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Title
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A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
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Author
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Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
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Description
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Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...
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Title
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Active Notch signaling is required for arm regeneration in a brittle star
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Cell signaling pathways play key roles in coordinating cellular events in development. The Notch signaling pathway is highly conserved across all multicellular animals and is known to coordinate a multitude of diverse cellular events, including pr...
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Comparative phylogenetic studies on Schistosoma japonicum and its snail intermediate host Oncomelania hupensis : origins, dispersal and coevolution
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Author
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Attwood, Stephen W., Ibaraki, Motomu, Saitoh, Yasuhide, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Parasites, Coevolution, Public health
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Description
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Schistosoma japonicum causes major public health problems in China and the Philippines; this parasite, which is transmitted by freshwater snails of the species Oncomelania hupen- sis, causes the disease intestinal schistosomiasis in humans and cat...
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Title
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Content and sentiment surveillance (CSI) : A critical component for modeling modern epidemics
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Zhang, Dongsong
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Comprehensive surveillance systems are the key to provide accurate data for effective modeling. Traditional symptom-based case surveillance has been joined with recent genomic, serologic, and environment surveillance to provide more integrated dis...
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Title
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EchinoDB, an application for comparative transcriptomics of deeply-sampled clades of echinoderms
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Witter, Zachary, Linchangco, Gregorio V., Jr.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background: One of our goals for the echinoderm tree of life project (http://echinotol.org) is to identify orthologs suitable for phylogenetic analysis from next-generation transcriptome data. The current dataset is the largest assembled for echin...
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Title
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Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...
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Title
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FLAVi : an enhanced annotator for viral genomes of Flaviviridae
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Schneider, Adriano, Guirales, Sayal, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Viruses, Phylogeny
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Description
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Responding to the ongoing and severe public health threat of viruses of the family Flaviviridae, including dengue, hepatitis C, West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika, demands a greater understanding of how these viruses emerge and spread. Updated phyl...
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Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera-hosted coronaviruses : SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Scott, Rachel, Guirales, Sayal, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Coronaviruses, SARS (Disease), MERS (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in humans in 2002. Despite reports showing Chiroptera as the original animal reservoir of SARS-CoV, many argue that Carnivora-hosted viruses are the most likely origin. The emerg...
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Title
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Fundamentals of genomic epidemiology, lessons learned from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and new directions
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, White, Richard Allen, III, Kofsky, Janice, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Epidemiology
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Description
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the significant causes of death worldwide in 2020. The disease is caused by severe acute coronavirus syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an RNA virus of the subfamily Orthocoronav...
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Title
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Genetic diversity of Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia provides insight into patterns of spread
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background: The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa (HOA) raises concerns about the impact of this mosquito on malaria transmission in the region. Analysis of An. stephensi genetic diversity...
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Title
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Geographical distribution of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and other regions in the Horn of Africa has raised concerns about its potential impact on malaria transmission. We report here the findings of a surv...
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Title
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Insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The movement of malaria vectors into new areas is a growing concern in the efforts to control malaria. The recent report of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia has raised the necessity to understand the insecticide resistance status...
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Title
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Phylogeny of echinoderm hemoglobins
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Linchangco, Gregorio V., Jr.
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background Recent genomic information has revealed that neuroglobin and cytoglobin are the two principal lineages of vertebrate hemoglobins, with the latter encompassing the familiar myoglobin and alpha-globin/beta-globin tetramer hemoglobin, and ...
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Title
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Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
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Description
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In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...
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Title
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Sequence-based identification of Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background: The recent finding of a typically non-African Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia emphasizes the need for detailed species identification and characterization for effective malaria vector surveillance. Molecular approaches increase t...