[ infections in populations of in the city of València (Spain): implications for mosquito control].

Objective: The presence of , of high sanitary and social impact, was first reported in Valencia (Eastern Spain) in 2015. Innovative tools for its control include the use of the endosymbiotic bacterium . The release of mosquito males infected with the Pip strain, has proven very promising for large-scale Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) applications.

DELEAT: gene essentiality prediction and deletion design for bacterial genome reduction.

Background: The study of gene essentiality is fundamental to understand the basic principles of life, as well as for applications in many fields. In recent decades, dozens of sets of essential genes have been determined using different experimental and bioinformatics approaches, and this information has been useful for genome reduction of model organisms. Multiple in silico strategies have been developed to predict gene essentiality, but no optimal algorithm or set of gene features has been found yet, especially for non-model organisms with incomplete functional annotation.