The founder of the ISB emphasized the importance of adopting a predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory approach to health and disease.

The CDC tells physicians that personal genomic tests "are not ready for prime time."

Researchers find more viruses in vertebrate genomes.

The center will focus on developing biomarker panels for measuring patient response to drug treatments for lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular disease, said one of its founders.

The company will use the funds primarily to increase the sensitivity of its Pincer protein detection assay and to complete development of a six-protein biomarker panel for cardiovascular disease, said a company official.

The tagging technique enables easier quantification of glycosylation stoichiometries and the study of the interplay between protein glycosylation and other post-translational modifications, said one of its developers.

A Waters' official said the company's mass spec business was its "strongest performer across the line," while Bruker touted healthy growth in revenues and new orders in life sciences mass spec.

During its Q2 earnings call, officials cited the company's Proteome Discoverer software and acquisition of nano-LC firm Proxeon as developments that will allow it to better leverage its mass spec offerings.

The project is part of the CPTC's Antibody Characterization Program, which aims to thoroughly characterize all monoclonal antibodies used in the initiative in an effort to minimize the experimental variability that has often hampered the use of affinity reagents in proteomics research.

Recent NSF Awards in Proteomics and Protein Research

Duane Steele, Gregory Freitag, Wolfgang Renz

Gentel Biosciences, GE Healthcare

The Genome Analysis Toolkit is a structured programming framework that’s designed to make it easier for researchers to develop tools that can handle the terabytes of data produced by next-generation sequencers.

While the company's main customer group to date has been researchers conducting GWAS, it is targeting the latest version of its software to those using arrays in cytogenetics and agricultural biotechnology studies.

Bioinformatics training is challenging "not only because of its interdisciplinary nature but also because of the extensive technological changes witnessed in the field during the last two decades.”

The money will fund the work of 12 postdoctoral students at UH involved in cancer studies that combine biology and computer science.

Participants in CAFA will annotate about 50,000 protein sequences, which will be available from Sept. 15, and can submit up to three prediction models before Jan. 15, 2011.

NIH Bioinformatics Grants awarded June 30 — July 26, 2010

LabKey Server 10.2, PatentExplorer

Paul Burrin, Anthony Flynn

As the successor to Lee Hartwell at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Lawrence Corey said that he would work to expand both basic and clinical research; enhance survival and prevention of cancer and other diseases; improve healthcare to individuals and the entire population; and strengthen existing faculty mentoring programs.

American researchers have detected Filovirus- and Bornavirus-related sequences in 19 vertebrate genomes.

Researchers from Decode Genetics and elsewhere reported that a genetic variant tied to chronic kidney disease may influence individuals' response to related diseases and environmental stressors in this population over time.

NIMH and NINDS will grant up to $6 million next year to start research into genes involved in neurocognitive disorders linked to HIV-1 and anti-retroviral treatments.

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