The greening of the North: real, and caused by climate change
...ferent disciplines; the availability of sufficient computational resources; and the ability to use research funding in a flexible way, with frequent working meetings that do not have to be planned long in advance. The results have implications beyond academia. We have shown that the biosphere is indeed changing, d...Scientist detail how brain regulates sensory information
... additional clues to the solution of some of these computational problems."...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
...erging scientific disciplines such as genomics and computational biology into the undergraduate curriculum and enco...nd teachers can study genomics, bioinformatics and computational biology. • The University of Delaware will focus on improving the teaching skills of faculty, g...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...erging scientific disciplines such as genomics and computational biology into the undergraduate curriculum and enco...49; As a prelude to developing a special major in computational biology, develop an advising capability for this area and initiate a junior/senior level course in "...'Rock-paper-scissors' preserves biodiversity in bacterial neighborhoods
... theory contributed by physicists and increases in computational ability, we're now able to think about how populations interact in space and relax this assumption. We can assume now that organisms actually have a relationship with place, and they interact more with their neighbors than they do with organisms fart...New technique shows how cells interpret genetic information
.... Coauthor Charles Sugnet is a graduate student in computational biology. Ares's lab is also looking at RNA splicing in other organisms, including humans. For example, graduate student Valerie Welch has developed a set of microarrays to analyze changes in splicing as human cells in tissue culture progress from nor...ORNL receives $21.7 million for DOE's Genomes to Life
...ious one. The work will require new analytical and computational tools to generate critical information that will r...plinary teams and their exceptional analytical and computational capabilities." A key partner for the three-year $23.4 million project is Pacific Northwest National ...Harvard Medical School consortium receives grant to harness microbe genomes for environment/energy
...rt of such a truly interdisciplinary team applying computational biology and genomics to the urgent issues of global energy and ecology," says George Church, PhD, who will head the HMS consortium, and who is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Harvard/MIT Health Sciences & Technology, as well as ...Bioinformatics: The quest for new drugs finds significant profits
...qually accessible to the most crucial component of computational biology: the researcher," says Austin. Researchers need bioinformatics tools that allow them to easily analyze and interpret data. This may be accomplished either by integrating a number of independent applications via an accessible, standardized int...Energy Department awards $103 million for post-genomic research
...y at the interface of the biological, physical and computational sciences, the program seeks to understand entire l...plinary projects involving both the biological and computational sciences. Scientists have long tried to understand the workings of individual genes or small group...NHGRI funds two new centers of excellence in genomic science
... The MSI group plans to create new genomic and computational technologies for single-cell monitoring that are applicable to the study of other organisms, including humans. Their ultimate goal is to translate their findings on intra-cellular signaling into new treatments for disease. NHGRI anticipates making...National Institutes of Health awards $15.5 million grant to independent biology lab
...eveloping and applying innovative experimental and computational approaches to this system, MSI scientists will gen...ill be the development of new research methods and computational tools to probe and analyze complex biological processes. MSI was established to enable and encourage...Rice building Texas' fastest academic supercomputer
... director. "It will also be a vital tool for basic computational research aimed at better designing software than can run on hundreds or even thousands of processors simultaneously." Rice's proposal for NSF funding for RTC faced stiff competition in a process that saw awards for just one-in-three applicants. Rice ...ORNL groundbreaking celebrates landmark partnership
...aker. "The university community is able to utilize computational research without solely building and maintaining the hardware. Perhaps more important, our faculty gain access to one of the world's largest computers--an opportunity that would be unthinkable in the traditional university environment. The contributi...Web-based collaboration links labs to supercomputers
... regardless of their computer operating systems -- computational tools, data record-keeping capabilities, communications and document storage, all of which harness the entire research and training process. With BioCoRE, users with supercomputer accounts gain seamless access to major National Science Foundation ce...UCSB ecology center to receive grant
...nformation, rapidly locate and utilize distributed computational services, and exercise powerful new methods for capturing, reproducing and extending the analysis process itself. Scientists at NCEAS, which brings together working groups to collaborate on ecological problems including climate change and species e......stablished. The new tools in comparative genomics, computational biology, and informatics have already yielded promising results in studying invertebrate parasites that cause tropical diseases. When combined with the sequence of the human genome, and the sequence of some of the vectors of disease, like the Anophel...$10 Million center for theoretical biological physics created at UCSD by NSF
...tevens, a neurobiologist at Salk. Onuchic says the computational expertise and resources of the San Diego Supercomputer Center combined with the intellectual resources of UCSD, TSRI and Salk in the field make this a unique center, one that will allow the field of biological physics to advance and gain influence wi...'OptIPuter' design for data-intensive computer wins $13.5 million NSF award
...dwidth, where the networks will be faster than the computational resources they connect." The OptIPuter project will enable scientists who are generating massive amounts of data to interactively visualize, analyze, and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks. Designing and de......ian Research Council to advance a new field called computational biolinguistics. Computational biolinguistics, which combines the use of computational tools, including statistical language modeling, machine learning methods and high-level language pro...