Category Archives: BioInformatics

Python and Bioinformatics - Pycon Dhaka 2014 "Python and Bioinformatics" presented by Ruhshan Ahmed Abir @ Pycon Dhaka 2014 ============== Ruhshan Ahmed Abir SUST Science Arena ============== Please vis... By: Dimik Computing School … Continue reading →

interviews on bioinformatics - phd student - 1 By: RSG Spain … Continue reading →

The Personalized Medicine Coalition announced that Daryl Pritchard will be its new VP of science policy, in charge of promoting the organization's science-related policies and of raising awareness of precision healthcare issues among policymakers, providers, and patients. Before joining PMC, Pritchard was director of policy research at the National Pharmaceutical Council; director of research programs advocacy and personalized medicine at the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and the director of government affairs for the American Association for Dental Research. Nabsys has appointed Steve Lombardi to president, CEO, and to its board of directors. Previously, he was CEO of Real Time Genomics, and before that he was CEO of Helicos BioSciences. He has also served as senior vice president of Affymetrix and vice president of genetic analysis at Applied Biosystems. Roche said this week that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately. The drugmaker said Levinson, who was chairman and CEO at Genentech from 1999 to 2014, made the decision to avoid any conflict with his post as CEO at Calico, a Google-backed startup. Levinson has served on Roche's board since 2010. Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute said this week it has named Perry Nisen as its CEO and … Continue reading →

Introduction to Biostatistics and Bioinformatics:1 A quantitative approach to biology and genomics data. Fall 2014 course at the NYU Sackler Institute for Biomedical Research. Lecture by David Fenyo. By: Stuart Brown … Continue reading →

Roche said this week that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately. The drugmaker said Levinson, who was chairman and CEO at Genentech from 1999 to 2014, made the decision to avoid any conflict with his post as CEO at Calico, a Google-backed startup. Levinson has served on Roche's board since 2010. Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute said this week it has named Perry Nisen as its CEO and as holder of the Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair. Nisen joins Sanford Burnham from GlaxoSmithKline, where he was senior VP of science and innovation. The New York Genome Center has named Carol Ashe its new chief business officer. She previously served as VP of corporate development for pharmaceutical firm Endo International, and prior to that was a partner at GlaxoSmithKline's venture capital fund, SR One. Ashe also led GSK's US corporate legal group, which supported M&A transactions and the business development legal transactions team. Vermillion has named David Jansen its VP of marketing, a new position at the firm. Jansen joins Vermillion from Myriad Genetics, where he held senior marketing roles for the past seven years. Vermillion also said that Chief Commercial Officer Marian Sacco will be … Continue reading →

Introduction to Bioinformatics: Machine Learning Lecture in Course Introduction to Bioinformatics KB7004 Stockholm University 2014 Machine Learning. By: Intro-Bioinformatics-2014 … Continue reading →

Scientists from INRA and Danone Nutricia Research have shown the effect of a fermented milk product containing probiotics on the gut microbiota, using a novel high resolution bioinformatics tool. The product affected certain gut bacteria without changing the global composition of the microbial community. These findings, published in Scientific Reports on 11 September 2014, open new perspectives to understand the effects of probiotics on our health. Fermented foods, and especially yoghurts, contain large amounts of live bacteria. We have been consuming them since the Neolithic Era (12,000 years ago), but our understanding of their impact on the digestive tract remains limited. Until recently, technological barriers prevented from studying in details the billions of bacteria living in our gut. The European consortium MetaHIT[1], coordinated by INRA, has made major breakthroughs in this field that expanded the scientific knowledge on the role of this microbiota and resulted in the discovery of many bacterial species hitherto unknown. Building on these new technologies, teams from INRA and Danone Nutricia Research succeeded in analyzing for the first time with great accuracy the effects of consuming a fermented milk product containing probiotics such as Bifidobacterium lactis, on gut bacteria. "In this study, we studied the effect … Continue reading →

Roche said this week that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately. The drugmaker said Levinson, who was chairman and CEO at Genentech from 1999 to 2014, made the decision to avoid any conflict with his post as CEO at Calico, a Google-backed startup. Levinson has served on Roche's board since 2010. Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute said this week it has named Perry Nisen as its CEO and as holder of the Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair. Nisen joins Sanford Burnham from GlaxoSmithKline, where he was senior VP of science and innovation. The New York Genome Center has named Carol Ashe its new chief business officer. She previously served as VP of corporate development for pharmaceutical firm Endo International, and prior to that was a partner at GlaxoSmithKline's venture capital fund, SR One. Ashe also led GSK's US corporate legal group, which supported M&A transactions and the business development legal transactions team. Vermillion has named David Jansen its VP of marketing, a new position at the firm. Jansen joins Vermillion from Myriad Genetics, where he held senior marketing roles for the past seven years. Vermillion also said that Chief Commercial Officer Marian Sacco will be … Continue reading →

BIOINFORMATICS (TUTORIAL) BIOINFORMATICS. By: HOLGER CEPEDA … Continue reading →

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech was nominated to take the 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS by the VET-MED Master of Public Heal... By: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech … Continue reading →