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Gov't Creates Gene Database of Normal Human Tissues

...utes of Health, have built the largest open-source database for normal tissue from human organs. Scientists se...nes that go awry and cause disease can use the NCI database as a crucial point of reference because it pinpoints which genes are expressed in many of the body's...

Lipids get new comprehensive classification system

...e first two characters (1-2) of the ID contain the database identifier (e.g. LM for LIPID MAPS). The next two characters (3-4) correspond to the lipid category, the next two (5-6) to the class within that category and the next two (7-8) to the subclass. The last four characters of the ID comprise a unique ide...

Scientists map the world for nature conservation

...r years, experts have been calling for an improved database that would enable them to develop more effective global nature conservation strategies. Botanists at the University of Bonn have now taken a major step in this direction with the publication, in the Journal of Biogeography, of a world map of plant bi...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...ied scientists worldwide. The first version of the database contains information on more than 730,000 unique protein sequences in more than 25,000 protein families. Analysis of that data required 460 days of computer processing time, but it was condensed into a few short weeks by use of parallel computing, V...

Natural tumor suppressor in body discovered by UCSD medical researchers

... in the "off" position. The scientists conducted a database search of the human genome for a phosphatase, which is an enzyme that acts as a catalyst in regulating cellular processes by removing phosphate molecules. Based on the chemical components of Akt, they specifically looked for a phosphatase linked to t...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...from household fuel sources. They gathered a large database of current fuel use in African nations. Using this as a baseline, they defined multiple scenarios for future fuel use by varying the mix of wood, charcoal and petroleum-based fuels used in households and improving the sustainability of wood harvestin...

Program finds lost genes in nematode genome

.... Nematode researchers rely on a genome annotation database called WormBase. Along with confirmed genes, WormBase includes thousands of predicted genes without evidence from complementary DNA (cDNA) or expressed sequence tags (EST), which help locate genes. These predicted genes are derived by a combination o...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...ion was responsible for the informatics related to database searching and data dissemination. The team detected 2,036 proteins from the five most abundant species in the bio-film, including 48 percent of the predicted proteins from the most abundant bio-film organism, Leptosprillum group II. Researchers note...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...ity has received a grant to help assemble a unique database of DNA mutations in maize (corn). The project not...een specific genes and complex plant systems. The database will be invaluable to academic researchers interested in how specific genes are involved in basic de...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...evelopment company in Phoenix, to create a central database for data generated by the consortium. These data are freely available so the entire scientific community can benefit from this publicly funded endeavor. The Neuroscience Blueprint institutes are components of the National Institutes of Health in Bet...

Siberian tigers hang tough

...t few months, we will be completing the geographic database to ensure these data are preserved, and then we will begin a more intensive analysis of the data. Results may change slightly, but we think it's safe to say that the population appears stable." ...

Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record

...ce, the authors used a recently completed archival database (which they also built) that integrates the geographic data with fossil datasets, called the Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (MIOMAP). MIOMAP includes all western North American mammals from 5-30 million years ago - 3,100 localities and 14,000 occurre...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...the public and private sectors through the PubChem database (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/), created and managed by the National Library of Medicine at NIH. The network's first screening center, the NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC), was established in June 2004 by the NHGRI's intramural program to jumps...

Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases

...sion of the researchers who initiated the sequence database projects, by making the global sharing of nucleoti...an the arduous task of mapping the fields from one database onto those of the other so that they could exchange information. By the time the International Nucle...

York scientists warn of dramatic impact of climate change on Africa

...diversity Institute to compile the world's largest database of Africa-wide plant distribution maps. The research was supported by Conservation International and the BIOTA-Africa Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The findings will be published this summer in the Annals of the...

Public release of pig genomic sequences

...enome Project") and GenBank, a public DNA sequence database of the US National Institutes of Health. In addition to the genome survey, 100 libraries of expressed sequences from different pig tissues and developmental stages have been analyzed. These sequences will be released in the near future together with...

‘Blue Brain?project explores thought at molecular level

...enome Project") and GenBank, a public DNA sequence database of the US National Institutes of Health. In addition to the genome survey, 100 libraries of expressed sequences from different pig tissues and developmental stages have been analyzed. These sequences will be released in the near future together with...

Genomatix, AAAS ink agreement

...atory mechanisms on DNA sequence level. "The STKE database is a great synergistic expansion to our BiblioSPherePE knowledge base. Following our strategy to only include highest quality data backed by well known scientific authorities, I couldn't think of any better source than STKE published by AAAS along wi...

Drug resistant avian influenza viruses more common in Southeast Asia than North America

...on from the National Library of Medicine's GenBank database on 408 viruses isolated from avian hosts worldwide. Based on the study, the St. Jude team reported that there were no avian amantadine-resistant strains isolated from 1979-83 in the northeastern United States and Southeast Asia. However, 31 percent...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

...essed all 286 million human genotypes in the dbSNP database of the National Center for Biotechnology Informati...d the tag SNPs that identify the haplotypes from a database of 160 million genotypes of 270 individuals from four different populations with ancestors from part...

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