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19 hrs ago | Bioinformatics

A novel method for mining highly imbalanced high-throughput screening data in PubChem

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 13, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :3310-3316; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp589 National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA Abstract Motivation: The comprehensive information of small molecules and their biological activities ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Biotech, Science, Bethesda, MD

Yesterday | Bioinformatics

ABWGAT: anchor-based whole genome analysis tool

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 14, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :3319-3320; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp587 1Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, School of Information Technology and 2School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India Abstract Summary: Large numbers ...

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Related Topix: Science, Science / Technology, Biotech

Fri Dec 04, 2009

NRC-IIT News

Technology at new Moncton lab will help diagnose disease more quickly and accurately

December 4, 2009 - Moncton, New Brunswick Senator Percy Mockler, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State , today announced the opening of a new bioinformatics laboratory that will create new technologies to assist health-care providers in diagnosing and treating diseases more quickly and accurately.

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Related Topix: Canada, Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, North America, World News, Biology, Computer Science

Bioinformatics

Significant speedup of database searches with HMMs by search space reduction with PSSM family models

Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 14, 2009 Bioinformatics 2009 25 :3251-3258; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp593 , Robert Homann 2,3 , , Robert Giegerich 3 and Stefan Kurtz 1 1Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburgm, 2International NRW Graduate School in Bioinformatics and ...

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

Thu Dec 03, 2009

B3c newswire

Ambry Genetics and SoftGenetics Form Exclusive Alliance for Extended Bioinformatics Support for ...

Friday, 04 December 2009 01:00 A Aliso Viejo, CA and State College, PA, December 4, 2009 / b3c newswire / -A Ambry Genetics and SoftGenetics today announced the signing of an agreement to provide extended bioinformatics genomics services using SoftGeneticsa NextGENe software for next-generation sequencing projects performed at Ambry.A A Anja ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Aliso Viejo, CA, Marketing

CIOL

Aditi extends service to Bioinformatics

BANGALORE, INDIA: Aditi Technologies, a provider of software product and application development services, today announced its strategic partnership with Microsoft BioIT Alliance to extend its services focus into Bioinformatics.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Science, Software, World News, India

Wed Dec 02, 2009

CiteULike

HapCUT: an efficient and accurate algorithm for the haplotype assembly problem

Abstract Motivation: The goal of the haplotype assembly problem is to reconstruct the two haplotypes for an individual using a mix of sequenced fragments from the two chromosomes.

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

EurekAlert!

TGen team honored for best paper at scientific conference

Dec. 2, 2009 - A team of scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute won a $1,000 prize for best scientific paper presented at BIBM09, a premier bioinformatics and biomedicine conference.

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Related Topix: Science, Biotech, Science / Technology, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Computer Science, Arizona State University, Hospital Administration

Tue Dec 01, 2009

The Hindu

'Develop information network for farmers'

'Kerala could become a model for rest of the country by implementing the e-krishi network.' Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala should think of utilising the potential of computational biology to help farmers, Pawan K. Dhar, senior scientist at the RIKEN Advanced Sciences Institute, Japan, and Editor-in-Chief, Systems and Synthetic Biology journal, has ...

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B3c newswire

Complete Genomics and GATC Biotech Collaborate on Human Genome Sequencing Projects

GATC Biotech and Complete Genomics, Inc., today announced the execution of a research collaboration agreement to sequence several human genomes from samples provided by GATC.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Startups, Complete Genomics, Science

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Newindpress

SIUCEB opening tomorrow

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics , an inter-university centre envisaged by the State Government after upgrading the Centre for Bioinformatics on Kariavattom Campus, will be inaugurated on December 1. Taking a cue from the inter-university centres started by the UGC, this is for the first time ...

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Sun Nov 29, 2009

CiteULike

Close Correspondence between the Motions from Principal Component...

Abstract The large number of available HIV-1 protease structures provides a remarkable sampling of conformations of the different conformational states, which can be viewed as direct structural information about the dynamics of the HIV-1 protease.

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Related Topix: Science, Ames, IA, Iowa State University, Biology

Sat Nov 28, 2009

CiteULike

Introduction to Bioinformatics

This discipline represents the convergence of genomics, biotechnology and information technology, and encompasses analysis and interpretation of data, modeling of biological phenomena, and development of algorithms and statistics.

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CiteULike

Using PhyloCon to identify conserved regulatory motifs.

Abstract Understanding gene regulation has been and remains one of the major challenges for the molecular biology community.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Molecular Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, Biotech, Science / Technology

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Science Daily

Discovery Allows Scientists For The First Time To Annotate Genomes Experimentally

The information collected from genome sequencing will provide the raw data for the field of bioinformatics, where computer science and biology meet.

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

Thu Nov 26, 2009

CiteULike

Computational approaches and software tools for genetic linkage map estimation in plants

The estimation of plant genetic maps is a conceptually simple yet computationally complex problem, growing ever more so with the development of inexpensive, high-throughput DNA markers.

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Related Topix: Plant Biology, Biology, Science

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Nature Biotechnology

Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Molecular Parasitology / Bioinformatics

A molecular parasitology/protistology project with a heavy bioinformatics component is available in the Mitochondrial Remnants lab of Dr.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Biology

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Physics Org

Spider secrets decoded in world-first database

Queensland scientists have developed a world-first database that catalogues the venom components from hundreds of spiders.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Biotech, Science / Technology

Sun Nov 22, 2009

CiteULike

How to infer gene networks from expression profiles

Abstract Inferring, or 'reverse-engineering', gene networks can be defined as the process of identifying gene interactions from experimental data through computational analysis.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science

Sat Nov 21, 2009

ECNmag

Research Revolution Underway at West Campus

At the center of the sprawling 136-acre West Campus are three buildings that will house scientists who are using three distinct technologies yet who share an underlying mission: transforming the way biological research is conducted at Yale.

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