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Scientists have churned out genome sequences for everything from fungi to dogs to chimps, and they won't be letting up any time soon. However, because a genome sequence is little more than a static list of chemicals — like, say, a parts list for a 747 airplane — scientists are increasingly turning...
Recently, researchers at Broad Institute released GenePattern 1.2, an enhanced version of the GenePattern microarray analysis package that is freely available to the scientific community The software offers an efficient, flexible microarray analysis tool that allows biomedical researchers across...
Vamsi Mootha, M.D. Photo by Donna Coveney Vamsi Mootha, M.D., an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, received a MacArthur fellowship for advancing the understanding of disease and basic biology through genomics, proteomics and computation. The MacArthur Fellowship is a "no...
Stacey Gabriel, Director of Broad's Genotyping Center The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today it will fund the first national center for high-throughput genotyping dedicated solely to large-scale SNP (single...
Today Merck & Co., Inc. officially opened the Edward M. Scolnick Research Center in the heart of historic Fenway and Longwood neighborhoods. The glass-faced, 300,000-square-foot building is named after Ed Scolnick, M.D., who directs the Psychiatric Disease Initiative at Broad Institute...
Geneticists have decoded the smallest known vertebrate genome: that of the puffer fish Tetraodon nigroviridis. The fish's 21 chromosomes, which together contain more than 300 million letters of DNA, tell a twisting evolutionary tale and even shed light on our own genetic make-up. Comparison with...
Image courtesy of NHGRI The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the United States by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Department of Energy (DOE), today published its scientific description of the finished human genome sequence, reducing the estimated...
David Altshuler, M.D., Ph. D. Photo courtesy of L. Barry Hetherington The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, the research division of Novartis, announced today a joint project to decipher the genetic causes of type 2 diabetes and make their findings...
Todd Golub, M.D. Photo courtesy of L. Barry Hetherington Biomedical research has increasingly required the integration of experimental and computational approaches. The area of cancer biology is no different. Now the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded $12.6 million over five years to a...
Reinhard Engels and David DeCaprio The Broad Institute has created and released for free a software tool to help researchers and students visualize and manipulate entire genomes. Argo, the genome browser for the Calhoun annotation system, is a Java application developed by Broad colleagues for...