Chromosome Painting, Gene Mapping of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease
Deakin, Bender et al., PLoS Genetics
A team led by investigators at the Australian National University reports its use of "chromosome painting and gene mapping to deconstruct the DFTD [Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease] karyotype and determine the chromosome and gene rearrangements involved in carcinogenesis." Through its analysis, the team produced detailed maps of both the devil and tumor karyotypes, which the researchers say will aid future genomic investigations into the transmissible cancer.
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Genome Technology's Tracy Vence interviewed Sandra Porter, president of Digital World Biology, and Kristi Holmes, a bioinformaticist at the Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine at ScienceOnline2012.
February 02, 2012 / GenomeWeb Video
In this video, we speak with Todd Smith, senior leader of research and applications of PerkinElmer, and researchers from Stockholm University on accelerating the GROMACS molecular dynamics software suite with GPUs and CPUs.
January 13, 2012 / Informatics Iron
This video features Kevin Shinpaugh, director of IT and HPC at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, discussing uses for HPC at VBI, Ray Bair, chief computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, on the Mira supercomputer, and Cycle Computing's Jason Stowe discussing the finalists for Cycle Computing's CycleCloud BigScience Challenge contest. The winners for the contest will be announced next year.
December 14, 2011 / Informatics Iron
Here is the first video in a four part series featuring highlights from the SC11 conference in Seattle, WA. In this video, we chat about the DOE Genomic Science Program with Betty Mansfield, team leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, short-read mapping on FPGAs with Pico Computing's Corey Olson, and the NSF's Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing.
December 06, 2011 / Informatics Iron
We caught up with Sandy Aronson, executive director of IT of the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, during the Personalized Medicine Conference in Boston, MA. Aronson discussed IT challenges associated with the $1,000 genome, the GeneInsight Suite and GIGPAD software solutions developed by his lab to facilitate the use of genetic information in the clinic, and more.
November 30, 2011 / Informatics Iron
Personalized Medicine and Public Policy
Personalized Medicine Coalition's Amy Miller and PCPGM's Heidi Rehm discuss personalized medicine and public policy, sequencing in the clinic, and more.
November 25, 2011 / The Daily Scan
New York Genome Center's Nancy Kelley
We sat down with Nancy Kelley, founding executive director of the New York Genome Center, to discuss the formation of the center, bringing personalized medicine to New Yorkers, and more. Plans for the formation of the New York Genome Center were announced earlier this month. The center is slated to officially launch in the spring of 2012.
November 16, 2011 / The Daily Scan
Mouse Informatics at the Jackson Lab
The Jackson Lab's Carol Bult discusses her institute's mouse informatics resources.
November 10, 2011 / Informatics Iron