News tagged with computational biologists

Researchers develop database to help accelerate drug discovery

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will help streamline the analysis of gene expression experiments and provide scientists with a better mechanistic understanding ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fuzzy logic predicts cell aging

The process of aging disturbs a broad range of cellular mechanisms in a complex fashion and is not well understood. Computer models using fuzzy logic might help to unravel these complexities and predict how aging progresses ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Berkeley Lab scientist co-leads breast cancer 'dream team'

An $18 million, three-year grant to develop new and more effective therapies to fight breast cancer was awarded today to a multi-institutional "Dream Team" of scientists and clinicians that is co-led by Joe Gray, a renowned ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers break the animal kingdom's colour code

Charles Darwin was fascinated by the colours of animals - he once wrote to his colleague Alfred Russell Wallace asking why certain animals were "so
beautifully and artistically coloured".

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Mathematical models reveal how organisms transcend the sum of their genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Molecular and cellular biologists have made tremendous scientific advances by dissecting apart the functions of individual genes, proteins, and pathways. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Stroma genomic signature predicts resistance to anthracyclin-based chemotherapy in breast cancer

Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Molecular Oncology in Lausanne have developed a new test to predict how breast cancer patients respond to chemotherapy, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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