiology
- genome report
- third generation sequencing
- epigenetics
- multiomics analysis
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