Researchers characterize large mitochondrial deletions to understand their implications in neurological disorders.

An expert panel will present how synthetic biology accelerates the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and the medicinal pipeline.

The scientific community bid farewell to researchers who furthered the fields of molecular biology, virology, sleep science, and immunology, among others.

Gamze Gursoy and Mark Gerstein of Yale Medical School have developed a strategy for stripping identifying variants from functional genomic data, balancing privacy with utility.

Download this eBook to learn how new sequencing methods revolutionize genetics research!

Linda Saif will give a historical overview of SARS spillovers from animals to humans, and Neville Sanjana will describe recent work on a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variant that increases human infectivity.

In this webinar, Eske Willerslev and Simon Creer will discuss the discoveries they have made about the ancient and modern world through environmental DNA sequencing.

The Johns Hopkins University professor was a co-developer of the Galaxy platform, an open-source bioinformatics tool used in labs around the world.

The MIT associate professor wants to understand microbial communities in their ecological context.

In addition to programs geared towards transforming biologists into bioinformaticians, students need more raw material available for their education.

MinION achieved the longest reads of DNA sequences to date. 

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

In today’s data-heavy research environment, wet-lab scientists can benefit from new computational skills.

Paul Joyce, dean of the University of Idaho’s College of Science, has passed away at age 57.

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

And too few insights gleaned from them

Gene expression varies not only during the day but also throughout the year, a study shows.