Sequencing and Analysis of the Hydra Genome
Chapman, Kirkness et al., Nature
An international research collaboration reports their sequencing and analysis of the Hydra magnipapillata genome, and compare it to the genomes of several other organisms. "The Hydra genome has been shaped by bursts of transposable element expansion, horizontal gene transfer, trans-splicing, and simplification of gene structure and gene content that parallel simplification of the Hydra life cycle," the authors write. They team suggests that comparisons of the Hydra genome to the reported sequences of other animals have helped them to elucidate the evolution of several of the organism's characteristics.
TAIR Eyes Corporate Sponsorship Program as Other Model-Organism Databases Focus on Sustainability
While the Arabidopsis Information Resource is facing funding challenges, other major model organism databases appear to be on solid financial footing for now.
March 19, 2010 / BioInform
Cycle Computing Aims to Make Cloud-Based Life Science Computing 'Just Like Using Gmail'
"The life science market seems to be adopting the cloud at a much faster rate than other industries, and I think part of that is due to the fact that large pharma in particular is comfortable with outsourcing everything they do that is not part of their core business," said Cycle Computing's CEO.
March 19, 2010 / BioInform
Q&A: Indra Neil Sarkar Sees Many Roles for Biomedical Informaticians in Translational Medicine
Sarkar, who is director of biomedical informatics at the University of Vermont's Center for Clinical and Translational Science, said biomedical informaticians should be involved wherever translational barriers need to be surmounted.
March 19, 2010 / BioInform
Open Bioinformatics Foundation Selected as Mentor Organization for Google Summer of Code
Google has named OBF among 150 mentoring organizations for the 2010 Google Summer of Code — a student internship program for open-source projects.
March 19, 2010 / BioInform
Entest Turns to Bioinformatics to Discover Therapeutics, Biomarkers for Lung Disease
The firm's bioinformatics-based approach will integrate existing and new data, including -omics information about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
March 19, 2010 / BioInform
NSF Bioinformatics Grants Awarded Feb. 16 — March 17, 2010
March 19, 2010 / BioInform
CLC Bio assembler, EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database, Accelrys Discovery Studio 2.5.5, Reactome Knowledgebase, RefSeq 40
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Russ Altman, Alex Bateman, Don Gilbert, David Lipman, John Quackenbush, G.P.S. Raghava
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Q&A: Team Uses Dynamic Proteomics to Study How Multi-Drug Combinations Affect Proteins
A team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science said its approach, which found that protein-drug dynamics in multi-drug combinations can be predicted based on the dynamics in pairs of drugs, could be a way "to bypass the combinatorial explosion problem of research on drug combinations."
March 19, 2010 / ProteoMonitor
Ingenuity Taps Mediterranean, Balkan Distributor
Biodiagnostics will distribute the IPA software for life science and drug development use in Greece, Turkey, and the Balkan nations.
March 17, 2010 / GenomeWeb Daily News
