Bioinformatics http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/table/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/ Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:22:19 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb McMaster, NVIDIA establish first CUDA Teaching Centre in Canada http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/mcmaster-nvidia-establish-first-cuda-teaching-centre-in-canada/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/mcmaster-nvidia-establish-first-cuda-teaching-centre-in-canada/ There are no translations available.
McMaster University is establishing the first NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Centre in Canada. The Centre, one of only twelve worldwide, will teach electrical and computer engineering students how to tap into the processing resources available in graphics processing units and use them in computationally demanding applications.
]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:10:02 +0000 UCSF receives $15 million to advance personalized medicine http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/ucsf-receives-15-million-to-advance-personalized-medicine/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/ucsf-receives-15-million-to-advance-personalized-medicine/ There are no translations available.
UCSF scientists will receive two grants totaling $15.1 million over the next five years to expand their research into how genes affect an individual's response to medication and to strengthen a global network of researchers involved in these efforts.
National Institutes of Health ]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:10:25 +0000 Computer-based video analysis boosts data gathering in behavioral studies http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/computer-based-video-analysis-boosts-data-gathering-in-behavioral-studies/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/computer-based-video-analysis-boosts-data-gathering-in-behavioral-studies/ There are no translations available.
Thomas Serre, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown, and colleagues at MIT and Caltech have developed a computer-based system that can learn how to identify behaviors of interest and then analyze many hours of video. The team describes the system in Nature Communications.
]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:10:25 +0000 Grasping the tree of life: There is an app for that, too http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/grasping-the-tree-of-life-there-is-an-app-for-that-too/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/grasping-the-tree-of-life-there-is-an-app-for-that-too/ There are no translations available.
The scientists who put an innovative tree of life online last year now have made that same resource available -- free -- for smartphones. The new "TimeTree" application lets anyone with an Apple iPhone harness a vast Internet storehouse of data about the diversity of life, from bacteria to humans.
National Science Foundation, NASA ]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:10:02 +0000 The 'ProteOn' XPR36 Giveaway Program' names a winner http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/the-proteon-xpr36-giveaway-program-names-a-winner/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/the-proteon-xpr36-giveaway-program-names-a-winner/ There are no translations available.
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News today announced that Simon Cocklin, Ph.D., a scientist at the Drexel University College of Medicine, has won a ProteOn XPR36 protein interaction array system from Bio-Rad in the ProteOn XPR36 Giveaway Program, a recent scientific research proposal competition.
]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:10:02 +0000 BU team wins $4.1M genome grant http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/bu-team-wins-41m-genome-grant/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/bu-team-wins-41m-genome-grant/ There are no translations available.
Boston University Biomedical Engineers received a $4.1 million grant from National Institutes of Health to support their ongoing work to reduce the cost of sequencing an individual's genome to $1,000.
National Institutes of Health ]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:10:02 +0000 $40 million awarded to trace human brain's connections http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/40-million-awarded-to-trace-human-brains-connections/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/40-million-awarded-to-trace-human-brains-connections/ There are no translations available.
The National Institutes of Health today awarded grants totaling $40 million to map the human brain's connections in high resolution. The Human Connectome Project will have transformative impact, paving the way toward a detailed understanding of how our brain circuitry changes as we age and how it differs in psychiatric and neurologic illness.
National Institutes of Health ]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:10:02 +0000 Wearable sensor technology to measure physical activity http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/wearable-sensor-technology-to-measure-physical-activity/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/wearable-sensor-technology-to-measure-physical-activity/ There are no translations available.
Researchers from Michigan State University are teaming up to create a new wearable sensor network to assess a person's physical activity and overall well-being. Using technology developed by engineering professor Subir Biswas, participants will wear three small, wireless sensors -- on their wrist, upper arm and lower leg -- that during any physical activity will measure not only the frequency, intensity and time but also now the type of activity, providing valuable information.
National Institutes of Health ]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:10:04 +0000 Mount Sinai researchers develop database to help accelerate drug discovery http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/mount-sinai-researchers-develop-database-to-help-accelerate-drug-discovery/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/mount-sinai-researchers-develop-database-to-help-accelerate-drug-discovery/ There are no translations available.
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will help streamline the analysis of gene expression experiments and provide scientists with a better mechanistic understanding of the differences between diseased and normal cells.
]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:10:04 +0000 Informatics = essential MD competency http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/informatics-essential-md-competency/ http://www.bioinformaticsinfo.com/en/bioinformatics/bioinformatics-news/informatics-essential-md-competency/ There are no translations available.
Although information underlies all clinical work and despite the growing role that information management and access play in health-care delivery and clinical support, there is a dearth of informatics competency being developed in America's future corps of physicians.
]]> webmaster@travelworldguides.com (Administrator) Bioinformatics News Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:10:08 +0000