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Genome-wide colonization of gene regulatory elements by G4 DNA motifs

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

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

MediLexicon

Putting The Squeeze On DNA

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.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Science, Industry and Business

UCSD discovery allows scientists for the first time to experimentally annotate genomes

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.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Biology, UC San Diego, E. Coli, Health

Tue Nov 10, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein interaction

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 ...

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Related Topix: Iowa State University, Biotech, Science / Technology, Kansas State University

Mon Nov 09, 2009

EurekAlert!

UCSD discovery allows scientists for the first time to experimentally annotate genomes

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

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Biology, UC San Diego, E. Coli, Health

Dr. Dobb's Journal

FPGA Cluster Accelerates Bioinformatics Application by 5000X

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.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Biotech, Science / Technology, Computers

P2pnet.net

Pretty Microsoft baubles

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 ...

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Computer Science

Sun Nov 08, 2009

USDA Agricultural Research Service

Sweetpotatoes Get High-Tech Help

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.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Nutrition

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Physics Blog

Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed

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.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Biology, Biochemistry

Fri Nov 06, 2009

CiteULike

An improved algorithm for stoichiometric network analysis: theory and applications.

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

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MediLexicon

Ten Cancer Research UK Scientists Become EMBO Elect

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.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Health

OSNews.com

Apple's Glass House

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.

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Related Topix: Apple, CPU, Science / Technology, Science

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Bioinformatics

Metabolite and reaction inference based on enzyme specificities

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 ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Netherlands, World News

GlobeNewswire

National Institutes of Health Award Northrop Grumman Bioinformatics Resource Centers Contract

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.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Northrop Grumman, Aerospace-Defense, Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Bioinformatics

Simultaneous inference of biological networks of multiple species...

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, ...

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Bioinformatics

Flynet: a genomic resource for Drosophila melanogaster transcriptional regulatory networks

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 ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Chicago, IL, World News, China, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Chicago

Bioinformatics

De novo computational prediction of non-coding RNA genes in prokaryotic genomes

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 ...

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Related Topix: Science, Biotech, Science / Technology, Atlanta, GA, Computers, Biology, Molecular Biology

IEEE Security & Privacy

PrePrint: GPD: A Graph Pattern Diffusion Kernel for Accurate Graph...

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.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Los Alamitos, CA

Tue Nov 03, 2009

IEEE Security & Privacy

PrePrint: Molecular Function Prediction Using Neighborhood Features

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

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Related Topix: Science, Biotech, Science / Technology, Los Alamitos, CA, Santa Barbara Metro, Santa Barbara, CA

Science Daily

Hydrogen Peroxide May Tell Time For Cells

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.

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