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USDA Buys Waters Acquity System (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The US Food and Drug Administration has purchased a Waters Acquity TQD mass spectrometry system to develop methods for screening poultry and beef for veterinary drugs, Waters said today.
(Feb 27, 2009)
NINDS to Fund Stroke Genetics Studies (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke plans to spend $3.6 million over four years to support a study consortium that aims to identify genes or genomic regions that affect either susceptibility to or the outcome of ischemic stroke.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Young Investigator Profile (GenomeWeb News)
Continuous base identification for single-molecule nanopore DNA sequencing Clarke et al., Nature Nanotechnology The authors demonstrate that a protein nanopore with a covalently attached adapter molecule can identify detect unlabelled DNA bases and methylated cytosine , which they say is evidence that the tool is "suitable for integration into a system for sequencing nucleic acids and for ...
(Feb 27, 2009)
Patent Watch (GenomeWeb News)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded US Patent 7,494,821, "Fluorescein-based sensors for tracking nitric oxide in live cells."
(Feb 27, 2009)
Downloads and Upgrades (GenomeWeb News)
Some of the changes include support for GenBank/EMBL formatted sequence output with improvements of Bio::Sequence. BioSQL support is completely rewritten by using ActiveRecord and there are Bio::Blast bug fixes and improvements.
(Feb 27, 2009)
People in the News (GenomeWeb News)
Bruno Sobral executive and scientific director of the Virginia BioInformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and also its founding director is stepping down effective March 2.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Bioinformatics Briefs (GenomeWeb News)
Oxford Gene Technology of Oxford, UK, which provides microarray-based technologies, is partnering with Pune, India based life-sci consultancy Optra Systems, to develop visualization and analysis software.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Genentech's Open-Source Unison Pulls Disparate Data Types Together for Efficient Mining (GenomeWeb News)
Researchers from Genentech have released under an open-source license a web-based protein sequence database that they claim addresses the "data preparation burden" facing most bioinformatics research groups.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Community-Bred GO Terms Aimed to Help Scientists Manage Microbe-Host Interactions (GenomeWeb News)
The PAMGO Consortium developed the ontology with the goal of addressing a lack of vocabulary in the area of microbe-host interactions, and of helping researchers better mine full genome sequences and allowing them to do cross-genome analysis.
(Feb 27, 2009)
U.K. operators may strip Skype from Nokia devices (CNET)
Two U.K. wireless operators may refuse to carry Nokia phones that have the Skype VoIP calling feature built-in.
(Feb 27, 2009)
How to monitor Demo 09 live (CNET)
The Twitter back channel will be buzzing. Here are the feeds to watch.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Facebook halts rogue app, MySpace plugs security hole (CNET)
Social networks tackling new security issues that could make personal information and private communications accessible to strangers.
(Feb 27, 2009)
U.S. soybean checkoff funding helps map the soybean genome (SeedQuest)
Finding your way is much easier with a road map, and soybean researchers now have a map to find their way around the soybean genome. With the help of the United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff-funded genomics tools, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has mapped and released a draft of the soybean’s genetic code.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Discovery may solve devastating rust fungus issue for dry and snap bean growers (SeedQuest)
The detection of 3,000 proteins produced in plants of common beans could help breeders develop resistance against the bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus , a major concern for domestic dry bean and snap bean growers.
(Feb 27, 2009)
Amazon retreats on Kindle's text-to-speech issue (CNET)
Retailer denies the feature violates any copyright but says publishers will decide whether to enable text-to-speech function for their books.
(Feb 28, 2009)
Cloud fever: What will it take for a breakout? (CNET)
At a roundtable discussion on Microsoft's campus, of all places, some of the tech industry's best and brightest gather to offer a snapshot of cloud computing's progress--and lack thereof.
(Feb 28, 2009)
AutoGenomics in Oak Ridge Corporate (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
The lessor of the Deal of the Week was represented by Dennis Visser, SIOR, and Aric Starck of Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial. The lessee was represented by Burleson Pacific Real Estate.
(Feb 28, 2009)
This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)
A news article looks at how successful tech transfer offices have been over the past 30 years. Some researchers aren't convinced they're all that helpful: complaints range from TTOs hoarding IP to overvaluing inventions.
(Feb 28, 2009)
LC Sciences' Versatile Microfluidics Chip Technology Extended to Target Selection Applications (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
LC Sciences has announced the availability of a custom target enrichment service for next-generation sequencing applications. LC Sciences now provides a service for Target-Specific Selection of a defined genomic region (such as Mbp region at a specific location, suspected cancer regions, SNP regions, regions for genomic comparisons) or RNA sequences (such as sets of transcriptome sequences ...
(Feb 28, 2009)
Genetic tests before prescription of drugs necessary: Medco expert (PharmaBiz)
With more powerful, expensive and potentially dangerous medicines reaching the market on a daily basis, the time has come to leverage genetic tests that provide physicians with the confidence that they have prescribed the precise drug and dose tailored to their patient's unique genetic code, a leading authority on personalized medicine at Medco Health Solutions, Inc told industry leaders.
(Feb 28, 2009)
Hearst developing its own e-reader, for periodicals (CNET)
Company behind about 16 daily and 49 weekly newspapers, as well as hundreds of magazines, says it's going to launch its own e-reader. How might it compare to the Kindle?
(Feb 28, 2009)
Without APIs, there is no cloud computing (CNET)
If APIs enable cloud computing, what happens when it comes to portability? Will anyone voluntarily let me off of their cloud? We need standards to support functions such as portability.
(Feb 28, 2009)
Mufin Player organizes songs by sound (CNET)
The Mufin Player recommends similar songs based on an audio analysis, but the first beta version has a litle trouble identifying song information from iTunes.
(Feb 28, 2009)
Why it's good that Facebook makes us infantile (CNET)
Lady Greenfield, a professor of synaptic pharmacology, this week declared that Facebook and other social-networking sites are infantilizing the human brain. Why is that so bad?
(Feb 28, 2009)
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