Bioinformatics News

Tel: +86 10 62733323; Fax: +86 10 62733904; Email: ninglcau{at}cau.edu.cn Received April 3, 2009.

Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 12 Nov 2009 Researchers in Egypt have developed a technique to compress DNA sequences of the kind used in medical research so that they take up a lot less space in a computer database but without loss of information.

Over the last 20 years, the sequencing of the human genome, along with related organisms, has represented one of the largest scientific endeavors in the history of mankind.

A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances." Adam Bogdanove, associate professor in plant pathology , was researching the molecular basis of bacterial diseases of rice ...

From L to R, UCSD bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson and project scientist Byung-Kwan Cho have made a breakthrough discovery for genome sequencing.

Pico Computing claims that it has achieved greater than 5000X acceleration of a bioinformatics sequence analysis and dot plot algorithm using a cluster of 112 commodity FPGA devices.

P2P:- Microsoft's, "up to its old tricks of offering pretty baubles to the innocent with The Microsoft Biology Foundation ," writes Gly Moody in Open going on A A A The bioinformatics community has developed a strong tradition of open development, code sharing, and cross-platform support, and a number of language-specific bioinformatics toolkits ...

An Agricultural Research Service computational molecular biologist in Mississippi is launching a project to create a genomics toolkit to help plant breeders develop new varieties of sweetpotato.

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress.

The combinatorial explosion, which occurs during the construction of elementary fluxes requires sophisticated and efficient algorithms to tackle the problem.

Ten Cancer Research UK funded scientists have been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization - a prestigious body which recognises and promotes talented scientists in the molecular life sciences field.

Was it Palol Rossetti that one said, "People in glass house shouldn't throw stones?' Push away the Intel this, the Pentium-M that, or perhaps the ability to use the Dual Core Pentium 4, Apple has a much bigger challenge ahead of them.

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on August 20, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :2975-2982; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp507 , R. J. P. van Berlo 1,3 , , W. A. van Winden 2,3 , P. J. T. Verheijen 2,3 , M. J. T. Reinders 1,3,4 and D. de Ridder 1,3,4,* 1The Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a follow-on contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to create a resource that supports research of pathogenic viruses and that will lead to new medical treatments and preventive measures for humans.

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on August 17, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :2962-2968; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp494 , Yoshihiro Yamanishi 2,3,4 , Tsuyoshi Kato 5 , Masashi Sugiyama 6 and Koji Tsuda 7 1IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, 1623-14 Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato, Kanagawa, 242-8502 Japan, 2Mines ParisTech, ...

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on August 5, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :3001-3004; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp469 , Parantu K. Shah 3,4 , , Xiangjun Liu 1,2 , Nicolas Negre 3,4 , Jia Chen 2 , Oleksiy Karpenko 2 , Kevin P. White 3,4,* and Robert L. Grossman 2,3,* 1School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ...

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on September 10, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :2897-2905; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp537 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of ...

Aaron Smalter, Jun Huan, Yi Jia, Gerald Lushington, "GPD: A Graph Pattern Diffusion Kernel for Accurate Graph Classification with Applications in Cheminformatics," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , vol.

Petko Bogdanov, Ambuj K. Singh, "Molecular Function Prediction Using Neighborhood Features," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , vol.

The chemical is hydrogen peroxide , the active ingredient in color safe bleach. Produced in all animal cells, hydrogen peroxide may act as a signal for the active and resting phases of living things, new research by USC biologists suggests.