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The Genome Analysis Center Uses Fastest Processor Ever

  The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will use Edico Genome´s DRAGEN, the world´s first processor specifically designed to analyze DNA sequences. DRAGEN reduces next generation sequencing...

Bioinformatics

New Labeling System to Avoid Errors and Improve Lab Productivity

Errors in vial identification cause serious problems in the laboratory like loss of samples, messed up experiments or waste of reagents. In the worst case...

Equipment

New Imaging Techniques Allow Best Resolution of Living Cells of All Time

Scientists at the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed new imaging methods that vastly improve resolution in structured illumination microscopy (SIM), a very advanced live cell...

Equipment
Next Gen Seqencing Helix

Illumina Launches Helix, App Store for Genetic Analysis

Illumina announced formation of a customer focused company that seeks to provide affordable sequencing and analysis tools marketplace through third party providers at affordable costs....

Apps
crispr-cas9

A New Software to Improve CRISPR/Cas9 Targeting

Scientists from Harvard and University of California have designed an online tool to optimize CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 targeting. The researchers compared...

Apps

Big Pharma to Get Apple’s ResearchKit Into Their Clinical Trials.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Purdue Pharma have declared their interest in Apple´s ResearchKit platform to gather medical data from iPhone users. The big pharmaceutical companies see it as an...

Apps

Six New Tools for the Study of Protein, DNA and RNA Motifs

Researchers from the University of Queensland, Brisbane and the University of Washington, Seattle launched in 2009 the MEME Suite, a web-based service for the study...

Basic Research

New Method Predicts Protein Motion from Static Structures

Researchers from Oregon Science and Health University have gone further in the understanding of protein motion. The study “Parsimony in Protein Conformational Change” has been published...

Bioinformatics