News tagged with sequence data

Singapore scientists design novel genome sequencing data compression method

Hitachi and Data Storage Institute (DSI), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) are devising a data compression technique to tackle the increasing volume of genome sequencing data ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Velvet spiders emerge from underground in new cybertaxonomic monograph

Velvet spiders include some of the most beautiful arachnids in Europe and some of the world's most cooperative species. Social species can be very abundant in parts of tropical Africa and Asia with conspicuous co ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could a newly discovered viral genome change what we thought we knew about virus evolution?

A study published in BioMed Central's Biology Direct journal reports the existence of a previously undetected group of viruses and, more importantly, a new type of viral genome that could have huge implications for theori ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The genographic project confirms humans migrated out of Africa through Arabia

Evolutionary history shows that human populations likely originated in Africa, and the Genographic Project, the most extensive survey of human population genetic data to date, suggests where they went next. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Shared genes with Neanderthal relatives not unusual

During human evolution our ancestors mated with Neanderthals, but also with other related hominids. In this week's online edition of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), researchers from Uppsala Univer ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Google strikes deal to preserve DNA data online

Concerned that the federal government might not keep funding the world's largest free database of genetic data, Google Inc. has forged a deal with a Mountain View, Calif., startup to keep the information online - and free ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Misleading morphology: Three European parasitoid wasp 'species' are seasonal forms of just one

Three widely differing forms of European Scambus parasitoid wasps that had previously been regarded as distinct species are shown to be seasonal morphs of a single species. The collaboration involved National ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fluid equilibrium in prehistoric organisms sheds light on a turning point in evolution

Maintaining fluid balance in the body is essential to survival, from the tiniest protozoa to the mightiest of mammals. By researching recent genomic data, Swiss researchers have found genetic evidence that links this intricate ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Little plant has big stories to tell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding which genes control traits, like when a plant will flower, what soil type is best or its ability to persist in drought conditions provides insight into the ability of plants ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clustering is key to lighting up the dark proteome

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new approach that organizes previously unused mass spectra from proteomics studies gives scientists the ability to use these spectra to gain more information about proteins in a wide range ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential

Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed to ensure ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists sequence DNA of cancer-resistant rodent

Scientists at the University of Liverpool, in partnership with The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, have generated the first whole-genome sequencing data of the naked mole-rat, a rodent that is resistant to cancer and lives ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Life-history traits may affect DNA mutation rates in males more than in females

For the first time, scientists have used large-scale DNA sequencing data to investigate a long-standing evolutionary assumption: DNA mutation rates are influenced by a set of species-specific life-history ...

Biology / Evolution

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New genetic study helps to solve Darwin's mystery about the ancient evolution of flowering plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolution and diversification of the more than 300,000 living species of flowering plants may have been "jump started" much earlier than previously calculated, a new study indicates. According ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast