Effective new biodiversity data access portal
...ly mapped by the Portal. The data can also, if the user chooses, be easily plotted on Google Earth. The Data Portal is a sophisticated tool for users to incorporate biodiversity data into their own websites, or download datasets for ecological studies. When combined with environmental datasets (soil...DOE Joint Genome Institute secures long-term lease on production genomics facility
...ng the DNA code for the human genome to a national user facility for the DNA sequencing of many different important organisms. Our goal is to sustain our leadership in providing the information that will advance the nations interests in developing renewable sources of clean energy, tracking the fate of c......lar Sciences Laboratory, a DOE national scientific user facility located at PNNL.During the swap, the molecule opens, Zhang said. The key is to take advantage of the open form to perform a hydride transfer through which glucose is converted to fructose. Zhangs next step is to tinker with ionic solvent...In nature, proteins sweep up nanoparticles
...ational Center for Electron Microscopy, a national user facility that probes material at the nanoscale. Th...to Berkeley Labs Advanced Light Source, a national user facility that generates intense light for scientific research. Using an imaging tool called Fourier-...Genomatix expands operations in North America
...and will look forward to seeing our North American user base grow rapidly. Ann Arbor is also the home of ...blished reputation for excellent science, a global user base, and the broadest in-depth array of easy-to-use tools available in the marketplace focused on u...Australian wins prestigious prize in biodiversity informatics
...ware developer, Flemons is particularly attuned to user needs. His work includes innovations that simila...e applications that are intuitive and maximize the user experience for both scientists and non-scientists. Flemons' Prize will go toward engaging a broader ...Ants show us how to make super-highways
... day. Professor Franks said: "I think every road user who has ever inwardly cursed as their vehicle bounced across a pothole jarring every bone in their body will identify with this story. When it comes to rapid road repairs, the ants have their own do-it-yourself highways agency." "When the traffi...IMS updated recommendations on postmenopausal hormone therapy
...ded at the discretion of the well-informed hormone user and her health professional, dependent upon the specific goals and an objective estimation of benefits and risks. Dosage should be titrated to the lowest effective dose. Lower doses of HT than have been used routinely can maintain quality of life i...ESA presents the sharpest ever satellite map of Earth
...ue de Louvain and partners. The first GlobCover user consultation meeting will be held at JRC in Ispra, Italy, on 20 June 2007 where users will discuss the quality of the first products and how they will integrate them into their work....NIST building software offers green product advice
...zation (ISO) and ASTM International. With BEES a user can ascertain, for instance, the environmental impact of a product at any stage of its existenceraw material acquisition, manufacture, transportation, installation, use, and recycling and waste management. The environmental ramifications of the produ...Argonne's Joachimiak and Rosenbaum honored with the 2007 Compton Award
...gonne associate laboratory director for scientific user facilities. "It is a reflection of the quality of their work, dedication and the major role they both play in protein structure determination." Andrzej Joachimiak is recognized both for his talents as a prolific crystallographer and methodological...Building green made easier with new roadmap
...uts a lot of resources together in one book so the user doesnt have to go all over to find the needed information. The book is widely available and is on the Royal Institute of British Architects International Awards 2007 long list, which features the highest standard of architectural writing and publis...Latest advances in DNA sequencing highlighted at DOE Joint Genome Institute User Meeting
...DOE JGI) User Meeting. DOE JGI is the world's only user facility dedicated to making high-throughput DNA sequencing available to a diverse research community and individual investigators who otherwise would not have access to such a resource to advance the frontiers of their disciplines. The meeting will ...ESA's Medspiration project branches out to support biodiversity
... (GHRSST-PP). GHRSST-PP aims to deliver to the user community a new generation of highly accurate worldwide SST products with a spatial resolution of less than 10 kilometres every six hours. To support this goal, in December 2005 Medspiration began processing data from the Advanced Along Track Scannin...MIT engineer works toward clean water, more
... from developed countries become partners with the user communities, who are experts in their local conditions. With the MIT Nepal Water Project, Murcott points out, "Our team's partners have included university-educated people and illiterate peasant farmers. We have identified a common need-safe, clean d...Super-fermenting fungus genome sequenced
...nt fungus genomes sequenced by DOE JGI through its user programs and contributed freely to the worldwide scientific community....New research finds that a natural family planning method is as effective as the contraceptive pill
...ended pregnancies that were due to both method and user failure, was 1.8% after 13 cycles of use, and this compares very well with results from other European studies of FAB methods of family planning. The markedly good user-effectiveness rate may be explained partly by the motivation of the couples and t...ALTRAN: Industry experts address technology challenges at Altran Innovation Conference
...ted by Cambridge Consultants. The tool enables the user to detect the movements of people the other side of walls and is both lightweight and effective for up to 20 metres. The second innovation was Solar Impulse; an aeroplane capable of flying day and night on solar energy, charging lightweight lithium b...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...s. Through a High Temperature Materials Laboratory user project, a team of researchers performed numerous tests on the C3 materials and found that the proprietary coatings substantially increase wear resistance of most components they have tested. In the field, the oxide films have proven themselves as th...DOE JGI upgrades IMG/M -- the Metagenomics Data Management & Analysis System
... latest upgrade. Targeting DOE JGI's expanding user base, IMG/M provides tools for analyzing the functional capability of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, in the context of reference isolate genomes, using a variety of public functional and pathway resources. The enhanced vers...