The paper constructs a citrus super-pangenome from four ancestral species, revealing evolutionary patterns and genetic diversity through gene annotation, resequencing, and PAV analysis.

Plant Biotechnology Journal · Feb 3, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics

An Issue of Concern: Unique Truncated ORF8 Protein Variants of SARS-CoV-2

Sk. Sarif Hassan, Vaishnavi Kodakandla, Elrashdy M Moustafa Mohamed Redwan, Kenneth H. Lundstrom, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Tarek Mohamed Abd El‐Aziz, Kazuo Takayama, Ramesh J. L. Kandimalla, Amos Lal, Ángel Serrano‐Aroca, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Alaa A. A. Aljabali, Giorgio Palù, Gaurav Chauhan, Parise Adadi, , Vladimir Nikolaevich Uversky

The paper identifies 47 unique truncated ORF8 protein variants in B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 sequences and defines nine possible variants based on physicochemical properties.

PeerJ · Mar 21, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Implications Derived from S-Protein Variants of SARS-CoV-2 from Six Continents

Sk. Sarif Hassan, Kenneth H. Lundstrom, Debmalya Barh, Raner José Santana Silva, Bruno Silva Andrade, Vasco Azevedo, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Giorgio Palù, Bruce D. Uhal, Ramesh J. L. Kandimalla, Murat Seyran, Amos Lal, Samendra P. Sherchan, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Alaa A. A. Aljabali, , Vladimir Nikolaevich Uversky

The paper analyzes S-protein variants of SARS-CoV-2 from six continents, finding North America has the most unique variants, which may spread globally, suggesting travel restrictions and vaccine updates are needed.

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules · Sep 24, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics