Applied Biosystems announces SNPlex ultra high throughput genotyping system
...ss, announced the SNPlex TM system, a reagent and software product designed to allow researchers to conduct u...ive. The combination of instruments, reagents, and software is expected to offer one of the most powerful and cost effective genotyping systems available. Colla...TSRI professor named industry pioneer in one of the top ten technologies that will change future
...imaging, grid computing, ad hoc wireless networks, software verification, quantum communications, nanoimprinting, nanosolar energy, and mechatronics. About Technology Review Technology Review, Inc., an MIT Enterprise, delivers essential information about emerging technologies on the verge of commercializa...RIT collaborates with IBM on genomic research
...tional Biology Center, beginning with use of IBM's software tools in RIT applications. This allows RIT to deep...itful." The IBM/RIT collaboration will lead to: software for comparative genomic analyses simulating DNA mutations and changes a database of microbial ge...Honey bee genome being sequenced
... an assembly of that sequence, using sophisticated software to put the billions of pieces of information back together again. Weaver likened it to someone taking seven catalogs, tearing them into tiny pieces, scattering them all over the floor and telling someone else to piece them back together again. "...Livermore researchers apply combat simulation technology to homeland security
...hich would allow it to be used as incident control software in addition to emergency response planning and training. ACATS is one of many tools being developed for homeland security. The homeland security mission of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is to support the Department of Homeland Security, ...Scripps Institution researchers develop new approach for designing marine reserves
... dives, scientific analysis, and high-tech mapping software has led to a fundamentally new approach for design...esearchers entered the information into a computer software program equipped with "optimization algorithms" designed to specify a number of reserves to fulfill ...... Wheeler. The awards will also involve developing software for improved visualization and analysis of extremely large data sets, and outreach and education programs in comparative phylogenetic biology and paleontology, emphasizing new training activities, informal science education, and Internet resources an...A new twist on an age-old problem: Making knee replacements last
...ans, computer models, specially developed computer software and other technologies, he and his colleagues expe...nd functions of knee implants without the advanced software tools like Professor Fregly has developed," he said. "His technology offers an entirely new paradigm...Rutgers-led consortium awarded $6.5 million by NIH for genomic research
...ues have even developed and introduced specialized software to automate NMR data analysis a prime example of the streamlining effort. They are also working on an NMR fund-raising initiative to acquire additional NMR machines, whose costs range from $1 million to $2.5 million each. The huge number of protei...Artificial intelligence, swimmer detectors, and blast resistant structures
...es. The Czech Republic will investigate advanced software for monitoring and reasoning the interactions among distributed intelligent agents for possible exploitation of adversary networks, but also to provide a technology base to assist in the control of coalitions systems. In Japan, the need for fast ...Space Shuttle returns first soybeans grown on Space Station in commercial farming experiment
...nts to create the "Orbital Laboratory" educational software program. It allows students to design, conduct and analyze plant experiments on the Space Station. Then they can compare data through an online student experiment database. After the experiment is finished on the Space Station, students can use act...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to decode plant devourer genomes
...nce. The annotation system will be adapted from a software program called ASAP developed at the University of Wisconsin by Nicole Perna. ASAP will also enable the sequence from P. ramorum to be compared directly to the P. sojae sequence. The P. sojae roadmap will be essential to interpreting the P. ramorum...Pennsylvania's West Nile Virus surveillance system gets an assist from NASA data
...of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) software and support, and NASA weather and climate data. The GIS mapping system became a model for collecting data from the field, laboratory and remote sensing images. Those data were combined and used to create a map of the state, with county designations t...New guide helps researchers mine genome data
...or their purposes and how to take advantage of the software that has been provided for retrieval and analysis," Dr. Varmus writes. "The manual before us now offers such help to those who might otherwise have had trouble in attempting to use the products of genomics. Furthermore, the advice is offered in that ...Special report: Personal genomics
...of Perlegen. It would be useless without the right software and the knowledge needed to interpret it. Yet as sequencing becomes affordable, Margus thinks we'll learn how genetic variation and lifestyle affect the risk of disease, as well as other characteristics. "The technology is going to drive the underst...Scientists at TSRI identify thousands of proteins associated with deadliest form of malaria
...strument detects the pieces and uses sophisticated software that Yates and his colleagues developed previously to search a database of predicted genes to reconstruct most of the proteins in the sample. This technique was particularly useful in this context because it allowed a very large background "noise" of...Mosquito genome sequence--Published in the journal Science
...illion nucleotides, the basic units of DNA.) Using software programs to identify likely genes in the sequence, Holt's team made a "first approximation" of the genes' general functions. The entire Anopheles genome assembly was submitted to the publicly-available database, Genbank. After the female mosquito fe...Molecular machine could develop drugs for bioweapons victims
...structure and the development of both hardware and software applications used for executing the calculation, said Tung. "Los Alamos National Laboratory is uniquely suited for large-scale highly-complex non-linear computational problems and is now at the forefront of modeling for the study of ribosomal-antibi...NSF awards $9 million for study of proteins
...llon scientists to enhance its MatLab mathematical software to better support computational biolinguistics research. Medstory, Inc., Burlingame, Ca., which deals with drug innovation informatics, will focus on the clinical and drug development relevance of computational discoveries made under this program. Re...... in the general population. Using special computer software they developed, the scientists searched for sets of genetic changes that occurred with unexpected frequency in affected people. Variations in two genes, called RET and EDNRB, had to co-exist to cause disease in these families, they discovered. An as ...