Tag: Bioinformatics

The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has committed to fund £795,449 to selected research groups to develop long-term ...

An international team of CRISPR-Cas researchers has identified three new naturally-occurring systems that show potential for genome editing. The research, ...

The National Research Council, at the request of the Department of Defense (DoD), has prepared a report outlining modern approaches ...

The Human Vaccines Project has announced Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as its first scientific hub. Incubated by the International ...

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded a $14.8 million contract to MRIGlobal for development of an end-to-end next ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory has officially opened their new virtual Biosurveillance Gateway, providing a centralized portal for all news, information, resources, ...

An analysis of 10 years' worth of data on human influenza B viruses has shed new light on the pathogen ...

Significant reductions in the cost of genome sequencing in the past decade have ushered in the era of "Big Data," ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has released an updated version of powerful bioinformatics software that is now capable of identifying DNA ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, are key members of a team recently ...

Enterovirus. Tuberculosis. Cholera. Measles. Various strains of the flu and hepatitis. The number of infectious disease outbreaks and the number ...

The Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL) is hosting a Computing for Ebola Challenge this week from October 3-10, 2014. ...

Every year, investigators collect tens of thousands of biological samples from crime scenes that may hold valuable clues to solving ...

Researchers working in the UK and Gambia have developed a new approach to the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) that relies ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new challenge to address the rapidly emerging threat of Chikungunya ...

A microbe detection array technology developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists could provide a new rapid method for public ...

The DHS Directorate of Science and Technology, Chemical and Biological Defense Division has awarded a sole source contract to Silver ...

A new National Research Council report identifies research priorities for advancing the scientific and technical capabilities of microbial forensics to ...

The first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the United States was confirmed in a traveler to Indiana ...

Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, have been awarded a five year grant ...