Category Archives: BioInformatics

New Software from SRI Speeds Development of Genome-Scale Models for Drug and Fuel Research

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A Better Rice Plant

The tsunami last year brought seawater sweeping over Japanese rice fields, but now British and Japanese researchers are close to developing salt-resistant rice plants , reports the Wall Street Journal . The researchers took an approach called MutMap , which uses bioinformatics and next-gen sequencing to identify markers for traits like salt resistance or plant height. Continue reading

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Appistry Establishes Genomic Research Collaboration with University of Missouri

Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced a strategic partnership with the University of Missouri to further enhance the school’s innovative genomic research. Continue reading

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Scientific plagiarism: A growing problem in an era of shrinking research funding

( Virginia Tech ) Harold Garner, creator of eTBLAST plagiarism detection software, identified numerous instances of wholesale plagiarism among citations in MEDLINE. Continue reading

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GPUs for GWAS

Because the computational burden to search for epistasis in genome-wide association study data is often prohibitive, a team from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh has attempted a powerful and cheap implementation of a search algorithm on GPUs using OpenCL . The team published a paper in Bioinformatics describing the GPU implementation, which achieved a 92 speed up of an … Continue reading

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Metabolites Involved in Chronic Pain

Untargeted metabolic profiling implicates a new suite of metabolites that may be involved in nerve damage-induced pain. Continue reading

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Edinburgh Team Aims to Simplify Workflow-based Bioinformatics with GeneProf

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Genomic Overload – Bioinformatics connects the dots – Video


12-10-2011 11:45 Another of the young scientists in the WSU School of Molecular Biology, Ping Ye uses bioinformatics to help impose order – and understanding – on the masses of genomic data produced by researchers. Her work as a computational biologist primarily focuses on meiosis and the eventual production of sperm and egg cells from stem cells. Continue reading

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Elsevier and OpenHelix Release Tutorial Suites for SciVerse Applications

AMSTERDAM , January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Application helps researchers utilize bioinformatics tools Elsevier , a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and … Continue reading

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Affymetrix and BGI Enter Strategic Collaboration to Co-Develop and Commercialize Genomic Microarrays for the …

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Persistent Awards $100K Grant to Support Bioinformatics at Indiana University

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CLC Bio Partners with SciEngines to Speed Bioinformatics Searching

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Persistent Systems Offers Academic Research Grant to Indiana University

SAN JOSE, CA and BLOOMINGTON, IN– – Persistent Systems , the leader in outsourced software product development services, today announced a $100,000 academic research grant to Indiana University Bloomington … Continue reading

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Persistent Awards IU Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing Grant

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CLC Bio Partners with SciEngines to Offer FPGA-Accelerated Bioinformatics

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2012 Dawns with Flurry of GWAS Papers on Range of Conditions, New Bioinformatics Tools

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Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship for 2011-12

The US – India Educational Foundation has conferred the Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship for 2011-12 on Dr R Chandra Babu, Professor (Biotechnology), Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, TNAU. Continue reading

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Cofactor Genomics Partners with Intrepid Bioinformatics to Launch Genomic Viewer for Visualization of Bos taurus Exome …

Cofactor Genomics, a leader in plant and animal genomic research, announced today a partnership with Intrepid Bioinformatics of Louisville, Kentucky, to enhance Cofactor’s recently released Bovine whole-exome capture product. Continue reading

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RainDance Technologies Teams with Hospital Saint-Louis and BGI to Confirm Mutations Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis

RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that it is collaborating with the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, France and BGI in China, the world’s largest genomics institute, to discover new variants and confirm findings from a Rheumatoid Arthritis study conducted by researchers at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. Continue reading

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Should newlyweds file jointly or separately?

Q. My wife and I just got married the last week in December, and we have some really stupid questions and hope you can help us. Continue reading

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