A not-for-profit foundation established to sponsor open collaborations in research and software development in the scientific field of computational biology.
A short sequence tag (10-14bp) contains sufficient information to uniquely identify a transcript provided that that the tag is obtained from a unique position within each transcript
Sequence tags can be linked together to from long serial molecules that can be cloned and sequenced
Quantitation of the number of times a particular tag is observed provides the expression level of the corresponding transcript.
Bioinformatics Portals or ASPs (Application Service Providers) Basic idea: More efficient to have a central location to house expensive hardware and software with expert service provider on well maintained machines than to buy yourself. Advantages User pays for access to software as they use it Users have access to more different types of software than they could afford on their own ASPs provide a permanent place for storage of data and analysis results Disadvantages May be hard to maintain competence in house, resulting in risky level of dependance on the ASP Slowdowns or failures at the ASP could delay research
Has it's own suite of web based tools called BioNavigator
Usage based fees for time used and amount of data stored
Access to GCG programs through SeqWeb
Access to proprietary software and databases
Tools include PCR primer design, restriction mapping, protein secondary structure, database searching, multiple alignments and phylogenetic tree production
Automatic research agents to perform simple bioinformatic operations
Can store your sequences and results on their site
Many proprietary software and databases are available
Many partnerships with vendors such as Alphagene, Invitrogen and Clontech such that you can purchase a clone from them if it was found in your result set
A true portal site, with much more than just bioinformatics tools
Integrates genetic sequence data from 11,000 human genes , 6849 mouse genes, 6,307 yeast and 14,190 C elegans genes, 16 bacteria complete genomes and 5 Archaea complete genomes
Provides links to a wide variety of analysis tools
Academic Programs The primary organization for Bioinformatics is the International Society for Computational Biology (http://www.iscb.org/). They have a large list of courses available.
LifeSeq database collection - LifeSeq Gold currently contains 4.3 million ESTs, 3.3 million of which are Incyte-proprietary. This represents an estimated 90% of expressed human genes
PathoSeq database collection - provides genetic data for a variety of microorganisms, with a focus on disease-causing bacteria and fungi.
LifeTools - scalable, enterprise-wide system for processing, storing, analyzing, and managing both proprietary and public-domain genomic data. It gives scientists extensive project management capabilities, including the ability to track research projects, and easily share data with team members
Microarrays - A wide variety of Human, plant and animal arrays and the software to analyze them
Genome SDK - an advanced Java class library that can be tailored to a client's in-house bioinformatics requirements. Put the widgets together and coordinate them to provide dynamic displays of your data
Labtrak - laboratory information management system. Neomorphic will configure Labtrack for your unique laboratory process.
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