Bioinformatics or B101nformatics

Now again I want to share with you some news: Novel online bioinformatics tool significantly reduces time of multiple genome analysis Machine-learning scoring functions for identifying native poses of ligands docked to known and novel proteins In the First Bioinformatics Hackathon, Computer Scientists Meeting in Russia Use their Computer Skills to Fight Deadly Diseases Chemicals giant DuPont buying Taxon Biosciences MarkerMiner 1.0: An easy-to-use bioinformatics platform for DNA analysis in angiosperms New 3-D Method Improves the Study of Proteins OpGen raises $17 million in initial public offering , to develops tests to help hospitals identify drug-resistant bacteria  Massively parallel biology students: More than 900 students co-author genomics research paper , an interessting effort to do science Researchers obtain precise estimates of the epigenetic mutation rate BIB logo of their website. And last but not least, there was the announcement from the BIB of a n...

To improve my Bioinformatics report, I started using a couple of tools. I tried to include the page with less ads when possible, if you find any source too crowded with ads please let me know: Genome Canada Launches C$30.5M Genomics Innovation Network and makes  $24M pivo t to bolster bioinformatics capabilities Genenentech search for bioinformatic  chief after Robert   Gentleman leaves for 23andMe Appistry extends its tools and services for analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing data with GenomePilotNIAID-led partnership seeks to establish bioinformatics centers in Africa Curoverse announces new infrastructure software for precision medicine, genomics and bioinformatics : A beta of cloud and on-premise solutions for organizations and individuals using the new Arvados open source software platform to manage, process, and share genomic and biomedical data is now public Sequences onlline Discover the global bioinformatics market 2020 due to the increase...

I must confess this month I thought I had any new to share but right after I published last post I found one which I saved for this month: The first epigenomic's map:( Spanish,   English) The logo of the consortium ( Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium )  involved on the Epigenomic's roadmap Sometimes people complain that bioinformaticians think that a gene is defined by a position in a chromosome or a genetic element, plasmid, mitochondrial chromosome, genome... I don't think so, many bioinformaticians are biologist who know how replication, transcription, and translation works molecularly. However the easiest way to work with genomes implies omitting it, and work with known sequences and suppose that they are transcribed and translated literally. With this step and the previously know Encode project we learn more about splicing and epigenomics and in the future we will see how this will change bioinformatics work.

It is harder to find bioinformatic related news than I thought. This month I found the following news, again if I forgot any company, algorithm or discover related to bioinformatic, or life science on computers let me know: Medicine Precision Initiative Obama's new plan to sequence a million people to provide individuated medicines each one. Bioinformatics  as ASCII code in binary  These new initiative (if successfully approved by the congress) will  acquire data from more patients than the latest large sequencing project 1000 Genomes. Which is still on progress to obtain the consensus sequence for each genome. But still the human genome project is on progress, there are unknown bases on several chromosomes, specially on centriome. As you can see on the project browser , or in the google genome browser for the 1000 Genomes project . Even if these data is completed is still unclear how to take benefit. More money should be invested on how to use the d...

I will start with a monthly post about bioinformatics. It might contain news from Spain, or whatever I heard about. Changed the machine room of Embl Moving 20 Petabytes - blog post thanking the technical team @emblebi in the machine room move end of 2014. http://t.co/62nz6k8vwU — Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) January 13, 2015 Read Ewan's blog post to learn about this silent move. I would also share this discussion from biostar : Why the bioinformatics field don't move to the " leading edge technology for biology big data analysis "? I personally agree with this long answer , which states that the problem is not the how we process information but, what we do with information. In genomics, metabolomics, interactomics, we don't need to process live streams of data, so technolgoy developed by Facebook, and Google towards solving this issues cannot be applied in -omics field. But I must disagree with the author, I don't think GO or other effort...