News tagged with bioinformatics
Pioneering research on Bacillus subtilis metabolism reveals bacterium's secrets
Ground-breaking research by an international team of scientists will help to make one of the most versatile of bacteria even more useful to society and the environment.
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Scientists decode newly sequenced strawberry genome
An international research consortium has sequenced the genome of the woodland strawberry, according to a study published in the Dec. 26 advance online edition of the journal Nature Genetics. The development is expected to unl ...
Dec 26, 2010 |
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Close proximity leads to better science
Absence makes your heart grow fonder, but close-quarters may boost your career.
Dec 15, 2010 |
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'Condor' brings genome assembly down to Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Young and Karr propose ways to improve how observational studies are conducted
S. Stanley Young, assistant director for bioinformatics at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Alan Karr, director at NISS, have published a non-technical article in the September issue of Significance magazi ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Web interface defines new paradigm for life science data-sharing
A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 31, 2011 |
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Can you really eat just one?
A Kansas State University genomicist is hoping an old potato chip slogan -- "betcha can't eat just one" -- will become the mindset of researchers when it comes to sequencing insect genomes.
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Researchers announce GenomeSpace environment to connect genomic tools
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced that GenomeSpace, a software environment that seamlessly connects genomic analysis tools, is now available to the scientific community. During her keynote ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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BU's Kunz to introduce new discipline of aeroecology
A team of research biologists headed by Thomas H. Kunz, professor of biology and director of the Center of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Boston University, will conduct a symposium on the emerging scientific discipline ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Nitrogen-fixing bacterial symbiont promises trove of natural products
Soil-dwelling bacteria of the genus Frankia have the potential to produce a multitude of natural products, including antibiotics, herbicides, pigments, anticancer agents, and other useful products, according to Bradley S. ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Web-based tools, called 'Galaxy,' simplify genomic analysis
With tremendous advances in DNA sequencing and the advent of microarray technology in the 1990s, biology embarked on a new age of discovery. Researchers suddenly had access to unprecedented amounts of data -- and faced unprecedented ...
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Genetic causes identified for disturbances in lipid metabolism
Some of these common human gene variants are already known to be risk factors for diabetes mellitus. The pathomechanisms of diabetes have intrigued physicians and been the subject of much debate for many decades. These new ...
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Integrated bioinformatics gateways portal and interface
An easy-to-use bioinformatics interface has been developed by a research group led by Tetsuro Toyoda called the RIKEN Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering division (BASE), Yokohama. The web-service-based ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2011 |
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New biodiversity data publishing framework proposed
A comprehensive framework to encourage and facilitate the sharing of biodiversity data has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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UofL biostatistician to develop statistical model that could help answer medical questions
A University of Louisville professor is developing a statistical model that, among other things, may help determine what prolongs cancer free survival.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics i/ˌbaɪ.oʊˌɪnfərˈmætɪks/ is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software engineering, data mining, image processing, modeling and simulation, signal processing, discrete mathematics, control and system theory, circuit theory, and statistics, for generating new knowledge of biology and medicine, and improving & discovering new models of computation (e.g. DNA computing, neural computing, evolutionary computing, immuno-computing, swarm-computing, cellular-computing). Java, XML, Perl, C, C++, Python, R, SQL, CUDA and MATLAB are the some of the more prominent software technologies used in this field.
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