genetics & genomics, bioinformatics, techniques

The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.

Three methods identify and activate silent bacterial gene clusters to uncover new drugs

A point-and-click interface alternative to command-line tools that allows researchers to easily create, run, and troubleshoot serial sequence analyses

After spending more than a decade developing tools to study patterns in gene sequences, bioinformaticians are now working on programs to analyze epigenomics data.

Highlights from a series of three webinars on the future of genome research, held by The Scientist to celebrate 60 years of the DNA double helix

Technology company Knome unveils a machine it says will "break the bottleneck" in the interpretation of human genome data.

How to get the most out of your collaboration with bioinformaticians

Synthetic biologists harness software to design genes and networks.

A guided tour through the main online resources for analyzing cancer genomics data