The institute is seeking a bioinformatics chief who will oversee MCRI's transformation of the unit from a core service facility to an independent research center focused initially on analysis of high-throughput or second-generation sequencing data.
Researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Parkville, Australia, investigated the feasibility of replacing "time-consuming, locus-specific testing for specific microdeletion and microduplication syndromes with microarray analysis." Study co-author Howard Slater spoke with BioArray News about the paper.
Yale Environment 360 writes that synthetic and conservation biologists aren't always on the same wavelength, but they are trying to reach an understanding.
