computational biology

(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig, Germany. have achieved an important advance in better understanding metabolic pathways in bacteria.

Using computer models, the "System and Synthetic Biology" working group, headed up by Vítor Martins dos Santos, calculated the genetic changes that are necessary for increasing the production of biosynthetics in the Pseudomonas putida bacteria.

The well-known science magazine, PLoS Computational Biology published the results today.

(University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Two research groups from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have won $3 million grants from the National Science Foundation to create new graduate research and education programs designed to train tomorrow's top scientists.The grants, called Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships, or IGERTs, will draw the nation's best and brightest graduate students to UT Knoxville for two unique programs that focus on major global issues, including computational biology and sustainable energy.

(University of Melbourne) Under a new Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, the University of Melbourne in Melbourne Australia will host a $100 million supercomputing program and facility dedicated to life sciences.The initiative will develop the most powerful supercomputer and leading computational biology facility dedicated to life sciences research in the world.

(Carnegie Mellon University) Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Lane Center for Computational Biology have discovered how to significantly speed up critical steps in an automated method for analyzing cell cultures and other biological specimens.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the efficient coding principle regarding neurobiological processes applies to sense of smell.

The team displays this quantitative relationship in a study of male moths and pheromone plumes, published in PLoS Computational Biology.

Genome Research is publishing several papers in coordination with the upcoming RECOMB 2008 Conference in Singapore.

Genome Research has partnered with RECOMB to publish a select number of high-quality contributions to the meeting, presenting the latest advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine.

The papers will appear online March 19, 2008, and as a special section of the Genome Research April 2008 issue.