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OntoCAT: easy ontology search
12 Dec 2011
In annotating life sciences data, ontologies are quickly gaining importance. Several ontology access resources are available, but these are not always...
Conserved yet flexible
29 Nov 2011
In eukaryotic growth, a major regulatory role is played by the protein TOR (target of rapamycin). TOR is a kinase - a protein that phosphorylates othe...
Improving cancer gene identification
29 Nov 2011
Actively causing mutations to disrupt cellular processes and thus, perhaps, cause cancer in mouse models is a widely used approach to find cancer gene...
Information system for nuclear hormone receptors
25 Nov 2011
This month, Bas Vroling (CMBI Nijmegen) published the NucleaRDB. NucleaRDB is a Molecular Class-Specific Information System that collects, combines, v...
WikiPathways: new features for a growing community
25 Nov 2011
New features of WikiPathways, a public wiki for pathway curation, are discussed in the November issue of Nucleic Acids Research. New features include ...
Dutch Techcentre for Life sciences (DTL)
18 Nov 2011
Framework of top-level expertise centres in life science technologies
A growing urgency to change
17 Nov 2011
According to Johan den Dunnen there are no valid reasons for not publishing all data on gene variants in a public database. "We urgently need access t...
Pathway databases differ considerably
17 Nov 2011
Studying and mapping the human metabolic network is an essential element in improving our understanding of human health and disease. A number of high-...
Genome of the Netherlands ready for the next level
10 Nov 2011
The BBMRI-NL Rainbow Project Genome of the Netherlands project (GoNL) is ready for the next level. It has completed the alignment of all the DNA reads...
All cells are not equal
10 Nov 2011
Transcriptomics, i.e. studying gene expression levels in an organism, has become a routine activity in molecular biology. RNA is isolated from million...
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To date in addition to protein identification, quantification of abundances of proteins and peptides is c...
Functional genomics experiments are increasingly determined by a predefined experimental design. The desi...
The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) calls for proposals for their Venture Challenge Spring 201...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's major health problems. It is estimated that roughly one-third of ...
The demand for bioinformatics education aimed at life scientists, especially short focused courses, is ra...
Van Hijum, Siezen et al. resequenced L. Plantarum