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Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size
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May 14, 2009 |
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Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous."
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Rutgers-Camden developing enzyme function database
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Since the advent of the Human Genome Project an explosion of data has sent the science world scrambling. There is a growing demand to fine-tune genomic codes, which list the "ingredients for life," but do not adequately explain ...
Midget plant gets makeover
Jun 22, 2009 |
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A tiny plant with a long name (Arabidopsis thaliana) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and ne ...
New portal for plant genomics will support research into improved crops
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Today sees the launch of Ensembl Plants - a freely available web resource for plant genomics research - by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in partnership with the ...
Finding deep roots, new genome software infers ancestry with high accuracy
Mar 19, 2008 |
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Some people may know where their ancestors lived 10 or 20 generations ago, but the rest of us can learn our distant biological heritage only from our DNA. New genomics analysis software developed by computer scientists at ...
Researchers develop a structural approach to exploring DNA
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A team led by researchers from Boston University and the National Institutes of Health has developed a new method for uncovering functional areas of the human genome by studying DNA's three-dimensional structure ...
Online collaboration identifies bacteria
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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A new website has been launched which allows scientists everywhere to collaborate on the identification of bacterial strains. This new resource, described in the open access journal BMC Biology, provides a portal for electr ...
New map of genomic variations will enable disease research
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Genetics researchers have unveiled a powerful new resource for scientists and health providers studying human illnesses--a reference standard of deletions and duplications of DNA found in the human genome. Drawn from over ...
FANTOM findings boost for biologists
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Genomic regulatory blocks have unique features that may explain their ability to respond to regulatory inputs from very long distances, according to a special thematic series of companion articles from the FANTOM4 consortium. ...
New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
Jul 31, 2007 |
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A novel, free, public online database opening this week should greatly speed efforts to find genes linked to increase risk of bipolar disorder. The Bipolar Disorder Phenome Database—a joint project of Johns Hopkins Psychiatry ...
DNA duplication: A mechanism for 'survival of the fittest'
Mar 23, 2009 |
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VIB researchers connected to Ghent University, Belgium, have discovered that DNA duplications have given plants an evolutionary advantage. This mechanism enabled plants -- in contrast to the dinosaurs -- to survive the Cretaceous-Tertiary ...
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