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ENCODE Phase Three Offers New Insights Into Genomic Regulatory Regions, Organization
In more than a dozen new papers, ENCODE researchers reported on analyses of the human and mouse genomes, using new data types and additional tissues.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8M in Grants for Open-Source Biomedical Software Projects
The funding marks the second cycle of CZI's Essential Open Source Software program, which awards between $50,000 and $250,000 in total costs per project.
Unlike the Hi-C chromosome conformation assay, the Pore-C technique reveals information that's lost with short-read sequencing.
'Digital' Nucleic Acid Amplification Shows Promise for Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
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A new assay uses digital loop-mediated isothermal amplification (dLAMP) to perform phenotypic antibacterial susceptibility testing in 30 minutes.
NIH Awards Gene Ontology Consortium $2.7M to Improve Knowledgebase
The funding will be used to develop new software and data structures to enable researchers to use the GO data for network-based analysis.