Uncovering the secrets of the deep
...eotide Sequence Databases (INSDC). The initial GOS dataset is composed of 28 million DNA sequences from oceanic microbes and predicts nearly 6 million proteins. By combining the predicted protein sequences with automatic classification by InterPro, the EBIs integrated resource for protein families, domains a...What determines the speed at which birds fly?
...) to do the analysis and provide the comprehensive dataset with the paper (e.g. this contains the flight speed of approximately one-third of all European bird species). Their analysis reveals that the difference between the speed of small and large birds is not as great as expected; they suggest that this su...Who needs environmental monitoring?
...es diversity - will improve the probability that a dataset will be useful for future environmental issues, say the researchers. The review concludes that environmental monitoring matters to everyone. Scientists need it for research programs, policy makers need it for setting and evaluating environmenta...'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy
...ince 1997 using the original Visible Human Project dataset provided by the National Library of Medicine, also funded by several grants from NIH as well as a National Science Foundation CAREER grant. The new four-year, $2 million grant is funded by the National Library of Medicine, which is part of NIH....New mouse model closely mimics human cancers
...t version. The scientists, working with a large dataset generated by the Chin laboratory during the past several years, compared the patterns of these chromosomal changes in the mice with patterns observed in more than 400 human tumor specimens, including melanoma, lung, colon, and pancreatic cancers, and...Other highlights in the May 16 JNCI
... in the general population. They used a very large dataset that included more than 16,500 survivors from 13 registries around the world. Survivors of childhood leukemia and lymphoma were almost seven times more likely to have a second cancer than the general population. Hodgkin lymphoma survivors were mos...DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
...s can check the most recent results, compare their dataset from their metagenome of interest against the simulated metagenome, and receive guidance as to which are the optimal tools for analysis. "Having such a tool at hand for the first time now, the community can not only compare the methods, but can als...Is climate change likely to increase disease in corals?
...uctuations, the researchers used a high resolution dataset on ocean surface temperature provided by the Unite...ciation and the University of Miami. They used the dataset to calculate w eekly sea surface temperature anomalies (WSSTAs), instances in which temperature was ...Biologists develop large gene dataset for rice plant
Scientists have reported development of a large dataset of gene sequences in rice. The information will le...A molecules and three million small RNAs, a larger dataset than has been reported for any other plant species. Small RNAs are considered one of most importan...Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes
...formation as possible from the largest metagenomic dataset ever collected. For more information about the expedition, please go to: the J. Craig Venter Institute (URL: www.sorcerer2expedition.org and www.venterinstitute.org )...Global ocean sampling expedition
... is a geographically diverse environmental genomic dataset of 6.3 billion base pairstwice the size of the human genome. The first paper and accompanying poster by Douglas B. Rusch and colleagues describe the immense amount of microbial diversity in the seas, and discuss howor ifthat diversity is structure...Mine runoff continues to provide clues to microbial diversification
...because it provided the first large-scale proteome dataset for a real-life microbial community with a limited number of members. Of particular interest to DOE is how this effort relates to its Genomes to Life program, which is focused on identifying and characterizing the molecular machines of life. This s...First comprehensive literature-derived database of yeast interactions
...und less than 20% overlap between their literature dataset and the datasets generated using high-throughput m...from E. Coli to humans. The literature interaction dataset is publicly available at the BioGRID database ( http://thebiogrid.org/ ) and at the Saccharomyces Ge...Patients at greater risk if mother has coronary heart disease
...th no parental history of the disease. Because the dataset was so large, they were also able to stratify analysis by age, gender, occupational status and region. Men had a 55 percent greater risk of developing disease if they had a maternal history of CHD and a 41 percent greater risk if they had a paternal ...NIH provides $24 million to support research network
...ommon protocol. This formed the first calibration dataset of its kind in the world for systematically studying intersite variability. Software tools were developed to reduce such variability, to automatically correct image distortions, and to manage data for large and diverse neuroimaging research projects......es are typical. In order to obtain a comprehensive dataset on human travel, transportation flow would have to be measured, nationally and internationally, over a long period of time. This seems to be almost impossible. D Brockmann, L Hufnagel, and T Geisel, theoretical physicists at the Max Planck Institute ...Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management
...aign Unit. AquiferEx involved gathering a baseline dataset to support Aquifer product definition for two test...utilised areas. AquiferEx also provides a baseline dataset for the validation of other Aquifer results, and the hyperspectral and radar data will be used to de...Researchers devise dinosaur classification method
...to a data set of just under 300 usable teeth. The dataset is comprised of measurements of teeth from genera that are known with certainty; it thus forms a standard of comparison against which unknown teeth can be compared. Smith then ran statistics on the database to correlate the shapes of unknown teeth ...California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository
...ata sets. "The challenge of analyzing such a large dataset is enormous, since the integration of the different datasets is not a simple task," explained the research scientist. "In particular, different data sets have different characteristics, and one has to take this into account. This project demonstrates...Expression Project for Oncology (expO) collects 1,000th malignant tumor specimen
... at Bristol-Myers Squibb. The clinically annotated dataset is available in the public domain through the National Center for Biotechnology Information web site at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ ....