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CHIB Launches New Network & Systems Biology Division

CHIB launched new division focusing on network and systems biology research. Systems biology is an emerging discipline that focuses on the complex interactions between genes, proteins, metabolism and the 3D structures... Download PDF: CHIB Launches New Network & Systems Biology Division

Scientists Apply Successful Single Molecule Sequencing and de novo Genome Assembly to a Parasitic Worm that Infects Human Eyes and Skin

Investigators at IGS and the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the NIAID used the long-read, single-molecule Pacific Biosciences platform for the successful genome sequencing and de novo assembly of Loa loa roundworms... Download PDF: Scientists Apply Successful Single Molecule Sequencing and de novo Genome Assembly to a Parasitic Worm that Infects Human Eyes and Skin

Scientists Apply Novel Genome-based Methods for New Understanding to Control the Invasive and Destructive Stink Bug

Their findings, which could lead to new ways to control this abundant and costly pest... Download PDF: Scientists Apply Novel Genome-based Methods for New Understanding to Control the Invasive and Destructive Stink Bug

UM SOD & SOM Receive $10.7 M NIAID Grant

Grant to conduct systems biology research on control and prevention of sexually transmitted infections... Download PDF: UM SOD & SOM Receive $10.7 M NIAID Grant

Human Microbiome Science Report Released

Nearly 250 experts were convened July 2013 for the "Human Microbiome Science: Vision for the Future" conference in Bethesda, Md., where scientists discussed current advances, challenges and opportunities for human microbiome research at the NIH. A report of the meeting is now available in the journal Microbiome... The meeting agenda, videos and slides are available at: http://www.genome.gov/27554404 Read full article: Human Microbiome Science Report Released

IGS Awarded $15.2M NIAID Grant on Infectious Disease Research

IGS has received a grant award of $15.2 million over five years from the NIAID to create a research center to apply genomic techniques to the study of pathogens and their hosts... Download PDF: IGS Awarded $15.2M NIAID Grant on Infectious Disease Research

HMP DACC Releases New Collection of Data

Researchers with the Data Analysis and Coordination Center (DACC) for the NIH Human Microbiome Project (HMP) are releasing a significant amount of new sequence data... Download PDF: HMP DACC Releases New Collection of Data

IGS Awarded FDA Contract to Expand Genome Sequence Database

IGS has been awarded a research program contract from the FDA to sequence, assemble and annotate a population of bacterial pathogens... Download PDF: IGS Awarded FDA Contract to Expand Genome Sequence Database

IGS Scientists Develop New Understanding of Chlamydial Disease

Chlamydial disease and host/pathogen interactions clearer through novel simultaneous RNA-Seq Analysis Download PDF: IGS Scientists Develop New Understanding of Chlamydial Disease

Scientists Characterize Effects of Transplanted Fecal Microbiota

Longitudinal study examines patients treated for recurrent Clostridium difficile infections... Download PDF: Scientists Characterize Effects of Transplanted Fecal Microbiota