Anthocyanins: Plant-based flavonoid pigments with diverse biological activities

Anthocyanins are flavonoid containing polyphenolic phytochemicals. They are widely present in plants and accounts for different color shades displayed by the plant organs. A broad range of health-revitalizing effects is attributed to anthocyanins, constituting a vital part of the human diet. They are also accountable for ameliorating the detrimental effects of various lifestyle diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disorders, neurological disorders, etc. These beneficial impacts highly depend on the bioavailability of anthocyanins, governed by their absorption and metabolism in the human body. The primary goal of this review is to summarize the latest anthocyanin knowledge while focusing on the chemistry, pharmacokinetics, and various biological advantages with anti-cancer, neuroprotective, antidiabetic, antioxidant, cardiovascular protective, vision improvement, antiviral, and antimicrobial effects

Influence of Ni, Ti and NiTi alloy nanoparticles on hydrothermally grown ZnO nanowires for photoluminescence enhancement

In this work, surface-plasmon mediated enhanced photoluminescence emission has been investigated on Ni, Ti, and NiTi coated ZnO nanowires (NWs). ZnO NWs have been synthesized using a facile hydrothermal process, where NWs are coated with three different metals (Ni, Ti, and NiTi) using sputter deposition technique. It has been found that there is a significant improvement in near band edge emission (NBE) and passivation in deep level emission (DLE) in such metal embedded ZnO NWs and these emission properties can be tuned as we change the metal. Notably, we have achieved the highest enhancement of ∼6 times in NBE and best suppression of ∼15 times) in DLE by alloying of such metals (Ni and Ti). Such a remarkable DLE suppression is attributed to the presence of defect centers in ZnO NWs. The defect transition energy of ZnO is in resonance with the surface plasmon energy of metal nanoparticles, which leads to the conversion of DLE into NBE. The enhancement of NBE and suppression of DLE are possible due to the surface plasmon resonance coupling between metal nanoparticles (NPs) and ZnO NWs. Therefore, we conclude that earth abundant metals, such as Ni and Ti show significant SPR coupling on ZnO NWs and the alloying (NiTi) of such metals presents further improved SPR compared to the respective individual metals.This work has been supported by DST-JSPS research collaboration, grant number: DST/INT/JSPS/P-244/2017

shenwei356/seqkit: SeqKit v2.6.0

<h3>Changes</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/tag/v2.6.0">SeqKit v2.6.0</a> - 2023-11-09 <a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/tag/v2.6.0"></a><ul> <li><code>seqkit</code>:<ul> <li>add the shortcut <code>-X</code> for the flag <code>--infile-list</code>.</li> </ul> </li> <li><code>seqkit common</code>:<ul> <li><strong>add a new flag <code>-e/--check-embedded-seqs</code> for detecting embedded sequences.</strong></li> <li>for matching by sequences: reduced the memory occupation and corrected numbers in the log. <a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/issues/416">#416</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><code>seqkit stat</code>:<ul> <li>add a new column <code>AvgQual</code> for average quality score. <a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/issues/411">#411</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><code>seqkit split2</code>:<ul> <li>fix the panic for invalid input.</li> </ul> </li> <li><code>seqkit subseq</code>:<ul> <li>add a new flag <code>-R/--region-coord</code> for appending coordinates to sequence ID for <code>-r/--region</code>. <a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/issues/413">#413</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><code>seqkit locate</code>:<ul> <li>add a new flag <code>-s/--max-len-to-show</code> to show at most X characters for the search pattern or matched sequences.</li> </ul> </li> <li><code>seqkit seq</code>:<ul> <li>change the nucleotide color theme. <a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/pull/412">#412</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Links</h3> <p>OS |Arch |File, 中国镜像 |Download Count :------|:---------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux |32-bit |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_linux_386.tar.gz">seqkit_linux_386.tar.gz</a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_linux_386.tar.gz">中国镜像</a> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_linux_386.tar.gz"></a> Linux |<strong>64-bit</strong>|<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz"><strong>seqkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz</strong></a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz">中国镜像</a> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_linux_amd64.tar.gz"></a> Linux |<strong>arm64</strong> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_linux_arm64.tar.gz"><strong>seqkit_linux_arm64.tar.gz</strong></a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_linux_arm64.tar.gz">中国镜像</a> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_linux_arm64.tar.gz"></a> macOS |<strong>64-bit</strong>|<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_darwin_amd64.tar.gz"><strong>seqkit_darwin_amd64.tar.gz</strong></a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_darwin_amd64.tar.gz">中国镜像</a> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_darwin_amd64.tar.gz"></a> macOS |<strong>arm64</strong> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_darwin_arm64.tar.gz"><strong>seqkit_darwin_arm64.tar.gz</strong></a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_darwin_arm64.tar.gz">中国镜像</a> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_darwin_arm64.tar.gz"></a> Windows|32-bit |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_windows_386.exe.tar.gz">seqkit_windows_386.exe.tar.gz</a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_windows_386.exe.tar.gz">中国镜像</a> |<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_windows_386.exe.tar.gz"></a> Windows|<strong>64-bit</strong>|<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_windows_amd64.exe.tar.gz"><strong>seqkit_windows_amd64.exe.tar.gz</strong></a>, <br/> <a href="http://app.shenwei.me/data/seqkit/seqkit_windows_amd64.exe.tar.gz">中国镜像</a>|<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/releases/download/v2.6.0/seqkit_windows_amd64.exe.tar.gz"></a></p> <p><em>Notes</em></p> <ul> <li>please open an issuse to request binaries for other platforms.</li> <li>run <code>seqkit version</code> to check update !!!</li> <li>run <code>seqkit genautocomplete</code> to update shell autocompletion script !!!</li> </ul> <p>Please cite: <strong>W Shen</strong>, S Le, Y Li*, F Hu*. SeqKit: a cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation. <em><strong>PLOS ONE</strong></em>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163962">doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163962</a>. <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=wHF3Lm8AAAAJ&citation_for_view=wHF3Lm8AAAAJ:zYLM7Y9cAGgC"></a></p&gt

tardis-sn/tardis: TARDIS v2023.11.05

<p>This release has been created automatically by the TARDIS continuous delivery pipeline.</p> <p>A complete list of changes for this release is available at <a href="https://github.com/tardis-sn/tardis/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md">CHANGELOG.md</a>.</p&gt

tardis-sn/tardis: TARDIS v2023.10.20

<p>This release has been created automatically by the TARDIS continuous delivery pipeline.</p> <p>A complete list of changes for this release is available at <a href="https://github.com/tardis-sn/tardis/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md">CHANGELOG.md</a>.</p&gt