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 ...

The government shutdown and subsequent furloughing of staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has some obvious, headline-grabbing implications for its trials and research. Yet there are also ...

The JCVI-Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation-Vecna Team, which includes researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), has been awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...

While bioinformatics lies at the leading edge of biological research, it is still underpinned by one of the oldest tools available to humanity: communication. Recognizing this, researchers are trying ...

Scalable Graph Algorithms for Bioinformatics using Structure, Parameterization and Dynamic Updates, ERC Consolidator Grant, 9/2025-8/2030 Sequencing technologies have developed to be cheap and ...

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.

A bioinformatics project that has identified the 30,000 genes in human DNA. The goal of the Human Genome Project is to advance biomedical research and develop personalized medicine by determining the ...

Dealing with big data sets can be abstracted into three main tasks: we must be able to manage, understand and analyze. 'Managing' is to carry out the computer science–based transfer and storage of ...