News tagged with sequence data
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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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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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 ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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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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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 ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 10, 2011 |
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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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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 ...
May 23, 2012 |
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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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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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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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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. ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Cancer Genomics Browser gives cancer researchers a powerful new tool
A Cancer Genomics Browser developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provides a new way to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving cancer treatment by unraveling the complex genetic ...
Mar 30, 2009 |
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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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