The Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center (VDRC) is a joint initiative of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP). The VDRC exploits and further develops the Drosophila transgenic RNAi library generated by the Dickson group, formerly at IMBA and now at the IMP. Its mission is to promote scientific discoveries based on the use of this technology. The in vivo RNAi approach allows researchers to systematically knock down individual Drosophila genes, using the GAL4/UAS system to target the RNAi to specific cells in the animal. With over 85% of the Drosophila genome covered, this promises to be a powerful method to assign functions to known and newly-annotated genes from the genome sequencing effort. ... [Information of the supplier]
Brownie is a program for analyzing rates of continuous character evolution and looking for substantial rate differences in different parts of a tree using likelihood ratio tests and Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) statistics. A manuscript describing the method appears in the May 2006 issue of Evolution. [Information of the supplier]
Bei e-coli.de handelt es sich um eine gegliederte Linksammlung von Dr. Florian Bundis vom University College London zu den Themen Mikrobiologie, Virologie und Bioinformatik. [Redaktion vifabio]
Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes. The Ensembl project aims to provide: accurate, automatic analysis of genome data, analysis and annotation maintained on the current data, presentation of the analysis to all via the web, distribution of the analysis to other bioinformatics laboratories. Ensembl will concentrate on vertebrate genomes, but other groups have adapted the system for use with plant and fungal genomes. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) is a five year initiative designed to create cyberinfrastructure for ecological, environmental, and biodiversity research and to educate the ecological community about ecoinformatics. SEEK participants are building an integrated data grid (EcoGrid) for accessing a wide variety of ecological and biodiversity data and analytical tools (Kepler) for efficiently utilizing these data stores to advance ecological and biodiversity science. An intelligent middleware system (SMS) will facilitate integration and synthesis of data and models within these systems. The three components of the SEEK cyberinfrasture are: (1) the EcoGrid, (2) a Semantic Mediation system, and (3) an Analysis and Modeling system. These infrastructure components will be built with input and participation from three SEEK working groups: (1) Knowledge Representation, (2) Biological Taxonomy and Classification, and (3) Biodiversity and Ecological Analysis and Modeling. ... [Information of the supplier]
BioWareDB.org is an attempt at collecting an exhaustive hyperlinked database links to the vast amounts of freely available and commercial bioinformatics and biocomputing software. The database consists of records obtained from automated harvesting of online repositories of software, from journals delving with bioinformatics software and from currated manual entries. The database is updated on a bi-monthly basis and links to the software are verified. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biologische Bestandserhebungen sind die Grundlage sowohl für eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Schutzgebietsausweisung und -betreuung als auch für die Ermittlung der Verbreitung von Arten und Lebensräumen. Für die Untersuchung der Bestandsentwicklungen und ökologischen Zusammenhänge in größeren Bereichen ist es unumgänglich, dass die hierzu erhobenen Daten miteinander vergleichbar und gemeinsam auswertbar sind. Mit der zunehmenden Anzahl von untersuchenden Einzelpersonen bzw. Institutionen wächst die Notwendigkeit einer solchen methodischen Vereinheitlichung. Biologische Bestanderhebungen sollten grundsätzlich folgende Kriterien erfüllen: Erfassung durch Spezialisten, einheitliche, vollständig dokumentierte Erfassungsmethodik, einheitliche, raumbezogene, dv- technische Eingabe und Verwaltung von Daten, Anwendung wissenschaftlich standardisierter Auswertungsverfahren. Es gehört zu den gesetzlichen Aufgaben des LANUVs im Rahmen der „Ermittlung von wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen zur Landschaftsplanung, zu Schutzgebieten und zur Dokumentation der Veränderungen in der Pflanzen- und Tierwelt“, die für NRW sinnvollen Methodenstandards zu erarbeiten, zu beschreiben und die dazu notwendigen technischen Hilfsmittel (z.B. DV-Verfahren) zu entwickeln. Sie tut dies in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den ehrenamtlich tätigen Stellen (z.B. Biologischen Stationen) und Arbeitskreisen. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Das Online-Labormagazin Analytik News ist ein Angebot der Dr. Beyer Internet-Beratung und bietet bereits seit 1998 tagesaktuelle, unabhängige, redaktionell geprüfte Informationen aus den Bereichen Labor und Analytik. In unseren wöchentlichen und monatlichen Email-Newslettern informieren wir mehr als 30.000 Anwender im deutschsprachigen Raum über Produktneuheiten, Nachrichten, Fachartikel, Veranstaltungen, Stellenangebote und vieles mehr. ... [Information des Anbieters]
