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NEWS Solar power goes viral May 2011
The Angela Belcher’s group at MIT is working with M13 viruses to perform detailed assembly work at the microscopic level. Having already published on virus-build batteries , they have now found a way to improve the power-conversion efficiency of solar cells using the M13 capsid as a scaffold .

Virus-build pyramids in Archaea May 2011

Some viruses of Archaea use an unusual egress mechanism that involves the formation of virus-associated pyramids (VAPs) on the host cell surface

Virus entry March 2011
The virus entry pages are close to be complete.

Rotavirus:
replication cycle in picture.

TWIV

TWIV:This Week in Virology is a weekly podcast animated by professors Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier from the Columbia University, USA.


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Publication: ViralZone: a knowledge resource to understand virus diversity. Hulo C, de Castro E, Masson P, Bougueleret L, Bairoch A, Xenarios I, Le Mercier P. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D576-82.

ViralZone Current statistics
 May, 2011
426 Virus description pages:
  • 83 Families
  • 334 Genera
  • 9 individual Species

Linking to:

  • 364 reference strains
  • 15 783 manually reviewed proteins
  • 1 126 105 unreviewed viral proteins

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