An effort to introduce local high school students to the emerging field of bioinformatics—and hopefully inspire some to pursue studies, and eventually jobs, in the field—is moving to the next level ...

A new private Cloud HPC system will soon benefit bioinformatics researchers in their work on bacterial pathogens. The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) project, a collaboration ...

This five-day workshop aims to establish and connect scientists and institutes that are role players in the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) initiative, create awareness and galvanise institutions ...

With the British economy now exiting its slump and forecast to grow faster than its peers, government funding groups are looking for startups that will sustain the resurgence. And that means more ...

New Canadian bioinformatics and computational biology research projects will help manage, analyze and interpret vast amounts of genomics data to accelerate advances in personalized medicine, public ...

Students will identify gene regulatory sequences in insect genomes using the "SCRMshaw" software pipeline developed in my laboratory, and/or work on improvements to this pipeline. Identifying and ...

Illumina ($ILMN) was right at the core of a plan unveiled in August 2014 by the U.K. government to map 100,000 human genomes by 2017. Its early role focused on whole ...

SYBB 311/411A is a 5-week course that introduces students to the high-throughput technologies used to collect data for bioinformatics research in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.