Category Archives: BioInformatics

SF State-led team's software determines drugs' effectiveness in treating schistosomiasis For decades, scientists around the world have worked to develop a treatment for schistosomiasis, a debilitating water-born parasite that affects more than 200 million people worldwide. To aid this research, Rahul Singh, professor of computer science at San Francisco State University, has developed software that solves the key challenge of quantitatively assessing the impact of a drug on the parasite. Singh and his team recently completed and made public the Quantal Dose Response Calculator (QDREC), software that analyzes images showing the effects of potential drugs on parasites and quantifies their effectiveness. A description of the software was published online in Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press) on Dec. 24. QDREC is designed to streamline the screening stage of the drug-discovery process, during which possible drugs are first identified. Traditionally, after introducing a chemical compound to a parasite, a scientist is required to meticulously document and analyze changes. The subjective and low-throughput nature of this process -- requiring highly trained scientists to study, one by one, the effects of a potential drug -- is one of the major barriers to breakthroughs, Singh said. "You are doomed to only a trickle of advancements," he … Continue reading →

Local Hack Day - Intro to Bioinformatics Brynn Claypoole, of PennApps, gives a talk introducing Bioinformatics and Computational biology. By: Major League Hacking … Continue reading →

Ion Reporter Software and Server Simplify our bioinformatics path to research results From human variant detection to microbial diversity, Ion Reporter Software provides an optimized suite of simple data analysis tools that streamline Ion PGM... By: Life Technologies … Continue reading →

BIOCENIT Bioinformatics and Environmental Engineering and Chemistry - DEIM BIOCENIT Bioinformatics and Environmental Engineering and Chemistry Computer Engineering and Mathematics Department (DEIM) Research Group Rovira i Virgili Un... By: Universitat Rovira i Virgili … Continue reading →

T-Bioinfo Bioinformatics platform - Grosmannia clavigera NGS big data analysis on the revolutionary big data analysis platform developed at the Tauber Bioinformatics Institute in Haifa, Israel. By: Vid Ad box … Continue reading →

Revolutions in biotechnology and information technology are changing the world. Advances in molecular genetics, coupled with improved capability in robotics, computer science, and other technologies, have made mass sequencing of genetic material a part of the scientific landscape. Previously, growing sequence databases had been compiled one gene at a time by individual research laboratories. This cottage industry approach is still part of the effort, but numerous genome-sequencing projects have produced the entire sequences of viruses, bacteria, and increasingly complex eukaryotic organisms. The complete human genome with its 109 base pairs is now complete. The enormous treasure trove of information that the sequence databases and their smaller structural counterparts represent is a priceless resource. Applications include the identification of targets for drug discovery, the study of structural and functional relationships, and work on molecular evolution. Timely advances in computer science have made the storage, organization, and utilization of these very large data collections possible. Bioinformatics approaches incorporate expertise from the biological sciences, computer science, and mathematics. Allied computational approaches using chemical and physical methods are also of widespread interest. Rensselaers bioinformatics and molecular biology undergraduate curriculum includes training in mathematics, chemistry, and physics. At the programs core are courses in the … Continue reading →

TMU 102 Medicine Bioinformatics Group 6A-b Zippers By: Joyce Li … Continue reading →

Arpan BSc Introduction to bioinformatics By: Rai University … Continue reading →

B.Tech (Bioinformatics) - VIT University, Vellore (Tamilnadu) By: Vinay Agrahari … Continue reading →

EPL 202 Bioinformatics UCY 2014 Educational Video about Bioinformatics... A Video made by Panagiotis Kotsias,Erasmia Shimitra and Nikos Skandalakis with the help of Dr Vasilis J Promponas f... By: Panos kotsias … Continue reading →