News tagged with computational biologists
Scientists decipher 3 billion-year-old genomic fossils
(PhysOrg.com) -- About 580 million years ago, life on Earth began a rapid period of change called the Cambrian Explosion, a period defined by the birth of new life forms over many millions of years that ultimately ...
Dec 19, 2010 |
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Indonesian 'Eves' colonised Madagascar 1,200 years ago
Several dozen Indonesian women founded the colonisation of Madagascar 1,200 years ago, scientists said on Wednesday in a probe into one of the strangest episodes in the human odyssey.
Mar 21, 2012 |
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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 ...
Feb 06, 2009 |
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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
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Apr 16, 2009 |
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Genetic similarity promotes cooperation
In a dog-eat-dog world of ruthless competition and 'survival of the fittest,' new research from the University of Leicester reveals that individuals are genetically programmed to work together and cooperate ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Study provides new insights into an ancient mechanism of mammalian evolution
A team of geneticists and computational biologists in the UK today reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome evolution. The new study is published in the journal ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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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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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 ...
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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Researcher uses computer science to solve a genetic puzzle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hairong Wei is a molecular biologist who turned to his other passion -- computer science -- to remove a major research roadblock. His cross-disciplinary efforts have produced a new computer-based ...
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Researchers complete mollusk evolutionary tree
Mollusks have been around for so long (at least 500 million years), are so prevalent on land and in water (from backyard gardens to the deep ocean), and are so valuable to people (clam chowder, oysters on ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Improved method for protein sequence comparisons is faster, more accurate, sensitive
Lightning fast and yet highly sensitive: HHblits is a new software tool for protein research which promises to significantly improve the functional analysis of proteins. A team of computational biologists led by Dr. Johannes ...
Dec 25, 2011 |
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Unraveling biological networks
A new approach to disentangling the complexities of biological networks, such as the way in which proteins interact in our body's cells has been developed by researchers in China. The team's algorithm could allow biologists ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Questions about incredible sea turtle migration answered
Immediately after emerging from their underground nests on the lush beaches of eastern Florida, loggerhead sea turtles scramble into the sea and embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire ...
May 15, 2012 |
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Quantum physics is the focus of Nobel buzz
Three physicists whose research on entangled particles plays a key role in attempts to develop super-fast quantum computers could be in the running for the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.
Oct 04, 2011 |
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