Bioinformatics Institute

Type: Organization

Name: Bioinformatics Institute

First Reported 08/28/2009 - Updated 08/28/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Janet Thornton

UK biotechnology investment

The :UK has made its first substantial commitment to a major emerging pan-European science project with a 10m investment by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The BBSRC has awarded funding to the European Molecular Biology ... [Engineer Online - 08/28/2009]

Entities: Biotechnology, United Kingdom, Janet Thornton, Biology

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...appear in both but are more common in the metastatic tissue, suggesting that this type of mutation might enable cells to spread through the body. "We are now looking at breast-cancer-derived brain, lung, and liver tumors to see if there are commonalities in metastatic disease" says Mardis. Her center aims to sequence 150 cancer genomes this year. Next year, that number will likely seem small

A Turning Point for Personal Genomes [Technology Review - 09/24/2009]

...Lincoln Stein, a bioinformatician at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in Toronto who was not involved in the research, told The Scientist. "Those have been unsequenceable until recently when the next generation of sequencing machines, which do not require a cloning step, became available."

Minding the human genome gap [The Scientist - 06/09/2009]

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A Turning Point for Personal Genomes [Technology Review - 09/24/2009]
Sharing of expertise and information on Bio-med... [PharmaBiz - 09/19/2009]
UK biotechnology investment [Engineer Online - 08/28/2009]
Minding the human genome gap [The Scientist - 06/09/2009]
Charting the human metabolome [The Scientist - 05/18/2009]