Comparative genomic analysis provides insight into the phylogeny and potential mechanisms of adaptive evolution of Sphingobacterium sp. CZ-2.

Sphingobacterium is a class of Gram-negative, non-fermentative bacilli that have received widespread attention due to their broad ecological distribution and oil degradation ability, but are rarely involved in infections. In this manuscript, a novel Sphingobacterium strain isolated from wildfire-infected tobacco leaves was named Sphingobacterium sp. CZ-2.

iPReditor-CMG: Improving a predictive RNA editor for crop mitochondrial genomes using genomic sequence features and an optimal support vector machine.

In crops, RNA editing is one of the most important post-transcriptional processes in which specific cytidines (C) in virtually all mitochondrial protein-coding genes are converted to uridines (U). Despite extensive recent research in RNA editing, exploring all of the C-to-U editing events efficiently on the genomic scale remains challengeable. Developing accurate prediction methods for the detection of RNA editing sites would dramatically reduce experimental determination.