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whitepaper EraGen Biosciences is a Madison, Wisconsin-based life science company that designs, develops and commercializes products and technologies that accelerate the drug discovery process, advance molecular diagnostics and enable functional proteomics.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Behind some of the world's most important scientific projects - the Human Genome, fusion energy research, nanotechnology and research on climate change ? Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science at more than 1000 locations worldwide.
[10 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Unfortunately, with all the hype about mapping the human genome, bioinformatics has achieved buzzword status; the term is being used in a number of ways, depending on who is using it. Bioinformatics is the science of using information to understand...
[10 Oct 2007]
whitepaper With the renewal of their supercomputer system in January 2003, the Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, updated their publicly available Internet service, which allows any user to search genomic...
[08 May 2007]
whitepaper The year 2000 marked both the start of the new millennium and the announcement that the vast majority of the human genome had been sequenced. Much work remains to understand how this "instruction book for human biology" carries out its multitudes...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper The discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA fifty years ago promised a new era of DNA-based medicine and led to the decoding of the human genome. Amersham Biosciences, the life sciences business of Amersham, employs 4,650 people worldwide...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper For our purposes, we define functional genomics as the area of study leading to an understanding of the function and regulation of genes and their gene products at the level of the entire genome, without regard to species of origin.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper For complex historical, political and cultural reasons, the human genome is increasingly equated with the ‘essence’ of humanness. Scientists who are involved in human genetics and the human genome project are confronted with this epistemological...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper We report on the quality of a whole-genome assembly of Drosophila melanogaster and the nature of the computer algorithms that accomplished it. Three independent external data sources essentially agree with and support the assembly's sequence and...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Computation is integrally and powerfully involved with the DNA sequencing technology that promises to reveal the complete human DNA sequence in the next several years. After introducing the latest DNA sequencing methods, this article describes...
[24 Feb 2004]
News The multimillion dollar deal will see the genome company install a 5,000 CPU machine at the beginning of next year in its headquarters in Atlanta. The race to unravel the human genome has boosted business for IBM and rivals Compaq and Sun at the...
[18 Dec 2000]
Comment Biotech companies spend some $2bn per year on IT services and are likely to have to dig deeper into their pockets to cover the cost of processing work on the human genome and for the development of new, more sophisticated drugs.
[04 Dec 2000]
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