Insects caught in a nutrient-poor food web
...t looks like. Elser and his collaborators gathered reams of data on the chemical composition of plants and animals from previously published studies. Their literature search yielded information on 501 land plants such as trees and grasses, algae and other microscopic organisms from 226 lakes, 130 species o...... by plant biologists as a way to make sense of the reams of data on plant relationships. In a series of meetings over the past five years, more than 200 biologists reached consensus on the most important plants to target in genetic studies and the best genes to focus on. Workshops and a Web site clearingho...Genomic data viewed on biological pathways with new computer program, GenMAPP
...s helping genomic researchers to make sense of the reams of dataa massive collection of numbers and decimalsthat result from using DNA microarrays, the widespread method of examining gene expression. Called GenMAPP (Gene MicroArray Pathway Profiler), the program displays the gene expression data in the con......ing Web-based tools they developed to sift through reams of data, scientists from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins hope to unravel the genetics of neurological problems associated with Down syndrome, autism and lead poisoning. Their search starts with microarrays, or so-called "gene chip...The nucleus: Not just a bag of chromosomes
...us itself has been overshadowed by the easy-to-see reams of genetic material and the fascinatingly tiny machinery that loosens, prepares, reads and copies genes. But in the last 10 or 15 years, evidence has mounted that these interior processes are actively linked to the nucleus, not just randomly taking p...University of Minnesota receives NSF grant to sequence legume genome
...that deals with extracting useful information from reams of data, such as is generated in any sequencing project. Roe and Town will lead the actual DNA sequencing work, which will be performed at highly specialized robotic facilities at Oklahoma and TIGR. The Minnesota-led project is matched by a parallel ......loping is a suite of computational tools that take reams of data and automatically extract a picture of what's happening in the cell,'' says Koller. ''It tells you where to look for good biology.'' Koller presented her statistical approach for mining genomic data at a Feb. 14 symposium - ''Machine Learning...