TechAndComputer (Apr. 13, 2010) Grapes are one of the world's most economically important fruit crops, but the woody perennial takes three years to go from seed to fruit, and that makes traditional breeding expensive and time-consuming.
A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers has found a way to speed things up by developing a way to identify genetic markers in the grapevine's genome that can be linked with specific traits,...
TechAndComputer (Apr. 13, 2010) Grapes are one of the world's most economically important fruit crops, but the woody perennial takes three years to go from seed to fruit, and that makes traditional breeding expensive and time-consuming.
A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS)...
Back Computer Science 
Computational Biology
Computational Biology
Computational Biology
Bringing better grapes a step closer to reality
- 23 March 2010
- Editor
- Hits: 95
New statistical method for genetic studies could cut computation time from years to hours
- 18 March 2010
- Editor
- Hits: 90
TechAndComputer (Mar. 19, 2010) In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a million genetic markers in thousands of individuals.
These studies generally compare the frequency of genetic variants between two groups -- those with a particular disease and healthy individuals. Differences in the...
TechAndComputer (Mar. 19, 2010) In the...
These studies generally compare the frequency of genetic variants between two groups -- those with a particular disease and healthy individuals. Differences in the...
TechAndComputer (Mar. 19, 2010) In the...
After 5 years, free systems biology markup language has proven popular
- 02 March 2010
- Editor
- Hits: 103
TechAndComputer (Mar. 2, 2010) A scientific paper that describes a file format used by scientists to represent models of biological processes has exceeded 500 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge, an online academic database that documents the impact of scientific publications. The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is designed to enable the exchange of quantitative models of biochemical networks between different computer software...
TechAndComputer (Mar. 2, 2010) A scientific...
TechAndComputer (Mar. 2, 2010) A scientific...
Genetic link between misery and death discovered; novel strategy probes 'genetic haystack'
- 24 February 2010
- Editor
- Hits: 97
TechAndComputer (Feb. 25, 2010) In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. In addition, they found a specific genetic variation in some individuals that seems to disconnect that link, rendering them more biologically resilient in the face of adversity.
Perhaps most important to science in the...
TechAndComputer (Feb. 25, 2010) In...
Perhaps most important to science in the...
TechAndComputer (Feb. 25, 2010) In...
Novel computational model: How Parkinson's medications affect learning and attention
- 20 January 2010
- Editor
- Hits: 113
TechAndComputer (Jan. 26, 2010) A new brain-based computational model is helping to understand how Parkinson's disease and dopamine medications—used to treat motor symptoms caused by the disease— can affect learning and attention.
As reported in a forthcoming article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, anew computational model, developed by Drs. Ahmed Moustafa and Mark Gluck, at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at...
TechAndComputer (Jan. 26, 2010) A new...
As reported in a forthcoming article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, anew computational model, developed by Drs. Ahmed Moustafa and Mark Gluck, at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at...
TechAndComputer (Jan. 26, 2010) A new...