Sentences with word «bioinformatician»

«Using improved computer software, we have enhanced gene predictions and secondary metabolite gene cluster predictions in both species to a level not found in most other filamentous fungal species,» says Robert King, the team's lead bioinformatician at Rothamsted.

Previously I worked as Bioinformatician in the field of Plant improvement, first for the company Syngenta Seeds and then for the French research centers Cirad and INRA.

With a team of bioinformaticians led by Steven Maere, a computational biologist at VIB and Ghent University, and beer scientists from White Labs in California, Verstrepen and his colleagues sequenced the genomes of 157 different strains of yeast used to make beer, wine, spirits, sake, bread, and bioethanol, as well as some used in research labs, to explore the species» evolutionary history.

The WABI personnel are senior bioinformaticians with post-doc experience and competences covering for example cancer genomics, RNA differential expression analyses, animal disease models, plant and animal genomics, and evolution.

Says Adam Ameur, at Uppsala University, who works as bioinformatician in the project.

The project provides a goldmine of data for bioinformaticians such as Jones.

«We have discovered that the two more destructive pathogens share a pattern of parallel changes in their core metabolic pathways that enables them to exploit more efficiently the nutrient resources available in banana,» said Stergiopoulos, who along with bioinformatician Ti - Cheng Chang, led the effort to sequence and analyze the fungal genomes of eumusae leaf spot and yellow sigatoka, comparing their findings with the previously sequenced black sigatoka genome sequence.

«We all suspected there was interesting stuff going on in these regions [between genes], and sure enough there is,» says bioinformatician Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, England, a member of the project's computer analysis team.

Having software developers who are responsible for bioinformatics data production and bioinformaticians who are responsible for writing software means that we are all in a position to be motivated to automate our way out of manual work whenever possible.

«Bioinformaticians make the most efficient search engine for molecular structures available online.»

On top of this, he values the involvement of trained bioinformaticians to be «roaming wild and free through all our data to find something interesting, not constrained by goals and targets.»

Like many bioinformaticians in their 30s and older, I moved into bioscience from a physical science background.

The two workgroups around bioinformatician Thomas Rattei and physicist Hernan Makse tested and improved this hypothesis in an elaborate computational experiment.

And the researchers are encouraged by interest from both publishers and bioinformaticians such as EBI.

Learn about the role of clinical bioinformaticians in healthcare and how their work is helping to realise the genomics revolution.

To meet this need of bioinformatics effort, the national bioinformatics infrastructure at SciLifeLab is now expanding with a total of 12 new bioinformatician positions to be opened before Christmas.

«We believe that getting regular feedback and advice from an experienced bioinformatician over an extensive period of time is an excellent way to learn how to make use of large - scale biological and medical data.

The top concern — named by almost half of respondents — was the lack of adequate software or algorithms to analyze genomic data, followed closely by a shortage of qualified bioinformaticians and to a lesser extent raw computing power.

A U-M team led by nephrologist Matthias Kretzler, M.D., renal systems biologist Wenjun Ju, Ph.D., M.S., and bioinformatician Viji Nair, M.S., has discovered a simple test to identify patients at risk for chronic kidney disease by measuring a specific molecule in a routine urine sample.

Enter bioinformatician Andrew Doxey, PhD, whose lab at the University of Waterloo specializes in mining genome data to discover new toxins and virulence genes.

The research, which appears in a recent issue of Nature Communications, was spearheaded by lead author and bioinformatician Dr. Ramkrishna Mitra, a postdoctoral associate in the Eischen laboratory.

Most courses are free of charge and open to beginning bioinformaticians.

Similar results were announced in April and September by bioinformatician Evan Eichler at the University of Washington in Seattle, who demonstrated that the mutation rate in men rises linearly with age.

To be a good bioinformatician, it is enough to learn one, easy - to - learn, high - level programming language such as Perl or Python.

«Clinicians managing patients on the frontline, database curators ploughing through the latest research, bioinformaticians developing computational tools and genetics experts interpreting results are all working together towards the common goal of finding answers for these patients.»

Of course, taking one of these courses doesn't turn you into a professional bioinformatician, but it gives you a head start in a field that needs people with long - term experience.

The first bioinformaticians probably appeared in the 1960s, working on computerised molecular graphics.

Then in July 2010, after The Cancer Letter, a Washington, D.C., newsletter, reported that Potti had falsely claimed to be a Rhodes Scholar, more than 30 statisticians and bioinformaticians wrote to NCI Director Harold Varmus asking NCI to investigate.

Additionally, not all scars in a cell can be found, says bioinformatician Bastiaan Spanjaard, one of the study's lead authors.

Bioinformaticians identified this protein and its potential connection to CRISPR by scanning the public database of genome sequences.

Instead bioinformatician Firas Khatib of the University of Washington used the collective skills of thousands of people playing an online game called Foldit, created by computer scientists Seth Cooper and Zoran Popovic.

No matter the outcome, bioinformatician Caporaso calls the paper an «early step» toward new forensic technologies based on advanced DNA sequencing.

«Our app is a very strict judge of the dance steps,» said bioinformatician Dr Jo Dicks.

A central database will allow researchers to compare mutations and miswired pathways across cancer types, says UCSC bioinformatician David Haussler, who is leading the project funded with a $ 10.3 million contract from NCI: «What's very important is to gather the data in one place and make it easy for researchers to do cross-dataset comparisons.»

And if that's not enough to keep you reading all week, we've also lined up four articles from practicing bioinformaticians.

A team led by Pablo Tamayo and Jill Mesirov of the Broad Institute and University of California, San Diego, and Broad bioinformatician Arthur Liberzon, has generated «hallmark» gene sets from the Molecular Signatures Database (MSigDB), one of the most comprehensive and widely used databases for gene set enrichment analysis.

While biostatisticians help ensure a clinical trial is designed for success, bioinformaticians translate massive databases of cancer - related information that was virtually unknowable just two decades ago when the ambitious Human Genome Project.

An unexpected collaboration between bioinformatician Katherine Pollard (left) and immunology researcher Shomyseh Sanjabi (right) leads to the discovery of an early predictor of IBD.

Also contributing were James Scott Browne, Ph.D., Susan Togher, and William A. Pastor, Ph.D., all from LJI; Ellen V. Rothenberg, Ph.D., of Caltech; and bioinformaticians Lukas Chavez Ph.D., of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and Harri Lähdesmäki, Ph.D., of Aalto University School of Science, the PhD thesis supervisor of Sini Rautio.

«The sheer scale and complexity of these data can be daunting, even for a seasoned bioinformatician» says Alistair Miles, who is leading data analyses for the Ag1000G project.

Support services range from drop - ins and short consultations to project support and long - term embedded bioinformaticians.

It doesn't matter if you are beginning your journey with bioinformatics, or if you are an established bioinformatician.

Good news for the sequencing centers, if not for their hapless bioinformaticians.

«This is one of the big questions currently hanging over genome research,» says Dr Jörg Hackermüller, bioinformatician at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).

Anika Oellrich is a Senior Bioinformatician working as part of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) project.

He often gets calls from recruiters looking for bioinformaticians.