News tagged with sequence data
Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists from the UCLA Division of Life Sciences have reported the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link between habitat and body size in turtles and tortoises.
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Study of lice DNA shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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EMC buying Isilon for $2.25 billion
(AP) -- The data storage company EMC Corp. has reached a deal to buy Isilon Systems Inc. for $2.25 billion in cash, betting on a surge in demand for space to put huge amounts of digital information.
Nov 15, 2010 |
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DNA sequence variations linked to electrical signal conduction in the heart
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying genetic data from nearly 50,000 people have uncovered several DNA sequence variations associated with the electrical impulses that make the heart beat. The findings, reported in Nature Ge ...
Nov 14, 2010 |
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Scientists develop new way to decipher hidden messages in symbols
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost all information, in a sense, can be represented by symbols. In order to extract this embedded information, the symbols and the rules governing their sequence formation need to be deciphered. ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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New technology reduces storage needs and costs for genomic data
A new computer data compression technique called Genomic SQueeZ (G-SQZ), developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), will allow genetic researchers and others to store, analyze and share massive volumes ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Cell signaling classification system gives researchers new tool
Using ever-growing genome data, scientists with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are tracing the evolution of the bacterial regulatory system that controls cellular ...
Jul 02, 2010 |
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New genetic analysis reveals principles of phenotypic expression
The Human Genome Project, along with numerous parallel efforts to solve the DNA sequences of hundreds of animal, plant, fungal, and microbe genomes in the last few decades, has produced enormous amounts of genetic data with ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Little Fish, Big Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- The zebrafish population at Duke is about to boom. It turns out those puny, striped fish (they get their name honestly) that dart around many a household aquarium are ideal specimens for unraveling ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Genetic Analysis Gives Hope That Extinct Tortoise Species May Live Again
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to genetic data gleaned from the bones found in a several museum collections, an international team of researchers led by scientists from Yale believes it may be possible to resurrect ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution
Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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Standards for a New Genomic Era
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly available ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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TraDIS technique tackles typhoid
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers are able to look at the need for every gene in a bacterial cell in a single experiment. The new method will transform the study of gene activity and the search ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Keeping DNA 'all in the family'
Scientists look for clues about therapies and cures for life-threatening childhood illnesses in children's DNA -- it seems only logical to do so. But the decision as to who should have access to DNA samples from children ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides
In a little over seven hours, University of Illinois weed scientist Patrick Tranel got more genetic information about waterhemp than in two years time in a lab. The genetic information was obtained using pyrosequencing technology ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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