Biotech Data Mining

Roland Piquepaille writes "In the last ten years, biotech companies have been busy accumulating mountains of data. And it's becoming more and more difficult to find useful information about interactions between genes and proteins for example. It's one of the reasons why the European Union has started the BioGrid project. In Mining biotech's data mother lode, IST Results describes this project. Among current results, the researchers involved in it have delivered a better search engine for PubMed by analyzing over-expressing genes and predicting the protein interactions that are likely occurring. And many of the tools developed by BioGrid are available for public use -- even by yourself. For more information, this overview contains additional details, pictures and references about this project."

Roland the Plogger is Back!

[Animats]

He's Back! I thought we were rid of Roland the Plogger, still trying to drive traffic to his blog. But no. Must be some new editor on the night shift who let this one through.

Left-handed DNA

[srblackbird]

The DNA in the fist picture is LEFT handed instead of right. That's WRONG!
http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.h tml [ncifcrf.gov]