News tagged with comparative genomics
Researchers study ocean plant cell adaptation in climate change
Apr 15, 2009 |
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How will plant cells that live in the oceans and serve as the basic food supply for many of the world's sea creatures react to climate change?
New computational technique allows comparison of whole genomes as easily as whole books
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking a hint from the text comparison methods used to detect plagiarism in books, college papers and computer programs, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have developed an improved ...
Move over, sponges: New evidence confirms Placozoans are the closest living surrogate to the ancestor of all animals
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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A new and comprehensive analysis confirms that the evolutionary relationships among animals are not as simple as previously thought. The traditional idea that animal evolution has followed a trajectory from ...
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New malaria agent found in chimpanzees close to that commonly observed in humans
May 29, 2009 |
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Researchers based in Gabon and France report the discovery of a new malaria agent infecting chimpanzees in Central Africa. This new species, named Plasmodium gaboni, is a close relative of the most virulent human agent P. fa ...
Mapping the crocodile genome
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The first ever genetic linkage map for a non-avian member of the Class Reptilia has been developed. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have constructed a first-generation genetic linkage map for th ...
Comparative genomics reveals molecular evolution of Q fever pathogen
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Texas A&M Health Center, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have uncovered genetic clues about why some strains of the pathogen ...
Complete Genomics reports low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of seq ...
Complete Genomics deciphers 14 human genomes
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Complete Genomics, a Mountain View, Calif., startup, has announced that it had deciphered 14 full human genomes for customers that include pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and leading medical research institutes, a significant ...
Tomato pathogen genome may offer clues about bacterial evolution
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Apr 14, 2008 |
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The availability of new genome sequencing technology has prompted a Virginia Tech plant scientist to test an intriguing hypothesis about how agriculture’s early beginnings may have impacted the evolution of plant pathogens.
Tomato pathogen genome may offer clues about bacterial evolution at dawn of agriculture
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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The availability of new genome sequencing technology has prompted a Virginia Tech plant scientist to test an intriguing hypothesis about how agriculture’s early beginnings may have impacted the evolution of plant pathogens.
Researchers identify a worldwide-distributed clone of bacteria responsible for Legionnaire's disease
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Feb 06, 2008 |
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A study published online today in Genome Research describes new insights into Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria responsible for most cases of Legionnaires’ disease. This report investigates the genetic background of L. pneumop ...
Scientists develop strategy to rapidly describe outbreak strains with next-generation DNA sequencing
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Apr 11, 2008 |
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In the event of an outbreak or a bioterrorist attack, rapid identification of the genetic changes responsible for virulence or drug resistance is essential to mounting an effective response. Standard DNA sequencing and analysis ...
Species diversity helps researchers refine analyses of human gene mutations
Sep 03, 2009 |
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In the new era of personalized medicine, physicians hope to provide earlier diagnoses and improve therapy by evaluating patients' genetic blueprints. But, as a new bioinformatics study emphasizes, the first step must be to ...
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