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What is Bioinformatics? In order of appearance... Gavin Huttley – College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University Martin Frith ...
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Molecular pathways represent an ensemble of interactions occurring among molecules within the cell and between cells. The identification of similarities ...
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NHS Scientist Training Programme – Bioinformatics. POSTED ON: May 16, 2013 BY Claire Chesworth. The NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) is a ...
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Abstract: Many bioinformatics problems, such as sequence alignment, gene prediction, phylogenetic tree estimation and RNA secondary structure prediction, ...
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This bioinformatics program consists of a core curriculum that provides the basics of biology, chemistry, computer science and statistics, as well as an ...
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Bioinformatics is the field of science involved with using computational methods to convert raw biological data into meaningful biological paradigms.
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2013-05-16. Agilent Supports Research in Prostate Cancer. Agilent has presented its fifth annual Agilent Early Career Professor Award to Dr. Jindan Yu, who ...
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BioInformatics LLC announces the release of their newest market report: The Market for Primary Cells & Stem Cell-Derived Cells: Current and Future ...
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Automatically Archiving Twitter ResultsEver since Twitter gamed its own API and killed off great services like IFTTT triggers, I've been looking for a way to ...
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Abstract. The estimation of isoform abundances from RNA-Seq data requires a time-intensive step of mapping reads to either an assembled, or previously ...
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Bioinformatics Scientist Industry Jobs! ... Boston AbVitro is seeking qualified bioinformatics scientists to join our bioinformatics team. AbVitro is a rapidly growing ...
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Bioinformatics is an integral part of modern life sciences It has revolutionized and redefined how research is carried out and has had an enormous impact on ...
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BioInformatics LLC announces the release of their newest market report: The Market for Primary Cells & Stem Cell-Derived Cells: Current and Future Opportunities. Arlington, VA (PRWEB) May 16, 2013. BioInformatics LLC New Market Report – The Market for ...
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BaseSpace Apps is now out of beta status, and includes a full-fledged e-commerce system that allows customers to quickly and easily purchase Illumina and third-party bioinformatics applications (apps). BaseSpace e-commerce transactions are based on ...
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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has organized an annual summit on translational bioinformatics (TBI) since 2008. I was fortunate to attend ...
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Senior Bioinformatics Analyst - University of Cambridge/Cancer Research UK Academic/Non-Profit Jobs.
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Senior Bioinformatics Analyst in the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge.
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Seok-Won Kim, Wataru Suda, Sangwan Kim, Kenshiro Oshima, Shinji Fukuda, Hiroshi Ohno, Hidetoshi Morita, Masahira Hattori
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Onuma Chumsakul, Kensuke Nakamura, Tetsuya Kurata, Tomoaki Sakamoto, Jon L. Hobman, Naotake Ogasawara, Taku Oshima, Shu Ishikawa
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Sung Don Lim, Jin-Gyu Hwang, Chang Gyo Jung, Sun-Goo Hwang, Jun-Cheol Moon, Cheol Seong Jang
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Garima Pandey, Gopal Misra, Kajal Kumari, Sarika Gupta, Swarup Kumar Parida, Debasis Chattopadhyay, Manoj Prasad
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Hyeongmin Kim, Taeheon Lee, WonCheoul Park, Jin Woo Lee, Jaemin Kim, Bo-Young Lee, Hyeonju Ahn, Sunjin Moon, Seoae Cho, Kyoung-Tag Do, Heui-Soo Kim, Hak-Kyo Lee, Chang-Kyu Lee, Hong-Sik Kong, Young-Mok Yang, Jongsun Park, Hak-Min Kim, Byung Chul Kim, Seungwoo Hwang, Jong Bhak, Dave Burt, Kyoung-Do Park, Byung-Wook Cho, Heebal Kim
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Erika Sallet, Brice Roux, Laurent Sauviac, Marie-Francoise Jardinaud, Sebastien Carrere, Thomas Faraut, Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel, Jerome Gouzy, Pascal Gamas, Delphine Capela, Claude Bruand, Thomas Schiex
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Takeshi Ueda, Hiroki Takahashi, Ebru Uyar, Shu Ishikawa, Naotake Ogasawara, Taku Oshima
Mar 29, 2013; 0:81-8

H. Hirakawa, K. Shirasawa, A. Ohyama, H. Fukuoka, K. Aoki, C. Rothan, S. Sato, S. Isobe, S. Tabata
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Jeremie Denonfoux, Nicolas Parisot, Eric Dugat-Bony, Corinne Biderre-Petit, Delphine Boucher, Diego P. Morgavi, Denis Le Paslier, Eric Peyretaillade, Pierre Peyret
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Babak Behnam, Satoshi Iuchi, Miki Fujita, Yasunari Fujita, Hironori Takasaki, Yuriko Osakabe, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Masatomo Kobayashi, Kazuo Shinozaki
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Michael Hackenberg, Po-Jung Huang, Chun-Yuan Huang, Bu-Jun Shi, Perry Gustafson, Peter Langridge
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Braden Walters, Gengkon Lum, Gaurav Sablok, Xiang Jia Min
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Keiichi Mochida, Takuhiro Yoshida, Tetsuya Sakurai, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Lam-Son Phan Tran
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Feng-Biao Guo, Lifeng Xiong, Jade L. L. Teng, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo
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Ornjira Prakhongcheep, Yuriko Hirai, Toru Hara, Kornsorn Srikulnath, Hirohisa Hirai, Akihiko Koga
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Gaurav Sablok, Suresh B. Mudunuri, Sujan Patnana, Martina Popova, Mario A. Fares, Nicola La Porta
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Kenta Shirasawa, David J. Bertioli, Rajeev K. Varshney, Marcio C. Moretzsohn, Soraya C. M. Leal-Bertioli, Mahendar Thudi, Manish K. Pandey, Jean-Francois Rami, Daniel Fonceka, Makanahally V. C. Gowda, Hongde Qin, Baozhu Guo, Yanbin Hong, Xuanqiang Liang, Hideki Hirakawa, Satoshi Tabata, Sachiko Isobe
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Shoji Tatsumoto, Naoki Adati, Yasushi Tohtoki, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Thorsten Boroviak, Sonoko Habu, Hideyuki Okano, Hiroshi Suemizu, Erika Sasaki, Masanobu Satake
Mar 29, 2013; 0:71-7

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… RT @KevinADavies: The Last First Base — my final editorial @bioitworld — the highs and lows, [...]

BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions and issues. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those items or discussions here [...]

It may not be traditionally what you think of as flu season, but lately there’s been a great deal of talk about some viruses that are concerning public health officials and infectious disease specialists. You might have heard of the H7N9 situation in China, and the NCoV virus in France that made headlines. But researchers [...]

I didn’t know that this film was even in the works. I know there’s controversy over the patents, but you have to acknowledge that the underlying science was really important. And I’m rather pleased to see a woman scientist in film. Looking forward to seeing it somewhere. Here’s the film website: http://decodingannieparker.com/ ++++++++++++++++ Hat tip [...]

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… RT @atulbutte: Get raw deidentified clinical trial #bigdata here & now! RT @ImmPortDB: NIAID release data [...]

BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions and issues. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those items or discussions here [...]

BioBase is a provider of expert-curated biological databases. Two well known BioBase databases are TransFac and HGMD. Both have publicly available data (see previous links), but if you go to the BioBase site, you’ll find there are subscription based data access also for more feature-rich access. HGMD is the Human Gene Mutation database and “ represents [...]

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… RT @BioinfoTools: Some thoughts on science journal Nature offering statisticians to their authors: http://t.co/5jhJnEbGbS Ha ha [...]

BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions and issues. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those items or discussions here [...]

There are a lot of cancer database resources out there. Most of the ones we’ve focused on have been the data repository types. TCGA, ICGC, CaBIG, COSMIC, Cancer Genome Workbench, UCSC Cancer Genomic Browser, and of course big repositories like GEO. Researchers will need these sources of data to locate key alterations in cancer cells [...]

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Many of the 10,000 or so bird species on the planet are pretty, melodic or tasty. But birds are much more than that. Over the centuries, humankind has come up with some distinctive and surprising ways to take advantage of the unique abilities of our feathered friends. At various points in the history of civilizations, birds have served as hunters, guides and messengers. And we haven’t run out of new things for them to do. Farmers have employed raptors to strike terror into the hearts of crop-destroying birds, such as starlings and seagulls, scattering them back into the wild. With the proper training, birds might one day perform search and rescue. [More]

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When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm, says Anastasia Bodnar, “we were promised rocket jet packs” -- futuristic, ultra-nutritious crops that would bring exotic produce to the supermarket and help to feed a hungry world. [More]

In the pitched debate over genetically modified (GM) foods and crops, it can be hard to see where scientific evidence ends and dogma and speculation begin. In the nearly 20 years since they were first commercialized, GM crop technologies have seen dramatic uptake. Advocates say that they have increased agricultural production by more than US$98 billion and saved an estimated 473 million kilograms of pesticides from being sprayed. But critics question their environmental, social and economic impacts. [More]

Seamlessly integrating powerful, 3-D computer circuits into soft materials such as rubber has been an elusive goal in engineering. Now researchers say they have developed a type of circuit that is soft and porous--more like a net than a chip. Manufacturers could weave these circuits into an extraordinary range of materials to create “smart matter” that scans and reacts to its surroundings or even “cyborg tissues”--human skin and organs that could report on their own health. [More]

Biologists have found a hormone in the liver that spurs the growth of insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas, a discovery they hope will lead to new treatments for diabetes. [More]

"Additive manufacturing" offers manufacturers a powerful set of tools for making any number of products cost-effectively and with little waste, a groundbreaking development that promises to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing sector . But what will it take to get the process out of the lab and onto the factory floor? A generous cash infusion, perhaps unsurprisingly, will help--and it is now in the offing. [More]

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Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have fitted rats with kidneys that were grown in a lab from stripped-down kidney scaffolds. When transplanted, these 'bioengineered' organs starting filtering the rodents’ blood and making urine. [More]

Twelve years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, its successor made a big splash with one big number: Around 80 percent of the human genome is "functional," the researchers leading the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project said. Their claim drew immediate criticism from biologists, many of whom said it is evolutionarily impossible for so much of the genome to truly function for human health. [More]

When Daniel Weaver pitches Genformatic to potential investors, he feels obliged to note a future legal uncertainty. The two-year-old company, based in Austin, Texas, offers whole-genome sequencing and analysis to researchers and physicians, with plans to apply the technology to medical diagnostics. But Weaver fears that the company could become ensnared in a thicket of thousands of patents. “Who knows how much it would cost in legal fees just to sort through that?” he says. [More]

Healthy food kills--or at least it can. [More]

Chances are, when patients check out of a hospital for home or another health care facility, they will end up back in the hospital within a month if they have not worked out the details and logistics for ongoing care. Too often such planning falls by the wayside, resulting in frequent hospital readmissions . [More]

Researchers are now experimenting with stem cells--progenitor cells that can develop into many different types of tissue--to coax the bodies of a few individuals to heal themselves. Some of the most advanced clinical trials so far involve treating congestive heart disease and regrowing muscles in soldiers who were wounded in an explosion . But new developments are happening so quickly that investigators have come up with a new name--regenerative medicine--to describe the emerging field. [More]

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Excerpted from The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance , by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Copyright © April 16, 2013, North Point Press. [More]

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