Sentences with phrase «computational biologist»

A team of computational biologists has developed an algorithm that can «align» multiple sequencing datasets with single - cell resolution.

As computational biologists, they employ comparative genomic approaches to understand the evolution and function of protein families and their ultimate role in human disease.

It could just be another boom, soon to be followed by another bust — no one can rule out that possibility — but these are good days for computational biologists.

Some of that money will go toward training computational biologists.

The number of possible configurations is astronomical, although computational biologists have made progress in narrowing the possibilities.

The data sets can reveal basic biology, provide a reference for studying disease, and allow computational biologists to test new analysis tools.

A team of computational biologists has developed an algorithm that can «align» multiple sequencing datasets with single - cell resolution.

Robert is now a senior computational biologist at Fluidigm in California.

Job Objective Seeking a challenging position as Computational Biologist in an organization that will effectively utilize my experience and offers opportunity for career growth.

«These are truly diverse species,» said computational biologist Dr. Sam Payne, who led the team compiling and indexing the dataset.

«We have reason to believe that what's taking place in the adult limb regeneration process looks a lot like early axolotl development,» says Jeffrey Nelson, Morgridge postdoctoral researcher and lead author with computational biologist Peng Jiang.

Peter Bradbury, a USDA computational biologist who works on TASSEL, a software program that analyzes sequence data to find markers associated with plant traits, also attended the workshop.

«We calculated that 3.6 percent of cases traveled, basically meaning that if you were able to focus on those mobile cases and reduce their mobility, you might have had a disproportionate effect on the epidemic,» said computational biologist Dr. Gytis Dudas, a Mahan Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the paper's lead author.

Morgridge computational biologist John Steill, another co-author of the KinderMining study, is using the KinderMiner tool to improve gene marker lists, which have numerous uses such as classifying cells or samples by cell type and identifying samples that may produce tumors.

In a community - based challenge led and organised by scientists from EMBL - EBI, Sage Bionetworks, IBM, the University of North Carolina, and the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), hundreds of computational biologists from all over the world tried their hand at predicting the toxicities of environmental compounds that had potential adverse health effects.

Our work supports millions of researchers, who are wet - lab and computational biologists working in all areas of the life sciences, from biomedicine to biodiversity and agri - food research.

A Jim Carrey movie inspired computational biologist Lawrence David to change the course of his research.

The availability of the H. pylori sequence is «great news,» says computational biologist Eugene Koonin from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland.

NYGC computational biologists and members of the Simon Laboratory at The Rockefeller University discussed the possibility of using a series of computer algorithms to search for sequence differences between the tumor samples and samples of healthy liver tissue.

«We are the first to admit that the human arm in the study has only preliminary results on a small subset of individuals,» says computational biologist Eran Segal, one of the study authors.

The keynote will be given by renowned computational biologist Michael Waterman.

Google, Facebook, and Netflix are hiring computational biologists to sort through their own versions of big data.

Broad computational biologists and bioinformatics analysts collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of scientists who are working together to revolutionize the way biomedical research is done.

A new tool in development by computational biologists at Baylor College of Medicine and analytics experts at IBM research and tested as a «proof - of - principle» may one day help researchers mine all public medical literature and formulate hypotheses that promise the greatest reward when pursuing new scientific studies.

So molecular biologist David Bartel and Bartel's graduate student Benjamin Lewis, both at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, along with MIT computational biologist Christopher Burge, decided to estimate the number computationally.

Another savvy science watcher, computational biologist Kelly Suter, an assistant professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, has spied real promise for early - career scientists who are good enough, clever enough — and lucky enough — to benefit from the sudden money.

Joel Dudley, a former student of Altman's who last year founded NuMedii, one of Silicon Valley's numerous biotech companies, agrees that computational biologists currently have a wealth of opportunities.

Altman says that according to his own observations, demand for computational biologists far outstrips supply.

Computational biologist Peer Bork from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, discovered the enterotypes by sequencing bacterial DNA in stool from Japanese, European, and American volunteers.

In 2006, computational biologist Sean Eddy did what some would consider unthinkable: he gave up a tenured position at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, to work for an institution that does not grant tenure.

Michael Price, 13 April Drug development companies are now hiring more computational biologists, creating an abundance of high - paying jobs.

Enter computational biologist Jian Peng, former Visiting Scientist at Whitehead Institute and postdoctoral researcher at MIT.

What was once known as junk DNA turns out to hold hidden treasures, says computational biologist Ewan Birney

Indeed, one of the paper's authors, computational biologist Rob Knight at the University of California, San Diego, applied it to his own daughter when she was born by emergency C - section a few years ago, before the study began.

To demonstrate this, computational biologist Yaniv Erlich of Columbia University in New York City looked at the age, sex and ethnicity data from HLI's paper.

When computational biologist Pablo Meyer learned of the Rockefeller study 2 years ago, he saw an opportunity to test whether computer scientists could use it to predict how people would assess smells.

There are still many things to be learned, says Nick Patterson, a Broad Institute computational biologist and a study co-author.

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To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

Chemistry PhD candidate Richard Li, computational nano / bio physicist Rosa Di Felice, quantum computing expert and Viterbi Professor of Engineering Daniel Lidar along with computational biologist Remo Rohs sought to apply machine learning to derive models from biological data to predict whether certain sequences of DNA represented strong or weak binding sites for binding of a particular set of transcription factors.

Many [computational biologists] are being siphoned off to industry.

An examination of millions of studies of molecules that play a role in biological function reveals that «scientists in this field were about 10-fold less efficient [at making new discoveries] than they could have been,» one of the paper's co-authors, computational biologist Andrey Rzhetsky of the University of Chicago (UC) in Illinois, told our colleague John Bohannon on publication day.

«Exposure to lab environments helps computational biologists have a more intuitive understanding of the data and an easier time planning sequencing experiments; lab scientists familiar with data analysis approaches can provide important insights while interpreting results.»

«We're so closely related genetically, yet our behavior is so different,» says team member and computational biologist Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

The work is among the first to show a link between nongenetic signals and the asymmetric expression of genes, says computational biologist Nick Monk of the University of Sheffield, U.K..

Because the two species have had about the same amount of time to rack up changes to their lipid profiles, the investigators expected them to have roughly the same number of species - specific lipid concentrations, explains computational biologist and study leader Kasia Bozek of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Another replication attempt supported a 2011 Science Translational Medicine report from Stanford computational biologist Atul Butte's lab that the ulcer drug Tagamet slows the growth of lung tumors in mice.

Computational biologists like Koonin believe that it is already possible to identify 100 or so genes that the common ancestor must have possessed — mostly ones that manage DNA and its translation into proteins — and that others can be added with varying degrees of certainty.