An effort to introduce local high school students to the emerging field of bioinformatics—and hopefully inspire some to pursue studies, and eventually jobs, in the field—is moving to the next level ...

Dealing with big data sets can be abstracted into three main tasks: we must be able to manage, understand and analyze. 'Managing' is to carry out the computer science–based transfer and storage of ...

The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) published a position paper in the journal Nature highlighting the goals, priorities, and roadmap of the impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of ...

Dubai, UAE: A Birmingham-led research project will aim to detect biological threats before they spread, using AI-driven metagenomic surveillance at Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The $200 million market for CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing products is projected to grow by 37% in the next 12 months. The finding is contained in a new report, The Market ...

The government shutdown and subsequent furloughing of staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has some obvious, headline-grabbing implications for its trials and research. Yet there are also ...

Scalable Graph Algorithms for Bioinformatics using Structure, Parameterization and Dynamic Updates, ERC Consolidator Grant, 9/2025-8/2030 Sequencing technologies have developed to be cheap and ...

SYBB 311/411A is a 5-week course that introduces students to the high-throughput technologies used to collect data for bioinformatics research in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.