BUFFALO, N.Y. -- While molecular biologists exploit state-of-the-art scientific equipment to discover the secrets of life and disease in the post-genomic era, they complain often that the software ...

A software package developed by a professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and his colleagues to help researchers better understand the workings of biochemical networks now features an ...

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Software is crucial for biological research, has an impact on research productivity and enables researchers to explore massive databases and knowledge-bases. The workflow in systems biology generally ...

A summer research internship for undergraduates is not only helping them learn to build new lifesaving drug molecules and create new biofuels—it's also testing the concept of a virtual research ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GSL Biotech announced today that the company has released its first web-based molecular biology product, SnapGene Server, a tool for biotech companies and nonprofit ...

A computational tool has successfully identified diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases. Sequencing the genomes of individuals or small families often produces false predictions ...

Progress in systems biology is seriously hindered by slow production of suitable software infrastructures. Biologists need infrastructure that easily connects to work that is done in other ...

cellPACK software can generate models of midsized structures, like this one of HIV.--Illustration courtesy of Scripps The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, has come up with some new 3-D ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...