Bioinformatics -- Understanding of living systems through information science
Recently, the progress of the Human Gen...s inversions, transpositions, and duplications, occur. The ge...mutations that cause cancer, and the genome of the natto produ...to certain lifestyle-related diseases, by understanding their pers...live longer and be free from disease, by thinking about their life...3917 days ago
Bioinformatics 101 - Running BLAST
How to format the database for BLAST, run the command, view the output file, and use BioPerl and Perl to parse the output. By David Francis, Ohio State University. Delivered live at the Tomato Disease Workshop 2010. For more infor...3897 days ago
Translational Bioinformatics: Transforming 300 Billion Points of Data
...to Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and New Insights into Disease Air date: W...data (measured by researchers and clinicians over the past decade)...eutics, and new insights into disease. Dr. Butte, a bioinformaticia...g new treatable mechanisms of disease in type 2 diabetes, and evalu...3911 days ago
Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body
When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolins...l into making a million more viruses. See and hear the rest of the story on NPR...3909 days ago
IBM Research Computational Biology Center
The IBM Computational Biology Center em...systems can manage, analyze, and simulate the complex structur...tion in sequences, structures and processes, the studying of sy...everse-engineering of complex disease-lifestyle-genomic interac...ience, agriculture, chemistry and ultimately nanotechnology.3902 days ago
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Genetics, epigenetics and disease
Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize Lecture giv...in signalling by CG are implicated in disease. For example, the autism...of a protein that reads methylated CG and affects the activity of genes...for original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences published wit...3873 days ago
Dr. Ken Buetow: IS & Personalized Medicine Lecture-Part 1
...nsforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamen...ped approaches to efficiently and accurately computationally identi...y identify insertion/deletion variation, translocations, and rearra...3871 days ago
Microbiome - Making better use of bacteria
Bacterial cells outnumber human cells 10...an genes 100-to-1. Mayo Clinic and the Center for Individualized...Medicine are working to understand these diverse populations and...individualized to the patient. Diseases, such as clostridium difficile, celiac disease, and gluten sensitivities, are being s...3856 days ago
If your genes revealed you would get a disease, would you want to know?
A massive, groundbreaking new study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California San Francis...ed light one day on the genetic roots of diseases such as Parkinson's, cancer,...aled you were at high risk for getting a disease, would want to know?3840 days ago