Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2006
...nt, being hailed by organizers as a celebration of computational science worldwide. Highlights of the conference include presentations by the Department of Energy's Raymond Orbach and Michael Strayer, who will also announce projects to be funded by SciDAC this year. SciDAC was founded by DOE in 2001 to bring toget...DOE JGI releases experimental metagenomics data management & analysis system
WALNUT CREEK, CA-- To tackle the computational challenges of analyzing the complex world of microbial communities, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released to the worldwide research community IMG/M, an experimental metagenome data management and analysis system....Jackson Laboratory joins National Centers for Systems Biology
...and other environmental factors." Using innovative computational approaches, Churchill and Jackson collaborators ha... can be carefully controlled. The new Center teams computational biologists, molecular biologists and geneticists at The Jackson Laboratory (Executive Research Fello...Identity theft, cancer detection among interactive demos at UH event
...s. Other demonstrations will include a display of computational biomedicine techniques that look at cells for early signs of cancer, as well as have applications in heart attack risk detection. Additional exhibits involve high-tech animation, smart robots, thermalfacial imaging for health screening at a distanc...MIT research links cancer, inflammatory disease
...al in traditional cell biology. Working as a team, computational scientists remain in close touch with their laboratory-based collaborators. Interdisciplinary scientists working at the interface of biology and computation is the way of the future, according to Kevin A. Janes, graduate student in biological enginee...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to develop Tomato Metabolite Database
...VBI) at Virginia Tech is developing a database and computational tools to help scientists learn more about how certain genes in tomatoes affect the crop's flavor and nutritional value. The Tomato Metabolite Database, which is being implemented by Zhangjun Fei, a senior bioinformatics scientist in VBI's Cyberinfras...Caltech's Emmanuel Candes to receive $500,000 Waterman Award
...om just a few sensors." A professor of applied and computational mathematics at Caltech, Candes studied in his native France before receiving a doctorate in mathematics and computer science at Stanford University in 1998. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Vasil Popov Prize in approximatio...HHMI's experiment in changing scientific culture
... circuits; and developing imaging technologies and computational methods for image analysis. From its unique architecture, designed to provide flexibility and foster collaboration, to its extensive scientific and operational support, the campus has been designed as a place where scientists can pursue important bio...DOE JGI to host Microbial Genomics Workshop for educators
...A team of DOE JGI researchers will demonstrate the computational methods that they and their collaborators around the world use to harness the potential of the largely untapped microbial world for the development of clean bioenergy alternatives, a better understanding of the global carbon cycle, and novel bioremed...Natural selection at single gene demonstrated
...oomajian, postdoctoral researcher in molecular and computational biology in the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sc...nus Nordborg, associate professor of molecular and computational biology in USC College, predicted that earlier research would need to be revisited because the model...The birds and the b's: Challenging Chomsky, starlings learn 'human-only' syntax patterns
...moreover, that the ability to process it forms the computational core of a uniquely human language facility. "Our research is a refutation of the canonical position that what makes human language unique is a singular ability to comprehend these kinds of patterns," Gentner said. "If birds can learn these patternin...'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds
...ver, that the ability to process it forms a unique computational ability important for human language. "Linguists have developed a mathematically rigorous set of definitions, a hierarchy of syntactical complexity, that governs the process of how humans create and understand utterances," said Daniel Margoliash, pr...Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute sign agreement...
...lop and introduce new healthcare products with the computational and infectious disease research capabilities of VB...nabling environment that allows VBI's strengths in computational resources, high-performance computing, bioinformatics and infectious disease research to be combined...Key root-development pathway mapped using advanced genomic technique
...atistical "meta-analysis" technique involved using computational methods to integrate data from multiple genetic analyses using several DNA microarrays -- popularly known as "gene chips." Each of these chips contained some 24,000 genes representing nearly the entire genome of the Arabidopsis plant. The team's find...Free access to world-class biological databases for European science thanks to FELICS
...dwide. This is the largest ever European award for computational infrastructures needed to support biological research. The EBI is Europe's largest curator and disseminator of biological information, and has played a leading role in ensuring that information from genomes, for example, is provided to scientists and...Broad Institute scientists awarded $18M CARE grant
...rogram at the Broad Institute, will help lead this computational effort. "This project is truly groundbreaking in the scope of genes that will be examined, the number of patients examined, and the quality of clinical information that is available," said co-investigator David Altshuler, director of the Program in ...Arizona State University hosts 'Genomes, Evolution, and Bioinformatics' conference
... among scientists from molecular, evolutionary and computational biology. Sudhir Kumar, who directs the Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics in the Biodesign Institute at ASU, will serve as chairman of the host committee along with program chairs Brian Verrelli and Jeff Touchman of ASU. George Poste, dire...Physicians and engineers pool resources to prevent stroke
...al of their study is to develop a fully-integrated computational medical tool that will be useful in helping to sel...ood flow in that patient's arteries using existing computational fluid dynamics programs in novel applications. This is similar to the way that an aeronautical engi...'Pinball protons' created by ultraviolet rays and other causes can lead to DNA damage
...and what causes it--has remained less clear. Now, computational chemists at the University of Georgia have discovered for the first time that when a proton is knocked off one of the pairs of bases that make up DNA, a chain of damage begins that causes "lesions" in the DNA. These lesions, when replicated in the co......ogy: Plant Biology. In addition to his research in computational ecology, he has ongoing research projects in photosynthetic dynamics, landscape ecology, and the development of quantitative curricula for life science undergraduates. He has been a leader in promoting the interaction of scientists and educators in e...