Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...function," said Altman, a practicing physician and bioinformatics expert who holds departmental appointments in Genetics, Medicine and Bioengineering, as well as a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. "We would like to bring this capability to all biologists in a routine way." The grant, which holds the possi...Mayo Clinic awarded major NIH contract for smallpox genomics research
...am, Ph.D. Other aspects of the research including bioinformatics -- the processing of the huge number of data points in this type of genomic research -- will involve Mayo biostatisticians and the Mayo Advanced Genomics Technology Center (AGTC). "This award to Dr. Poland is another tangible confirmation that Ma...Oct. 15-17 Bioinformatics meeting in Irvine, Calif.
...r the last two decades has driven the emergence of bioinformatics and the use of computer technology to analyze biomedical research data. At this meeting, part of the National Academy of Sciences' Arthur M. Sackler colloquium series, scientists will explore recent advances in bioinformatic theory and experimentatio...NIH funds new bioinformatics resources at UT Southwestern
...outhwestern Medical Center at Dallas to create two bioinformatics centers designed to help scientists combat infecti...Southwestern. The contracts will create separate bioinformatics resources the BioHealthBase Bioinformatics Resource Center for Biodefense and Emerging/Re-emerging ...Medical informatics project targets ovarian, breast cancers
...pitalize on all the human genome data and powerful bioinformatics approaches out there," said IU cancer biologist Kenneth Nephew, who is leading one of the cancer project's four parts. "In the end, we believe our work will lead to better therapies for ovarian and breast cancer patients." The researchers will study ...Virginia Tech, TIGR sign memorandum for new alliance
...s deciphering the genome sequence of rice. TIGR's bioinformatics department is creating and maintaining gene databa...source Centers, VBI also provides the genomics and bioinformatics research core for the 15-university Middle Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... Helps Identify New Smallpox Drug Candidate Using bioinformatics and computer modeling, researchers from North Carolina and Oregon have identified a new class of compounds that block a key step in the lifecycle of the smallpox virus and have little toxicity to human cells. They report on this new antiviral drug ca...Scientists uncover clues to the mystery of 'gene deserts'
...o significant variation. Ivan Ovcharenko, a bioinformatics scientist in LLNL's Computation Directorate who led the study, said that many lines of evidence show that the stable desert regions, which are able to resist genomic rearrangement and fend off infringement by repetitive segments of junk DNA, are home...UCSD researchers derive lessons about human evolution from chicken genome
UC San Diego experts in bioinformatics have co-authored with other scientists the first large-scale comparison of mammal and bird genomes, published in the December 9 edition of Nature. The journal's cover story includes a draft sequence of the chicken genome assembled and analyzed by mem...Encouraging results from validation study of trial of personalized treatment in breast cancer
...atistical team in Belgium, in collaboration with a bioinformatics group in Switzerland. Dr.Piccart said: "While the overall performance of the 70-gene prognostic signature in the external validation series was inferior to the original Amsterdam series, the results are more than good enough to justify starting th...UCSD bioinformatics researcher studies tumor genome architectures with career award
... said, "I wanted to do something more applied, and bioinformatics was an exciting area." Raphael was awarded an Alfr...tination is unclear: "Depending on the university, bioinformatics work is happening in the computer science department, math department, biology department, or in an ...UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives grant to train Brazilian scientists
...an Colley, director of CTEGD. "Students trained in bioinformatics in the countries most affected by these diseases will help provide the needed researchers to do future cutting-edge science on these major public health problems." The first trainee, computer scientist Adriana de Andrade Oliveira, is slated to ar...An unusual RNA structure in the SARS virus offers a promising target for antiviral drugs
...le, Scott said. The investigation brought together bioinformatics experts Baertsch and Haussler, who performed the computational sequence analysis of the genomes of SARS and related viruses; molecular biologists Igel and Ares, who cloned and chemically characterized the s2m RNA; and RNA crystallography experts Robe...Scientists reveal molecular secrets of the malaria parasite
...n this project while in his previous position as a bioinformatics scientist at Sanger. He was also the first author of the 2002 study —led by scientists at TIGR, Sanger, and Stanford University —that presented the complete genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest human malarial parasite. Hall says ...American Academy of Microbiology report proposes initiative to interpret genome data
...ntists, including microbiologists, biochemists and bioinformatics specialists gathered to address the critical challenges of genome annotation and to seek ways to accelerate progress in the field of genome annotation. "The genome sequences that exist today are a great available resource, and the potential impact t...Calit2 launches prize program to encourage bioinformatics research by UCSD undergraduates
...ill honor undergraduate students whose research in bioinformatics is accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed jou... integrating human genetic and physical maps. Both bioinformatics majors presented their work at the Feb. 2 symposium in the Center for Molecular Genetics auditorium ...California researchers help map human genetic variation across populations
...ftware tool they co-developed For this study, the bioinformatics researchers had to process more than 190 million data points. "Using other programs, haplotyping would require at least a few months of CPU time," said Eskin, an assistant professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School ...Weizmann Institute scientists discover how substitutions are made for injured genes
...y different research teams around the world. Using bioinformatics techniques (advanced data processing of biological information) to identify patterns and trends in the enormous flux of data supplied by these studies and by the sequencing of the yeast genome, they proposed a "football coach" mechanism that knows wh...Yale scientists find microRNA regulates Ras cancer gene
...-7 as a cell division regulator, Slack's team used bioinformatics and found the relationship to Ras. Let-7 in humans is identical to the sequence in the worm, and both binding site and pathway for Ras are highly conserved. Tissue from lung cancer tumors, compared with their normal adjacent tissue, had reduced let-......led Cytometrix) that combines advanced imaging and bioinformatics approaches to classify cells according to small-molecule-induced changes in cell size, shape, and structure (morphology). Their analysis identified a novel compound with promising potential as an anticancer agent. From the library of screened compoun...