Last November , a group of biologists, computational scientists, physicists, and chemists held a workshop to discuss the challenges of providing training for end-users of bioinformatics tools.

Developed by researchers at the UPM’s Facultad de Informática, this tool can discover and automatically classify bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature. Bioinformatics resources have proliferated in the years since the end of the Human Genome Project, obliging researchers to spend a quite a lot of time browsing the web in search of these resources…

Researchers develop semantic tool for searching bioinformatics resources Natural language processing – Artificial intelligence – Social Sciences – Computational Linguistics – Linguistics

Indore, India July 28, 2010 – Apticraft Systems, a leading bioinformatics company, today announced the successful completion of a module for Primer Premier, a project assigned by PREMIER Biosoft International, USA.

DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Bioinformatics Market – Advanced Technologies, Global Forecast and Winning Imperatives ” report to their offering.

According to the new market research report “Bioinformatics Market – Advanced Technologies, Global Forecast and Winning Imperatives “, published by MarketsandMarkets , the global bioinformatics market is expected to reach a $8.3 billion by 2014 at a high CAGR of 24.8% from 2009-2014.

A team of students is using bioinformatics to implement federal guidance on synthetic genomics. The students’ work will help gene synthesis companies and their customers better detect the possible use of manufactured DNA as harmful agents for bioterrorism.

More than 2,000 scientists working in computer science and biology attended the annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in Boston last week.

During this years Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in Boston, it was clear that even though Pacific Biosciencess SMRT sequencer will not be launched until later this year, the company is working hard to pique the informatics communitys interest in the technology and provide the tools to use it.

Microsoft Research has officially thrown its hat in the bioinformatics ring with the launch of Microsoft Biology Foundation Version 1.0, an open source toolkit intended to familiarize life science researchers with the company’s data-manipulation and data-management tools.

( University of Colorado Denver ) Cancer and stem cell biology researchers at the University of Colorado are launching the nation’s first program focused on identifying and testing drugs that target and destroy cells thought to be at the root of cancer — cancer stem cells (CSCs).

Using chemical labeling and mass spectrometry-based techniques, Mark Chance, PhD, director of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and professor of physiology and biophysics; Sayan Gupta, PhD, instructor at the Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics; and a research team from the University of Oxford, for the first time, were able …

Using chemical labeling and mass spectrometry-based techniques, Mark Chance, PhD, director of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and professor of physiology and biophysics; Sayan Gupta, PhD, instructor at the Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics; and a research team from the University of Oxford, for the first time, were able …

View provides ability to better understand effectiveness of drugs used to treat and prevent cardiovascular disease; Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics receives $1.1M from NIBIB to continue structural protein footprinting researchUsing chemical labeling and mass spectrometry-based techniques, Mark Chance, PhD, director of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Center for …

Epidemics of infectious disease are threatening the farmed fish industry, including one of its most popular products: farmed Atlantic salmon. A team of scientists has found evidence that the disease may be caused by a previously unknown virus.

Technology Review profiles next-gen sequencing company Pacific Biosciences , which has raised $178 million to develop its zero mode waveguide technology. According to the article, the company’s got 12 prototype instruments churning out data.

The Rakyan lab is focused on understanding “epialleles” loci at which the epigenetic state varies as a result of stochastic, genetic and/or environmental influences.

The jury is still out as to whether demand for genotyping will spur the creation of high-throughput centers built upon the sequencing model, but Daniel Koboldt is preparing for a potential onslaught.

Life science informatics start-up LabBook said it has identified a hole in the bioinformatics sector and it has just the solution to fill it.

Bansal V. A statistical method for the detection of variants from next-generation resequencing of DNA pools. [ Bioinformatics.