RNA interference was ranked one of the ten emerging technologies that will change your world.

MIT Technology Review’s editors chose RNAi as one of the ten emerging technologies in their feb., 2004 article. Full article.

Universal Translation
Synthetic Biology
Nanowires
Bayesian Machine Learning
T-Rays
Distributed Storage
RNA Interference
Power Grid Control
Microfluidic Optical Fibers
Personal Genomics

There are some interesting articles from Science’s e-market online on bechtop advances in proteomics and genomics study. More articles can be found from here. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is the collection of apoptosis pathway illustrations. Some of them are available in poster when requested. Most of pathway illustrations give general overview of the apoptosis pathways. Read the rest of this entry »

Molecular biology methods database is a database containing information on life science techniques and methods. Currently it collects only full-text technique papers published on open access journals. For a list of open access journals go to pubmedcentral. An extended list of open access journals can be found from this site.

Welcome to Life Science Online Collaboration wiki site, a meeting place to work on common interests. Anyone can contribute using any web browser. Life Science Online Collaboration wiki site encourages contribution and editing of pages, questions, answers, comments and updates.

Most of the articles have list of reviews that can be accessed freely.

Biotech Wiki topics

Bioinformatics
Genomics
Main
Microarray
Proteomics
RNAi

The wiki has been closed due to s-p-a-m attacks, new service will be available once completed.

The podcast is getting popular nowadays even among bioscience researchers. Here is a collection of life science biotechnology podcast subscription links. You can subscribe using iTune program and an ipod.

Nature Podcast

The scientist podcast:

Science Magazine Podcast:

Invitrogen web seminars - bringing the latest developments and research results live and direct to your desktop.

The New Scientist podcast:

Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology Podcast:

ITC Biotech podcast:

The bio.com also hosts Infocus online webcasting series and you can download mp3 files if you are registered (free). It would be much better if they can compile a podcast xml file for one click subscription.

http://bio.com/

iPod links: ipod video, nano, shuffle and classical players

The caCore infrastructure is developed in response to four categories of requirements from caBIG community for developing interoperable information system, namely information models, common data elements, terminology and programming interface. Based on the compatibility and interoperability the cancer research related information system can be classified into gold, silver and bronze level. Since the gold standard is still under development, the main purpose of caCore infrastructure is to facilitate developing and deploying a silver system. In 2005 the caCore SDK was released to public to implementing information systems by providing modeling, workflow and code generation tools for developing and deploying silver cancer information services.

caCore java SDK can be downloaded from NCICB at http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/NCICB/infrastructure/cacoresdk

NCICB developed this pathway interaction database as part of cancer molecular analysis project. Currently it contains 5,000 interactions, 2200 proteins, 350 complexes and 2300 small molecules derived from 99 KEGG metabolic pathways and 122 BioCarta signaling pathways.

Address: Pathway database

Joining few of online bioscience protocol publishers, Nature launched
online protocol section
in May 2006. As quoted from nature protocols, “Nature Protocols is an
online resource for protocols, including authoritative, peer-reviewed
‘Nature Protocols’ and an interactive ‘Protocols Network’. The two
create a dynamic forum for scientists to upload and comment on
protocols. Protocols Network is currently in Beta phase and further
functionality will be added over the coming weeks.”

Other methods and protocol focused journals include:

Dr.Andrew Z.Fire from Stanford University and Dr. Craig C.Mello from University of Massachusetts Medical School shares 2006 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for their achievement of “discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA” announced on October 2, 2006.

Ongoing research programs are listed in their lab homepage:

Fire lab research program

Mello lab at Umass
Dr.Mello’s research program at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

RNAi protocols and troubleshootings